Thursday, June 24, 2004
AFI's 100 Best Songs From Movies
Ok, what are the worst? I see some I consider clunkers just on this list. (We're Off on the) Road to Morocco?
You might also want to look at The 1,000 Best Movies Ever Made
By THE FILM CRITICS OF THE NEW YORK TIMES. (This may not be a permanent link.)
Glancing at the list i am reminded that I am still mad that Blockbuster sold me an unmarked edited version of Y Tu Mama Tambien, the director of which has just done Harry Potter 3.
Looking up that movie in the database shows a cool feature - similar movies. Which could be useful as you go to rent DVD's.
Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1966, Jean-Luc Godard)
Amarcord (1974, Federico Fellini)
Human Traffic (1999, Justin Kerrigan)
Kevin & Perry Go Large (2000)
Going Places (1974, Bertrand Blier)
Amores Perros (2000, Alejandro González Iñárritu)
Harte Jungs (2000, Marc Rothemund)
Les Filles Ne Savent Pas Nager (2000, Anne-Sophie Birot)
I Vitelloni (1953, Federico Fellini)
Una Noche Con Sabrina Love (2001, Alejandro Agresti)
Jules and Jim (1962, François Truffaut)
Good Bye, Lenin (2002, Wolfgang Becker)
Losin' It (1982, Curtis Hanson)
Masculin/Feminin (1966, Jean-Luc Godard)
I like many other movies better, Y Tu Mama Tambien sticks out for me because of the Blockbuster travesty.
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown is a personal favorite and introduced Antonio Banderas to American audiences.
I haven't seen any of these SIMILAR MOVIES
The Opposite of Sex (1998, Don Roos)
La Ciénaga (2001, Lucrecia Martel)
Time's Up (2001)
El Otro Lado de la Cama (2002, Emilio Martínez-Lázaro)
Papi Chulo (2003, Linda Mendoza)
Ok, what are the worst? I see some I consider clunkers just on this list. (We're Off on the) Road to Morocco?
You might also want to look at The 1,000 Best Movies Ever Made
By THE FILM CRITICS OF THE NEW YORK TIMES. (This may not be a permanent link.)
Glancing at the list i am reminded that I am still mad that Blockbuster sold me an unmarked edited version of Y Tu Mama Tambien, the director of which has just done Harry Potter 3.
Looking up that movie in the database shows a cool feature - similar movies. Which could be useful as you go to rent DVD's.
Two or Three Things I Know About Her (1966, Jean-Luc Godard)
Amarcord (1974, Federico Fellini)
Human Traffic (1999, Justin Kerrigan)
Kevin & Perry Go Large (2000)
Going Places (1974, Bertrand Blier)
Amores Perros (2000, Alejandro González Iñárritu)
Harte Jungs (2000, Marc Rothemund)
Les Filles Ne Savent Pas Nager (2000, Anne-Sophie Birot)
I Vitelloni (1953, Federico Fellini)
Una Noche Con Sabrina Love (2001, Alejandro Agresti)
Jules and Jim (1962, François Truffaut)
Good Bye, Lenin (2002, Wolfgang Becker)
Losin' It (1982, Curtis Hanson)
Masculin/Feminin (1966, Jean-Luc Godard)
I like many other movies better, Y Tu Mama Tambien sticks out for me because of the Blockbuster travesty.
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown is a personal favorite and introduced Antonio Banderas to American audiences.
I haven't seen any of these SIMILAR MOVIES
The Opposite of Sex (1998, Don Roos)
La Ciénaga (2001, Lucrecia Martel)
Time's Up (2001)
El Otro Lado de la Cama (2002, Emilio Martínez-Lázaro)
Papi Chulo (2003, Linda Mendoza)
Friday, June 11, 2004
Blogger: Catch Me If You Can
Isabella is a blogger who claims she has fled the country to avoid an arranged marriage. She is from an extremely wealthy family and now evidence has been presented she made off with $140 million being held in trust for her. For over a year she has been roaming the world, mostly the islands, being bored, arranging to disappear, hanging out with drug runners, and private detectives after her, etc. Of course, this could all be a hoax to sell a book.
I'm a flight risk weblog
Twenty pages of legal drafts recently received and posted by The Agonist.
