I had a 200SX in the 90s. While it was still an economy car, it was quite fun to drive. Kinda wish Nissan would bring that back with Nismo styling and a turbo engine of some sort. I’d get one.

I wish the branding for “crossover SUVs” was “Large Hatchbacks” instead, though that isn’t going to move units. I graduated from a Nissan Versa Note (which was a really nice little car) to a Nissan Juke. The latter has much better clearance and doesn’t rattle apart on gravel roads (ie: light off roading). But the Juke…

About 20 years ago I actually had a sales person have me hold off taking the car home for a day to be absolutely sure the financing would go through. He said he absolutely hated having to call someone and tell them they needed to bring the car back in and preferred to wait a day or two to make sure all is well.

I grew up on a ranch and you better believe the mentality was “American cars or nothing”. I learned to drive using a 3/4 Ton Chevy Custom Deluxe gas guzzling beast of a truck. Eventually my older brother’s car died on him at university, so my dad decided to get him a replacement (this is around 1991 or so). We first…

I was briefly tempted by one of these. I still have a Nissan Juke Nismo and recently sold off my Veloster N, so it seemed like the Kona N was the unholy combination of the two. However, I’ve read enough reviews that the Kona N is absolutely not meant for any sort of off-pavement driving that I am going to stick with…

I have a Juke Nismo 6 speed and it’s one of my favorite cars ever. I don’t need AWD and it’s nice to set aside Nissan’s CVT worries. It’s nice that for a minute, Nissan actually made a small SUV (or large hatchback) with pretty decent power under the hood.

While the 1st season is a little “sleepy” compared the later, Dominion War dominate seasons, it is indeed quite good. And just looking through this list I’m reminded once again how incredible Nana Visitor was as Kira. And they quickly starting establishing the incredible roster of recurring characters that no other…

I worked in bars before they banned smoking, so the second hand smoke on my work clothes ultimately got into the fabric of my car seats. It wasn’t as strong as a regular smoker’s car, but even in the years after I left the restaurant industry, there was always faint whiffs of the stench.

As a fairly tall person, the instant I sit down in the driver’s seat is the make or break moment. If I don’t think I’ll be comfortable on long trips, it doesn’t matter how awesome the rest of the car’s specs are.

Many years ago in the early days of the internet, perhaps around 1998/99, I had a pretty neat email exchange with Greg Bear. I had reread Moving Mars and was really, really impressed with it. I somehow found his email online and sent him a short message saying something to the effect that “Moving Mars rocks!” Within…

The flipside to Netflix always trying to lure new subscriptions is that those of us who have been using the platform for awhile are going to get sick of premature cancellations of our favorite shows and just cancel Netflix entirely.  I’m fairly sure after the latter half of Bojack has been released in January that…

One day enough time will have passed to objectively evaluate the years of 2015-2020.  And historians will point to Trump and all those touting their “alternative facts” as the proof the United States was no longer taking problems seriously anymore.  From climate change challenges to the ever shifting role of the…

This *should* be an example of how the police should be dealing with situations such as this.  They acted correctly and apprehended him.  He’ll now face consequences for his actions.  Now to just get the police to extend this to all people, not just naked honkies.  

I actually got a Kicks last summer and love it... But it was months before I saw another on the highway. I kinda wonder if they thought it would go over with younger buyers, but so far it seems to be more popular with the 40 and up crowd... Which I'm part of. 

There is an aspect to self driving trucks that I’m not sure how technology can solve (unless they have and I just haven’t come across it): Weather.  In many mountain states in the winter, chain laws go into effect quite often due to snowfall on the mountain passes.  Have they come up with a way for an automated truck…

Actually, there’s logical reason to pass those bills.  It’s to establish a voting record, particularly for the freshman class of representatives, so when they campaign next year they have a list of things they voted for.  And it also allows for them to say “I’m trying to make things better, but the GOP is obstructing…

Instagram is very close to turning into a bland, useless online shopping mall featuring only crass consumerism and unnecessary products.  It is a terrible place for actual photographers, models and artists to show off their work with the image compression as well as onerous “community standards” that are terrified of…

Apparently no one.  I was actually at that game last night and was startled when no E was added to the scoreboard.  On the plus side, Dylan Moore did throw a perfect ball to the plate...if only the plate had a glove.

Oh you and your actual knowledge of locking

I deleted mine recently and it was one of the most fulfilling moments of my internet life.  The best way to render fake news and the toxic world of Facebook inert is to delete your account and never use that platform again.  You’ll miss out on nothing important there.