Not yet, anyway. I’ve got a feeling we’re about to hear it tell a story.

I’m surprised the bones of that creature are leftover. Well, some of the bones, anyway.

A long, long time ago, my dad accepted a combi-camp as partial payment for some work he did for a friend. It was our family’s first (and only) venture into camping on wheels. Alright, my dad thought, we’ve got this thing, best use it for something…

Come family, we’re going camping on Öland!

All was well, as far as I can recall, until the second day on Öland, when a torrential downpour flooded the camping area and left our combi-camp stranded in half a meter or so of water. Recovering it was a pain and our trip was pretty much ruined.

We eventually made it back home. My dad, at this point pretty fed up, vowed to never go camping in such a fashion again and rolled the combi-camp into a shed. There it remained until his death a few years ago.

Even as an 8-9 year old kid I thought Öland was a neat place. I remember renting a bike and going exploring, looking for aquatic fossils.

Would definitely visit again, but probably not with a combi-camp.

In the early days it was a bit more than that. You had to deal with fiddly software and do things like mapping buttons to video tracks, create transition videos, create chapters etc… It’s been a couple of decades since I last dabbled with this stuff, but I remember that doing it well, and creating something that stood out and worked well, was a bit of an art.

Edit: All/most of those things became easy(ier) as authoring software improved, of course, but in late 90s and early 00s it took practice and skill to achieve a professional result.

You really sold yourself with that ad - given the means I would’ve hired you in a heartbeat.

That was my first thought as well, especially considering ‘vehicles’ is the biggest export. I guess the survey didn’t include people old enough to remember Leyland products.

Grand Touring Injection, but now it injects electricity!

I first read that as “he lives near a zoo…”, and it made me wonder if it was his choice, to be closer to the animals.

Max is something special…

Thanks for these!

Aunt Jane has a helicopter, that can fly in all weather but a typhoon?!

Countertops and tiles… you certainly got my number!

Ditto, I loved that show, and John Noble as Walter played no small part in making it great.

I remember wanting one of these. Can’t remember why I didn’t get one, but I do remember thinking it was a breath of fresh air as far as car stereos go.

That really surprised me on my first visit to a US national park, that you have to pay. Oh, you want to see nature? Show me the money!

I reckon it’s a water filled balloon, rather than the demon core. He’s looking for an excuse to drench Calvin.

I find it easy to forget Perez’s highs, as they get overshadowed by the long, downwards spiral he was on at the end. In contrast, Ricciardo left while being closer to an equal to Max. That’s the image my memory is painting, anyway.

We need a double DNF for McLaren soin, to help keep the championship fight interesting.

“That, children, was why we used to have safety gear, before uncle Trump said equipment like that is for pussies and not something real Americans use.”

Good talk!

Now, do you happen to also know why American downspouts so often are square/rectangular and European ones (typically) round?

I remember asking my dad that question when I was a little kid, and he didn’t have a good answer, beyond “probably just a design choice”. That answer left me wanting more. Not to the extent that I’ve ever attempted to find a better answer myself, but still wanting.