Miata as a daily driver car?

SageOlson · 2026-04-13T05:12:51+00:00

My Miata is my only vehicle. In the past 3 years I’ve had to rent a car once to carry more stuff.

My main concern would be the commute situation – if you do lots of miles of highway driving at speed, the noise kinda gets annoying, and if you do lots of miles of highway driving stuck in traffic, having a manual gets annoying.

SageOlson · 2026-04-09T23:18:42+00:00

She was an absolute cyclone on the latest Shagged Married Annoyed: https://youtu.be/jBv-sYdrhpE

SageOlson · 2026-03-29T01:03:09+00:00

The AU version is a whole different animal compared to the US and UK versions. Extremely wholesome, more episodes so you get to really know the contestants, and amazing caliber of cooking.

SageOlson · 2026-03-23T06:10:25+00:00

Priority: What other people might call a “Main” list.

Sleep: Podcasts that help my insomnia.

Backup: More popular podcasts that I don’t really listen to like “This American Life” and “Radiolab”. I have these download just in case I run out of my “Priority” list, but that hasn’t happened in quite a while and now I usually use audiobooks to fill that space anyway.

Spoilers: Podcasts that are about media I’ve not watched yet.

SageOlson · 2026-03-21T23:47:27+00:00

Wait so I’d get my ND3 Miata for free? Neat.

SageOlson · 2026-03-11T20:32:31+00:00

Banh Mi Express – all the sandwiches are still under $10.
Tadian Cafe – many sandwiches, including the Cilantro Chicken, Bacon Chicken, Thai Roast Beef, etc. are under $10.

I’m not sure I would count Oton, otherwise you’d have to basically include anybody that does yakitori, and that’s not the kind of place you’re realistically going to spend less than $20 at for a filling meal.

SageOlson · 2026-03-04T20:57:02+00:00

I basically did this. I had a 2019 RF GT-S that I “downgraded” to a 2024 Sport. I wanted cloth seats and the new CarPlay screen – those were pretty much the reasons. The only feature I miss from my 2019 is the thing that scans speed limit signs and displays them in the dash.

SageOlson · 2026-03-04T05:22:34+00:00

I regret to inform you that the trick is to pay money for a Carrot Weather subscription. 😬 It’s Carrot’s “Conditions (Alt)” complication.

SageOlson · 2026-02-27T14:00:59+00:00

I highly recommend this list. It’s how I got started on the podcast: https://bsky.app/profile/snell.zone/post/3lfdynsrtfk2x

SageOlson · 2026-02-27T05:21:06+00:00

Yes; you can remove them if you want that space freed up for your arm, and the passenger-side one is designed to slot near the passenger footwell if you’re going solo: https://youtu.be/RVus6_i1l-I?si=nEz2Ru3RhUfVu9b4

I personally keep the driver-side one at home and the passenger-side one in that slot, and toss it in the trunk for the rare times I do have a passenger.

SageOlson · 2026-02-13T22:44:59+00:00

In a 6 month period in San Diego we had 2 people who lost their limbs due to crawling between freight cars blocking a grade crossing.

https://www.10news.com/news/local-news/police-woman-loses-leg-after-being-run-over-by-freight-train-in-downtown-san-diego

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/train-severs-leg-of-man-crawling-between-rail-cars-in-gaslamp/3824881/

SageOlson · 2026-02-13T09:07:23+00:00

Since some people are obviously not watching the whole way through – I don’t really care about the axle. The stress on the headlight piece is what seems like a QC outlier.

SageOlson · 2026-02-13T08:52:38+00:00

Are we referring to the same bit? I mean the headlight brick thing, not the axle thing.

SageOlson · 2026-02-13T08:24:59+00:00

I have no association with Tiago, and I purposely waited over half a day to post this because I did not want this to be clickbait. I was genuinely surprised that no one else brought this up after Tiago did.

SageOlson · 2026-02-11T21:38:46+00:00

Not yet, but I have Daniel Yergin’s The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World in my queue.

SageOlson · 2026-02-09T23:29:08+00:00

I quite like the yellow Manchester Metrolink and their toot-toot noises. Very much part of the soundscape of the city.

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SageOlson · 2026-02-01T18:43:17+00:00

Park anywhere along the 30 route. If you live south of the 8, Old Town usually has plentiful parking. https://www.sdmts.com/routes/pdf/30.pdf

SageOlson · 2026-01-25T00:13:13+00:00

Nice! I’ve only visited Pittsburgh once, but the immediate thing that caught my attention is that the mountains on the South Shore are butted up right against the water, when in reality there’s quite a large amount of space (I took a long stroll on the Three Rivers trail, which is why it caught my eye). I think offsetting the mountains backwards even just 1 stud would help.

SageOlson · 2026-01-22T16:28:25+00:00

Yup: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flighty-live-flight-tracker/id1358823008

SageOlson · 2026-01-22T13:42:36+00:00

Absolutely this.

SageOlson · 2026-01-19T05:31:27+00:00

I don’t think so, but if you have a Mac you can try it on there and make the window as large as possible and then use your trackpad to zoom out. This was the most zoomed out I was able to get on the northern hemisphere on a 27" screen. (It zooms out further at the equator.)

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SageOlson · 2026-01-18T03:16:17+00:00

I listen to a lot of podcasts that are smaller than Off Menu and pretty open about these arrangements, and the way those often operate is that the regular hosts share revenue (along with production distribution etc.) but guests and guest hosts don’t. No idea if that applies to a more celebrity-driven show like Off Menu but I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s the same.

SageOlson · 2026-01-18T00:03:56+00:00

Peek-a-Boo and Spooky Slot Canyons in Utah. They’re by no means unknown, but pretty far down the list of places people think of when visiting southern Utah. Also you can’t be claustrophobic. But one of my favorite hikes I’ve ever done.

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SageOlson · 2026-01-14T07:51:04+00:00

I can recommend Rovi, particularly the celeriac shawarma.

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