Robert Hall

Yeah, that's how YouTube works. It's about getting the clicks and ad dollars..the car is secondary, if it's an interesting story then more people will click... Pretty awful power to displacement ratio... stuff from the ancient world was as bad as cars from the 80s for that measurement...of course, there weren't high speed freeways then, it was about torque to get those beasts moving..that is some pretty spectacular art deco styling on that one-off..

Rather than that horrific rustbucket disaster, here is a really sharp '70 GTO in a neat color combo.. A gorgeous blue w/ a red interior. This article is from 2017, but I saw it pop up today on FB, I think it's for sale.. https://www.motortrend.com/features/color-combo-psychedelic-1970-pontiac-gto-judge-never-meant/

Yeah, IIRC Colorado is the same way. My '00 Jeep was about $500 the first year then declining after that (there and in Arizona). My '14 Jeep when I bought it as 3yr old CPO would have been $600 or so in AZ, but I got a 90 day tag and didn't register it there...registering it in Ohio has been a flat $65 or so every year since then. I did pay AZ sales tax on the purchase, though.

Yeah, I've been out and about 3 times over the last couple weeks, so the Jeep is grubby..maybe this weekend or next week wash it. Heavy rain changing to freezing rain to snow between tomorrow and Friday. Had about a foot or so from the first storm on MLK day 2 weeks ago, then maybe another 4-6 inches since then...today has been the first day above 40, so some melting...

After two weeks of snow and cold, it’s sunny and 46 today. Dragged a chair out in the driveway and enjoying the warmth, blue skies and sun before the next round of storms tomorrow…

Of the Genesis SUVs, I like the GV70...love the rear end. Of their sedans, the G90 looks like a comfy cruiser, though the G70 would probably be more fun.

I've driven over that bridge a few times when visiting the Burgh...last time about 6 years ago.. Seems pointless for such a low range, but if you are only doing 1/4 mile at a time, I guess that's ok.

I've done a fair bit with Docker, can get messy. Working w/ Docker and Terraform a fair bit on my current project, but also have a cloud engineer guy I hand off my prototypes to so they can be productionized. I'm mostly focused now on wrapping up some integration code w/ Graph QL, Postgres, and Constant Contact (their API isn't that well documented). With the snowy, gloomy weather outside, I've been listening to a lot of classic early 90s grunge, '80s-retro synthwave, '80s pop and rock..

Yes, or an LS.

Ouch...absurd upcharge..and the 4xe has a 4cyl...barf.

The GM e-Crate is very interesting, I could imagine building a retro-modern Fleetwood Brougham land yacht--keep the classic styling, soft and quiet ride, cushy seats, upgrade the audio and add the e-Crate and modern brakes, etc. Now that is a Cadillac EV I'd drive...

I have no interest in self-driving cars, or cars that talk to each other. Working in software for 25 years, I know just how buggy and easily hacked most software is...don't trust it to drive a 9000lb vehicle down the road...

You don't carry a cell phone?

I miss the traditional Cadillac names...alphanumerics are so boring, and the new 'iq' names are contrived. At least Chevy has a core set of names they have kept around for a long time and when they add new names, they usually are word names (though many are contrived).

GM probably has internal designations for different sizes of Ultium-technology platforms under development...like in the olden days where they had A-body, B-body and C-body, etc for families of products of different size and spec. So instead of a variety of 6 cyl and V8 engines, manual and automatic transmissions, gas tanks, etc used with a set of shared BOF and unibody platforms, now they will have a set of electric motors and battery packs with a set of shared platforms. Different types of dirty bits, some of the same principles though.

Neat...I remember seeing 'Direct Connection' ads in car magazines as a kid back in the day.

I could see Chinese car makers making inroads in the US w/ cheap BEVs...never underestimate the average American consumer and their desire for cheap sh*t..

It hasn't changed much in 6 years, and is the least practical of the 3 with it's tiny bunker slot windows.

Happy Birthday!

Math. Here is another site, around the same percentage for 1 dose in the US nationally. This has a breakdown for 1 dose, fully vaccinated, and booster shot state by state... too many states with low percentages. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1202065/population-with-covid-vaccine-by-state-us/

Math.

Yeah, and there are many states that don’t even have 50% with at least one dose.

I'm not laughing about them, but can't feel sorry or sad for them, they brought it on themselves with their stupidity. Looking at that specific list, it's all idiots...

It just seems like people continue to devolve and get dumber and dumber...I wonder if there was so much skepticism and denial of the science when the polio vaccine was introduced, for example? My older brother was of the generation of kids where that was first used.. that was in the 50s, but there are still people alive that remember it... Sadly, the older I get, the more "Idiocracy" feels like a documentary...

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