Kuruma

K.... Now, I'm much better with driving then I am with mechanics.... But... Why did she decide to pour a gallon of water in THERE? Fat people should not dress like that...

How much is a fair price on a Miata of that age, in that condition, anyway? It's one of the (many) cars on my list of "cars I want to own someday".

+1 on MCSE being as common as Type-R badges on rice cars. +1 also to people who know about computers not being the ones who get to make the decisions in the end. Your goal is actually the complete opposite of mine. I'd like to get *away* from computers and more involved with cars. Good luck, though, there is still money in computers, if you can afford to spend the money on certs.

So... You attach one end to the switch, and one to yourself, in that application, and if you fall off the jetski, it's pulled out of it's socket, and the engine stops, am I correct? All in all that makes sense.

I suppose I'd have to see one for myself. Never been around a quad either. smile.gif I didn't care about much other then computers, getting completely wasted, and buying more and more video games until I finally got sick of that stuff after I blew the Neon's engine in June this year. Fucking up a car that badly and being forced to deal with a repair bill of over $2K will make you rethink a lot of things.

I agree with that logic. It sounds like an overall a solid, reliable way to do it. I haven't had anything that wasn't stock so far (Simply because I didn't care about upgrades or racing until recently. I'm a noob, but I've always driven whatever car I'm in fast and hard for what it can do.), Me + stock setup = something blowing up or breaking. (Of course, I'm sure that wouldn't be true if I had a car that came set up for the way I drive from the factory.) I did not think of that, but that sounds like an even better idea. No fuel = no go, after all. Never been around a jetski to know what those are like, but again, it sounds like a good idea smile.gif

It isn't my definition. It's the dictionary's definition. Take it up with Merriam Webster if you think it sucks. End of discussion.

This sucks. I've blown an engine in every car I've owned, myself, *except* for the hachi. Even my Neon isn't on the original engine... It blew it's original engine under similar circumstances, but instead of a missing plug, the oil filter got itself cracked open. (Don't ask.)

More cushion for the pushin, they say... graemlins/puke.gif

I don't hate the obese, but I find it pretty depressing to see someone let themselves get that way because unless they have some metabolism problem, that really is a choice. You have to choose not to stop eating when you have had enough (I know this can be a hard choice for some people. It's a hard choice for me too, but I deal.), and you choose not to go out and be active. When you're obese, the clothes you can wear all suck, people treat you like shit because you aren't attractive to look at, you can't get around properly, and it's gonna dramatically shorten your life. I just don't get it.

Didn't he try to make a comeback doing some hard rock shit that nobody cared about?

It's my opinion, and opinions cannot be argued.</font>Despite the general distaste I have for them, I am more then familiar with the meanings of common internet acronyms, having wasted the past 20 years on computers. Since you have missed the point, I will clarify things a bit. I couldn't possibly care one iota less about changing your opinion on what a sport is. Such an attempt is not worth my time, and I have better things to do then to waste my time trying to influence the opinions of a person I have no contact with at this point in time outside of an internet forum. The presence of the aforementioned acronym does not change the general tone your post gives off of trying to chastise me for using the word in a manner contradictory to your personal tastes in entertainment, despite said usage being perfectly in line with the definition of the word as it is found in the dictionary considered by most to be the final word on the english language. That is all. No more, no less. If that is not how you meant it, then consider it dropped. I'm in a bad mood today, and I may misinterpret things.

+1 to Vegas Video. That program is seriously powerful. I've used a previous incarnation of it to master a few VCDs and SVCDs and got nothing but excellent results. Also used it to make a custom intro/credits sequence for a ParaPara VCD I was putting together. The controls are easy to learn, straightforward, and the features are more then enough for most users.

Maybe she can use it to buy herself some nice striped bedsheets to go with her latest ensemble... smile.gif

Not really. The tire did not pop simply because I was drifting, it popped because it was old as fuck, and I overestimated how much time said tire had left. I thought it would last me until the 23rd, and I was sadly mistaken, so now I get to buy a new brake hose and tire. Live and learn. If anything, the real douchebag thing I did was trusting the tires on a car that recently belonged to a person who wondered why the clutch wasn't working too well for her when she didn't have any fluid at all in the resovoir, and didn't notice that the carb preheater hose had disentigrated on her, and was laying in pieces at the bottom of the engine bay. If you compare my driving style in the 86 to the kind of things I used to be able to make my Neon do, I was actually being rather conservative and keeping the sliding about mostly to rainy days after the rain stopped, when the streets and parking lots in question had that nice soggy but not flooded feeling to them. An SR5 is not exactly as easy to drift on a dry surface as it's big brother, the Corolla GT-S (No LSD, weaker engine, wet noodle-like suspension) Seeing as I only got the car on 10/7, and adding to that the fact that I wasn't about to attempt a drift for the first few weeks as getting used to RWD and shifting my own gears had to come before I could begin to think of making the car go sideways, I don't believe the kind of wear that was seen was caused by drifting occasionally, but much of it was likely to be pre-existing wear that I simply failed to notice. Caveat emptor.

