the same but different

A while ago I was speculating wildly about start-up companies claiming they can make cars, having never done so before. The WSJ got in on the action. Here's there list. Fisker and Tesla are the only ones with the slightest chance.



I also talked a bunch of trash about gas prices. So have these guys but it's probably not worth reading.



Here's some stuff about robots but this guy is just painting a target on his back. (i think robots are becoming the new fetish of the indie-crowd that zombies seized a couple years back. It makes me feel dirty)

I recommend "Iron Man" and the HBO movie, "Recount." Unfortunately the former will make you constantly question the validity of their science and the latter will so the same, but differently.

Best of Luck to our comrade Notorious:

Save yourselves!

Do not watch the new Indiana Jones Movie. It is fucking pants-on-head retarded. The only purpose it serves it to occasionally remind us of movies from our childhood via lame and uncreative references to the previous movies. The plot is a fucking predictable joke but no one is laughing and the only time you will be surprised is when something so unthinkably insane happens that you're questioning whether you actually left the house this evening or if perhaps you just blacked out from fumes emanating off the cocktail of deadly cleaning agents you were employing to clean up last night's solo-circle-jerk, and this is all just an unimaginable hallucination.


It is not.

do not watch this movie.

I've got a lot of other topics i want to cover here but i'm too. fuck. tired. However, i could not allow this movie to be released on the world and not at least warn the others as soon as possible.

no proof.

or whatever

The Sophist Institute of Wizardry has been running some numbers. It goes like this:

1) By July $4/gal gas will seem like a dream so sweat we won't even know for sure if it ever happened. $5 easy. $6 in 16 months. Eventually the feds will step up and do something stupid to help rather than implement worth-while and long term solutions like public transportation or funding for impotent battery technology.

2) People become desperate for cheaper transportation. 12 year old electric cars (even with shit batteries) will continue to sky rocket in price. Other wares to invest in 6 months ago:

Permanent magnet DC motors
Electric bike motors and conversion kits
Rickshaw services
Electric car conversion kits
Gas Scooters
Used Honda Civics
LiFePo batteries
Bicycles

3) Pain ensues but we all survive (unless gas tops $6/gal- then i think we may all die.)

3) The market is finally flooded with decent quality, high MPG cars. Bikes and scooters and motorcycles are finally available in electric versions with batteries in decent supply at a realistic price. Supply and demand balances and everything is fine.

In related news, the sophist e-bike is back on the road after be sidelined by catastrophic metal fatigue. Now i can finally get that shopping list wrapped up.

Deathwedding!

Everyone needs to watch this.

For reals. It is totally worth it and stuff.





"It's fun to watch somebody go through family hell"

















okay, okay... I can't help but drop a hint. It involves strip clubs in Wisconsin.

yeah, I knoW!

F.I.A.T.

You'd be surprised how hard it is to post a link in craigslist to a webpage with the title "fornicating in a topless" and have a post contained "italian redhead," even if you are trying to sell a Fiat.

You will get flagged like a mutha-fucka

anyway, updates.

Green

Speaking of green, finally some noise on the wind front. They pretty much hit on the head:

-20% is the projected amount of unreliable wind/solar energy you can run a national power grid with. I've always heard 40%. Regardless, if we had some sort of energy storage system to smooth out those inconsistencies... some kind of battery of storage systems... yes.

-The grid is the current weakness. Think of it as the matrix, but more likely to fall on it's face.

-Distributed power is the ultimate hippie dream. Of course, hippie or not, it doesn't mean you can't disconnect and run your shit of the grid. I recommend it.


Then again, carbon emissions are often the least of our worries.

watch your popped collar

bro rape

insert vague reference to the following:

Been some pissing and moaning about lack up updates. Fair enough.

Been staying busy:

-Rode the motorbike for the first time around the lot and ordered me this helmet. Jay-Fry says I need fork seals and new tires. Chain needs a little help too but all that stuff should be pretty easy. Also, damn thing won't idle at zero choke but that might clear itself up when i get it on the open road

-Made my way to Stos' and repaired the Fiat (see image below). Turns out the engine ate the impeller blades on the water pump. I also replaced the radiator which amazingly even though it was stated as being a '79 part, it refused to fit into a '79 front end. Self tapping screws played a big roll in that opera.

Technically it's still for sale but now that it runs i may need to enlist it again. That is unless you got $3400 burning a hole?

