there were several cruise ships that served as troop carriers during WWII carrying americans to fight nazis.

it isn’t necessarily that they expect to get it for 60%, but they are setting their opening offer. likely they are expecting to settle around 80% but are happy to suck people in.

there are several F1 drivers who do not own private jets or even fractionals, lots of stories about drivers mooching a ride off other drivers or Toto or whatever.

seems like he overpaid, market rate is $8-10M (source: https://www.evojets.com/aircraft-sales/heavy-jets/falcon-900ex/ )

have you priced a mint T2 Westy lately? it likely does cost more than your house.  talking $40k all day, and your house, being a rusted out “mobile home” is probably worth $15k.

I do love the indian tradition of flip flops as proper motorcycle footware.

I saw a family of 7 on a vespa once in Egypt.

aw crap, she got the Williams job just after marrying Toto, who owned part of Williams at the time.

chocking on my own vomit right now.  

so, like everything crypto, it is a pyramid scheme for laundering money from criminal enterprise....

I never really made the connection that Susie Wolff was married to Toto until I was watching this year’s F1-Deadliest-Survivor-Naked season on Netflix.

given that I hope she got her shot at Williams & FE team principal based on talent more than the Toto association...

and the port authority is a massive source of graft for NJ politicians

williams was doing well last year, clearly McL and Ferrari have put some effort into upping their game.

when in F1 you consistently see RB able to do a pit stop .3-.5 second faster than every other team and a full second faster than some, it matters.

I get that loveable goofball is his official public persona, but that ain’t gonna sell me his wine.

for a celebrity wine reference, MJK from Tool was introduced to good wine during their first trip to Australia and he described it as like a light being switched on. over the next 15 years he became a serious student of…

+1 for dedicated “autonomous” lanes

just like they did with EZ-Pass, start with 1 (new lane, like the dedicated high cap commuter lanes) and every couple years trade a manual lane for an autonomous lane

the icewines from the niagara peninsula can be quite good (as are some from the okanagan)

when it originally happened (and for about the first 15 years after) the salt concentration in the water was not much higher than the ocean, so it was like an inland sea.  but very quickly the water started to evaporate and the salt concentration got higher and higher, eventually killing all the fish and making the…

what this really means is that in about 5 years when I am in the market to pick up a lightly used Class A, there will be a glut on the market and I will get a fantastic deal.

long haul trucking in the US is not going away any time soon. that would require massive investment in and expansion of the rail network (not gonna happen) and a willingness on the part of the public to wait more than 1 day for their shit to get delivered (also not gonna happen)

I don’t want to sound like a snob either, but the canadian wine laws are batshit.