Here's something you won't find on Top Gear -- A car with true front-wheel drive.

The Zapatilla was minimal indeed, with no doors or windows or reverse gear. The 1 cylinder, 197 cc, two-stroke motor produced 9 horsepower (7 kW), had a crank starter, and drove only the right front wheel. Braking was by an unusual three-point system involving the transmission and cable ties to the two rear wheels. One genuinely advanced feature was an all-aluminum body, although steel was later used.

Thanks to my coworker Jacobo Tarrio for educating us about this micro-car.

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Finally getting a Nexus 4. They even let me keep my G1 data plan on upgrade.

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Reposting this writeup from Peiran Guo on the google groups list.  It is so true.  I deployed 40 resonators on 1950 Charleston a couple of days ago.  Could've kept going if it wasn't for a meeting.

Bonus: you can piss off TheCurmudgeon.  I hope for the sake of his career that he's hitting his OKRs since it seems like he's playing all the time and all over campus.

I wonder if there's any players in this area who are looking to level up. The resistance at Googleplex is oncall 9-5 on workdays and they respond with an SLA of less than 5 minutes to several of the portals on campus.

If you have a few hours to kill and want some easy AP, then bring about 200-500 resonators of any level, blow up one portal, stand back  about 20-30 meters and tap the deploy button as fast as you can. I've seen people come running out of the buildings to clear your resonators for you like it's some sort of emergency or something. You'll get as much AP as you have resonators. If you find you can't keep up, you may need to slap a bunch of shields on the portal. You might want to find a bench in the shade in case you get tired. You might want to double check that your gps isn't floating too much before you begin. Maybe bring a sandwich or a drink if you think you might get peckish and don't forget to use the restroom before you start.

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I wonder who will they bring back as a hologram this year?

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Lessons learned taking down a dozen L8 portals.

SYB King organized an attack on the L8 portal farm in Jack London Square this monday.  We had 2 L6s and ~4 lower level players. Some things I learned

- Planning helps.  Know your targets and your XM spread.  Scan the area for portals with closely spaced resonators.

- Stock up big time.  We collected all the L8 items.  Also bring low level stuff for the players that are just getting going.

- Move fast, 2 resistance were on site within 30m

- Attack from a single direction if you can.  Make sure no one's sucking down XM ahead of your attacks.

- New client allows you to rapid fire many XMPs.  You're likely not going to waste those on a L8 portal.

- Have a parallel XM source.  We attacked the waterfront but could move two blocks up to enemy portals we were not attacking and move back.

- Have a "Medic" driving a car that can move people to nearby portals with lots of XM and bring them back to the battlefield all charged up.

- Open a 2nd front.  When resistance arrived I took out a bunch of control fields nearby while I recharged.  It seems that it would be a decent tactic to cycle people in and out quickly between the two attack areas.

- Have lower level people to hold the portals you claim since there will be counterattacks.  They can get big AP placing res on portals being counterattacked.

At the end of the day they only retained 2 L8 portals.  We knocked down over a dozen and farmed them dry.  They sent in reinforcements and took them back.  However it'll take them a while to get them back to L8.

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