Wired:
Isabella is a blogger who claims she has fled the country to avoid an arranged marriage. She is from an extremely wealthy family and now evidence has been presented she made off with $140 million being held in trust for her. For over a year she has been roaming the world, mostly the islands, being bored, arranging to disappear, hanging out with drug runners, and private detectives after her, etc. Of course, this could all be a hoax to sell a book.
I'm a flight risk weblog
Twenty pages of legal drafts recently received and posted by The Agonist.
Wired:
New York literary agent Bob Mecoy said he's been following Isabella's blog and is eager to represent her. Mecoy, a 25-year publishing veteran who runs his own agency called Creative Book Services, said he's been in contact with Isabella through e-mail, and has been pressing her for proof of her tale.
"She tells a terrific story, and I'm trying to find out if it's valid," he said. "I'm hoping it's real … (but) the first thing I need is validation, and then I'll find her an editor."
Mecoy said though it's a better story if it's true, it doesn't necessarily matter. If it turns out not to be, he'll pitch Isabella as a fiction writer.
Thursday, June 10, 2004
Sabrina Online Comic Strip
Great stories, I would like it better if he used a comics font for lettering instead of his handmade efforts but as in all comics the story and characters are the main thing. Start from 1996.
Great stories, I would like it better if he used a comics font for lettering instead of his handmade efforts but as in all comics the story and characters are the main thing. Start from 1996.
Wednesday, June 09, 2004
Typing People - Could it be useful?
Unte has surprisingly good things to say about systems of classifying people.
Dividing humanity into types is a prime way that people understand one another, from ancient esoterica like astrological signs to modern systems like the Myers-Briggs inventory, used (and abused) by businesses in assessing employees. By asserting that groups of people share characteristics, regardless of other differences (such as life experience), typing can seem like fate, a too-tight box. Yet it has the potential to transcend divisions like gender and race and make us more conscious of the contributions we all make. In this section, we introduce some major typing systems and suggest ways they can make our lives richer and more real. -- The Editors
Now that I know what my own type is -- Soul Type Six, Enneagram Type Six, endomorph, INFP -- and how my type fits into the greater scheme, I have a new perspective on my colleagues, especially in meetings. Rather than a roomful of neurotics who simply refuse to conform to my standards of How People Should Be, they're folks who bring widely varying gifts to the conference table (a stubborn practicality, a careful sense of intellectual responsibility, a visionary ability to leap). It's also made me more willing to see some of my wife's "foibles" as contributions to our relationship, and more likely to examine my occasional discomfort with them as a function of my own characteristics.
The sensitive Myers-Briggs INFP could, in his or her quiet way, help connect people to one another or write a powerful poem, and be seen as just as necessary to the new world as the worldly Enneagram-Type-Eight politico or the passionate Type One idealist. Wouldn't it be endlessly energizing if all the types began to see that they need each other's energies and insights in order to live fully? Then, I believe, we would all be out of our boxes.
el - I was a rare IN(T/F)P 15 years ago. I feel that when I was younger I was a INTP. Here is a Meyer- Briggs online test which classifies me now as a INFP. Google on your profile example INFP for more.
Career Paths for the INFP:
Writers
Counselors / Social Workers
Teachers / Professors
Psychologists
Psychiatrists
Musicians
Clergy / Religious Workers
Unte has surprisingly good things to say about systems of classifying people.
Dividing humanity into types is a prime way that people understand one another, from ancient esoterica like astrological signs to modern systems like the Myers-Briggs inventory, used (and abused) by businesses in assessing employees. By asserting that groups of people share characteristics, regardless of other differences (such as life experience), typing can seem like fate, a too-tight box. Yet it has the potential to transcend divisions like gender and race and make us more conscious of the contributions we all make. In this section, we introduce some major typing systems and suggest ways they can make our lives richer and more real. -- The Editors
Now that I know what my own type is -- Soul Type Six, Enneagram Type Six, endomorph, INFP -- and how my type fits into the greater scheme, I have a new perspective on my colleagues, especially in meetings. Rather than a roomful of neurotics who simply refuse to conform to my standards of How People Should Be, they're folks who bring widely varying gifts to the conference table (a stubborn practicality, a careful sense of intellectual responsibility, a visionary ability to leap). It's also made me more willing to see some of my wife's "foibles" as contributions to our relationship, and more likely to examine my occasional discomfort with them as a function of my own characteristics.
