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Through some unique confluence of events, I've gotten packages from just about everyplace I order things today: 3 Amazon deliveries (so far; I'm supposed to get another one "before 9PM"), FedEx, UPS, US Mail (Aliexpress), Shein, Instacart and Walmart have all been by my place today. This was not...

That's been a rumor every year since the Element was discontinued. They're absurdly practical cars, but Honda only sold ~50,000 of them in the US over their whole production run. Somebody shows up with a mock-up design and I get my hopes up. I'm pretty sure a new Element will be north of $40k...

I'm actively campaigning to buy my father's Element. Low mileage, no rust and pampered for its entire life. It's 20 now but I can probably get 10 years out of it. I set a ceiling of $25k for a new-to-me car, ideally a hybrid crossover-something. What I'm seeing is that to stick to that number...

I just found this fun youtube channel, which is devoted to testing PC case fan designs. The guy gets designed by his viewers, which he 3D prints and attaches to a Noctua frame/motor. It's oddly satisfying.

Ok now I have power. Huzzah! I bet it scared the shit out of my cats though.

It's day 15 now.

New Corvettes definitely look like Italian sports cars, but they're also very common where I live. A cherry red paint job on a low-to-the-ground sports car might be a Ferrari or a Lamborghini. My area does get those, because there's a lot of money in the vacation homes along the Lake shore. But...

Any car I own is going to get filled with things most people would never guess is valuable, and it will full time look trashed. Photo stands and lights, tons of random cables and plain cardboard boxes with random PC hardware. There won't be visible tools. My T420 is in there someplace, sure, but...

I mean that's probably a different state's troops... But really, state government actively wants Gary to go away, even though it loves the taxes from all the industrial output here. We're not getting shit from the republican supermajority in Indianapolis. We never have. I have also heard that...

Option 1 is highly dependent on my dad being willing to sell. In the past he's said he wants to keep it for the same practical reason I have one: They're great to just pile crap in, which is awesome when you're bringing home a load of whatever from Home Depot. His "main" car is a '25 Grand...

Random aside while I'm sitting in the dark and contemplating my car options: When the hell did Corvettes hit Ferrari pricing? $250k for a ZR1? Corvettes? The car that divorced boomers who never wear anything but khaki shorts and polo shirts, drive? Where is Clocker? I have so many questions...

I have a dream of getting an actually fuel efficient vehicle. To double my fuel economy would be quite the blessing. I probably put $200 worth of gas in my car every month at current prices. Which is kind of gross, now that I think about it. Part of my desire for a physically smaller car stems...

I love my Element. Truly. Irrationally. It's not comfortable but it's practical. The cargo capacity to overall size of the vehicle is insane. And there's nothing else like it. But now I do have to think about something newer. It's time. Option 1: My dad's Element. It's 20 years old, but it has...

Gary is in national news now because of our situation. The current goal is for near-complete restoration of service by the 25th, a full two weeks after the storm. The reason this is so controversial is that our local Power Company, NIPSCO, initially left Gary off its announced schedule of...

Here's a hilarious project I should not have to have: Firefox recently made some security changes such that sites accessed via HTTP are disallowed from storing certain kinds of local data. Plex Web normally uses HTTP and expects to store things in exactly the way Firefox won't accept any more...