-Some other stuff.

-Saw the movie Iron Man. (Get ready for mild spoilers) Overall I'd say it was very good. More science fiction than science fact, but i do not penalize it. Was doing a good job of blearing the lines between good and bad until the end when they inserted the absolutely evil guy who is absolutely evil for seemingly no good reason other than to fight Iron Man.

-Teaching myself how to use fiberglass matte to build stuff.

-Playing Urban Dead for 6 minutes a day.

-Wrap it all up with some humorous comment. Cant quite care to exert.

wh- what?

Captain Ron has nudity. Nipples. I just seens it with mine own eyes.

Then i confirmed it with the internets

for some reason this deeply unsettles me.

news day

One
two
three
four

Your assignment is to read the above links. Compare and contrast the underlying mechanisms with specific attention paid to social, cultural, institutional and religious burden.

Keep your papers to yourself. Everyone receives an A for showing up.

Surrounded by it

It's the topic at the dinner table; it payed for college.

Dad built roads, mom built cars.

The automotive monster is ever present every day.

a softer world

source

(Damn this robot soul)

link face

If i build a house it will look like this.

Finally, more definitive proof that robots are stealing the BEST FUCKING jobs and as i have said before, need exterminating.

go here. Read these. be amused.

Still

number one.

(at being AWESOME!)

(your face is)

I faught the law

..and the law won. But (as Stos says) i beat the spread.



This week I watched a state trooper take the stand in court and tell a direct lie. It was the culmination of both my justification to fight the system and a heavy-hearted view of reality of all rolled into: Simultaneously i was vindicated and beaten. But as a wise man once said in a quote that i made up for this story, "vindication in your own mind is like an erection at a sociology convention full of hot chicks; chances are no one is going to notice you."

Ah well, so concludes an absurd trip full of painful insights to the legal system.

There were several offers made (which is not unlike allowing someone to choose what type of gun they'll be shot in the face with) and I took one that precludes me from driving this spring.

(Fuck those fucks. Sure i could have rolled over 8 months ago and taken the easy way out but I'll pay tens times as much to keep them from getting a single dollar more for their corrupt fucking money machine. I just pity the poor mutherfucker can't afford to fight back because he's the one who is truly screwed.)

at least I'll have plenty of time to play Call of Duty 4 on the Playstation 3.

Play us out Bush:



(man fuck this shit yo, I'm going the fuck home)

risk management

Everyone has to live somewhere. Choose your poison.


(see more here)



choices, choices, manage the risk.


risk. manage. manage risk.

seems unlikely.

Have an Erection?

want it to go away?



(forever)

Dot you eye? Pentagon can. And will.

If only, James, if only.

This time (year)... WILL BE DIFFERENT!



Today all my dire predictions for the new year at the gym came true. There was a gaggle of high school floozies and it smelled like a damn perfume counter. I'm telling you this: my nostrils were burning with hate. One of them, the skinniest and skankiest of the flock had a shirt that read "Young, rich and beautiful." Considering Oakland County, these are likely all true statements. (demographic info- look it up). I considered explaining to her the theory that shirts with sayings are typically only considered funny when Ironic or sarcastic and in her case she it would clearly be better accepted if she mangled up her face a little, but then immediately assumed the effort would be futile. So i continued ripping myself to awesomeness.

seems about right

2008

as far as i can tell this simply means the gym will be packed with wankers for the next 4 weeks.

Almost time to reset the year

First something to clear the mind:



This video, I swear to the gods, this is what i see when i pass out drunk. It's beautiful.

Feeling insecure? this illustration will either hurt, help or have no effect, guaranteed.

Don't believe that new Mileage standards cannot be met easily and cheaply.

Chestocrates' latest commentary on the inability of the masses to stop making babies was spot on. I recommend it. Funny that at the same time myself and the other members of our ZARP (Zombie Attack Response Plan) were doing some recreational shooting out on the farm. Turns out a shotgun is an amazing tool.

I'm not sure if i should spread word of this (NSFW) product but here we go. Basically, it's a liquid that's meant to smell like a woman's nether region and is eye catching for two reason: One, is the video (can't link directly to it but it's relatively easy to find in their fairly minimalistic site) which is simply indescribable. Two, is the fact that i just acquired an Orange Juicer that has helped me realize how little juice one can extract from a single fruit. Think about it...

(actually, don't. You might die.)


So the world's fucked? I'm still happy.