I just read an article about hydrid/alternative fuels that actually had me trying to sell my car so that I could buy diesel. It’s about Johnathan Goodwin a “car hacker” who can get 100 mpg out of a Lincoln Continental among other feats. He even chose the anti-environmental poster-car, the Hummer H3, for his next conversion project. What’s he doing with it? He dropped in a 60,000 rpm turbine engine to power the generator that’ll  recharge a set of “supercapacitor” batteries that in turn power the electric engine. The result?

A 5,000-pound vehicle that gets 60 miles to the gallon and does zero to 60 in five seconds!

The real impact to me is that he’s doing this with existing technology. He’s not waiting on parts or technology to be developed. He’s in his garage tinkering, making mistakes, making guesses, but most importantly making progress. This is a quote from the article talking about the Impala that he did for the MTV show “Pimp My Ride”

The show chose a ’65 Chevy Impala, and when the conversion was done, he’d doubled its mileage to 25 mpg and increased its pull from 250 to 800 horsepower. As a stunt, MTV drag-raced the Impala against a Lamborghini on California’s Pomona Raceway. “The Impala blew the Lamborghini away,”

FastCompany article

DAMN!

Just one of those creative outbursts, the thought had been bouncing around my head for a while. I really just think that Smelbo’s is a really cool name and that Kelli deserves her own band. Took me a few tries to get the elbows right.

Thought I should post something since it’s been a while. I’ve been working on Halloween stuff for the last month so I haven’t made much progress on the creative front. I thought I could use a new background for my computer so I threw together this 1980′s / McDonalds / MTAG mash-up. Think it works pretty well.

Before I worked here I was uncomfortable pooping in a public bathroom. I think everybody is a little. You can’t spread out like at home, theres no reading material, and of course theres somebody else about 2 feet away doing the exact same thing.

I was afraid to make any noise. Now I realize that its like prision in there. You have to come in and stake your claim. Make that toilet you’re bitch, or you will become its bitch.

That’s what happened today. Don’t know if it was the JBCs (Junior Bacon Cheeseburgers) from last night, the caramel scone from this morning, or the gyro from lunch but I was back in the bathroom for the 3rd time today. The first two rounds had gone according to plan. So like a heavyweight fighter I swaggered back into the ring for a third time. No audience at first, but then the challenger entered. 8 thought this was going to be easy when I heard the crinkle of paper ass gasket. I let loose a satisfying barrage. Then waited for the challenger.

Then I heard it…

It sounded like he had just dropped a hard sided suitcase filled with bananas and they all spilled out. I heard a finishing grunt and knew I’d been beaten. I sat there until he triumphantly strode out of the stall,washed his hands,and Left. I will tell my children “I have seen the shoes of a legend and they are reasonably priced black leather”

The Daily Download

Later!

How can I not eat this. I went into the overpriced coffee shop only because I’d stayed up to 12:30 watching the first half of Leviathan and then I couldn’t wake up because the Hip Hop morning show on 95.5 wasn’t enough to wake me from my underwater dreamworld. I wanted a coffee, I needed fuel, but as I was standing in line I read the words that will haunt my fat cells forever.

“Chocolate chip Scone”

As if that wasn’t enough printed below them in smaller font hugged by parenthesis

“(filled with caramel)”

HOW MUCH, how much do you want for this morsel of delicious love‽

“$1.89″

Huzzah! At that point I might have given you all I had to partake in this feast. I gave her the card and then scurried out of franchise hell and into my office. Now I sit here in the crumbly aftermath waxing poetic about the cavern of caramel sludge that poured out of this delectible lump of dough.

And the coffee wasn’t bad either.

Later!

‽

as in “What the hell is going on‽”

it combines the functions of an exclamation point and a question mark. I think it also makes a killer band name, kind of like that new band !!! (chk, chk, chk). Interrobang should play metal. And they might need an umlaut thrown in there somewhere.

Interrobang

Later‽