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I still think Elon’s wealth almost exclusively exists on paper, so I don’t know how useful it is to talk about how wealthy he is

Up here in MN, the sheer number of deer is staggering.  One of the deer openers was this past weekend.  A buddy of mine got one with his bow and my neighbor and his cohort bagged 8 between them.  Bow season will be open for many more months.

I saw Twilight in the theater. I was a very early adopter of the books, and I actually recall mostly enjoying them, especially the first one. It was a great plane/poolside/beach read for me the summer it was released. I thought the film was a pretty faithful adaptation, but it took seeing the movie for the reality to

My heart wants to say Volvo 240, but I’ve learned that their longevity was more of a side-effect of the average owner being meticulous. Solid cars all the same, just not bulletproof by any means.

Except we all know that the court will strike down the gun law while leaving the abortion law intact.  Because they’re a Republican court now. 

That’s gonna be a ND from me, dawg.

I’m super stoked at the prospect of BEV pickups, but I think it’s fair to “wait and see.” There isn’t a single commercially available electric pickup yet. If the new Lightning ends up losing 80% of its range towing a boat, it becomes less than viable for a lot of its potential customers.

Reading between the lines, what he’s saying is “it wasn’t due to nepotism, it’s because he hit some cyclists. And we don’t like those people.”

I’ve had enough of this harpy. 

Farm truck.

My favorite one from this year was the “time rub” story, where the author’s grandmother saw her friends, from the future, in her living room during a bad electrical storm. Her friends (in the present day) saw her grandmother, from the past, where her living room used to be at the old farm ruins.

It really took the absence of Saab to make me realize just how much of an oddity among carmakers it was. I remember it seeming like a sort of yin to Volvo’s yang, but it was so much more weird than that.  Everything about the (real, not rebadged GM) Saabs was so contrarian.  I’d argue that they were the quirkiest cars

“Crash” being the operative verb here. I really hope they improved it, because I remember a lot of reports about the Cannondale “lefty” failing, and I think you can imagine how that would go on a rock-strewn trail.  This genius invention looks like a lefty with extra bits that could fail and send your wheel down the

It’s probably a fair price, but I’m going ND because if I was going to spend that kind of coin, I’d cough up the extra for the Trackhawk.  Go big or go home. 

It’s been a while since I’ve seen one, but I used to get a chuckle at “UNION REPUBLICAN” bumper stickers. 

So much this.  The fact that anybody other than a greedy executive would consider the concept of a union a bad thing says a lot.  The same people that cheer union busting are the ones that don’t even get a cost of living adjustment each year and buy the old saw of “just be thankful that you have a job.”

Certain types of shows on Food Network are a guilty pleasure of mine. I’ve never been able to “stomach” Guy Fieri’s frenetic brand of bombast, but I’ve been known to down a “Beat Bobby Flay” rabbit hole. It’s like a super-fast mashup of Iron Chef and Chopped. But Bobby’s thumb is always on the scale. He’s figured out

Completely agreed. They were training for an Ironman competition. With few exceptions, you don’t do that unless you’re wealthy. A good Ironman bike can cost as much as a new car. And the training itself is so time-consuming, that a serious competitor has to be able to afford plenty of time away from work.

I dunno, I think it looks pretty cool. And if it’s using custom shop components/craftsmanship, it’s probably a really nice instrument to boot. I’d guess that it’s a bit of a reach in terms of the demographic, but I’m guessing this was really just a crossover marketing exercise for both companies.

It’s an Eclipse Spyder that tangled with a wasp’s nest.