Crazy capacitors from planet X!
Jun. 9th, 2006 | 10:23 am
location: Work
mood:
excited
Those crazy kids at MIT are at it again! A professor conducting research up at MIT has figured out a way to increase the surface area of the electrodes in a capacitor using carbon nano-tubes (is there any thing these little guys can't do?) to use as a replacement technology for batteries within the next five years. What does this mean to you and me? Well think about charging your cell phone fully in 3 seconds flat, or never having to replace an aging battery ever again. These capacitors have an almost infinite charge/discharge rating and because of this will almost never need to be replaced. I am really excited by the idea of applying this technology to electric cars. Due to the small amount of time required to charge a capacitor an all electrical vehicle could be completely feasible within the next 7 years or so with proper funding and research, combine it with a slew of these bad boys in the oceans and we will be completely non-dependent on fossil fuels. Why is this so hard for Bush to figure this out? Quite subsidizing the oil industry and give all that money to this guy instead, right now!
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Nomadic Family
Feb. 7th, 2006 | 11:34 am
mood:
working
I'm going to Colorado
to unload my head
I'm going to New York City
and that's in New York,friends
I'm going to Arizona
sex on the rocks all warm and red
and we bled
and the writing in stall said
"we write our maps in the stalls"
I'm going up to Alaska
I'm going to get off scot-fucking-free
and we all did
This truckers atlas roads the ways
the freeways and highways don't know
The buzz from the bird on my dash
Road locomotive phone
I don't feel and it feels great
I sold my atlas by the freight stairs
I do lines and I crossed roads
I crossed the lines of all the great state roads
I'm going up
going over to Montana
You got yourself a trucker's atlas
You knew you were all hot, well
Maybe you'll go and blow a gasket
Start at the northwest corner
Go down through California
beeline you might drive three days
and three nights to the tip of Florida
Do you speak the lingo?
Oh No. No no
How far does your road?
Oh no, you don't know
I'm going to Colorado
to unload my head
I'm going to New York City
and that's in New York, friends
I'm going up to Alaska
I'm going to get off scot-fucking-free
And we all did
And the writing in the salt syas
We ride on out to the stars
I'm going to Arizona
Sex on the rocks all warm and red

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to unload my head
I'm going to New York City
and that's in New York,friends
I'm going to Arizona
sex on the rocks all warm and red
and we bled
and the writing in stall said
"we write our maps in the stalls"
I'm going up to Alaska
I'm going to get off scot-fucking-free
and we all did
This truckers atlas roads the ways
the freeways and highways don't know
The buzz from the bird on my dash
Road locomotive phone
I don't feel and it feels great
I sold my atlas by the freight stairs
I do lines and I crossed roads
I crossed the lines of all the great state roads
I'm going up
going over to Montana
You got yourself a trucker's atlas
You knew you were all hot, well
Maybe you'll go and blow a gasket
Start at the northwest corner
Go down through California
beeline you might drive three days
and three nights to the tip of Florida
Do you speak the lingo?
Oh No. No no
How far does your road?
Oh no, you don't know
I'm going to Colorado
to unload my head
I'm going to New York City
and that's in New York, friends
I'm going up to Alaska
I'm going to get off scot-fucking-free
And we all did
And the writing in the salt syas
We ride on out to the stars
I'm going to Arizona
Sex on the rocks all warm and red
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or check out ourCalifornia travel guide
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Freshman Jitters on a Sophmore's Budget
Aug. 22nd, 2005 | 09:32 am
mood:
awake
First and formost I would like you all to know how much of a pain in the ass it is to update using IE for pocket PC.If anyone out there has a better browser for pocket PC please let me know cause this shit sucks. Anyway I went to my first class this morning and my new chemistry teacher is a hoot and a hollar. Quite the welcome change from my horrible chem teacher I had last semerster. I think he may be a dirty Canadian but he was funny enough and not at all rude like all of the Canadians I have dealt with via the call center. Apparently his area of expertise is anti-explosives and counte terrorism, uber rad! I think is has stopped raining so I am going to attempt to get my Java book from the book store now. (I wish the damn space key wasnotsuchabitchaboutactualyspacingonthi skeyboard!)
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First post and stuff.......
Aug. 18th, 2005 | 11:15 am
mood:
chipper
music: The blissful sounds of a call center
Hurray! I finally got around to posting on my journal, no guarentees on how often this will occur so relish this one RELISH IT! Are you relishing yet? good! Currently I am at work and the phones are slow (thank god, or whatever Deity you happen to subscribe to.... "Thank you for calling Allah-Com international, expected wait time until your prayers are answered is *robotic voice* 1.4 billion years, please continue to hold). So we are doing this kinda lame sales contest here at work which involves a giant Tiki totem for whatever reason. If you sell a lot-o-stuff you get the Tiki. Normally I would just balk at such a contest but I am strangely drawn to the Tiki. It mocks me with it's gaudy party store goodness, I how I want to make it mine! However I am no good at selling people stuff, fixing things? I have you covered. Selling stuff has never been a strong point for me, especially when the audience I am catering to happens to be one I despise (upper middle class Americans with way to much wallet share). For example, my last call was with a business man (you get to a point where you can tell by there voice what industry they are in) that was "Multitasking" (aka taking 20min to complete an order while he converses with a mysterious "Bob"). Not only is this fine young go-getter eating up precious time I could be using to acquire the glorious Tiki with his $40 order but he also keeps making horrible jokes that are funny only to him and "Bob". Anyway, enough ranting for now, look for other posts if today if the phones remain this slow.
