I just wish that Google would add room awareness, so that if I am in the living room, I could say turn on the lights and turn on the TV instead of the living room lights and living room TV.

Aside from the obvious cost of the vehicles, you have to look at the electric infrastructure of the city. In my city, I would guess there’s 200-500 mail trucks. For daily use, they would have to be charged fairly quickly. Even if done off peak hours, I would imagine a huge strain on the electrical grid. Maybe they…

I don’t know about the hondas, but the very early immobilizer systems just flipped a relay when a valid key was entered. So with some cars, you can usually bypass the anti-theft with a paperclip into 2 pins, or by cutting and tying together a pair of wires.

PA has the dumbest window tint law ever. The law states that a tinted window is legal as long as an officer can see through it. That’s it. It doesn’t specify time of day, distance, with or without a flashlight, etc. so basically most PA people who tint their windows talk about paying their window tint tax, which is…

There’s 2 major differences between a video game controller and a radio transmitter (at least, in the sticks). The first is that the sticks can move in a square. That is, you can move the stick all the way left and right whether it’s at the center, top, or bottom. Compare this with a game controller with a circular…

I don’t really care much about my own photos I have hosted on Photobucket. (which, as an aside, have any of you logged into their site recently? It’s so slow! I had to use it recently to find a really old picture. It took maybe 20 minutes to scroll through my photos on there to find it.)

Years ago, I had a professor who did this with his exams, to thwart publishing them. Since they were printed out, the easiest way to send them out was with a photocopy. So in addition to things like having a period at the end of a title, or whether or not there was a : after Name or Date, he also used whitespace to…

My Fiancee went to trade in her clunker and lease a Dodge. She test drove a very well equipped, upper trim model Dart. She said she liked it, wanted that car, and asked what the monthly payments would be. “For this car, $170/month.”

I’m just happy I found a way to turn off the “key in ignition” chime in my car.

I noticed this for the first time just the other day... Coincidentally when I purchased a forced induction car that requires premium... At least I’m getting nearly 100 more miles to the tank than my old car, so there’s that.

In my experience, I’ve driven 4 cars with Dash lights (Firebird(RIP), mom’s charger, dad’s GMC 1500, sister’s JK Wrangler) and 4 cars with stalk controls (Mercury Sable, CR-V, Impreza, and Mini). So I’d like to say that I am well versed in USDM, EDM and JDM car controls. So I’d like to present my reasoning.

He had his hazards on. Everybody knows that once you put those hazard lights on, anything you do is perfectly legal! I don’t know what all the fuss is about.

yeah, 18 year old me was a very different person. And $700 could bring out the worst in many 18 year olds. I have no problem owning up to what I did as a kid.

That’s because the 4x4 stickers held it together!

Now here’s a twist. I was the seller in this sketchy car transaction.

In situations where the interviewing party has fully explained the company history, job role, etc, I will ask a question or two about the culture, as it’s almost never really talked about.

I was literally just in the market for a car in that price range, as my daily driver impreza’s engine died, and the car didn’t warrant buying a pulled engine. The RX8 was a serious competitor.

This. I’ve had 2 cars where oil leaked onto the starter motor, and clogs up the solenoid. easiest temporary fix: smack it with a hammer. Mine wouldn’t start because the solenoid kept the gear against the flywheel after the car started. So I would smack the starter motor with a hammer and it would reset the solenoid,…

I think of it as the same reason people lease cars. If you have to live within a budget (which most of us do), the one thing a leased car and a rented home have is budget stability. You can have your rent for $700/month, renters insurance for $25 a month, and you know that even if your furnace dies, or your air…

Word to the Wise: Don’t ever fuck with Blizzard.