Unless you’ve been under a rock, I assume you’ve heard the medias latest buzzword, “Hypermiling.” The easiest way to describe it is a method of driving to increase the fuel economy of your car. It involves various techniques such as drafting, and coasting in neutral down hill, and making as little use of your breaks as possible, to prevent distrupting the momentum of your car.
Every time I hear anyone talking about it, it’s being touted as some brilliant new idea, and absolutely revolutionary. Yeah, I gotta throw out the red flag and challenge that one.
Hello? Am I the only person that ever took drivers ed in school? This stuff isn’t new, or revolutionary. It’s called common sense. Aside from drafting, which is technically illegal, (Tailgating, and “failure to maintain a safe distance” I believe is what the law calls it) all of these things were part of what I was taught when first learning to drive.
Slowing down and coasting to stop signs and lights, instead of “stop and go.” Easing into a start, versus slamming on the accelerator. Taking all the excess junk out of the car to reduce weight, and keeping the cars exterior clean to reduce drag and improve arodynamics. Again, all not rocket science, just common sense.
I don’t understand, I really don’t. Has the whole world really lost common sense? Or am I just one of the lucky ones who paid attention and made use of it?
Well, let’s hope all those comic books aren’t full of shit. I just got injected with some sort of radioactive dye and here’s to hoping for some super natural powers. listen
This movie really drew me in. I was all suckered in by the “man helps girl run away from her father and arranged marriage, and fall in love” until… tragedy struck. A scratch on my netflix DVD kept me from finishing. If I didn’t have so many other movies to get through, I’d request another copy.
There’s no question that I will add this back to my queue as soon as this quest is over.
This was a good flick. Nothing too impressive, but that may have been my own fault. I had a hard time distinguishing some of the characters, as they all began to look the same as time went on. I guess everyone will tend to let themselves go after a couple years out at sea.
Being that it was black and white, and everyone was wearing, you guess it, black and white, there weren’t even many costume clues I could use. The scenes shot out at sea were very impressive, considering it was 1935, and there was no such thing as a “blue screen.”
I love computers. I love technology. I especially love getting to play with the new toys. If you are here and reading this, then I’m sure you know this. Along these lines though, I just have to vent, and let the world know, “I hate working in IT.”
I was reading a nice article the other day, written by Michael Janke, at “Last in – First out http://lastinfirstout.blogspot.com” and it inspired me. He talks about how he surfs the internet with both java and flash, and basically everything he can, disabled. The only problem is, you’re hard pressed to find a useable “big name” website that can function like that. A great example, was his fight with trying to get information from the Acura website. You can read about that battle here: http://lastinfirstout.blogspot.com/2008/05/flash-javascript-and-clowns-that-design.html
At the end of the article, he makes a statement that ring very near and dear to my heart.
“I’ve got a solution though – Make all web site designers & testers use a 1Ghz Pentium with 256MB of RAM for their workstation. I’ll bet that they’ll design fast, lightweight web sites.
They’ll have to.”
I agree. Many people come to me with problems, and when I can’t duplicate them, they are quick to say, “Oh you work in IT. You’ve got the latest and greatest equipment.”
False. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth. I take pride in being at the END of the product replacement cycle. I want the oldest, slowest, dumbest stuff possible. I like to keep my users way ahead of myself, at least in hardware terms. In fact, I have NEVER owned a personal computer with more than 512 megs of ram, but that’s another story for another day.
My theory is, “If I can make due with the worst equipment, and make it work, then I know my users shouldn’t have any problems.” Am I the only one that takes a “Less is more” approach?
Well, because I’m horribly off schedule and way behind, I’ve decided to make my workouts public. I bought a new pair of running shoes and a Nike+ kit for my iPod back in February and hadn’t used either of them. So, last night, I calibrated everything and got it all setup, and tonight I had my first workout. Wish me luck, I’ve got a long way before I reach 13 miles.
I’ll be honest, I couldn’t watch this one. Typical thief falls in love with the target plot. About half way through, I started doing other things, like cleaning up around the house while it was on.
Maybe someday I’ll give it another try, but this one just didn’t grab my attention at all.
So far, this is the first movie I’ve seen from my list that I haven’t liked.
The story centers around an old West pioneer, who helps establish some of the early towns of the great land rush. He becomes known for standing up for equal rights, and fighting for his beliefs. As time goes on, the thirst for adventure becomes greater, and he continually abandons his family, more and more often, for longer periods of time each trip until he finally disappears.
Even though our hero was a champion for equality, he was a terrible husband and a worse father. I found the movie the phenomenal up until the last act, where the end of the movie made absolutely no sense to me. It’s really tough to talk about my problems with the movie without “spoiling” it, so I’m just going to leave it at that.
Not a bad movie. I really wish I had a little more to say about it, honestly.
Thanks to my days from being a part of my High School drama club, I have a soft spot for musicals. I played rolls in West Side Story, Guys and Dolls and our own medly that our director came up, piecing together a lot of classic bits.
Allthough, I wouldn’t really call this a musical, it’s more of a movie about a bunch of people doing a Broadway musical. Two sisters try to make their big break, and end up in a big “love triangle,” that really ends up as more of a “love square” with a lot of diagonal lines in the middle. It becomes a little show in the middle, as we are pretty light on action, and the humor might not translate well being almost 80 years old, but there’s plenty of character development, and a great deal of personal conflict between all the characters.
All in all it’s worth a watch, but I don’t feel like I was missing anything not having seen it before. This would be a great canidate for a remake, and I might try to talk some of my local film making buddies into giving it a shot. I even have a few folks in mind for casting.