The sensitive Myers-Briggs INFP could, in his or her quiet way, help connect people to one another or write a powerful poem, and be seen as just as necessary to the new world as the worldly Enneagram-Type-Eight politico or the passionate Type One idealist. Wouldn't it be endlessly energizing if all the types began to see that they need each other's energies and insights in order to live fully? Then, I believe, we would all be out of our boxes.
el - I was a rare IN(T/F)P 15 years ago. I feel that when I was younger I was a INTP. Here is a Meyer- Briggs online test which classifies me now as a INFP. Google on your profile example INFP for more.
Career Paths for the INFP:
Writers
Counselors / Social Workers
Teachers / Professors
Psychologists
Psychiatrists
Musicians
Clergy / Religious Workers
I have three conventions coming up the next three weekends.
The Texas Democratic Convention here in Houston with a ton of free parties as well as a chance to get a job with a campaign. 16th - 19th. I am a delegate.
San Con Game Con XI June 11-13th.
Apollo Con SF Con June 25-26. I am on two panels and running two games and selling some books and games.
The Texas Democratic Convention here in Houston with a ton of free parties as well as a chance to get a job with a campaign. 16th - 19th. I am a delegate.
San Con Game Con XI June 11-13th.
Apollo Con SF Con June 25-26. I am on two panels and running two games and selling some books and games.
Legal and Cheap High Quality Music
A Russian company is offering mp3s for about $0.04 a song. It is legal and according to Europe they are the best of the legal music download sites.
They have some albums completely free.
A Russian company is offering mp3s for about $0.04 a song. It is legal and according to Europe they are the best of the legal music download sites.
They have some albums completely free.
New Pasadena Mexican Restaurant
Blanca De Paolo, owner of Blanca's Mexican Restaurant, said everything is coming together only a month after opening.
De Paolo not only took her calling from her family but she has drawn from family recipes for the unique taste of Mexico City, where she was raised.
Keeping with her strong sense of the family, De Paolo has made the restaurant alcohol and smoke free, so that all families will be comfortable there.
"We make all of the tortillas by hand and prepare them fresh each day," De Paolo said.
The restaurant is open from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday, and has meals ranging from breakfast to dinner including authentic Mexican specialities and Tex-Mex classics.
Breakfast includes tacos served with classic Mexican breakfast items, such as barbacoa, chorizo or tinga. Plates, such as omelettes or combinations of eggs, with various sides such as refried beans, Mexican hashbrowns, bacon sausage or pancakes depending on the order are also on the breakfast menu.
Lunch and dinner offers a variety of dishes from traditional, handmade hot tamales served with rice and beans to Mexican meatballs served with Spanish cole slaw on a bed of pasta and black beans.
De Paolo said she will be adding more dishes in the coming months as the business grows, so that customers can continue to experience new dishes as they visit.
The restaurant is located at the corner of Pasadena Boulevard and Beltway 8. To contact the restaurant, call (713) 473-5100.
Blanca De Paolo, owner of Blanca's Mexican Restaurant, said everything is coming together only a month after opening.
De Paolo not only took her calling from her family but she has drawn from family recipes for the unique taste of Mexico City, where she was raised.
Keeping with her strong sense of the family, De Paolo has made the restaurant alcohol and smoke free, so that all families will be comfortable there.
"We make all of the tortillas by hand and prepare them fresh each day," De Paolo said.
The restaurant is open from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday, and has meals ranging from breakfast to dinner including authentic Mexican specialities and Tex-Mex classics.
Breakfast includes tacos served with classic Mexican breakfast items, such as barbacoa, chorizo or tinga. Plates, such as omelettes or combinations of eggs, with various sides such as refried beans, Mexican hashbrowns, bacon sausage or pancakes depending on the order are also on the breakfast menu.
Lunch and dinner offers a variety of dishes from traditional, handmade hot tamales served with rice and beans to Mexican meatballs served with Spanish cole slaw on a bed of pasta and black beans.
De Paolo said she will be adding more dishes in the coming months as the business grows, so that customers can continue to experience new dishes as they visit.
The restaurant is located at the corner of Pasadena Boulevard and Beltway 8. To contact the restaurant, call (713) 473-5100.
Sunday, June 06, 2004
Bad Food?
Ethiopian sponge bread and goat I have never particularly cared for.
Blue Nile Ethiopian is where you can find the sponge bread, menu here(pdf). Many places in Houston have cabrito, where the best I've had is OK with enough of the gravy although the gravy was better without it. Fodor's talks about cabrito and other border specialties.
