I was thinking early CR-V; despite their shitty AWD, a decent set of winter tires would likely be enough, right? I know nothing about snow, as a Californian-turned-Tucsonan.

It’s why it confuses me that Microsoft has a Xbox, Xbox One, Xbox One X, and Xbox Series X. Grandma only has to go way out of her way to fuck one of those up. Otherwise, there’s a 67% chance grandma is buying the wrong system for Christmas.

apparently there was an article about how spammers make their emails and bait extra dumb and riddled with spelling errors to filter out people with brains, and only end up having extra gullible people actually reach out to them, this way they spend less time with people who might not fall for their crap.

Thing is, even in the HD era broadcasters still screw up aspect ratios with impunity. They just figure that people will get pissed off at black bars, even if it’s on a 55" screen. STARZ, for example, showed The Force Awakens at 1.85:1.

I will never cease to be shocked by the willingness of idiots to click on god damn anything on the internet. It’s not even a generational issue. One of my coworkers is just a few years older than me and constantly clicks on obvious malware links in suspicious emails.

They put those things in the impulse buy bins to attract low-information consumers. “Hey Marge, look, the new Transmorphers movie is already out on video!”

I think Urals are awesome, but I also think the best way to upgrade a Ural is to replace Ural components with non-Ural components...

The Mrs and I ride motorcycles and sidecars. (We’re currently restoring a vintage racing sidecar to compete with.)

“It’s an electric Ural, baby.”

I commented above that I don’t care that he has a half dozen non-running vehicles.  But take some effort to clean up your parts, put them in one spot behind the garage, line your vehicles up neatly, take the wheels and cardboard off.  It would go a long way.

Well he does mudding in the yard which can get pretty noisy.

And since it’s just a Colorado with a different body on top you would think it’d be easy to pass regulations, and it would be good to have competition for the 4Runner. So no idea really.

Chemtrails were catching too much flak. How many of those have you seen in the past couple months? Not many!

I don’t know if you’ve ever driven a van like that, but the effect is amazing. I’ve driven ex-cop cars as well as white vans, and people are even more yielding for a white van than a decommissioned cop car in black/white. At least they respect the cop to some degree. They just fear the dented van. Those drivers don’t…

Well, as we’ve discussed before, you kind of miss the point here.

Percussive maintenance, on a muscle car.  Perfection.

I suspect that the organization would have battery carts at various locations around major highways, so that you could just switch trailer to add another 200 miles.

the idea for this is to rent it for a trip.
As in, you drive your car normal to a highway entry, you pick up your trailer there, drive straight on the highway toward your destination, and drop off the trailer when you exit the highway.

Our highways are all very good and very straight, everybody can drive a trailer that…

RIP ThinkGeek. I’ll always have my Knight Rider USB charger to remind me of your geeky goodies. 

Then there’s this bad boy...