Car

... Marquis, white, automatic, 4.6 liter V8, alloy wheels, in excellent condition. This is a car from which I would normally run screaming. 16mpg is not an ideal situation for me, and I hate automatics because of how the transmissions fail. That would be catastrophically instead of gradually, for those keeping score. But at the same time, it's damned hard to argue with free. See, my mom's tenant...

GRAND CENTRAL ARENA: Chapter 13

... and rule-based expert systems will make sure they react to the environment pretty well. Just make sure you're fully charged before we go out." "I'm staying," said Gabrielle. "The automatics have Laila under watch, but I just don't trust things without someone on hand." Ariane nodded. Dr. Canning had shown only the faintest signs of recovery, and she knew Gabrielle felt ...

... I am! I closed last night and am going to be working at 6am this morning, so i'm running on three and a half hours of sleep. *Driving mommy in laws car to work while they're in florida, driving automatics freaks me out so badly! I'm trying to get used to antilock brakes/abs too, my saturn and eagle don't have either. I think the cars in drivers ed had them and my sisters newer saturn...hmmm. ...

Rain: Pop Star, Bodybuilder, Ninja Assassin

“Ninja Assassin” uses the full arsenal: Swords, chains, ninja stars, bamboo sticks, semi-automatics and even rocket launchers. Bodies are sliced, diced, mutilated and cut in half. The film’s very first swing of a sword involves the slicing of a man’s skull; his brains spill out as he tumbles over. All those girls who show up eager to get a glance at the shirtless Asian pop star Rain are in...

GRAND CENTRAL ARENA: Chapter 8

... it took her to react. She admitted to herself that her hope to be actually needed was a purely selfish one, and not a particularly bright impulse either. Anything that took out all the automatics would probably kill them all. All her musing had taken some time. The timing countdown was dropping drastically. "This is Commander Ariane Austin," she said, using for the first time the title she'd ...

... on her nose, lights a cigarette-- puts that cancer stick between red-painted lips and smokes for a second. Nobody seems to mind the leggy ginger on the bar. Casually, she draws a pair of 9mm semi-automatics from inside her jacket and fires one at the ceiling. Now everybody's paying attention. "Listen up, sugarpuffs." Words come out around that cigarette. She's got a smoky voice. "I'm gonna be ...

sunday driving (poll)

..., I'm in the process of working to get my UK driver's license on a standard transmission after many years of driving automatic. I already know UK and US attitudes towards manual v. automatics are very different, but further to some cultural confusion on my LJ, I have to ask the great transatlantic collective this exceedingly important and burning question about hill starts: View Poll: #1485714...

If That Tree Is A Schnauzer, Then Its Leaves Are Automatics

Ahhhh at last the weather warms more oft than not and the sun belars and the air thickens and gloms on to me and metaphoric ants squirm in one's metaphoric pants to frisk and frolic in the outside and flop and banter about in the greenery. Yardwork and gardening beckon. As does some aggressive Indian-mynah-eradication plan. Must remember to track down this fellow in Sydney who's run a few ...

Wrong Side of Dead (Fic), part three

... prayed, keep shooting. Draco and Ron finished setting in place the fifth bed as gradually the tat-tat-tat of the large guns diminished, and only the short punches of handguns and semi-automatics resounded. Harry exchanged fretful glances with Hermione, as Draco and Ron, urged by the destabilising situation, struggled to barricade the door. "HELP!" The scream and loud thump on the door made ...

PHOTOS: SELKIRK BRANCH COLOURS

.... Moving on from here the signaling news turn a turn for the worse as the 34x automatics had been replaced as part of a project to install a new interlocking at the large ...acm.jhu.edu/~sthurmovik/Railpics/08-10-10_SELKIRK_COLOURS/CR_Selkirk-Branch-Sig-29x-darth-masts-far.jpg">29x automatics (distant to CP-SH) I discovered another clump of photogenic trees. unfortunately no freight trains in ...