I humbly nominate Manimal.

Huh. And here I sold my Tesla shares yesterday. When I initially bought them I thought the price/valuation was good given the company’s technology and innovation. But then its market cap reached absurd levels (I believe it was higher than Ford’s at one point). Since then have been the well-documented problems.

I’m irked by how many cars have the passenger and rear seats filled with trash. It’s usually when I get out of my car in a parking lot/garage and glimpse into the next one over. In some cases I’ve even gotten back in to find another spot if my car would be there for several hours.

I’ll take a bit of a different route.

The “Cash for Clunkers” program really existed to remove non-computerized—and thus harder to stop or control—vehicles from the roadways.

Dom: The cars, the speed, the flames. Burn in my mind to drown out the memories. Memories of the kitchen ... incident.

When I was younger and severely financially challenged I thought one day I’d be able to move from economy cars to luxury models. Now that I’m middle aged and can reasonably afford luxury models, I still have an economy car as my daily driver. I was genuinely impressed with it, enjoyed driving it more than more…

I have, twice. Once was just a week ago when I was going to visit a relative in the hospital. The driver stopped to back up and take an exit. The thing was it was an eastbound exit, if s/he’d just went ahead the next one was a westbound exit and plenty of places to turn around.

It’s escaping. Kind of like when I was nine, broke my arm, and didn’t want to go to the ER.

I also read this and wonder if it’s the time to get a MacBook Air, as right now it still comes with USB ports and an SDXC slot. I’m still using a 2011 MacBook Pro. It’s showing its age—I did replace a failed hard drive with an SSD—but I like having a decent keyboard, optical drive, and USB and SDXC slots. I’m becoming…

A friend who was a bassist in a punk band had a similar approach. Well, first his car was so rusted that he wrapped nearly all of it in duct tape. Then he affixed punk and metal band stickers over top of that. Well, along with a large, “Hopeless Devoted - Olivia Newton John Fanclub” sticker.

I’ve seen so many vehicles with Sunoco stickers being dangerously driven that my defensive driving alert still increases when I spot one. So they’re good for something, I suppose?

That’d troublesome. I am still using an iPhone 5 which has been case-free for years, and the screen is fine. Maybe the supplier got the X’s glass construction wrong?

I partly grew up in a rural section of a snowbelt. I’ve ridden but have never owned a snowmobile. Yes, they’re fun, and you feel like a badass. But later you discover there aren’t all that many unsullied trails nor places where you could ride without trespassing (and there are plenty of signs to remind you). Then …

I had one, an ‘89, although without the canopy option. It was the first new car I bought after getting my first steady paycheck. That paycheck wasn’t really enough for a new car, even a very modest one, so I took out a 60 month loan and learned never to do that again. But it was a new car, hopefully without the…

So there are people quizzing electronic devices hoping that the things reflect their own bigotry, political views, or whatever else? Then they get angry when discovering whoever programmed the devices gave them a reasonably intelligent, fair response? Damn.

Damn. Just how much stuffing have these people eaten?

I used to edit releases for nearly all the major auto manufacturers but was never offered a discount. Ah well. I could have gotten a discount on a BMW when I worked for a large auditing firm but never took advantage, although I briefly envisioned myself cruising into work on a BMW motorcycle and having my helmet…

A couple things bother me in particular about this (as another hetereosexual male who lives in Ohio):

I don’t understand this either, but I also don’t grasp why companies even advertise on Hannity and Fox News. Sure, the main audience is easily manipulated, but ad firms and companies should also be aware a network that regularly defends the worst of humanity will eventually have some bad stuff go down. Then if the…