Spotted this earlier tonight in Bellevue. Of particular note are the blingin' brake lights, totally radical rear spoiler, dog hanging out the driver's window, reflection of my big gut and cellphone in my window, and—of course—those absolutely killer wheels. They're nearly as cool as those awesome three-spoke wheels that Neal...
This happened at least a month ago, but I just ran across the picture today. I hate walking through fresh gum, and although driving through it doesn't involve the sticky cleanup, I still feel defiled. Can't you damned kids use a trash can??!?...
After far too damned long of dry days and clear skies, we've finally got a significant downpour. I really really miss the rain. I always liked New Mexico (with its quick and dirty summer showers) far less than California, which has a wintertime filled with grey skies and drizzle. Seattle...
I'm hooked on goofy old car ads. Doubly so with 1980s goofy car ads. Come on in take the wheel light it up !!!1! get the feelin' Time to escape, indeed....
Even considering today, when two of the big three automakers are hanging on to their lives, and all three are barely treading water in terms of making reasonable cars, I don't think there's ever been a darker age for American auto manufacturers than the late 1970s. Nearly everything Detroit was...
I spotted this at the Taqueria the other day. Yes, it's a Honda Civic sporting some sort of ... homemade exhaust pipe. Impressive. Plus, if you look closely enough (and your eyes don't go all buggy—apologies for the soft focus) you'll notice that the camber angle on the wheel is...
I'm not sure if it was the wisecracks from last night or what, but while Layla and I were lounging in the living room, a freaking bat flew out of the fireplace and up into the top floor. You may recognize the picture at right as the spot where the...
Layla and I came home the other night to find, hilariously, the Batmobile parked on the curb right in front of the hydrant for our block. Batman was nowhere to be found, but apparently someone had written "Achetita" on the seat and had drawn a crude picture of a jack-o-lantern...
So, because I hadn't seen it in a while (because I felt like having a good and extended gut laugh), I rented Zardoz to watch here at the house this weekend. And while looking for images with which to illustrate this post, I accidentally left the browser open to the...
Rob Williams sent me some pictures he snapped out in Taipei. The car here is a Mercedes-Benz 500SEL tartared up to look like a ... well, that. I really like what look to be Havoline and Texaco stickers applied backwards on the driver's door. Rob comments, It isn't just New...
Holy crap, it's the Bond car! Another collectibles article over at Autos Articulated. Photograph by Brett Weinstein....
I'm in the middle of writing a collectibles article that won't be done in time for tonight's post. It's about an Aston. Stay tuned. But, I did get the scanner working, so I've pulled this ad out from the absolutely awesome book that Rob got for me. Oh man, that's...
The Microsoft and Boeing soccer teams had a game earlier today at the bigass Qwest Field out in the middle of Seattle. 90 minutes of game resulted in a 1-1 tie. I think I drunk $24 worth of beer during the game. What a ripoff....
For those of you who haven't yet seen this, it's required. In 1976, Claude Lelouch made C'était un rendez-vous, a short film of a car driving through Paris at breakneck speeds. The film was shot entirely on one roll of film and is presented below completely uncut. The sounds are,...
Similar to the Audi event presented earlier this year, BMW is presenting its Ultimate Drive event. Unlike Audi, which was something of a bonanza at a local convention hall and which featured five-minute-long drives in a half-dozen different vehicles, the BMW event is going to be held at a dealership...
What could be better than a commercial that starts out with a kid skeet shooting?...
My (OK—Layla's) scanner doesn't currently work with Vista. I don't know if it's a driver issue or a software issue or what. I'm sure it's going to get fixed by the time we ship, but for now, it's a giant pain in the ass. The reason it's a pain in...
Hey, that's right, another Autos Articulated article—all about the Pontiac Firebird Trans-Am with the big gold eagle on the hood. Awesome. Damn, that's a big image....
That's right, kids: I've been busy in the last eighteen months. This is the 1,000th post I've made to this journal. The only really notable thing to say here is that when I hit my 800th post, I mentioned that it would take until the end of the year to...
I spotted this earlier today on Lake Sammamish. It's a Surf-Jet, a surfboard powered by a small Subaru marine engine. There's a hilariously old-school website devoted to the Surf-Jet and other powered board contraptions. This at least the second bizarre watercraft I've spotted—I remember seeing a WetBike in a junk...
Doesn't that open tooltip make you want to move your mouse over the icon and make the damned thing go away?...
My name is Dan, and I'm a recovering Wikipediaholic. That's right—I was addicted to Wikipediahol. I first started making serious edits to the Wikipedia in June of 2004. I remember going to look up the Prague Orloj (which I had recently seen in a trip through Europe) and found that...
I think this is the first sapphire blue Subaru XT I've seen since I moved away from the one I used to own in Los Alamos—and this one was a Turbo, too! Exciting for me. Probably less so, for you. And if you look closely, you can see that I'm...
That big. The machine on the right is the Fujitsu T4010D I've been borrowing. The monstrosity on the left is the Alienware. The picture doesn't even make the size too obvious. I really wish I had a picture that could show just how ginormous this thing is. I almost torched...
I've got too many ideas and not enough time or energy to execute them all. But...here's an idea that I've had for so long that I figured it'd make a good post topic. I used to drive a 1984 Volvo 240 station wagon—it was dark blue over dark blue vinyl...
After a solid six weeks of hacking at it in my spare time, I've finally gotten the driver's-side rear door on the Mercedes open. The culprit? A rusty mechanism and a jammed child lock. In the end, I had to pry the locking tangs away from the assembly which unhooks...
I finally had enough time today to wash and wax the BMW. Now I remember why I pay other people to do this for me....
I mentioned yesterday that I had my retinas imaged to look for defects in the nerves, capillaries, or retinal surface of my two peepers. This was an optional part of my treatment and even though Microsoft's medical insurance company covers it (most company's don't) the nurse nevertheless asked if I...
For a really long time, the moving category in the hierarchy on the right side of the screen has been the only one without a link—because there were no posts in the category itself...only subcategories. Well, enough of that. I'm tired of the inconsistent link....
I've always worried what the long-term consequences of staring into a terminal for more than an hour or two at a time. Surely, staring at approximately the same focal distance without much blinking is going to cause some sort of damage if it happens for years on end. And to...
The traditional way to land a plane is with the nose waaay up in the air. The idea is that you're moving slowest when you're approaching the runway with a hefty angle of attack, and you plant most of the plane's weight down on the big main landing gear, which...
Layla and I each get the same amount of vacation—three weeks a year, earned like pay alongside the rest of the digits in our paychecks. Due to a few extra trips here and there, however, she's used more of it than I have. So in order to catch back up,...
