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How large a space do you have to fill, and how much background will you have to get over top of? An old college bookshelf system can work if the room's not too large, or everyone quiets down when someone's talking.

Hmmm....

For as much stuff as he had, the inventory-taking and condition-assessing would probably take at least half a year, then to find buyers for it all? I'm sure a lot of the stuff in working or easily repaired condition has been picked over by now, but the rest of it is likely still there, waiting for someone in need.

Chippewa Lake and the Newbury Aircraft Graveyard come to mind

Yeah, website ought to have some sort of instructions, or at least a "Contact Us" number/email. When I was in FL a couple years back and hopped on the 528 between Orlando and Cape Canaveral and didn't have any sort of coinage with me for the entrance bucket, they just said "Cut a check with your plate number and mail it in, no big deal."

I've also heard the heart-rate thing (low for boys, high for girls), but a lot of that can depend on just how active your little one is at the time of the visit. If your wife's at the 12-14 week mark, there's a nub which becomes the sex bits that is quite pronounced, and sticks out for boys while laying flat for girls (assuming your little fish has an exhibitionist streak and lets the tech get the right angle shot)

Chiming in with the 'gratz!' chorus... with my little girl barely a month away, some observations: - Morning sickness doesn't always hit in morning, and if you get the Princess Kate version, sucks hardcore. There isn't shit you can do except bring wifey whatever she wants (mine wanted a bottomless mug of hot water and ginger) - Not all cravings suck (KFC Double Down, anyone??) - Drop in at places like Babies'R'Us together just to see what's available. Body pillows and ab support bands in particular will help later on. - Take care with what equipment you get from friends... practically every single crib made before 2011 has been recalled for some problem or another, so the odds of finding a hand-me-down, or being able to get a cheapy at shops like Once Upon a Child are pretty much nil. Baby Depot (at the far back of Burlington Coats on 161) has a small assortment options that run half the price of B'R'U. - Same goes for car seats... seems as if those also get recalled or have their specs changed more often than a dirty diaper, and hospitals are required inspect them before letting folks go home. - Most everything out there is geared towards mom. However, there are exceptions - Keep wifey off the internet, or restrict her browsing to preggy porn and stuff like that. The only thing she'll accomplish by reading 20 bazillion preggy websites is scare her stupid.

Bumps for... Project manager - New position IT Support tech - Previous guy left for greener pastures Sales Engineer - We're trying to give the current guy a promotion, but can't until we have someone able to take his work load This set is all Columbus-specific, and yes, I now get a bonus if you mention me

I also thought that at first, especially given the altitude and (lack of) speed, but stunt pilots don't take unnecessary risks, and for something they do "year in and year out," stalling isn't a mistake they're likely to make. That, and the shudder comes before the stall, rather than after it. The video's too fuzzy to make out control surfaces, but to me it looks like an updraft hits the right wing (which was already higher), tilting the plane too far for the wings to lift. At that point, the best you could probably hope for would be a panic aileron roll back to level (normal or inverted) and a tail dragging crash.

Agreed, some sort of shear force going on... she's got that thing under control the whole time, then the whole plane wobbles at 34s and it's game over

Would you? Too many people fall for the whole notion that owning a house is like unlocking some achievement on a video game. Whether you rent or own, all you're doing is putting a roof over your head, and the question of whether paying rent is "throwing your money away" needs to be examined more closely. Take, for example, 2007... my old man was heckling me as to why I was still renting when housing was going through the roof. I told him straight up that we were witnessing a bubble. Sure enough, that bubble popped, and not even two years later I was unemployed. However, my apartment was a good 30% below market rates, and that entire time I was socking away the difference, which let me stretch that unemployment pittance for well over a year before landing a new job. Had I bought a house in 2007, I'd have been foreclosed, declared bankruptcy, and been embarrassed to have to move back in with the parents at 30-some years old. Today, that calculus has changed... housing has finally started its recovery, mortgage rates are dirt-fucking-cheap, and I've had a chance to build a new cash pile. Buying today makes sense *FOR ME*, but your situation may be that renting is the smarter choice. Trouble is, you have to rub a couple brain cells together and really think about whether or not that's the case, WITHOUT buying into the bullshit the home real estate lobby loves to shovel out to the media.

Could you post up the RAW or original JPG somewhere? If you need some temp space, I can throw it on my server for others to dissect. My first guess looking at it (and I'm sure Tim and Trish will chime in shortly as well) is that you shot at a middle ASA (maybe 400 or 800) since there's no obvious noise, but still too slow to prevent the brighter lights from bleeding into adjacent pixels.

