MrZigZag

Hamilton is a model railroader IRL which I suspect had something to do with his lavish descriptions of those space trains.

And it isn't even a very good reference since VGER started out as Voyager 6.

The US government's standards for fuel economy paradoxically push car manufacturers to make bigger vehicles. The few mid-size pickups still available are now as big as full size pickups once were.

You've been out to Tannhauser Gate again, haven't you?

Tesla’s secret team to suppress thousands of driving range complaints

The phrasing of the title had me thrown for a second as I wondered if the complaints were about the quality of the golf balls at Tesla's practice facility(s) and how I missed knowing that Tesla had a golf division.

Google may be gunning for the post office next...

When you control the mail, you control information.

• Newman

Looks like a Pink Floyd album cover.

I am aghast at the thought of hot dogs in a can -- and they're made from chicken instead of beef!

He is aware!

Wow it's smooth too; I was expecting it to look like a creepy old Clutch Cargo cartoon.

Dhalgen. I know some people absolutely love this book but to me it was just a directionless ramble from one random sci-fi plot to the next with little-to-no resolution to any of them.

And come on one-shoe-guy: When somebody offers you a new pair of shoes, put the damn things on instead of saying you're good and continuing to hobble around half shod / half barefoot.

I think it's the same hype train that said ten years ago that by now every vehicle would be self driving and all the truckers would be out of work. Or back when that first Avater movie came out that in a short while every movie and TV show would be in 3D.