We bands out here in the rockies are always on the lookout for a good Suburban. We have one and are pretty happy. Can pull a trailer, a little more sure footed on the passes and our singer is also the local GM dealership parts girl (I've never seen a 90 lb. girl throw a transmission before...) for the inside track on parts/repairs.
@80toy: I like my version better.
@80toy: Big tits in a little package is always fun?
I'm a video producer by trade, and when I was an intern I worked in the tiny video department attached to a state DOT. One of my jobs as bottom of the ladder was to handle the mandatory video taping of certain meetings. Some of them were absolute slogs (ex. commission meetings) but if you were interested in infrastructure at all some of the meetings were actually really cool to sit through.
I remember sitting through the meeting where this technology was discussed; our current leader had just gotten back from China and described how this worked; the only difference is that is was described as the light 'shrinking'... I like this better. There are actually studies where this reduces accidents/improves traffic flow since it encourages people to pay attention without the danger of sudden behavior change like what happens with red light cameras.
I know after sitting through the meeting I'd be at some long/difficult lights and wonder if/when they were ever going to implement this... the general feeling I got was 'never going to happen'. Hopefully attitudes have changed.
Still no love for Two Lane Blacktop? #carmovies
I sat in a Raptor - the same orange/black paint scheme you see in all the magazines - in Fort Collins, CO two weeks ago. They had it out front as 'get into the lot' bait... it worked.
@coren: I'm a video producer (or used to be, I'm more of a technical guru) and can tell you, pay is not good - especially in television.
@Darrone: You mean Guitar Center?
Call Best Buy, make them aware of their mistake, say you'd like to keep it since it was their error and tell them you are going to donate it to an after school program or something.
Then do that. You don't need two Xbox's. A disadvantage youth program could use something like this as a gaming machine, DVD player, etc.
At least you didn't have to listen to LOCAL news wildly speculate. Local news needs to stick to sports and weather. #balloonboy
@Bertone77: I've gotten pegged by the aerial patrol in Colorado on the no mans land between WY and CO.
I was one of the very first people with a gmail address. Long story short: I knew a guy and got a really early invite. So... I have a really nice and very short e-mail address. About 2-3 years ago, though, I started getting messages sent to me. Real ones. All. The. Time. I get stuff constantly.
Some of the fun things I've gotten:
- Vacation photos
- Schematics/presentations for a Canadian health care software suite
- ANOTHER health care software programming set of plans, only this time for something to do with COBRA.
- Pictures from a company that sells, from what I can tell, only industrial steel doors.
- Prom photos.
- A whole group of middle-age person forwards from someone in New Zealand.
- Registration cards for various rewards programs. In New Zealand.
- Some UK guy's marketing presentation.
- Same marketing guy's airline itenerary. Sent straight from the airline. Anybody want to go to South Africa?
- A series of really, really, really sad Christmas letters from a family that just lost their Mom.
- A totally different set of e-mails from a different family that lost someone else. These primarily were people arguing about a stolen belt that belonged to the deceased.
And this... is just the tip of the iceburg. I tend to e-mail back most people I get things from. Just to let them know. I have a gmail tag called Dead Letter Office and I'm really hit and miss on what I save. Depends on my mood.
Or... you could record the audio separate on a hand held digital recorder or other device with a mic placed... wherever it sounds best. As long as you record both without stopping in the middle you should sync up fine.
Bonus tip? Honk your horn at the start (or end) and you have the automotive equivalent of a film sync 'beep'. Line up in your editor of choice and bam.
My '92 LS400 was spared from the CARS bill; I decided as fun as the idea of a new car was there was nothing wrong with my car... and I live a mile from work in a town that tends to be snowed in a good half of the year. I'll drive it 'till it dies.
Here in Laramie the Loaf N' Jug is (sort of) kitty corner to the Kum N' Go.
Yep.
Besides age and undesirability - a great theft deterrent is a manual transmission. I'm amazed at how many people can't drive one/won't learn.
@wgrune: Toyota is well on it's way to being the New GM.
@tbax929: That's the xB. xD looks like the Smart Car's big brother.
My worst experience was induced by what was likely boredom and actually was pretty recent. When I heard CARS was going to pass I went on a test driving binge since my current car is eligible (I kept it). I met, for the most part, a lot of really reasonable sales persons. I also met, quite possibly, the biggest d-bag I've ever met in my life.
I will preface this with that I was in weekend attire. I have a day job (for the most part) but am working my way up the ranks in the whole rock n' roll circuit. So usually, I get spotted on the lot and they either send a saleslady or one of the hip young guys. Mazda apparently didn't have any and sent me warmed over frat dude.
After a few unprompted racist comments on his part (seriously, WTF?) he reached over, grabbed the wheel while I was driving and started pointing out that the Volume up and down buttons. I had hit my limit.
I stopped the car. We were close enough to the stealership where I could walk back. So I stopped the car, got out and walked back to my car.
Best part? He couldn't drive stick. This came up earlier.
(Appendix: I went to VW next door and they just let me go out on my own, up and down Colorado mountain roads)
@MostlyHarmless: Yep, that's the signal being too hot; cheap DVD players and crappy TVs will do this, also. If you ever have this issue one way to cheat it is turn your brightness/contrast down to strangle the signal. Just think of it like turning down the volume when sound equipment starts to feed back,
