The Chevy Avalanche possesses the ability to convert its rather short 5′ bed into an 8′ one. The process involves (a) scooting the two front seats forward, (b) folding the rear seat forward, (c) removing the truck’s rear window, and then (d) folding the rear portion of the truck’s cab forward. This process, which takes only a minute or two to perform, extends the truck’s hauling area an additional three feet by converting the rear passenger area into an extension of the bed. This seemed like an amazing selling point back when I bought the truck new in 2006. The… (read more)

(I found a few old blog posts in my draft folder that for one reason or another never got posted. I’m going to post the few that are worth posting and delete the rest. Enjoy! -Rob) And so it ends, not with a bang but with a whimper. It wasn’t even a major headline yesterday; just another minor blip in a sea of technical news stories: “Napster to close its doors on November 30, 2011.” Sherman, set the Wayback Machine for the summer of 1999. Coincidently that’s the same summer high-speed internet access (cable modems) became available in my area.… (read more)