Yeah, I'm near the only supercharger on I-95 in GA South of Savannah. White Model Cs all day long, but, of course, they aren't local. The amount I see would make a fella think they have displaced the traditional compact sedans. 

Big, heavy vehicles are a scourge. 

Nissan cars look they are plastic shells barely hanging on for life. 

Evidently, the Veloster, which I drive. The service folks at the local dealership said it was the only one they've ever seen that wasn't trashed to hell. 

Yeah, I don’t like J gets excited over much. There’s a good chance he couldn’t hear any of the negotiations with the salesman; his hearing is shot. Everytime I see them, he’s added a new amp as a monitor...blasting right at his face.

I didn’t beat it either, even using the PC mod that gives you a much larger parry window. I got to the big monkey, thought I had him and hit that second stage. Nope. I’ll go back one day...maybe. It’s a compelling game that also causes me to have a moment of anxiety every time I think about it. 

My parents used to go to a fundamentalist Charismatic church and went all in on Ramsey. When they divorced, and my dad took a second mortgage, he had no recent credit so the rate was insane. He could afford it, but it could have been avoided without this idiot's Puritanical take on finance. 

My first classroom (2008) was in a building dating back to the ‘50s, in a real small, real redneck town. So redneck that the state patrol used to have a sign warning drivers that the town was a speed trap.

Sweden stands out for taking a harm reduction approach over the American Puritanical impulse to “scare em and shame ‘em to stopping.” The Swedish determined that the risk of oral cancers from snus products was drastically overstated. They raised taxes on cigs and subsidized snus. It’s amazing how efficiently a…

Someone out there needs to make a satirical game where all you do is tag enemies. 

But, to be clear, the player plays no active role in the boardings? If so, what’s the point of this thing?

The Cybertruck will be the one used by Martian Rebels to make technicals with laser machine guns on top when they decide to take their planet back from Elon, who conquers Mars simply to dispose of all the Cybertruck he couldn’t sell. 

Cops in America also face the constant possibility of being outgunned by civilians. I don’t feel sorry for them over this, but it’s a reality.

Yeah, I hate auxillary cooking appliances. The only ones I find indepensible are my air fryer and the humble toaster. The slow cooker comes out every now and again, but it has not earned a permanent place on the counter. 

In my childhood circles, the NES became the “regular Nintendo” once the SNES was on the scene. 

I had a friend who, straight out of high school, earned a spot as an engineering officer on USN submarines. The Navy was putting him through Georgia Tech for free to prepare him. He really was a borderline prodigy; super smart. He failed out of Tech after his first semester because of an EverQuest obsession and ended…

I remember trying to get DOOM shareware to run on my 90mhz Pentium Win 95 machine. Not knowing a thing about DOS, I was not very successful. 

When I teach The Hero’s Journey concept in my 10th-grade World Literature class, the slideshow I use features Spiderman (2002) as an exemplar of the form. The students inevitably know it as the “old” Spiderman; I feign being upset about this and launch into a soapbox rant about the cultural importance of Tim Burton’s…

I’m sure it would look quite different in larger form but leverage the technologies developed here. I’m not sure how big they go with this, though. Since supersonic commercial flight on Concorde was more or less a service for corporate bigwigs, I could see supersonic business jets owned by airlines or dedicated…

Echoes of the 104, The Lawn Dart. All you needed was an open piece of land, and the Luftwaffe would deliver one of these beauties directly to you. (Not the Luftwaffe’s fault, of course, but Lockheed and US Govt corruption selling off an envelope-pushing plane that the USAF found no practical use for)