In L.A. if you shop at Wal-Mart... Well, nobody does, and there was only one on Rinaldi in the SFV that nobody gave much of a shit about either way. Meijer, Big Lots, and the like don't exist either. K-Mart and Target were both considered a cheap alternative to Sears and such, and a way to just avoid the douchebaggery of the malls. You want the cheapass stores, you have to go to places like La Barata (Yes. there is a real store in downtown L.A. called "La Barata". The Cheap, in Spanish. Yes, it is cheap.) or Lucky 99 (99 cent store chain similar to the Infinity on Cleveland Ave, but no weaves in the back, and better food selection)

AM or PM? smile.gif

(Note: Please don't take this as sarcasm, it's not. I don't agree with you, but I do respect you until you do something to make me lose that respect.) While I understand and respect your opinion, according to Merriam Webster's online dictionary, located at www.m-w.com, A "sport" is: *cut for brevity* 1 a : a source of diversion : RECREATION b : sexual play c (1) : physical activity engaged in for pleasure (2) : a particular activity (as an athletic game) so engaged in We can both agree after analyzing that definition that Drifting in general *does* fit the definition of the word. It's not a sport for everyone, though, and to each their own. Personally, I'm not too interested in going up against others in a style competition, I've got nobody but myself to impress. However, if it can be done with a car, I want to be able to say "Yeah, I can do that.". The reason I learned to drift is the same reason I learned to power slide in the Neon, and same reason I bought a car with a standard transmission this time instead of another automatic. You probably won't see me doing it when I'm actually driving seriously, because it's *slow*. Grip = faster in most circumstances. The thing about trends is that the people following them to be part of a crowd always find another trend to do, and the people left behind are either the ones who were already doing it before the boom, and the ones who actually had a legit interest in whatever the trend was, automotive or otherwise. The "ricers" will give up on drifting after they smash up enough body kits, pop enough tires/scrape the curb enough while drifting to fuck up those nice rims, and curb check enough times to smash up those expensive neon ground effects. Then they'll just find something else to do like going back to making their cars look like they pissed off a bunch of hippies on some bomb ass kind.

Whoops... And I found out I left it somewhere when a tire had popped. Guess you were more then right about that tire when you said it looked bad smile.gif

Heh. Circle track or drifting, I don't care what it is. If I've got a car that's up to the task, I'm not afraid to do it, and if I feel the car can be competitive with someone else's, I'll go up against them. smile.gif BTW, speaking of drifting and 86es, did I accidentally leave the lug wrench from my (temporarily immobile) 86 over there?

As a sport it's a judged event, however, it has some other applications too. Go watch Drift Bible (an instructional video with Keiichi Tsuchiya as the driver), and it demonstrates different styles of drift, in different cars, from a couple silvias, an AE86 Levin, and even the MR2. At the end he shows the difference between show-off drifting, and drifting for faster speeds on a track. It's not all "figure skating" and judged events

I own an AE86, and actually know what it is, so yeah, I like to drift. I But I know drifting isn't the only driving technique out there, so I personally try to get good at various styles of driving. smile.gif edit- and yeah, I try to keep the drifting limited to *PARKING LOTS*, or 3AM-4AM in areas where traffic is *non existant* if I'm actually going to do it on the streets. If nothing else, seeing a car do that is going to scare the shit outta nearby drivers who just drive for transportation, which can lead to an accident. street drifting around people = bad.

The Cleveland Ave. one, near Schrock, that is

Eh, yeah. I did a bad thing a week or so ago, and the Neon needs it's frame straightened out just a little (about an inch, I think) redface.gif Not terribly severe, and it isn't affecting the handling at all that I can notice, but the alignment was already fucked, and now I can't get that fixed until I get the frame fixed first. I already *know* it's expensive to have this done, but I don't want to spend the next year driving with shitty alignment and other crap bent outta shape, and with the car fucked up like this, now I *really* can't trade it in for something better... So... Anyone in particular that can straighten this mess out for a good price? (If I had the loan paid off, I wouldn't bother, and I'd get the Tiburon GT V6 for my rice car tongue.gif ) -- Edit: Took it into the nearby True2Form, it's only gonna cost me $210 if I bring it in with the bumper off already. Anyone used them? [ 19. November 2004, 07:03 AM: Message edited by: Kuruma ]

It has the AE86 in it, from what I heard. Reason enough for me to want to play, cause I own an 86