Whenever I set the parking brake in my Odyssey, using my foot, it makes a ratchety noise. I imagine every other foot-operated parking brake makes the same noise. Is anybody freaking out about that?

After market AC?

#Colorado

That’s about $11,000 in today’s dollars. I’ll take it.

Though I have never shot a race, I take pictures for my sons’ soccer association. Getting decent shots of any moving object is a challenge and, as the linked story says, it’s all about preparation and location. Sometimes you get lucky, but your luck is greatly increased by proper planning.

ESPN F1 has an interesting article about capturing that crash on film, and the planning that goes into covering the event.

Yup. Rio Grande Valley aside (and Dallas and Houston, which are only pale blue at best), here’s the map from 2012.

Requiting?

Everybody wins. Well played, Kawasaki.

It’s windy every day somewhere in the world. In some places, it’s very windy. The fact that we don’t hear about a wind-caused crash every day should be very comforting to you.

How to dress when taking your vacuum for a walk. But not on a cold day.

Or at least identifying the parts that wash up on the coast of Africa.

Well, seeing as these knuckleheads had no intention of returning the cart, it was meant as sort of a joke. But having schlepped a huge duffle through Orly, the money is well worth it.

Don’t you get the money back when you return the cart?

Technically, I believe it is. In high school (30 years ago), I worked as a runner for an ad agency. I asked one of the copy writers that exact question, and he said that it is incorrect to start a sentence with a conjunction, but English in ad copy follows different rules and it is acceptable. So, I would say that…

So what are the numbers here? How long does it take to get the Apaches into the air, and how many people does it take?

Would Alonso have been able to crawl out on his own if the car had a canopy on it?

So does the bikini model.

A space-age polymer formula that is impervious to death rays.