The Off Topic Topic

[Malthus]

That pic is great. 

[Admiral Yi]

Just got my car jumped.  So I figure I need to go buy a new battery.

Are they tough to put in?  What tools do I need?

Should I buy jumper cables or one of those booster boxes?

[katmai]

No, pretty easy.
Some wrenches to loosen the connectors on old battery and tighten them back on new one.
I carry cables in my car out of habit, no experience with Booster boxes, but have battery charger/jump starter at home to try and recharge batteries as common with subfreezing temps of them freezing up.

[Admiral Yi]

On the issue of the new battery, is it correct to assume based on dieing once I need a new one?  Or could it just be the cold?  How does one know?

[PDH]

See if it holds a charge.  If you let it sit after running it for a while and it doesn't crank easily it is probably time for a new one.

[Admiral Yi]

Cool, I'm good.

[Savonarola]

Pimpin' ain't easy, but it's lucrative (maybe):

Pimp sues Nike for not labeling shoes 'dangerous'

After brutally beating a man with his Nike Jordan shoes, a pimp filed a $100 million lawsuit against Nike for not providing a warning label that their shoes could be used as a dangerous weapon.

In June, Sirgiorgio Sanford Clardy, 26, or Portland, Ore., repeatedly stomped on the face of a client with his Jordan shoes when the man refused to pay Clardy's prostitute. The man required stitches and plastic surgery after the beating, The Oregonian reports.

The newspaper reports that the jury also found Clardy guilty of robbing the man and beating the 18-year-old woman he forced to work as his prostitute; her injuries were so severe that she bled from her ears.

Clardy, who is representing himself, is asking a Multnomah County judge to order Nike to put warning labels on all their "potentially dangerous Nike and Jordan merchandise."

Clardy handwrote a three-page complaint from the Eastern Oregon Correctional Institution in Pendleton where he is incarcerated, the newspaper reports.

The complaint says that Nike "failed to warn of risk or to provide an adequate warning or instruction" that their shoes are a "potentially dangerous product."

[The Brain]

Sirgiorgio Sanford Clardy, 26, or Portland, Ore.,

His names are weird.

[Malthus]

Awesome cat battle armour:

http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd69/brujaja/20140109-13232671-catarmor1_zps26d499bf.jpg

[The Larch]

Just got my car jumped.  So I figure I need to go buy a new battery.

Are they tough to put in?  What tools do I need?

Should I buy jumper cables or one of those booster boxes?

I also had to change my battery recently and I was told that ye olde cables are no longer recommended because cars nowadays have so much internal programming that it can screw it up.

How old is your battery? Mine was 4 years old when I had to change it.

[Admiral Yi]

I'm guessing it's around 8 years.  But pretty low mileage.

Is it mileage or age that matters?

[Ideologue]

Age.

Oh, for cars.  Mileage.

[Ideologue]

Actually, that's just a sexist joke.  For batteries I'm pretty sure it is age, and eight years for a battery seems immensely long.

[katmai]

Lifespan for car battery are 5-7 years if i recall correctly.

[Malthus]

I'm guessing it's around 8 years.  But pretty low mileage.

Is it mileage or age that matters?

8 years and it needed jumping - time to get a new one, I think. It's already lasted longer than average.

http://community.cartalk.com/discussion/2148013/car-battery-life-expectancy