Next car-shopping question: can I fit the bass into a 4-door Mazda 626? Wheee. Have I mentioned lately just how much I hate car shopping?

I thought I'd hit the jackpot when I saw a Volvo wagon for ( Read more... )

Do Saturns tend to age well? Is a 1994 single-owner Saturn wagon a "run away from" or a "hey, better take a look at that"?

Perrine just woke up suddenly, meowing and chirping, and immediately jumped up and demanded that I pet her.

Bad dream, perhaps?

I'm reading comments to my earlier post (and thanks!) but I'm gonna wait until a little later to start composing replies. For now just a couple of observations and a question...

Looking at pictures of hatchbacks -- 3-door -- I realize that I ( Read more... )

The expected phone call came this morning. The Honda is totaled. $1410.50 if I walk away from it, $1212.50 if I want to hang on to it and try to get it repaired myself. So now the questions are: how much will it cost to fix the important stuff (i.e.make it safe to drive at highway speeds and not be in the process of ( Read more... )

(Or: Physics Goes 'Twang')

I should be asleep. I'm not. Go figure. And I'm puzzled.

Pluck an open string, and you get the fundamental frequency of that string (i.e., that combination of length + mass ( Read more... )

Is it just me -- either my definitions being a bit off or my being the only one who notices -- or does it strike else as odd that television news reporters and anchors keep referring to those known to have committed crimes as "suspects", and to those merely suspected or accused of comitting crimes as "alleged ( Read more... )

In all fairness, Perrine probably only deserves the blame for the first chunk of this, not the whole thing, unless she's learned my root password and has been very naughty in the past few days ...

Okay, so earlier Perrine managed to do something screwy when she ( Read more... )

Perrine stepped on kybd and now it acts like shift key stuck. Tried to dislodge but suspect odd sticky-mode. Clues?

So there's this thing I've wanted to make for a while that got back-burnered. I was planning to make it out of right-angle steel stock from a hardware store, and asking my brother or a friend to do the welding. Seeing almost the thing I wanted in a catalog reminded me of this project, and I thought of a way to do the corners that I don't think I' ( Read more... )