We visited the Detroit Institute of Art today and wowzers, due to the remodel they've reconfigured the gallery spaces and brought a *ton* of works out of storage. There were so many outstanding new pieces but this Tlingit Spirit Box by Preston Singletary (2009) blew me away. That's internally lit.

Don't smoke, kids.

I went into a Tesla store this afternoon to take a look at the refreshed 3 and Y, they seem okay. The UI is still the best in the business, the dual-glazed windows are a nice upgrade, but man are those interiors and materials still feeling cheap as hell.

I love that TikTok is running ads on YouTube targeting parents for several reasons: 1) Goes to show how old the YouTube demographic is. 2) If you have to reassure me that my teen will be safe on your platform, they won't be. 3) Kids will always, always, always find ways around any safeguard.

Hey #carsky, remember when we were doing flywheel accumulators for hybrid systems but then completely abandoned the technology? Porsche even won with it at the 24H of Nürburgring. Yeah, I think about that sometimes.

So things are going great with Google's AI slopification.

I just realized that at some time in the future I can introduce my daughter to the very real story of that time when 15-25 year old males across the United States collectively thought it would be cool to buy and flaunt "pimp cups."

It amazes me that you're allowed to just *make* toum. Even with prepping a bulb of garlic the whole job takes like 4 minutes and most of that is cleanup.

You crazy sonofabitch, you did it, whoever you are, you finally did it. #Aldi

It's interesting how the intelligence agencies of Russia and Israel have been implicated as having involvement with Epstein running honeypot schemes but the CIA is just over there all quiet like and nooooobody's asking that question...

It's currently 6F at 7:20 am. In the last month I think we've hit a high of 33F one time, the rest has been in the single digits and teens. I'm so tired of it being so cold the snow is frozen enough to squeak underfoot.

Hey, you know how it was widely reported that Bill Gates lost $51B in net worth last week? That kind of money could pay off over 210,000 average American mortgages. Just part of one guys' wealth. Americans are poor and frustrated because of these guys, many direct their anger at only wrong targets

Setting up a new Dell laptop, Windows asked me to name the machine and I couldn't help but christen it "DellOrto." Yes, I am a huge dork.

I can't wait for the day the liberal, leftist, and socialist communities of Bluesky discover The Beveridge Report.

Hey, remember that time in 2024 when Elon Musk promised to pay people if they signed up to vote for Trump and then didn't? Yeah... that was a something.

I'm not one to toot my own horn, but that observation was closing on prescience.

It's fascinating that modern seat heaters now are either off or incinerate. No in between. Somehow my 1985 Volvo 740GLE wagon had this impossible puzzle solved forty years ago.

I've been living in interesting time for 25 years. Please, I would like some boring times.

It's been 11 years since I touched my resume and holy cow, what a silly thing it is that we do to market ourselves.

He defended a lady who go knocked down by a bully.

First day of unemployment is also a cancelled school day ( for cold, very silly) so we're binging Lord of the Rings, first time for my daughter, so far she's VERY concerned about the fate of the wizard. Taking a break to hit the library before starting Two Towers.

Pretty alarming that we're at the part of winter where going outside in near zero temperatures is deemed "not so bad" as long as there's no wind.

(Quietly watching an absolutely devastating-for-trump-country-states winter storm brewing with FEMA completely dismantled. Good luck to those normal folk effected by the pending chaos and oh well to the "I didn't vote for this" voters)

"Dad, why is there a horse on your honker?" is the funniest way for a six year old to ask about a Mustang steering wheel logo.

Being old is finding your boyhood baseball glove, noticing that when you wrote the number on it in case you lost it you didn't even bother with the area code, remembering the area code from then was changed 20 years ago, and your parents don't even have a land line at the house anymore.

At a random McDonalds this afternoon picking up lunch for someone who needed it this derelict ex-Happy Meal toy display was absolutely lighting my symmetry neurons up with rage. Why do this. WHY?

When empathy, cooperation, and the common good were successfully rebranded as existential horrors we were doomed.

Yikes. Trump's got a net positive approval rating in just 11 states, most of which have a total population of a metro area. He's negative 17 in TEXAS. www.economist.com/interactive/...

I had to take three trips to bring the groceries in today, only mentioning as I need to know where I am required to go to turn in my man card.

I am concerned that many years into two factor authentication one of the biggest bank in the world is still a goddamn moron and cannot or will not recognize the devices I've been using to log in for the entire time.

During the Christmas break I put a box in front of the register just for our tuxedo. She pretty much lives here now.

I don't think people really remember how amusingly weird the Detroit Auto Show used to be.

Just discovered that the Mach-E and Bronco Sport share bolt patterns and now I can't help but wonder how this would work out. ebay.us/m/xxTHzd

At the grocery store the other day I saw an OG Mercedes CLS being driven by a man in a fabulously ostentatious fur coat, and all I could think was how that guy was flying unbelievably close to the sun.

Indiscriminate door to door searches in Minneapolis seems like an extremely obvious violation of the 4th amendment and probably the 9th amendment, but abiding by the Constitution isn't something in style any more.

Hoooooooly cow I just accidentally ended up on Autoblog and wow, what a shitshow. You can really tell it's just a clanker site now.

For giggles I applied for an auto loan to see what would happen (we bought outright) and Ally turned me down because I've never had an auto loan. The funny part is they turned me down while reporting an 868 credit score. I didn't even know that was possible.

This Minneapolis ICE execution is another Sandy Hook moment for America and now, like then, I suspect we'll not pass the moral test the moment demands.

The Greenland thing is absurdism raised to an artform. Greenland is only desirable for the vast resources under the ice sheet and as a strategic position for a Northern passage, things only viable with accelerating anthropocentric global warming. Which Republicans deny exists.

Hey car nerds, seems like we're not talking enough about how it isn't just the Cybertruck that's stinking it up at Tesla. Combined, the X, S, and Cybertruck accounted for THREE PERCENT of total worldwide volume in Q3 2025. Why, oh why are they keeping all those turds around?

In attempting to pronounce the word "pimento" for the first time my six year old said "pendanto." Ladies and gentlemen, from the mouths of babes. Who is every keyboard hero that swoops into a normal exchange to correct something irritatingly inconsequential? PENDANTO!

Folks, we're seeing neocolonialism. Argentina and Venezuela so far, next Cuba and Mexico, Panama, Bolivia, and Columbia are probably on the list. We won't directly govern, but administratively-aligned billionaires and corporations will. We're on a path to becoming the new Dutch.

Laugh before you cry thought: The writing was literally on the wall when they changed the name of the DoD.

We all know how this goes, right? With Maduro gone the power vacuum is filled by worse strong men, probably organized crime heads who claim the various levers of power through street violence and territory deals, the US offers to take down sanctions if they stop being naughty...

I believe Hungry Hungry Hippos has the most durably designed and constructed plastic mechanism ever produced.

I'm new to EV ownership, but everybody seems to love A Better Route Planner so I downloaded it and started poking around and it seems weird so many L2 and L3 chargers are missing or misplaced, and decommissioned ones are still there. With 1M+ downloads I thought the horde would be more accurate.

Pssst, hey, other business owners, the Federal 30C tax credit for installing Level 2 or 3 EV charging will be available until June 30, 2026, which had been set to expire December 31, 2032 before the "Big Beautiful Bill." Get going if you want help on that convenience for your employees or customers.

This is how fun the ancient internet used to be. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uguX...

This is what happens when you ask your six year old to name your new car.

It kind of blows my mind that Michelin *took* the mid-premium all-season tire market with the CrossClimate 2's by saying "hey, let's just do high-resolution tractor tires."