Siri For Safety
Could the solution to distracted driving be something as simple as a cleaner typefont? I think there’s a fair number of adjustments we could make to cut down on technology-based distracted driving. In...
View ArticleWhen My Wife Ceased Being Clancy Himmelreich
Clancy lost her drivers license and we’re set to get on a plane tomorrow. So I want to repeat this complaint: The point of having identification at the airport is not to make sure that you have your...
View ArticleHomeward For a Jaunt
So tomorrow we fly back home for July Fourth with the wife’s extended family and my more limited one. My folks will be joining us at the Corrigan Compound with the in-laws. They are curiously more open...
View ArticleFree Diapers!
We hadn’t noticed the problem until we got to the airport, which is a clear hour from our house. I asked Clancy where the diaper bag was. Instead of informing me that it was still in the car, she...
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Android App Roundup: Navigation
One of the many things that smartphones are good for is car navigation. Android comes with the Google Maps navigation system, but you may be interested in alternatives either because there may be...
View ArticleCrossover America
The Crossover reigns supreme! These days, three times as many crossovers are sold as SUVs and minivans combined. Even SUVs in their Clintonian fin-de-siècle glory days cannot touch the growth of the...
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Travel Day, My Daughter Kissed a Boy, and Stingrays On My Mind
Today was spent mostly in transit, as we take our annual family trip to the beach. Lain has officially kissed a boy, for the first time. I didn’t see it because Clancy and I had split up duties and I...
View ArticleWhen Toll Roads Meet Rental Cars
BusinessWeek has a good piece on the inconvenient intersection between toll roads and rental cars. Where some might see inconvenience, rental companies see profits: Rental companies don’t absorb the...
View ArticleWashington Airports
The Washington Post recently wrote about the woes of Dulles International Airport: A recent study found that Dulles generated more than $1.2 billion in tax revenue and nearly $10 billion in labor...
View ArticleThe Dangers of Semi-Autocars
A new study suggests that self-driving cars will be a boon to public safety. There are still a lot of things that the autocars cannot handle, however, and so it may be a while. In the meantime, we’re...
View ArticleGoing To The Upper One
I’ve mentioned here and there that we’re going on a trip, and so we are! To Alaska, where my sister-in-law Ellie will be getting married for the third and we hope joyfully permanent time. This will be...
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Welcome To Wisconsin
My friend in Canada was driving his daily commute in Ontario and happened upon an unexpected sign: Presumably, this involves a movie being shot. Perhaps a new Twilight Zone.
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Taxi Driver (I)
I didn’t really want the job, but I’d been looking for a while, and I couldn’t ask my girlfriend to keep covering my share of the rent. And reportedly it was good money, if dangerous. . I had been a...
View ArticleTaxi Driver (II): First Night, part 1
[This post is part of a series. Part I is here.] “Don’t pick up any black people, especially if there’s more than one of them,” the experienced cabbie told me. “Stay out of Sunnydale, Third Street, and...
View ArticleBecause It’s Cool!
The SWINCAR. It’s an all-electric off-road vehicle with a very, VERY flexible chassis (and ya’ll can just get your minds out of the gutter right now, it ain’t that kind of flexible chassis). The key...
View ArticleGiven a choice…
Would you feel safer flying with the hiring and training of additional TSA officers/agents’/whatever they have to call themselves to feel important’, or would you rather they hire & train more air...
View ArticleTaxi Driver (III): First Night, part 2
[This is a multi-part series. See parts I and II. Note: This entry in the series immediately follows the previous entry. I strongly recommend a quick review of part II to re-establish the mood and...
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The Road Goes On Forever, and Texas Never Ends
A conversation in the football post Over There, the size of Texas came up. Said Glyph: When I was driving cross-country, I tried to stay off Interstates as much as possible, and some long Texas...
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The Time I Almost Smoked Again
Photo by Ted Van Pelt For the most part, I don’t miss smoking. There are things that I do miss about it, but over time I have come to appreciate vaping more for the most part. I have a wider variety of...
View ArticleLinkluster Marathon
For the first time in a really long time, we’re going back to visit the family over Christmas. I won’t be absent, but I came to the determination that there is simply no way to keep posting up and...
View ArticleA Child On a Leash
Expecting a lot of hassle on the flight down to Deltona and back, we decided to take the unusual step of getting a leash for our child. There is a picture to the right, but even without it you can...
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Language Matters
New York’s yellow-cab drivers no longer required to pass English test (The Guardian) A new law that streamlines licensing requirements for different kinds of drivers has done away with the longstanding...
View ArticleExhaustion
We flew down from DC to Colosse today. There was a layover in RL Nashville. Funny thing about the Nashville airport… it seems like everybody there has a guitar. Anyhow, it was a very exhausting day....
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The National Automobile of Texas
Let the Texans have their truck. Leave the rest of us alone. Sedans are also authentic. Photo by DiamondBack Truck Covers -{Originally Appeared on Ordinary Times}- The New York Times used the truck...
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When Safety Measures Are Worse Than Nothing
A while back I wrote something about distracted driving and attempts to tech around the issue: Many applicable mobile apps aren’t even trying. One of the better navigation apps out there is HERE We Go....
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