IT guy, weekend SCCA racer, new Subaru owner, Foursquare SU3, PSU alum, gadget lover, Apple user, all-around regular guy.
Dear all US news outlets: Please ease up on the “royal wedding” coverage. IT IS JUST A WEDDING. No, I don’t care where this girl grew up. Nor do I want to watch an interview with one of her former preschool teachers talk about how she was such a good kid and she knew she was destined for great things and blah blah blah (I just made that up – but I’m surprised that hasn’t [...]
This story was linked from Autoblog the other day (and I see today is on Engadget)… it’s about GMC trying to add another MPG to their new Terrain and what they had to do to get it. The gist of the story is that they added a torque converter that is engaged at lower speeds when you press the “Eco” button. But apparently this created a lot of cabin noise when that was activated. So [...]
This guy –> Disclaimer: I haven’t been following this Egypt thing very closely. Mostly because there’s nothing that I can personally do for them. It sucks, but it’s true. I just know from what I’ve seen and heard that many people are not happen. Like, a LOT of people. Anyway… spotted a tweet from BBC today about the ABC News Interview with him that really kind of took me by surprise. Not that someone got [...]
Was just reading this story on Engadget about Android eclipsing iOS as the largest mobile platform in the US. My initial reaction? No shit!? There are currently 35 different smartphones available in the US according to Google. And that’s across multiple carries and manufacturers! You know how many iOS smartphones there have been in total? Just 4. On one carrier. Why is this even a story? Of course Android is going to top iOS in [...]
Not too long ago I got kind of bored of Engadget and TUAW and went out looking for some more gadget/tech news sites. I realize most of these things are technically still just “blogs” … but is it so much to ask to try to have a little professionalism and integrity in your stories? Maybe all of the commotion of the iPhone 4 is just too much for some people to handle. But now I’m [...]
…then I don’t know who would be. At the moment I’m referring specifically to this Autoblog article, where the President of Ferrari states that the new teams in F1 should leave F1 and drop down to the lower-rung GP2 series (which is often considered a “feeder” series for drivers looking to get into the top-tier Formula 1). A little bit of back story here… this past year, the FIA allowed a few new teams to [...]
When this car was announced, even I could have predicted its failure. It LOOKS like a Corolla; is actually even smaller than a Corolla in many dimensions; and only gets 9mpg better city gas mileage (and even 1 less on the highway). Fail. It was all kind of confirmed that things are not going to planned when they admitted they were far from their sales targets so far this year. Their targets? 20,000 to 22,000 [...]
@autoweekracing posted a link to this story earlier today. You can go read it for yourself here. It boils down to this… the IRL (Indy Racing League) has decided to crown two separate season champions. One for oval courses and one for road/street courses. And from the sounds of it, that would be in addition to the overall points champion. WTF? WHY would you do this? If you want to do it that way, why [...]
News is surfacing today of a second shot at an American version of the BBC’s Top Gear. This time with the History Channel instead of NBC. So many questions… Who? Tanner Faust, Adam Ferrara, and Rutledge Wood (who?). Tanner will be the expert driver. Adam the “funny” guy. And Rutledge… I have no idea. They guy commentates NASCAR apparently. I just hope he doesn’t shit his pants when someone turns right in a review. When? [...]
It’s kind of funny actually. I had this whole “draft” post started and ready to just fill in some details an hit the Publish button. Then I saw it… And I’m still kind of… confused. I mean, I think it looks OK. Sort of. I don’t know. There are parts I like and parts I’m not fond of – but I don’t think I’d say that it’s awful. I just don’t know what to think. [...]
