Not sure if that’s a lie to my spouse or to myself.

“Hey honey, gotta work on the car today. This should only take me an hour or so, and I’ve got everything I need already.”

“...we recruited four jumping spiders...” I’m picturing a bunch of people in white lab coats with clipboards crawling around an attic asking spiders if they would be willing to sign an informed consent document to participate in a research study.

I always thought it was a joke. DC films are indeed typically darker, but the pre-Nolan Batman films almost always had just a wee bit of humor sprinkled throughout. It feels like it fits right in with his character.

Also he jokes later with Catwoman, he turns and she disappears, he goes “so that’s what that feels like.”

I always find “Are you the kind of person I’d get on with enough that I want to place my life on the line, fighting criminals with you?” to be kind of cumbersome.

Let’s see.... We’ve got tons of movies where there’s sound in outer space when the starship explodes, we hear it. There are buku flicks where we see lasers in outer space when the spaceships are blasting each other. When humans are shrunk to 6 inches tall, their voices are still regular-size deep instead of…

I think you’re being a little obtuse to the remark. It is clear to me that he  was referring to the little remote stick he was holding up. I think he was being cutesy in highlighting the ridiculous complexity of the operation of the tank car and how it kind of drives itself once you hit the button on the end of the…

I very much place iTunes, photo booth, and safari in the bloatware category. Mainly because I can’t delete them.

Have you used another carrier?

It is anti-federalist to allow one or even several states to dictate terms for other states in markets where the federal government regulates that aspect across state lines.

Nuclear exchange only became a possibility after decades of jackassery being passed off as diplomacy. Also, you are giving the North Korean military WAY too much credit.

They could test them in those vast empty plazas in Pyongyang; there’s nobody there to be disturbed.

Maybe we should stick to our “stop or we’ll say stop again!” policy.

Most likely scenario is a pretty killer Godzilla reboot.

Double clutch rev match downshift into 1st. The synchros in your gearbox are designed to not let you shift into 1st at speed.

In my old Golf I could double clutch downshift into first and peg it near redline at 6k (28 mph). If I can do that you can do it moving 4 mph

How? That motors got what; two Gerbils, MAYBE an irascible Hamster? Your poor clutch.

I always start in first. Except when I start in second or third.*

I know a guy that knows what it is. Would you believe it started life as a 1969 Corvette? A one-off custom build.

Man, I would be pretty angry if I discovered something like that in my car.