No. What it would be is basically a real-life videogame controller. You have a stick shift and a third pedal, but they’re only connected to a computer, like a really high end racing simulator setup. Just like the video game has code to control the “speed” and “revs” of the videogame car, these controls would do the…

I used to say “when your monthly repairs average get close to a monthly car payment, It’s time to dump the car”. That was when you could trade in towards a new Altima and end up paying $300 a month for 36 months. Now that I’ve had my current car for almost seven years and I absolutely love the thing, and its analog no…

As much as I hate really loud exhausts, I’m going to say all the little rattles in the dash/interior that only happen while driving (and sometimes, in certain temperatures) so you can never really pinpoint them to fix them!

The last time I filled out an online form to get a quote to truck a car across the country, my phone, texts, and email blew up for three days straight. I felt like Elaine in that episode of Seinfeld when Kramer used her number to get menus faxed to her from every restaurant in NYC, but Elaine didn’t have a fax…

Oh man, I want this car! If it wasn’t all the way out in California, I would buy it TODAY! There’s just no way I can fly out there and drive it home to RI right now and booking a carrier is such a pain in the butt. Oh well.

Hahaha, thanks Captain Obvious!

Let’s just do a thought exercise here. Not planning anything, just thinking out loud about stuff. Is this something where GM doesn’t get the insurance money unless they can produce a crushed body? If they don’t need the crushed body to get their payout, do you think they would still call the cops if some of these went…

Happy that the headlights are a little lower than the current Silverado. They look like they still might be above the top of my trunk, but definitely not so high that they would light up my whole interior anymore!

Ugh, whatever. I’m not saying NFT artwork is good or makes sense, I was just saying that this game (or the article’s description of the game) doesn’t make sense. I wasn’t defending NFTs, I was explaining them in the context of the game (and it appears that quite a few people have a pretty good understanding of the…

The process still works, it just requires an extra step (which is how I did it in that parking garage because I had directional tires at the time). So, jack up front-right and take off the wheel. Install spare and lower. Jack up rear-right and take off wheel. Install front-right wheel and lower. Jack up front-right…

Replying to myself since people are hung up with where the digital asset lives. Correct, the file itself is not on the blockchain. The blockchain is simply a decentralized ledger. And, correct, if the file is stored in a centralized location controlled by a single person or small group, that file can be deleted and…

I don’t own or sell any NFTs. As they are available today, I find no value in them. I also see no additional value in an autographed photo/helmet/album, so I would never pay more for someone’s signature on the item. Things like that and NFTs are just a way for people with too much extra money to say that they own somet…

The blockchain does. The original would be on an earlier block(s) than the copy.

Batteries are getting denser and charging times are decreasing. Many people are (slowly) realizing that the charging time from 0% to 100% is not something they need to sit and wait through every time it gets plugged in and that charging, in general, isn’t something they sit through more than a couple of times a year,…

I’m not going to defend today’s NFTs or say that a lot of them aren’t created with stolen artwork or that a lot of the electricity used to encrypt and verify them isn’t generated from non-renewable sources, BUT, there appears to be a misconception here that an NFT can’t be copied. Well, it can’t, stay with me. A copy…

Also, this isn’t something that will be there forever. There are advancements made to all of this on a weekly, if not daily basis. In a few decades, when it’s time to replace these panels, they’ll be able to get the same generation, or more, from fewer panels and it’ll definitely need a much smaller battery system to…

I had an Uncle-In-Law who named his dog “Bentley.” I think it worked well as a dog’s name.

They’re just demonstrating how the Wagoneer can handle uneven terrain. It’s not exactly a Wrangler, though.

I’ve been reading WAY too much bad news coming out of Texas these past few years, soooo...

Good thing no one has said that one to my wife. Our truck bed would be one big litterbox if she believed that would happen!