I could go for that... maybe lock the "plate" to the VIN, and include the VIN as part of the encryption key. Should *hopefully* cut down on the hacking :gabe:

I actually rather like the idea... instead of having electronic billboards saying "Amber alert: Silver Nissan Rogue w/ plate ABC1234", just having the plate itself flashing "HELP ME CALL POLICE", along with the mentioned suspended/revoked license or insurance... would go a lot further in getting deadbeats off the road than our party plates do. But then there's this... and hilarity ensues :masturboy:

Yeah, hate selling off loans... Marc's place (usually) keeps them, as does Huntington and FirstMerit.

More love for Marc... just finished a 3.5/30yr conventional with him; we must have spent a good 3 hours just playing around with different options like pre-paid versus monthly PMI, payment crediting schedules, that sort of stuff.

Shrug... if it's anything like last year, we'll get another 5-10 new customers representing about 15 racks worth of physical install, another equivalent amount of virtual, some tape backup/DR, and a bunch of bored IT workers camping in the office because we've got power and their houses don't. Bring it!!!

I was never given the opportunity to talk to anyone in LA, the service writer (I know who, found the email I was referring to earlier) supposedly handled that for me by sending over a copy of the Excel sheet I've been keeping since I bought the car. But in his email, he carped about how my tires would crown at max sidewall pressure (the OEMs never did after 44k miles, and neither have the Michelins I have on there now after almost 70k) and that the added pressure does nothing for mpg (which I had empirically proved otherwise within the first year of owning the car, not to mention the handling improvement). He also hated on the K&N filter I had already removed, claiming that the extra air "is not really suggested with todays modern vehicles." Admittedly, it did precisely jack (which is why I took it out), but I'd think a service writer would at least be familiar with what the MAF sensor does I kind of wonder if he really did call LA, or just blew me off and made some shit up (which, given rumors I've heard of Immke's practices before Germain bought the franchise, wouldn't surprise me) So anyways, I rather doubt there's an actual repair order somewhere in the VIN history they could look up, but I do have an email from mid-2010 (when there was less than 70k on the clock) that I was already experiencing a very clear drop in IMA performance.

The "gas pedal" switch?

I could go that way, except that there's nothing wrong it it mechanically, and it will function without any hybrid battery at all (there's a med student out in Phoenix who's been driving his with a shot battery for going on 3 years now). It's more the mentality of the thing... a functional battery is a core part of what this car should do, and when it functions correctly, I can get over 60mpg highway. In its current state, though, I'm lucky to see the same 35 a conventional Civic gets. That, and I just bought a house and there's a baby on the way, so dumping another 20k+ on a new car doesn't make a whole lot of sense right now. Best I could probably come up with are just forum postings and maybe an email between a Germain (probably still Immke at the time) service writer and I a few years ago, who basically told me, "Well, your tire pressure is high, and we don't recommend that even though it's printed on the tire that you're within limits, and the guy I talked with in LA said you're just another stupid git who doesn't know hybrids even though you drive one, so no, there's no problem with your battery." That's the kind of BS I'm referring to when I kvetch about how nobody seems to care.

I guess that's the part I'm not clear about at this point... I bought the car in Ohio, so it should follow the federal (non-CARB) 8/80 warranty. The various court cases (Vaughn and Lockabey) I'm aware of would have extended this to (I think) 9/96. With just shy of 112k on the clock, I would not be covered under the "standard" warranty. However, as you saw, I got the HondaCare VSC at the 8/120 level, so in theory I would be covered by that. I'm not sure where you're coming up with 10/150 or 11/170. I see the first in the book for CARB states, but Ohio's not one of them, and guessing the second is what CARBs are extended to?

PM sent with VIN, and chart updated

If they keep dicking you around, dispute the charge with your CC company, include the moldy pictures.

No, and that's where the problem starts. The car is pure stock (I even took out the K&N filter when it failed to do anything useful), so unless there's a "hush hush just take care of the guy" that's been started since the last time I tried to take this up with Germain, nobody's willing to do shit without some sort of IMA or MIL light. Apart from printing/emailing the complete gas log and service history, I'm not sure what they'd find useful. It's an issue that develops over years, not something that you can just point at and say "Whoah, there's your problem!!!" the way you can see changing tires caused a nearly 20% efficiency drop. Which would you suggest? I don't mind taking a couple of drives out to Marysville R&D if it means getting guys who could troubleshoot a single stray election while drunk, blindfolded, and subjected to the screeching of Peking Opera. And people wonder why I went on a rant a couple months back about dealer shop pricing....

Sounds like #3 is only applicable if the IMA battery is currently throwing a code (or was replaced earlier), which makes it a sort of "Hey, pay attention, there's some other shit you gotta do, too!" bulletin. Short of doing something to make the battery fail in a spectacularly dangerous way, how can I get a service writer/tech to pay attention? I've been driving this thing for seven-plus years, have documentation of how the efficiency has gone to shit, but get the "if there's no light, then there isn't a problem" corporate Kool-Aid. I used to love this car, but now I cringe whenever I hear that traditional starter cranking away again.