I decided to bike in today and yesterday, not as bad as I expected, sure the really crappy construction of Houston area roads was an issue, but overall not too bad. I made it all the way to NASA parkway before I had an issue (also the first and only bike lane along the whole route, go figure).


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Let's destroy a bunch of brand new Mazdas! Sure, they're Ford products, and they're going to be recycled, but damn. I'm sure there could have been some kind of compromise on things like wheels, tires, and electronics and interiors that aren't anywhere near the fluids ( Read more... )

I like it!I want to move now! I've come up with many many ideas to try to cut down on the reliance on motor vehicles. Usually my ideas involve better biking access routs and plans to piggy back bikes onto public transportation. If I could ride an inner tube to work and back on a daily basis, you bet I would. I'm glad to see an alternative ( Read more... )

Incase the rest of you want to know, here's how a Prius Hybrid drive works.

With a nice interactive Flash animation. I've wanted to learn a bit more about this for other than electric/in addition to.

So I had my kid in the car with my IRiver playing and I thought of a song to play. See my parents listen to country and when Flatt and Scrags come on the radio playing Life is a Highway they refer to it as the song from Cars and she likes it. So I decided to play the original Tom Cochrane version that I've listened to since it premiered. She ( Read more... )

Having trouble embedding a map.

At least we don't have anything like this.

The factory stereo in my car decided it needed to suck, bad. If you turned it off and hit a bump, it would come back on. If you had it on tape or radio and hit a bump, it would switch to CD, since there was no CD in there it would try to read the CD for about 20 seconds, give an error and switch back. If you had it on CD and hit a bump, it would ( Read more... )

I took my car into Midas, they put the new studs on the wheels. I had them do an alignment while I had it in there, it needed it bad. Drives like a dream again! Now I need new tires, it never stops, one thing then another.

Now I need to check from the gas tank outwards to see if I can figure out where the pressure leak is so I can get it

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