auto repair on sundays?

... my way to work today my Kia started shuddering and has a check engine light on. I'm stuck at work until 10, so the soonest I can take it in is tomorrow. It seems like all the good mechanics are closed on Sundays. I would prefer something in the Newberry Rd/Tower Rd area. If there's nothing local open, does anyone have opinions on auto repair from Jiffy Lube, Pepboys, Sears, etc.? That may be my ...

The antilock brakes on my car have never worked properly. They disable the brakes at the least sign of slippage, so the car handles like a boat in the snow and rainy days are dangerous. Even hitting a pothole as I slow down at a stop light can effectively turn my brakes off until I pump them. Yes, you're not supposed to pump antilock brakes--but the only way the brakes will turn back on once the ...

once in a while...

Once in a great while, I "discover" something amazing. This is my energy-drink fuelled gushing to the MasteringPhysics people about a homework question involving tap-taps and spring constants : This was like the BEST QUESTION EVER! Not only did the Hatian tap-tap aspect broaden our cultural horizons a little, but I've personally experienced crowded Ukrainian marshrutkas - these must be ...

longest flight ever.

... back to Portland and nothing else goes wrong. 6:15pm - We land. Taxi to gate. Pilot tells us we're going to go to the gate, deplane and get a new aircraft. 6:20pm - Arrive at gate. Mechanics come on board to discuss the problem with the pilots. Not allowed to deplane yet. 6:30pm - Flight Attendant makes an announcement saying we are going to "MEL" the problem and going to use the same plane ...

[Miranda's sitting in the library with a book on golem mechanics in front of her. She's turning from reading to diligently poking at the cut-open Teez in front of her. After a bit she connects two wires and then yelps, yanking her charred fingertips away.] I-I'm just no good at this! ((After the Doctor's sonic screwdriver messed with some of her Teez, Miranda's set about trying to make them ...

Other Anonycon niblets

... and then turning to Bob and saying in an imperious voice, "Except for you. You are disgusting." I felt lucky to play in Kev's game, he's just that good of a GM. Aside from some of the mechanics of the first fight - placement, movement, etc - 4e isn't too rough to get a handle on. I liked the skill challenge we did and the ability to be able to sacrifice some of your abilities to aid someone else...

Polycube Puzzle

A solid dissection puzzle invented by Piet Hein during a lecture on Quantum Mechanics by Werner Heisenberg. There are seven soma pieces composed of all the irregular face-joined cubes (polycubes) with

Fireborn: First Impressions - Character Creation

... to be a White Wolf ("WW") game. Aside from the surface gritty-urban-fantasy thing, the mechanics of rolling for success are almost identical, Edges are simply renamed Merits, and {A} mentioned ... Seriously, just call it "Dragon: the Burninating" already. This was actually good because the character mechanics were much more familiar to our group. I explained a number of core concepts by saying "...

Уважаемые коллеги, угостите, пожалуйста, статьей A purely elastic instability in Taylor–Couette flow R. G. Larson, Eric S. G. Shaqfeh and S. J. Muller Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Volume 218, 573-600 (1990) doi: 10.1017/S0022112090001124 http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=FLM&volumeId=218&bVolume=y#loc218 Адрес avla [собака] mail [точка] ru Спасибо!

- and now we wait, for the fates of others,

..., checking over his rifle. "Fuck no, mate," Cook laughed, reloading his shotgun. "But this kind of shit makes life interesting, you get me?" Cook had earlier jumped over the counter of the mechanics, bringing out a pitted but hardy-looking baseball bat. Katie had taken it, to everyone's, (including her own) surprise. With the ragged clothes and dirt-streaked face, she looked the part. Effy had ...