My Saturn was keyless for a while. In so far as, once the car was running, you could easily remove the key from the ignition and still drive, but if you wanted it to stop, you either had to drop the clutch, which I don't mind, or you had to put the key back in to turn it off.

My 1976 AMC Hornet was similarly keyless in 1989-90.

I have never had a car with CD player.

Just finished part one of margarita-fueled cleaning.

I am also margarita fueled. Not so much with the cleaning though.

I saw Iron Man 3 today, and I was surprised by RDJ's stance in a few shots--he does genuinely look like a not-tall guy--be it proportions or body language, but he is a wee little puppet man enough that some scenes stand out as being boxed or his crazy high heels. Then I noticed him walking like Jensen Ackles--but surely if he's bowlegged, that klaxon would have gone off long ago. So I'm assuming that's macho swagger on his part, mandatory on Jensen's.

But I googled his name and bowlegs just in case and...lots of pictures of Jensen. Is he in the dictionary next to the term? I thought he was just the tumblr definition (he pretty much owns the tag).

I was discussing "those things you never saw/read that everyone else has" and someone was explaining her lack of Sartre (clearly different definition of "everyone") and I like her phrasing:

I've never really touched Sartre besides what was brought up in high school lit and I just feel like I don't care because there probably aren't any dragons and I'm an adult now and I just want to read stuff with dragons.

Yeah, that's broccoli reading for ya.

I miss my tape deck, because the gap between that and playing my iPod is too large. Still haven't made it in to any shop to get a thingy put in, and my visit to Best Buy was scary. The questions their installers couldn't answer...

Jetta is actually not a good baseline for that.

Well, I'm not replacing it with nothing--what's a better baseline?

I love that my car has a tape deck and not a CD player - until aux ports became commonplace, I was forever getting into rental cars with CD players and no way to plug in my iPhone. (FM transmitters are all crap, but the fake tape cassette with the little wire coming out of it? Genius.)

What about steering wheels though? What do cars without steering wheels use? Joysticks?

The Force.

What? I looked at a calendar today.

had a keyfob that contained a switchblade-style backup manual key for unlocking the doors

I think the dueling keys (I only get them on rentals and they include both keys. Basically, if you give me two fobs with keys that swoosh out at the touch of a button, they are dueling in my world. Sorry, Hertz.)

I cannot think of a good baseline car. Because, for me, it has to be a car I'd be okay owning. So sometimes my baseline is a 1993 Mazda RX7. Seriously, I still love that car. And I've never owned one.

but he is a wee little puppet man enough that some scenes stand out as being boxed or his crazy high heels.

Once you see how much he's in heels in Avengers, you cannot unsee. IM3 the same?

What? I looked at a calendar today.

Love.

Also, remember when we once discussed the ability to in some way offer props to someone with just a click as a feature we'd never want at Buffistas. (The word waffle pops into my brain but that can't be right). And everyone was duly appalled.

Fast forward 10 years and suddenly I am looking for either the like or the up button on every post. Facebook has ruined the world.

Which is hyperbole, of course.

Heh,

Nothing is quite as funny as watching Loki looking for the source of the magical treats after he's been given ONE. Damned cat is on a mission. He even lifted the carpet and a chair cushion. And he saw where they came from. Walnut brain.

Whereas Pumpkin is just trying to butter me up when she's not pawing at the actual treat bag.

And now she just picked it up and brought it to me. Yeah.

Once you see how much he's in heels in Avengers, you cannot unsee.

I have genuinely never noticed it. Unlike the white eyeliner in Avengers and IM3. (To be fair, Chris Evans had it in Avengers, too.)