agilewalrus @agilewalrus.bsky.social · 12/10/2026Who needs a tow hook when you’ve got all those D-rings? 010 0
agilewalrus @agilewalrus.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Well if you had $40k burning a hole in your pocket that only a Mitsubishi could extinguish… 020 0
agilewalrus @agilewalrus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026It’s the kiddo’s first day of organized sports 000 0
agilewalrus @agilewalrus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026But they wanted a landmark (a monument, perhaps?) 000 0
agilewalrus @agilewalrus.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The half of the track that was not public roads was a blank canvas. How do you not just design that part as an overtaking playground? 110 0
agilewalrus @agilewalrus.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Someday, I’m going to see a C6 wrapped in a blåhaj livery in the wild. It’s going to look sick, and I’ll know exactly who to thank. 100 0
agilewalrus @agilewalrus.bsky.social · 13/09/2026A+ preposterous yooper contraption today on US 2. Pulled up to the pump, hit the switches, and literally CLUNKED down onto the concrete. 000 0
agilewalrus @agilewalrus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Wait, this is just perverse convergent evolution with the Citroën DS (a great idea) 030 0
agilewalrus @agilewalrus.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Chopped and dropped with covered wheel arches and a superbird nose grafted on 130 0
agilewalrus @agilewalrus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Also just read that thrust reversers and spoilers run through a WOW switch on the 767, so if they couldn’t get it planted, they weren’t getting it stopped. Which is why (see above) 000 0
agilewalrus @agilewalrus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026When I saw the METAR after seeing this graph, it reactivated the CFI part of my brain. The answer was, 100%, emphatically (see below)… and IMMEDIATELY at the second point on those plots. TBD NTSB, but classic LLWS hallmarks. 100 0
agilewalrus @agilewalrus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026They make the runway, but then it flips to a tailwind. Already going too fast, so they’re hosed. FDR showed they throttled up for a go-around but didn’t stick with it. Maybe the tailwind was such they doubted the climb-out and decided their best bet was rubber on the ground- usually not the case. 100 0
agilewalrus @agilewalrus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026METAR showed a thunderstorm over the airfield. Notice how their ground speed drops right as they inflect above glide slope, then increases as they start to parallel glide slope again? They’re pitching down in response to a sudden headwind. They get back to GS finally but don’t get speed down. 100 0
agilewalrus @agilewalrus.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Nico just randomly translocating into the sky broadcast for this one moment 000 0
agilewalrus @agilewalrus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026This is great news for me, who will be descending 11 hours from northern Michigan the following weekend 030 0
agilewalrus @agilewalrus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026This is fantastic news for me, who will be spending 11 hours scaling the midwest in a Prius this weekend 100 0
agilewalrus @agilewalrus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026This old basket I made got unearthed earlier and I think Merlin has been inside it ever since. I should really make some more of this style. For the good of feline kind, if nothing else. 000 0
agilewalrus @agilewalrus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026It is (and shame on me for not adding the alt text) 111 0
agilewalrus @agilewalrus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026A somewhat redundant, but lovely and quirky two car solution 121 0
agilewalrus @agilewalrus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Then Mazda dropped the Millennia, and they had to rebrand it late in the development cycle. Caught flat-footed by a brand they were specifically tasked to compete with. So yeah, this tracks. 111 0
agilewalrus @agilewalrus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026As the Aurora was the root of this discourse, my mom worked in product planning at Olds in the 80s/90s (mainly on the Cutlas Ciera, RIP), and IIRC, they had originally named it the Millennium. 111 0
agilewalrus @agilewalrus.bsky.social · 01/09/2026The car was on the kitchen island after I had waited two weeks for my wife to question why it was in the knife drawer, just so I could pay off the bit: “It’s a bright orange ‘89 RX-7- that’s sharp!” 000 0
agilewalrus @agilewalrus.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Happy Turbo Hot Triangle Tuesday to all who celebrate. Some symbolic synergy that there happened to be a bright orange turbo triangle-engined die cast car next to my chalk pile 100 0
agilewalrus @agilewalrus.bsky.social · 13/08/2026I would always evangelize these to my flight students. The aviation section can be such excellent context on how the TAFs were cooked up. 020 0
agilewalrus @agilewalrus.bsky.social · 08/08/2026The back end of this made me realize that Toyota has been wasting our time by not doing the Crown’s two-tone nonsense in a wider, wilder range of colors 000 0
agilewalrus @agilewalrus.bsky.social · 04/08/2026What’s the worst ever application of the classic Gulf livery? I’ll go first: 000 0
agilewalrus @agilewalrus.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Every damn airport in Michigan IFR due to smoke is WILD… 000 0
agilewalrus @agilewalrus.bsky.social · 17/07/2026I’m aware it’s because of the French, but always fun to recall that the meteorological code for smoke is FU. 100 0
agilewalrus @agilewalrus.bsky.social · 04/04/2026When I took my flight instructor check ride in Detroit years ago, the FAA inspector who had been grilling me all morning paused the exam and took me out to run errands in his SSR on his lunch break. Very surreal interlude in an otherwise stressful day. Fantastic exhaust note, as I recall. 030 0
agilewalrus @agilewalrus.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Had a busy day and forgot to set my lineup. Welp. 000 0
