Is it very xennial to regularly think about Anton Chigurh quotes & how they made a lot of sense? Asking for a friend.

Living through an era where every business you interact with tries to sign you up for something, sometimes stealthily, is very distressing & is going to have mental health consequences for a generation of older millennials.

Been thinking about The Most Painfully-2010s Movie Moments, & it's a close tie between Miller's planet with knee-deep water, & Littlefinger & Bane talking nonsense at low, room-level voice in a plane with a missing door. I think Petyr Baelish & Bane might be numero uno in this contest.

If you're shopping for a used car, ::burp:: whatever you do, don't look for it online. Youtube will serve you up ads for cars and dealerships for months afterward.

Mr. T should be on Mount Rushmore? I’m out of ideas.

Finally, a correctly-sized Costco truck. IG: SammietheSambar

Few things make me feel as old as seeing a C/D comparison test from the year I graduated high school. www.caranddriver.com/reviews/comp...

Having trouble seeing these on the road when they turn a decade old. www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a629...

Guise, this is a hundred grand. What are we doing here? www.caranddriver.com/reviews/a660...

The 1990 version of this headline is "What if Your Burning Land Rover Could Eject Its Engine?" www.caranddriver.com/news/a680419...

Once a week I quietly sigh & mentally thank Neill Blomkamp for showing us our future.

Jabba’s son is in this too… which is a thing I never thought I’d ever type or say.

Went to grab some lunch and just saw a newish Range Rover engulfed in flames out in front of an AutoZone

I was pretty late to covering AI but seemed to get it right in February 2023 www.wheresyoured.at/degenerative...

Plateless JDM Mitsubishi sitting for weeks by emissions testing place is totes chilling & has no problems, why do you ask?

Eventually, you don’t need an alarm clock and you’ll wake up at 5 am whether you want to or not.

At first, JJ Abrams wanted to name him Supreme Leader Snake. But Disney was like: “JJ, we can’t do that, there’s like a whole Kurt Russell franchise, you know?” And he goes: “Well, can we just change one letter?” And after a long pause Disney went: ::sigh:: “Okay, probably.”

My local Volvo dealer has a ton of *used* 2024 and 2025 models. Very encouraging.

The Venture Capital and Private Credit industry CANNOT afford the $250bn+ that OpenAI needs to fulfil their contract with Oracle, and at the current pace, *all* US venture capital will be exhausted in the next six quarters, if not faster. www.wheresyoured.at/oracle-opena...

Lawd, just noticed @thealso.bsky.social by this 1985 Volvo 340 DL at Carlisle in 2022 (not my pic, sourced from Flickr, taken by Paul B., I was not there that year). Jim, is this your doing? Confess.

Love youtube for serving me ads for stuff I looked for days ago & already bought. Gonna be seeing ads for Volvos & hedge trimmers for months now I guess before every vid. That's all they can do -- that's their ad business model: Stuff you looked for days ago.

Lately been pronouncing “vegan” in casual convos the same way as if referring to aliens from the planet Vega & nobody has corrected me yet. ::shrugs::

Seen on eBay. Ngl, kinda curious about these. Dried out & turned brittle no doubt, but still.

I still want a refund for having seen the second half of “Prometheus.” And punitive damages for the mental damage it did.

“OMG, it’s Sigmund Jähn!”

The normalization of four-figure electric bicycles has warped the vintage foreign fixie market too, & now sellers want A King’s Ransom for old rusted frames on rotted tires.

I think we are still at Verhoeven station, but the next stops are definitely Cuaron & then immediately Blomkamp.

This future is exhausting.

That is *a lot* of front overhang, unlike the Rosemeyer Concept of 2000 (which is like a hundred times better). Why does it need this much front overhang?

Amazing how Alex Jaeger turned out four great designs, this one of course being the most beloved by fans. Hard to believe it has been almost 30 years (I feel like I'm gonna puke just thinking about that number). Next year FC will be as distant from us in time as TOS was at Huntsville in 1996!

If year 2000 me only knew that in 25 years I'd see the Audi Rosemeyer Concept scaled down, run thru a PS filter to get rid of all the curves, & given a correctional-facility interior...

Concept art for something I am working on for someone. (Oohh, mystery!)

Love the W202 wagons, & have actually seen one stateside ages ago on diplos, & was actually thinking of importing one a couple of months ago. The Euro ones are typically *not* high-spec inside like USDM W202s tho. bringatrailer.com/listing/2000...

Is it normal for IG to be half-broken all the time? It is, isn't it? ::sigh::

Had a lot of weird stuff on my bingo board for 2025, including use of nuclear weapons in a naval setting, but did not have Collapse of International Parcel Post deliveries.

Electric shock therapy for AI Psychosis is gonna be big soon. Get in on that early.

Drafting USPTO patent for cigarette-flavored coffee. Calling dibs, calling dibs! Get your own ideas!

how strange that selling something called full self-driving that doesn't actually drive itself turns out to not be that popular!

It has finally happened: I pronounced pirates (in my head) the same way as pilates, while looking at Lego Pirates sets on eBay.

Would settle even for a small asteroid impact now with the yield of just a few kt.

Jeezus, just one of the most bleakest headlines & photos I've seen in this biz in years.

Realizing how many Master & Commander movies they could have made instead in the time span they've made many all these MCU comic superhero movies.

Ordinary Volvo out for ordinary weekend drive.

Wrote about the family behind Alpina relaunching production under their own Bovensiepen name w/ Zagato design & immediately forgot about it a day later cause it seemed like a fever dream or weirdcar fanfic. www.autoweek.com/news/a649165...

The 2025 version is where your characters, dressed like punks from the original Robocop films, run around in groups & loot stores when there isn’t enough security in a given mall area.

This is a needlessly complex collection of powertrain tech just to make a GD Cherokee for 'murricans. www.autoweek.com/news/a658642...

::sigh:: Literally dozens of people would buy these irl. www.caranddriver.com/news/a658616...

I forget for months on end that VinFast sells cars here.

When is a good asteroid impact when you need one? The Chelyabinsk one was all flash, little effect, despite being a 450 kt airburst. Gimme a multi-megaton surface impact, pref water in the Atlantic, to clear out all the shart-stained, plastic-sided beach houses all over northeast corridor.