Baking an unripe avocado does not improve it, it becomes unedible, tasting like turpentine.
I normally like all food so to think of food I dislike I have to think a bit. I have been to place like the Waffle House and wasn't fond of the food, chili salad = a bit of a can of chili on lettuce. The recent just-like-you-make-in-your-dormroom if you are cheap nachos at Skillet and canned overcooked vegetables at many diners and cafes but really dislike takes something.
What are your experiences with bad food?
Ethiopian sponge bread and goat I have never particularly cared for.
Blue Nile Ethiopian is where you can find the sponge bread, menu here(pdf). Many places in Houston have cabrito, where the best I've had is OK with enough of the gravy although the gravy was better without it. Fodor's talks about cabrito and other border specialties.
Baking an unripe avocado does not improve it, it becomes unedible, tasting like turpentine.
I normally like all food so to think of food I dislike I have to think a bit. I have been to place like the Waffle House and wasn't fond of the food, chili salad = a bit of a can of chili on lettuce. The recent just-like-you-make-in-your-dormroom if you are cheap nachos at Skillet and canned overcooked vegetables at many diners and cafes but really dislike takes something.
What are your experiences with bad food?
South American Ceviche In Houston
When I was talking to Anita about restaurants I mentioned ceviche - fish and seafood marinated in lime juice which cooks it and she said she doesn't eat fish or shrimp. She also doesn't eat fuzzy foods including peaches and mint.
Today I see Robb Walsh is checking out some different ceviche.
Pezcalato
Details: Snapper ceviche $14 !!!!
Fried seafood $15 Good
Salmon pescado en salsa a lo macho - OK
Cau cau $13 !!!
Grilled grouper with shrimp $18
Hours: Mondays to Fridays, 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. to 11 p.m.; Saturdays, noon to 11 p.m.; Sundays, noon to 8 p.m.
Where: 9419 Richmond, 713-952-4200.
You have to specify your fish when you order it here. There's grouper or snapper ceviche for $14 a plate. Tilapia or catfish ceviche is $12. All are served Peruvian-style with a slice of cold cooked sweet potato and a little round of cold cooked corn on the cob.
"Get the snapper," the manager says as he stops by our table on the way to the kitchen. "It mixes best with the marinade." The fish comes to the table combined with octopus, squid and mussels with red onion slices on top. Judging by the falling-apart texture, I suspect the octopus and squid are cooked a little before they're marinated. Flecks of a fresh green herb coat the seafood. The waitress explains that the stuff is cilantro, which has been ground so finely, it resembles a pesto. It's by far the best ceviche I have ever eaten.
My dining companion gets cau cau de mariscos, a variation on a pre-Hispanic Peruvian stew. The original version of cau cau is tripe stew mixed with crushed potatoes. In cau cau de mariscos, a seafood stew is substituted for the tripe. Squid, shrimp, mussels, octopus and their cooking liquid are mixed with potatoes and green peas and an herb mixture that includes mint. The seafood stock is thickened by the potatoes and forms a delicious and unusual sauce.
Robbs fascinating review also tells you more about South American cuisine while he also investigates the chili con queso at Tio's Tex-Mex.
When I was talking to Anita about restaurants I mentioned ceviche - fish and seafood marinated in lime juice which cooks it and she said she doesn't eat fish or shrimp. She also doesn't eat fuzzy foods including peaches and mint.
Today I see Robb Walsh is checking out some different ceviche.
Pezcalato
Details: Snapper ceviche $14 !!!!
Fried seafood $15 Good
Salmon pescado en salsa a lo macho - OK
Cau cau $13 !!!
Grilled grouper with shrimp $18
Hours: Mondays to Fridays, 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. to 11 p.m.; Saturdays, noon to 11 p.m.; Sundays, noon to 8 p.m.
Where: 9419 Richmond, 713-952-4200.
You have to specify your fish when you order it here. There's grouper or snapper ceviche for $14 a plate. Tilapia or catfish ceviche is $12. All are served Peruvian-style with a slice of cold cooked sweet potato and a little round of cold cooked corn on the cob.
