One more bit of info about the new car:

Tires:

Bridgestone Potenza RE050A summer performance tires

Great dry/wet tires, as long as they don't have to deal with ice or snow.


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So...

( A quick nod to basic info: )

In our very informal pwrsrc nethack competition (scoreboard), I just took a momentary lead, with a very heart-breaking death. I knew my lack of magic resistance was becoming a liability, and...

( It certainly was. )

This morning, when I started my car, I noticed a horrible noise, and liquid dripping from the bottom of the dash onto the passenger-side floor. As far as I could tell, the liquid was water. It stopped dripping and making the noise when I turned off the fan... I've got to assume it's from the A/C's condenser, and it means the system got plugged ( Read more... )

Long ago, someone, maybe Chris, posted an LJ entry asking what the point of posting song lyrics by themselves was.

And I've just now got it all figured out. It's the digital equivalent of walking down the street singing a song... Something I've been known to do anyway.

Earlier today, I was listening to a song from a group I enjoy quite a lot. Feeling the need to post the lyrics here, I went to look them up, as copy & paste is faster and less error-prone than trying to transcribe them. Noticing the wikipedia article in the search results, I decided to see what the word on the street was ( Read more... )

Hey folks! Remember to tell your friendly neighborhood punk, the one always screaming "Fuck the man!", that they're an important part of the system they hate. Without them yelling from the fringes, no one would be there to scared the ones who are lost back into the safe, boring middle.

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsus/Quakes/uw11060534.php

(Once again, thanks to Chris and his handy California-inspired knowhow for earthquake-report-finding)

Here's a capture from the KoL hardcore ascension leaderboards last night:


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I'm almost 27! How did that happen?