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.

I’ve seen enough “recovery gone wrong” videos on Youtube to question the ruggedness of body-on-frame. Seems like the body is frequently ripped right off the frame, or the frame folds in half.

Washington state is probably the only place in the universe you could find a ‘80's Honda without cracks all up and down the dash. That’s worth $250 right there.

Years ago, Chevron delivered Regular instead of 100 octane avgas to a small airport. They ended up paying to replace a lot of plane engines.

You are right on all points, except that it’s super hard to expand the grid. Where I live, it’s been a multi-year project just to expand the capacity of one little branch transmission line.

Hi Ray! (Fargo season 3)

It would be nice if Alexa would order toilet paper if she hears excessive “bathroom noises”.

If you are talking about mid-2000 model years you are correct, but they’ve improved them a lot recently.

Those cheesecake photos you post as a reward for COTD don’t count?

OEM systems were terrible, so of course we swapped it all out. Pioneer Supertuner for the win!

What are you going to do with this information, fly to North Korea and ask for your Bitcoin back, please?

For a more traditional look and great sound, get an Onkyo 8140 and your choice of speakers from Craigslist, where excellent home speakers sell for pennies on the dollar. You get lots of clean power along with wifi, Bluetooth, and even vinyl connectivity.

Stash cash in your car too, enough for a tank of gas.

Typical UPS route is about 160 miles. That would be easy to hit, especially with regenerative braking.

The air bag was apparently salvaged from a 2002 Civic

Agreed. The best new thing I had this year was Sri Lankan food.

I’m surprised there’s not more love for the original Capri and Capri II here on Jalopnik. They were an awesome car for their time, and among imports of the mid-70's, outsold only by Volkwagen. I suppose the problem is that not many have survived.

OK, we’ve been breathing an elevated level of pollutants from wildfires for two weeks and guess what, it’s bad for us. What about a lifetime of breathing diesel emissions from trucks, ships, and trains? What about oily two-stroke exhaust from leaf blowers? What about jet exhaust and lead particles from private plane…

Please start your giant fire with back issues of Real Simple.

Many airports charge an extra fee for taxi rides that start at the airport. That could account for part of it.