I love hearing my wife converse in her native language with her family (although I only know the bad words.) It’s part of who she is and a part of the person that I married.

At the same time, though, it’s when I hear my name being thrown back and forth in between rapid-fire snippets of Chinese conversation while she’s…

This is an old story, I know, but ambulances can cost up to $164 per mile (or more) (Citation). At that rate, that 280 mile trip would’ve cost $45,920.

The F-16 was actually way cheaper... an approximately 30 minute flight actually saved the patient (or the people of Norway) about $34k. Not bad for a day’s work!

Everyday I wake up and I’m a little less Mel Gibson and a little more Danny Glover...

My wife always gets all upset when she sees videos of sad or mistreated animals or when Sarah McLachlan starts singing during an ad break. She gets all sad and shit and then gets mad at me when I don’t really understand her emotional investment in a sad puppy in Brazil or whatever...

Now I get it... I’m sad now,…

Since the 60s you say?

Impala and Taurus could be a function of fleet service, but I had a (civilian) 1998 Taurus through grad school, and that thing was a fucking tank. Chassis electrical was shot, the shaft from in the column from the key to the ignition box was busted, but every time I hotwired that thing, it would fire right up.

Remarkabl…

The first out of the ordinary one I saw in Ginza was a mid-80s IROC-Z. Japanese car culture seems to relish violating expectations.

Came here just to post this! James May’s Afrika Korps Z3 was amazing.

Now I’m trying to figure out how many of those I can make into “George” related portmanteaus...

Ferrari 360 Georgena?

George Viper?

The Gelandegeorgen?

The C4 Georgette?

Crap, I really need to be working right now, but this is totally going to occupy my brain...

I’m still not entirely sure why Israel and S. Korea aren’t BFFs. If any country on the planet could at least help build a quasi-defense network against modernized versions of Soviet era strategic weaponry, Israel is it.

See that’s odd but it isn’t. I used to fly on UA buddy passes, and most of the time they don’t give a shit, but I was always warned to go business casual. One time did I wear cargo shorts, and the gate agent was going to switch me to coach if I didn’t put on pants. (Fortunately I had some in my carry on.)

THe 220 as proposed or as produced?

Maybe they should’ve called it ‘Infinite Profit’ instead...

I would think it would be better to be not visible. Its all about heat-damage, which would skew towards the IR, rather than visible, part of the spectrum.

You’ve got some great games lined up! Eventually, Just Cause 3 is definitely worth it.

You’ve got some great games lined up! Eventually, Just Cause 3 is definitely worth it.

I’m not sure if we were having a competition for the most cyber-punk academic journal title of all time, but I’m definitely voting for ‘The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist.’ That name is pretty fucking rad (pun not intended).

Meeting my (fairly conservative) parents for the first time, my now-wife was having a conversation at the dinner table with my mother and grandmother in front of my sister, my nieces and the rest of the family.

English is not my wife’s native language, and it turns out that expletives/slang-curses are something that…

You don’t see many in the livery of the Jamaican National Racing Team...

They’re evolving... Now they’re learning how to camouflage themselves.

This could mark the start of a bold new phase of mankind’s 50 year struggle to survive the ‘stang.

Clearly you’ve never been to Syracuse...