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A local rag's Saturday travel-section picture caption in a story about Tahiti: "Hundreds of sharks frequent the (underwater) pass, which also features excellent snorkelling."

Since Mann+Hummel bought Wix, the oil filters (specifically, the NAPA Gold) have lost the coil spring keeping the guts away from the bottom of the can. M+H dumped the coil in favour of a leaf spring. I remember videos decrying oil-filter leaf springs, and one in which a new leaf-spring filter...

This morning I was driving to an independent shop to change the oil (I bring my own M1 and Napa Gold), stopped at a red, started on the green and BANG! the transmission went south. But the car stayed in the frozen north. By ignoring the deafening screeching and gawdawful vibration, i got the...

". . . I've just been out in the car. It's not running very well. I think there's water in the gas." "Well, where is it now?" "In the lake."

It sounds like an EMP event, except it doesn't stop and is restricted to a store's parking lot. No word on what happens to the cars. Perhaps they're towed out of range, unless they'll start with fob workarounds. The story is unclear.

Wind-chill temps cannot be measured and are unscientific, meteorologists acknowledge. The truth at last! So don't bother plugging in the car when it's a balmy -8°C. (And it really was colder when I was a kid in 1879, walking barefoot 10 miles to school through blizzards, uphill both ways.)

The cyclist's lucky the plod didn't give him a ticket for allowing his shadow to stop over the white line.

. . . tied to a tree and with hand-crank-start only. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/car-thefts-rising-1.4930890

What's with the weekly YouTube updates? They're a seven-day ritual, at least on devices running iOS. Anyone might suspect that YouTube is as decrepit as Google's Flash was — and still might be, for all I know — such a security holey mess that first Apple then Microsoft declared it...

Douglas Rain, Shakespearean actor and voice of 2001's HAL 9000 computer, dead at 90.

I refuse to create a Google account, because Google. I repeatedly visit a number of car-repair/maintenance channels and antique radio and TV restoration channels. Lacking a Google account, two-way communication isn't possible. Does YouTube reveal my ISP, for example, so the posters know I'm a...

Yesterday I was nearing the middle of an intersection after the light turned green when a 20-something idiot on a bicycle wheeled past on the right, then cut between me and the car in front and made a left turn, not two feet from the front bumper. He was gone before I could honk. I would have...