You missed the Chimpanzee. We had friends that worked at a wildlife rescue center. During the summer, they would walk on top of the chimp enclosure and hose the chimps down. The chimps loved it. Some of them would hang from the top of the enclosure and follow the keepers around just so they could get the full force of…

They've posted about them before, they just forgot.

Wing location and design is the result of a complex, iterative process where a number of factors play a role - lift requirements, speed envelopes, ground/infrastructure requirements, etc. The big factors are the amount of lift required and the rotational moment of the the wing (how much pitch the wing introduces to…

I came here to post the story about my friend Murphy who received this car for his 16th birthday. His nickname was immediately changed from Murph to Smurph.

Back in the '80's it was this:

First truck - '83 Mazda b2000. Lost it when a girl ran a stop sign and I t-boned her car. We were lucky nobody was hurt.

I forgot to nominate the Yamaha RZ350 - a two-stroke monster which could punch way above its weight.

This is standard practice in Louisiana. There is one intersection in particular that is really bad. Instead of proceeding south and turning right, idiots turn west, then try to turn left across four lanes to get to the strip mall at the southwest corner. Idiots leaving the strip mall try to exit to the north, cross…

Like turbo: Yamaha Seca 650 Turbo

I'm not fond of the side swoop. It reminds me of a Hyundai.

You have to let make her drive one. My wife made fun of me relentlessly for buying a WRX hatch. Then the day came that her Explorer needed to go to the dealership and she drove the WRX for the day. I had a heck of a time getting the keys back. She doesn't make fun of my little wagon anymore.

Most definitely a tire issue. I had exactly two uncontrolled spins in my '94 B3000. Both were on worn rear tires in the rain. Even with good tires, it was easy to drift that truck when turning left on wet pavement.

You can't help him. Before my half-brother left, our uncle (my father's brother who is a police officer) tried to help - money when he needed it, a small fortune in dental work, leads on several jobs (on which my half-brother never followed through) and even paid for his move out of the state. My half-brother was…

My parents split when I was young. My mother made good decisions and worked hard to be successful - left my father (GREAT decision!), worked multiple jobs, put herself through college, all while raising me. Even though we didn't have much money, I made good choices growing up - focused on school and achieved decent…

And this is why you KEEP the old car. I bought a WRX to replace my truck as a daily driver. There is NO WAY a WRX is going to replace a truck. There is an endless list of things that you can do in a truck that you can't do in a WRX. You can't haul massive amounts of dirt with a WRX, especially when it is dumped in the…

I think a good beginner's bike should be something light, with low horsepower, a low seat height, shouldn't look like a race bike, but it should have wind protection that doesn't look like it came from the J.C. Whitney catalog. Back when I owned a motorcycle, I took a ride on a friend's unfaired CB-400. When I got to…

My old driveway would have taken it off for me....

Copperhead. Yeah, it's custom, but nice....

Weiner.

I decided to run home for the weekend just before finals, my first year of college. We had some snow the night before, but it was just an hour away. The first sign of trouble came when I tried to start the truck. Not even a click. But this had happened before, so I knew that I just needed to re-seat the relay under…