Vin Diesel, born Mark Sinclair, worked as a bouncer in New York City before moving to Los Angeles to become an actor. Unable to find work, he created his own projects, which led to Steven Spielberg casting him in "Saving Private Ryan." Diesel gradually became an action star, and has be...
If for some reason you live in a cave and didn’t see it, Pitch Black is Vin Diesel’s claim to fame about a transport vessel that gets caught in a meteor storm and crashlands on a hostile alien planet. Said aliens are a race of bloodthirsty creatures that can only survive in the da...
She opened by pointing out that these locomotives are 400,000 lbs, with 5,000 of diesel in them. They’re fucking dangerous and complex machines. They haul freight, but also they can be a simple power supply, a mule to move cars around the yard, or just a standby locomotive, ready t...
The back end reminds me of a Saab. Overall, the Passat is undistinctive. The selling point is affordable German engineering with options like a 2-liter diesel engine that is expected to get 43 mpg on the highway. That will have to win buyers because the design won't turn many heads. ...
While Season 1 of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s tragedy-comedy bounded across space, time and through the fourth wall like a diesel-fueled superball, its follow-up — a last hurrah for the Amazon series — slowed down a bit, offering a glimpse into the titular Fleabag’s troubled mind as she...
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Thanks to the blog of the irrepressible Hilary Ostrov, a long-time WUWT commenter, I found out about a poll gone either horribly wrong or totally predictably depending on your point of view. It’s a global poll done by the