You may need to look at the numbers for Amazon, FedEx, and UPS. While we do need more trains in the US, passenger trains particularly, current internet service deliveries rely heavily on trucks. Read more

Watch, “Into Great Silence”. By your comments here in the past, you would appreciate it, I think. It’s about the Carthusian monks who make Chartreuse. Read more

Living in Hawaii isn’t that nice, really. You get bored when the weather never changes. Everything’s all closed inside this little island microcosm. You have to fly to get anywhere. Read more

The irony of the origins of Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, leave me quite circumspect, regarding any self-congratulatory impulses which I may have on the net balance of my time on Earth. Read more

Brilliant. Read more

The Dymaxion has some peculiar handling characteristics because of the seating in front of the front wheels. I think its efficiency makes it notable, as well as its chassis design. But I’d put wheels closer to the corners. Read more

Heck of a season.  At least something has been good this year. Read more

I’ll never forget watermelon and sizzling burgers in the backyard. A slate leaderboard with the Unser name all over it, making the changes every lap, while we listened on the radio. Read more

Their strategy for finding food, is to leave a little urine trail wherever they go, so they can follow it back again after they discover a cache of food. Sort of a phylogenetic precurser to trickle down economics. Read more

Good lord, what an amateur job. The body/shirt is identical. No two shirts can fall over a torso with identical creases. Ever. It can’t happen. Read more

“Ford thinks the Lightning will ramp up even faster than expected” Read more

“Then what exactly is your point” Read more

Yeah. Me too. I grew up in Memphis. Worked homicide at the Medical Examiner’s office in the 1980's. The reason I have a skull as my avatar, is I did forensic anthropology there. So these tough guy responses leave me kind of unimpressed. Read more

Well, it’s VW, so I’m going with, “I Dickaround”. Read more

This is a good point. Thanks. But as I mentioned to Tom, I don’t think they have a reliable roll out process, and that’s worsening things. Read more

“Reservations aren’t orders.” Read more

It’s been that way forever, too. I think, if you look at how they’ve managed the launch of important new vehicles over the years, they’ve messed it up more often than they’ve gotten it right. Looking at the history of this phenomenon at FOMOCO would be an interesting article. Read more

If you want to go into the food truck business, you need a real food truck.

I am not grooving on this, ‘you order it, we’ll eventually get it to you’ situation with Ford lately.  I think the F150 hybrid with the built-in generator would be the one I want though.  I like to camp, and it would be perfect for a small RV. Read more