I don’t know, doesn’t sound too much different from asset forfeiture, which is a real and ongoing thing.

“Bag liners can be used if you don’t want to clean the bins”

Will it require $5k in repairs five minutes after the lease term is up? That’s BMW’s heritage.

The greasy hamburger fans are unlikely to fit in a small car.

That’s what I thought.

Anthropologists believe that early humans caught prey by running after it until it overheated and collapsed. So yes humans are meant to run.

The Apple car will come with a dongle.

I thought magic eye was just for radio tuners. What did it indicate on a R-R?

One of the best arguments for making these staples yourself is that you get to control what goes into them. That recipe has 1/3 cup of sugar per loaf! Totally unnecessary.

I drove the new CR-V with the turbo, which I thought was a great car. Over your budget for now, unfortunately.

It would be interesting to compare internet energy use to older forms of communication. Radio and TV stations use hundreds of kilowatts each. Cable and satellite infrastructure, in aggregate, use gobs of power. The vast fleet of mail trucks driving around every day, newspaper and magazine printing and delivery... you…

Id like to see an article about how one of these projects is actually done. Do you just order the Mercedes OM617 turbo diesel to Aisin AX15 adapter from Alibaba, or is it more complex than that?

“filled his bank account”

Another thing that would help a lot of bars is to put in acoustic treatment on the walls or ceilings. Brick or concrete walls and 100 people yakking are not a good combo.

Is it my imagination, or have scented laundry products gotten more intensely perfumed in the last few years? Tide is more Tide-y and Gain is more Gain-y than ever before.

Look on the bright side.

I bought a house that came with a washer that had a few years of use and stank of mildew. No cleaning cycle, with either bleach or Affresh, could cure it. Poking around with a flashlight, I found a mildew infested gel composed of coagulated fabric softener mixed with dog hair in all the nooks and crannies of the…

If you wanted to generate 17 HP with modern technology, how big would the engine have to be? About 150 cc?

Standard earplugs are much better than nothing, but they can muffle the sound. Etymotic Hi-Fidelity earplugs reduce the volume at all frequencies equally, so you still hear the music as it’s meant to be heard. $20 might seem expensive for earplugs but is’s much cheaper than buying a hearing aid 30 years from now.

Turbo Tax, because it is the only program that can download my stock market transactions and automatically fill out schedule D. It’s easily worth its $30 purchase price just for that.