Judging from the marks up the right side of the ramp the driver took it at speed, held it straight enough to get it to a stop. Probably jackknifed as gravity began pulling it back down hill.

Holy SHIT they got some distance on that one!

I’ve never understood the look of fear that others show when I mention buying or selling something on Craigslist. They seem to think that CL is some warren of desperation and agony that only brave, or stupid, people enter, and since I have walked repeatedly into the pit and returned unscathed, well, I must be some…

It was worth it, just to learn some slight of hand.

Good point! Totally missed that detail.

I also wonder if the vehicle chimes when the door is opened and the keys are in it. If it is normal to chime then, who’d notice the “Not in Park” notification?

I just picked it up for a re-read a few days ago. I love how real Stephenson makes it feel. The only thing that gets me is the constant Internet / Social Media buzzwords. I know he’s got a reason for using them, but I suspect, given the frailty of such systems’ popularity, the references will be a barrier to new…

14:20, yo. Fuck the nebbish!

2:20?

In to work early to catch up.... and I’m watching car chase videos.

I’m OK with that.

I think your TL,DR: is as long as your response.

Dimples.

I hope that hurt.

I had a nothin’ special 79 ElCo (305 w/ quadrajunk, 350 automagic) while in the service in the mid naughties and needed a DD once or twice. It was never not a hilarious show (especially while drunk) watching someone who grew up on EFI trying to get a cold blooded malaise era carb going. The way they would just mash…

I think Robot Chicken had it first.

Lotta ins, lotta outs, lotta what-have-yous.

Poonicorn.

I can live with this. As long as I don’t drunkenly request it at karaoke.

Well done. Let’s just skip over the excessively long instrumental break though.