"Get the snapper," the manager says as he stops by our table on the way to the kitchen. "It mixes best with the marinade." The fish comes to the table combined with octopus, squid and mussels with red onion slices on top. Judging by the falling-apart texture, I suspect the octopus and squid are cooked a little before they're marinated. Flecks of a fresh green herb coat the seafood. The waitress explains that the stuff is cilantro, which has been ground so finely, it resembles a pesto. It's by far the best ceviche I have ever eaten.
My dining companion gets cau cau de mariscos, a variation on a pre-Hispanic Peruvian stew. The original version of cau cau is tripe stew mixed with crushed potatoes. In cau cau de mariscos, a seafood stew is substituted for the tripe. Squid, shrimp, mussels, octopus and their cooking liquid are mixed with potatoes and green peas and an herb mixture that includes mint. The seafood stock is thickened by the potatoes and forms a delicious and unusual sauce.
Robbs fascinating review also tells you more about South American cuisine while he also investigates the chili con queso at Tio's Tex-Mex.
Review - Pappasito's Cantina
Finally went to Pappasito's Cantina. With all the good Tex-Mex restaurants in Houston this was way down on my list as my brother had said it wasn't much better than others but with a lot higher prices. But I was taking Anita out for her birthday and gave her a choice of Pappa's off my gift cards and she doesn't eat fish and wanted Mexican. We did not mention it was her birthday as we hate the noisy, stupid singing.
Location I-10 near Beltway, Friday noon. Ten minute wait which I expected. Pretty noisy also as expected. She had a lunch enchilada plate and I, after considering some fish dishes, decided to consider her feelings and allergies about fish and shrimp and had the chicken fajita lunch. Two ice teas and she added chile con queso to split.
Right away the fried chips weren't up to par. Fresh, very thin, but a slightly off-taste. I suspect the grease needed changing. The red salsa dip served warm was nicely flavored and mild, probably an advantage for a restaurant wanting wide appeal. Chile con queso the same, traditional, nice flavor, but too mild.
Chicken fajita were breasts of meat well smoked and grilled - delicious. Very little grilled onion came with the chicken. Didn't notice any grilled peppers. Pico de gallo, cilantro, sour cream, shredded cheese and clarified butter (surprise) came with the fajitas for the roll your own tacos. The flour tortillas for the fajita were fresh, thick and soft and they gave you four.
The charro soup was excellent - smoky and beef flavors but the Mexican rice was just OK. I had a bite of her refried beans which had the same smoky flavor. My ex-wife rates Mexican places by how well they do the beans and she would have loved these.
At first we didn't think we'd have room for dessert - but it was her birthday so we split but couldn't finish a slice of coconut macaroon cake. Bottom layer crushed macaroons, then coconut cream pie, then a frosting layer, then cake, then butter frosting on top and shredded coconut on back. Fresh mango and strawberry pieces on the side. This worked out well, as I wanted mango and Anita doesn't eat them so they were mine, all mine, as well as the all the cake I could eat. Excellent. I had considered the mango margarita earlier but I was driving and at those prices I could make my own this weekend at home for by the pool.
Service was excellent after the expected wait and a bit of a slow start.
After taxes but before tip the birthday lunch total came to around $36.10 for two, good thing we hadn't gone at dinner or ordered drinks besides iced teas. My $35 gift cards were slightly more than wiped out. Adding the generous tip for great service hmmm... For my budget, rare special occasion lunches only. I agree with my brother. Now they may be slightly better on the seafood dishes I didn't try.
In many respects this was upscale Casa Ole, a little better - more expensive. They have the same emphasis on freshness but making everything bland enough for the Gringo palette. Major pluses were the chicken fajita's and the flavoring on the beans as well as the fabulous dessert. For Pappa's Seafood I am much more willing to pay their prices but not here with so many good Mexican and Tex-Mex places around.
My bias - I prefer finding great little out-of-the-way hole-in-the-wall inexpensive restaurants.
Finally went to Pappasito's Cantina. With all the good Tex-Mex restaurants in Houston this was way down on my list as my brother had said it wasn't much better than others but with a lot higher prices. But I was taking Anita out for her birthday and gave her a choice of Pappa's off my gift cards and she doesn't eat fish and wanted Mexican. We did not mention it was her birthday as we hate the noisy, stupid singing.
Location I-10 near Beltway, Friday noon. Ten minute wait which I expected. Pretty noisy also as expected. She had a lunch enchilada plate and I, after considering some fish dishes, decided to consider her feelings and allergies about fish and shrimp and had the chicken fajita lunch. Two ice teas and she added chile con queso to split.
