You make this sound like it’s a good thing.

Seriously, where the hell do you people use 1,000-horsepower? I have 240hp/tq and I never think, “I need/want more.”

Maybe I’m just getting old but the best cars to drive are lightweight classics with just enough power to help you keep momentum.

I took Driver’s Ed quite a long time ago when the rules were a bit less stringent. My instructor was an older guy named Vic who looked a bit like a Abe Vigoda. By that time, I had been driving old farm trucks and a decrepit Beetle my Dad kept at a friend’s ranch since I was about 10 and Dad had even let me take his…

When I took my driving test, I pulled out of the DMV. The officer is sitting int he passenger seat with is notebook. I get to the red light, look in my rear view mirror and a dump truck is barreling towards us not slowing. I tell the officer “I’m sorry about this” and go into the intersection (the light is still red)…

One really simple example of the whole shear stabilizing panels concept are the chintzy looking cardboard.fiberboard panels they include in furniture kits (typically for covering the majority of the back panel on a dresser). Without this panel installed the entire structure is weak and unstable, with the panel…

Take a trip to Asia and you’ll understand how lawyers ruin everything fun (but stay a little longer you’ll understand how they keep everything from going to hell).

“none of the all-seeing crime-prevention devices happened to flag a man who brought 10 automatic weapons with him to the Strip.”

Documenting it here and now, for all time: if I am in a persistent vegetative state, find a way to end my life.

I went to Japan in July, and most of my time in Tokyo was spent combing through various retro gaming shops, trying to find everything on my buylist. A quick run-down:

I think Charmin Sandiego is a better name than The Mad Pooper.