As we were leaving the media center the other day, I had the opportunity to finally meet the legendary Brenda Priddy in person. For those unfamiliar with her work, many of the photographs that appear in automotive magazines and newspapers of cars where bizzaro tape jobs or big clumps of black camouflage are the [...]
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What the hell is wrong with people? With all the problems in the world why are so many people obsessed with seeing how stupid rich, famous people can be? Yesterday over on ABG one of the guys wrote a post about a certain idiot who happens to be heiress to a hotel fortune. I [...] This morning Max and I drove down to the Transportation Research Center in East Liberty Ohio to cover a story I’m working on for AutoblogGreen. About twenty miles from our destination we spotted this group of vultures having breakfast by the side of the road and stopped to grab some shots. [...] My kids are of an age where they will very likely never get to experience going to a drive-in theater to watch a movie or whatever it is people used to do at drive-ins. However, today I received a Saturn Outlook that I’m driving for a week for a review. As soon as Max [...] Why is it that some people just have no sense of humor and insist on flauting that fact? Tesla Motors has a blog on their corporate site where staff put up posts talking about what’s going on at the EV manufacturer. A lot of the posts are about some the design decisions they’ve made [...] I spent a couple of days in Manhattan this week for the New York Auto Show some interesting stuff. For a city that claims to be as progressive as Ann Arbor they sure have missed the boat when it comes to parking. As everyone in the area knows downtown parking is at premium. Unfortunately [...] Jules recently spotted a pair of hawks that seem to be nesting over by the golf course, and I wanted to try and catch them with the new lens before the trees fill up with leaves. Unfortunately, I didn’t catch the hawks, but on the way I heard a woodpecker and while scouring the [...] Warning! This tale may make you feel old. It’s not an uncommon phenomenon for more mature folks to get frustrated while trying to make sense of some of the new fangled high tech gear. Even I, uber-techno geek get frustrated at some of the unbelievably idiot user-interface decisions that are made by some equipment [...] One of the more popular genres on the net is personality tests, and I stumbled across an interesting variation on digg this morning. This particular test consists of about a dozen pages with a simple statement at the top such as “Art Is…”. Below that are fifteen images such as the Mona Lisa, a [...] |
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