Right away the fried chips weren't up to par. Fresh, very thin, but a slightly off-taste. I suspect the grease needed changing. The red salsa dip served warm was nicely flavored and mild, probably an advantage for a restaurant wanting wide appeal. Chile con queso the same, traditional, nice flavor, but too mild.
Chicken fajita were breasts of meat well smoked and grilled - delicious. Very little grilled onion came with the chicken. Didn't notice any grilled peppers. Pico de gallo, cilantro, sour cream, shredded cheese and clarified butter (surprise) came with the fajitas for the roll your own tacos. The flour tortillas for the fajita were fresh, thick and soft and they gave you four.
The charro soup was excellent - smoky and beef flavors but the Mexican rice was just OK. I had a bite of her refried beans which had the same smoky flavor. My ex-wife rates Mexican places by how well they do the beans and she would have loved these.
At first we didn't think we'd have room for dessert - but it was her birthday so we split but couldn't finish a slice of coconut macaroon cake. Bottom layer crushed macaroons, then coconut cream pie, then a frosting layer, then cake, then butter frosting on top and shredded coconut on back. Fresh mango and strawberry pieces on the side. This worked out well, as I wanted mango and Anita doesn't eat them so they were mine, all mine, as well as the all the cake I could eat. Excellent. I had considered the mango margarita earlier but I was driving and at those prices I could make my own this weekend at home for by the pool.
Service was excellent after the expected wait and a bit of a slow start.
After taxes but before tip the birthday lunch total came to around $36.10 for two, good thing we hadn't gone at dinner or ordered drinks besides iced teas. My $35 gift cards were slightly more than wiped out. Adding the generous tip for great service hmmm... For my budget, rare special occasion lunches only. I agree with my brother. Now they may be slightly better on the seafood dishes I didn't try.
In many respects this was upscale Casa Ole, a little better - more expensive. They have the same emphasis on freshness but making everything bland enough for the Gringo palette. Major pluses were the chicken fajita's and the flavoring on the beans as well as the fabulous dessert. For Pappa's Seafood I am much more willing to pay their prices but not here with so many good Mexican and Tex-Mex places around.
My bias - I prefer finding great little out-of-the-way hole-in-the-wall inexpensive restaurants.
Monday, May 31, 2004
The whispering wheel
Use a small diesel engine to run a generator to power electrical motors in the wheels. The result a very low emission, very fuel efficient, very quiet bus.
This winter, in the city of Apeldoorn, a city bus will be used to prove that the claims about the new invention are true. These are quite bold. E-traction, the company that developed the bus, boasts fuel savings of up to 60 per cent, with emissions down to only a fraction of the soot and carbon dioxide an ordinary bus would blow out of its tailpipe.
In addition, the test bus requires no adaptation, its drivers need no extra training and there'll be no discomfort for passengers. It will simply run on diesel, just like all the other buses, and it should be just as reliable. One thing however will be very different; the Apeldoorn bus hardly makes a sound, hence its nickname "the whisperer".
By just putting a tire on it you can drive a bus, a car, anything with it. Since the wheel is in fact the engine, no axles or any other friction-producing and therefore energy-wasting mechanical parts are needed.
Even the transmission is unnecessary; if you want to go faster you just run more electricity through the engine. And it works really well while braking, when the in-wheel engine works as a generator, produces electricity to charge the batteries.
Link from Amy
Use a small diesel engine to run a generator to power electrical motors in the wheels. The result a very low emission, very fuel efficient, very quiet bus.
This winter, in the city of Apeldoorn, a city bus will be used to prove that the claims about the new invention are true. These are quite bold. E-traction, the company that developed the bus, boasts fuel savings of up to 60 per cent, with emissions down to only a fraction of the soot and carbon dioxide an ordinary bus would blow out of its tailpipe.
In addition, the test bus requires no adaptation, its drivers need no extra training and there'll be no discomfort for passengers. It will simply run on diesel, just like all the other buses, and it should be just as reliable. One thing however will be very different; the Apeldoorn bus hardly makes a sound, hence its nickname "the whisperer".
By just putting a tire on it you can drive a bus, a car, anything with it. Since the wheel is in fact the engine, no axles or any other friction-producing and therefore energy-wasting mechanical parts are needed.
