In todays digital binary world, anti-intellectualism = pro-stupidity. The neurons you exercise in Algebra I may be the ones you use @ your local Jim Russell School equivalent.

Wasn’t Piech responsible for the Phaeton? Nice car, but buh-bye, Auf Wiedersehen.

If there’s a dispatchers booth, ask him for the last cab in line. I do it all the time a hotels. Tell the 1st guy I’m going 6 blocks up x hill. Give him the option of declining and sending me further down the line.

Out here (Silicon Valley) cab companies headquartered in the county seat can charge meter and a half for out of town trips. If NYC allowed an other borough surcharge, it might be easier to leave New York County.

Never gave it a second thought. Unless she owns Nomex & a Formula Ford or better, vehicle ownership isn’t on my significant other checklist.

Thanks, just ordered a copy of Robbery & Taxi. Alibris was stumped by Goodbye Pork Pie. IMDb shows a VHS release, so I’ll keep looking.

Apple expects costs to go up every year. Then they expect revenue & profit to go up even more.

If it ends in …nik, it must be from Russia, Nyet?

In the words of EatLiver “I call Photoshop, I can see the pixels”.

Has another company abandoned F1 twice & come back for thirds? And cancelled the NSX & S2000. I will shed 0 tears when Chrysler joins AMC & Oldsmobile.

FWIW, I just √ed: http://www.alibris.com/Ronin/movie/100173448?qsort=p&matches=140 as in 140 copies available.

It saddens me to hear any mention of difficulty in finding copies. In 2005 Rasputin Mountain View (RIP) had multiple copies. In honor of Grand Prix, I went with the highest priced, least scuffed copy (3 for $10). I was even more insulted by that valuation than when I saw the Vanishing Point remake for 1¢ more than the…

Thanks, it’s been on my to-watch list since 2009. Probably based on the Luc Besson & Marion Cotillard collaboration. It’s probably gotten easier to find in the past 8 years. Although, I’ll probably have to buy 1 of these: religion-free-DVD-player.jpg to watch it. Still Frankenheimer was responsible for Grand Prix…

Makes the pot smuggling race team sound downright reputable.

Has this nimrod ever driven behind a pre-cat gasoline “burner” and smelled & tasted the unburned hydrocarbons? If so, “those pistons pump oil into the crankshaft” the vehicle he’s thinking of, probably needs new rings. And for the one he was sitting in, a new driver would probably be safer for those around him.

It took 6-9 months for the news to reach Texas, giving the US Juneteenth. It’s been 107 years and the news still hasn’t reached Minnesota? Perhaps we need a holiday on April 9th to remind some people that General Lee surrendered, your side lost, get over it.

No US release dates yet: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5455498/releaseinfo

I seem to recall a protective coating / glorified wax called “Perma Plate” in the ‘70s & ‘80s. It was guaranteed to “yada-yada” if renewed yearly (for $x). Sort of, “the theft that kept stealing” as one district attorney put it.

Ronin

When rich folks were fat and pasty and poor folks were skinny and sun tanned.