Cast your imagination ahead 25 years. It’ll be 2035 (and I’ll be 58; eek!), and my 2006 MINI will be 29 years old, or about as old as the first BMW E30s are today. My 2000 SV650 will be 35 years old, my first car—a 1987 Pontiac Grand Am—will be 48. Many car and motorcycle… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Rants
Ignoramuses among us
Ignoramuses among us, originally uploaded by blalor. The profit from this vehicle went to a USA company. What country did your vehicle support? Ok, let’s just ignore for a second that the profit from the sale of your vehicle didn’t go solely to a “USA company”, but also to international companies that provided components. You… Read more »
FastMail.fm down again
These guys are starting to piss me off. Both Web and IMAP services are failing to authenticate. Grrrr.
The Ghost Snowplows of Indianapolis
So Indianapolis got some snow last night. Not a huge amount, but enough where the collective IQ of the automobile-driving population of our great city dropped into the single digits. My 15 minute commute from Carmel back to Meridian-Kessler took me 90 minutes. I heard of several people who were on the road for more… Read more »
This Old House renewal
I subscribe to This Old House Magazine. My wife originally subscribed me when we bought our first house and, despite the persistent badgering I get from Time to renew (about, oh, every month or so), I continue to renew. I’ve even bought my dad a gift subscription. The gift subscription, of course, means that I… Read more »