Steph is a 2011 graduate of Gettysburg College (majored in history, minored in Civil War Era studies) and current graduate student at Pratt Institute (library science with a focus in Archival Studies) who loves baseball, anime, writing, drawing, Rogue Squadron, cars (and Top Gear), comedy (especially its history and, naturally, the British variety) and her cats and Old English Sheepdogs. Fond of Stanford even though she doesn't go there. Has Asperger's syndrome, a mild form of autism. Created the 30-Day Baseball Meme. One time she made a music video about Buster Keaton's love affair with trains. Since she's an archivist-in-training, she often preserves things on her own. See her scans here.
Author of the webcomic The Historians, the excuse to draw dead comedians called Comedian Heaven, and Londinium, a novel in the making set in 1863 London. Scriptwriter for the webcomic Home By Now, a story about time travel, music, history and general hijinks (meet the incredible artist here!).
Very occasionally posts about herself when she's not posting about baseball, dead people, Top Gear or her pets.
I did see a BMW Alpina Roadster today, at least, so I did have a good car moment.
That’s Chase (my Cobalt) parked behind it. I had to park as close to the thing as possible.
928 SC Kurzer Strecke by 928 Motorsports
This is the monstrous, supercharged 6.5L Porsche 928 that raced at Pikes Peak Race to the Clouds. It placed 3rd in 2007 and 2009, and finished 1st place for 2WD cars in the 2009 event. It was the first Porsche 928 to race Pikes Peak.
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Race cars roar around the track at the Iowa State Fair in 1938.
Photograph by J. Baylor Roberts, National Geographic
Jeremy Clarkson just posted this on his Facebook page. And I couldn’t resist.
Thanks, Jez.
A Chocolate Treat: 35th Anniversary Morgan Plus 8
I love Morgans. Not just because they make me think of Richard Hammond.
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I drew a car in that comic and pretended it was what my car looks like
it’s not
that is not what my car looks like
I don’t even know if there’s a car that exists that looks like that but it’s the only kind of car I can draw
Cars are SO BLASTED HARD TO DRAW. Seriously. There’s only one car that I can draw from more than one angle, and that’s only because I’ve been drawing Ells and her Mini Cooper for eight years.
This is the fastest Mini ever: the Mini Cooper JCW GP
And it’s quite impressive:
All of the engine pimpification conspires to it delivering all of 260 Newton metres of torque from 1,750 rpm, then 280 Nm from 2,000 rpm thanks to an overboost function. You have to wait till 6000ropm to get all of the 218 horsepowers, but you won’t be twiddling your thumbs - it’ll hit 62mph in 6.3 seconds. The mid-range looks impressive, too; 50mph to 75 mph in fifth (of six) gears only takes 5.9 seconds.
Mini promises it’ll be able to lay the power down. You get a set of 17-inch 7.5-inch-wide lightweight wheels running 215/40 tyres, a package developed from the Mini Challenge race cars. There’s also fully adjustable threaded suspension, so you can drop the ride height by 20mm. The front shock absorbers are also mounted upside down in the tube, which Mini reckons increases lateral stiffness.
YES. JUST YES.
Reliant Robin- Three Wheels Good, Two Wheels Not So Good
Top Gear, I’m thinking of you.
Both the Stig and Ken Block rolled the Reliant Robin. That’s how clumsy this car is.
That being said, Jezza’s video in which he nearly constantly rolls said car is still one of the all-time funniest segments on Top Gear.
Here’s how that works and what it means.
Chase, my Cobalt, is based on the GM Delta platform, which the Opel/Vauxhall Astra is also based on. Therefore, my car’s cousins with the Astra, so to speak.
The Astra is the descendant of the Opel Kadett.
My car is related to the Opel Kadett.
Oliver, Richard Hammond’s car from Botswana, is a 1963 Opel Kadett.
This may or may not explain why I have the same exact taste in cars as that man. (Probably also helps that I’m not tall. I’m actually only 5’2”.)
“He did a very valiant thing. Obviously police don’t recommend people do those sorts of things that put their own lives in jeopardy, but certainly, we could have been talking about a very different story today that involved, potentially, the serious injury or death of four children between the ages of three and 16,” Pattison said.
This is why if you think you’re oh so important to be on your god damn cell phone while you are driving: YOU’RE A DOUCHEBAG.
This goes DOUBLE for people who think they can text and drive.
your mandatory faith-in-humanity-restored story for the day. this shit is like something out of an action movie.
I’ve been subject to an abnormally high frequency of horrendous stories both on internet communities and in local current events involving pedestrians being massacred by cars, so I admit, I literally had daydreams about some sort heroic intervention of this manner preventing yet another disaster.
GOOD FOR HIM. I’ve seen way too many close calls because people are on cell phones, and it’s truly terrifying. I think I would’ve done the same thing in that situation - you just can’t let people potentially hurt kids.
There are few things I hate more than people who impair their own driving by motoring drunk, on cell phones, or otherwise distracted. You’re operating a vehicle that weighs on average at least one ton. When you do the physics, you’ll see that if you’re at a high enough speed the force delivered on impact when you hit into something is quite often enough to kill a human being. Driving well, as I’ve said before, is not equal to driving fast or being able to multitask whilst driving. It’s focusing on the road and what’s around you and maximizing your use of the road properly that makes you a good driver.
Don’t use your cell phone in the car. You never know who you’ll hurt.
