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College towns tend to have good indie ones, and which are usually funky and frumpy. People in that demographic don't want to go to Starbucks unless they don't have other options.

I miss going to coffeehouses. There was a really good one in downtown Ann Arbor and one in Colorado Springs that I spent a lot of time in my 20s-early 30s inhabiting. The Ann Arbor one I would hang out at with other PhD students to study and talk, and the one in Colorado Springs I hung out at with several friends I worked with at 3 different companies, we spent a lot of time coding and planning there back in the dot.com era...

I think it's great that coffeehouse culture has become a part of Americana. And it's not only chains like (cough). It's so many independents that have rounded out the scene. There's good coffee, good tea, some food, a place to read, a place to work on a laptop, and usually a relaxing vibe. You can't beat it. This is one thing we've really done right in the New Millennium.

Found the pic- it’s actually a ‘66 Buick Wildcat. IIRC it was from an article about GM innovations, but this is all I clipped from it; prolly been in my library 20 years or more.

The highest mileage Tesla out there, a 2014 Model S, reached 745K miles in Oct of '20, but the owner replaced the motors 4 times and the battery packs 3 times by Nov '19. I wonder how much different a '21 Tesla is in this regard...

I found this a couple of days ago. It becomes a great video when this beautiful airplane lands and you can see all 4 thrust reversers in action. These things were a big deal in just coming from Madrid to New York, Miami, Chicago, and Los Angeles during the summer. It was an even bigger deal for these bigger Airbus planes to routinely go from Spain to Central America, Brazil, Buenos Aires, and Santiago de Chile. This plane (the 600 version) was a little bit longer than the 747-400. However, the latest 747-800 has reclaimed that distinction. I flew on this one summer, with the U.S. service provided by American, and picking it up in Chicago on the outbound and returning on the long flight to LAX. This is an incredible machine, with a more comfortable 2-4-2 seating arrangement and those 4 big engines providing the power. As they are being retired, I realize how much I will miss the Airbus 340.

We’re not disagreeing. There’s no legit reason to street race, I’m saying it’s going to happen and you said it’s been going on forever.

Ghost buster....er...goats butter... The woodworker in me loves this one...

I love me some flathead V8. My friend kelly got his Cutlass done, here it is at a small town car show here in Ohio. Proof that old cars do make it out of "under a tarp in the driveway" purgatory. Bunch of Ohio had issues also.