Even the transmission is unnecessary; if you want to go faster you just run more electricity through the engine. And it works really well while braking, when the in-wheel engine works as a generator, produces electricity to charge the batteries.
Link from Amy
Hot Day - need a dip in the pool and a margarita
Mi Cocina has bland Tex-Mex but great if very expensive Margaritas.
Mi Cocina 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. 6401 Woodway, 832-255-6426
Mamacita's has many of the same margarita's cheaper and great food including Yucatan dishes.
515 E NASA Road 1 Houston TX 77058 281.332.5362
7325 Spencer Pasadena TX 77505 281.476.9545
Mi Cocina has bland Tex-Mex but great if very expensive Margaritas.
Mi Cocina 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily. 6401 Woodway, 832-255-6426
Mamacita's has many of the same margarita's cheaper and great food including Yucatan dishes.
515 E NASA Road 1 Houston TX 77058 281.332.5362
7325 Spencer Pasadena TX 77505 281.476.9545
Some Texas people - George Dziuk and Elizabeth Moon, I have to be nice to her or get my brother to defend me.
Sunday, May 30, 2004
What Do You Call Soda Pop - by County
The joys of survey mapping.
I had linked to this long ago but the map is new. There is more here on the study of what people call soft drinks.
The joys of survey mapping.
I had linked to this long ago but the map is new. There is more here on the study of what people call soft drinks.
Addicted to Blogging
NYT article starts off with wife discovering what her husband doing in the bathroom on their 4th anniversary vacation. The horror and shame.
"The pleasure response is twofold," [an addict] said. "You can have instant gratification; you're going to hear about something really good or bad instantly. And if I feel like I've written something good, it's enjoyable to go back and read it."
And, he said, "like most addictions, those feelings go away quickly. So I have to do it again and again."
Off the Kuff has interesting remarks about Rice Village where my brother works.
NYT article starts off with wife discovering what her husband doing in the bathroom on their 4th anniversary vacation. The horror and shame.
"The pleasure response is twofold," [an addict] said. "You can have instant gratification; you're going to hear about something really good or bad instantly. And if I feel like I've written something good, it's enjoyable to go back and read it."
And, he said, "like most addictions, those feelings go away quickly. So I have to do it again and again."
Off the Kuff has interesting remarks about Rice Village where my brother works.
Thursday, May 27, 2004
Monday, May 24, 2004
Opium would have greatly improved my impression of the restaurant.
Avoid high-priced, too sugary, French-influenced Chinese Café Le Jadeite at 1952 West Gray.
Expensive but Impressive South American
Avenida Paulista Churrascaria (All you can Eat)
Dinner: $43
Salad bar and grilled vegetables (dinner): $22
Lunch: $29
Salad bar and grilled vegetables (lunch): $17
5851 Westheimer Rd.
Cross Street: Augusta Drive
Phone: (713) 266-0909
Similar Fogo de Chão (8250 Westheimer, 713-978-6500) charges $41.50 a head for meat dinner.
Six of us drank two bottles of Don Melchor, a premium Chilean Cabernet with a rich cigar-box aroma and a beautiful dried-fruit finish. We gladly paid more than $100 a bottle for the wine after admiring the temperature-controlled storage room from behind a glass wall in the bar. What a pleasure to buy an expensive bottle of wine and actually get what you're paying for. In Houston restaurants that don't store their wines at proper temperatures, I recommend you drink the beer.
Avoid high-priced, too sugary, French-influenced Chinese Café Le Jadeite at 1952 West Gray.
Expensive but Impressive South American
Avenida Paulista Churrascaria (All you can Eat)
Dinner: $43
Salad bar and grilled vegetables (dinner): $22
Lunch: $29
Salad bar and grilled vegetables (lunch): $17
5851 Westheimer Rd.
Cross Street: Augusta Drive
Phone: (713) 266-0909
Similar Fogo de Chão (8250 Westheimer, 713-978-6500) charges $41.50 a head for meat dinner.
Six of us drank two bottles of Don Melchor, a premium Chilean Cabernet with a rich cigar-box aroma and a beautiful dried-fruit finish. We gladly paid more than $100 a bottle for the wine after admiring the temperature-controlled storage room from behind a glass wall in the bar. What a pleasure to buy an expensive bottle of wine and actually get what you're paying for. In Houston restaurants that don't store their wines at proper temperatures, I recommend you drink the beer.
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