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I have never been to a national forest before. Don't even know the difference between a forest and a tree.

I grew up going to the peninsula for backpacking and having to drive 30 extra minutes keeps all the transplants away so I too prefer that. Backpacking on the beach in a NP is also pretty awesome. (not me but an idea of a spot I like: https://happiestoutdoors.ca/toleak-point/

But it'd be nice to have a chance to camp in one of the more picturesque places in the world that is an hour drive from me.

pirana6 wrote:

I grew up going to the peninsula for backpacking and having to drive 30 extra minutes keeps all the transplants away so I too prefer that. Backpacking on the beach in a NP is also pretty awesome. (not me but an idea of a spot I like: https://happiestoutdoors.ca/toleak-point/

But it'd be nice to have a chance to camp in one of the more picturesque places in the world that is an hour drive from me.

I need to get there at some point. Would also like to take a longer look at Deception Pass than just bridge travel, as well as look around Point Defiance some more.

Man, we have some metal names in this state.

FWP: Articles that talk about a video of something, but the embedded video is about something else. Want to see the video in question, click the link to open a new page! Obnoxious.

Are you going to a strip club? If you do ask the girls if they smoke and keep track of the responses. Tell them you are a scientist.

Where in California?

Are you flying into Ontario? That probably would have been the cheapest.

Joshua Tree is awesome. If you're staying there, I hope it's at Jumbo Rocks.

Looking to replace a lot of my older cookware (taking up cupboard space with disused, warped pans and scratched non-sticks, no bueno). Turns out shopping for some of that stuff is more of a headache than shopping for a new computer. Thinking a wok or two, a couple 12" frying pans with lids, and various smaller pans.

All the ^'s to that. I've complained once, twice, maybe three times about light pollution from LEDs and displays, and I feel like it's never been worse. The coffee maker lights the whole kitchen up a ghostly blue with its maybe 0.5" display. When the fridge door light comes on as well, it's bright enough to read a book. Trying to sleep in a room with a dozen different devices each adding to undesired luminosity is horrible, especially when you think you're used to it but it still affects your sleep.

The biggest insult is when a device manufacturer is aware of light emitting disorder and has an off switch … for all but the power LED. Thanks.

Office computer monitor turns on in the middle of the night sometimes for its windows update. It's like there's a burglar fishing around.

Lights out in the media room, trying to watch a movie, 12 different devices around the TV all staring at me like HAL 9000 contemplating its next murder.

RE: sensory pollution, mute button on a microwave that beeps twice at you because you have to press beeper volume and then zero. Can it not just beep when you press zero? What's that, an extra $0.03/model for add'l microchips?

Interesting, can't be long before an OEM gets sued for causing a crash by putting something which should be accessible by instinctive blind touch four menus away on a stupid touch screen which knocks out your night vision.

I'm sure the marginal benefit from start-stop is outweighed by the reduction in engine life.

Dilbert_X wrote:

Interesting, can't be long before an OEM gets sued for causing a crash by putting something which should be accessible by instinctive blind touch four menus away on a stupid touch screen which knocks out your night vision.

I'm sure the marginal benefit from start-stop is outweighed by the reduction in engine life.

Yeah, it seems like a simple thing to leave out of the car on paper, but like you said, the alternative method of control is even more dangerous unless you have somebody in the front passenger seat to manage it for you.

I feel the same way about start-stop not being worth the extra wear on the related parts, although my concern is more about how awful it could hypothetically be 5 years down the road when it's a nice cold day in the fall or early winter, my aged car battery now suddenly shows slight signs of weakness when starting up on the way to work, and then at a busy intersection in Annapolis, start-stop turns my car off as usual and eventually the light turns green and my battery just can't quite manage enough cranking amps to turn the car back on and I'm either immediately rear-ended at worst or at best I'm suddenly stuck in a very long, angry line of cars, having to abandon the car at that busy light and wait on AAA to come tow it

It already happened in January with the 93 Dodge Dakota I was borrowing, the fuel pump died while I was at an extremely busy left turn and I was waiting over an hour for AAA to come gas it up(gauge stopped working in December so I thought it was empty and couldn't tell, turns out gauge failure's a sign of a failing fuel pump), luckily a cop blocked off oncoming traffic and helped me push the car into a parking lot.

The cars do keep getting smaller to accommodate those CAFE standards, or nowadays the cars disappear entirely because everybody is just buying trucks instead.  I would totally have bought another landbarge if I had the option but literally nobody makes them at all anymore.  The closest I could currently get is probably a BMW 8-series.

I'm hoping that once electric vehicles go mainstream that we'll start seeing manufacturers experiment with cars of all different shapes & sizes again.  The bonus is that the larger the car, the larger the battery.  I would love to buy an all-electric 20 ft long Lincoln Continental Mark IX that's styled like a 70s throwback if they ever make one.