They take their clamping seriously in UL. Don’t mess with the rent-a-cops. They will extract a heavy revenge.
I wonder did they charge by the boot to remove them or by the car?
Monthly Archive for August, 2011
Typical, they get all excited about the 000′s of people attracted to world cup events and then grant planning for 24 parking spaces at the trail head. WTF?
Still, genuinely nice to see more mtb trails being put in place. How many decades behind every other country though?
Article in The Kerryman about proposed mtb trails in Kerry.
Picked up some interesting books recently:
Bill McKibben’s “Deep Economy – Economics as if the world mattered”
Tim Jackson’s “Prosperity Without Growth – Economics for a finite planet”
Andrew Ross Sorkin’s “Too Big To Fail – Inside the battle to save Wall Street” – Topical, hmmm?
Barry Schwartz’s “The Paradox of Choice – Why less is More”
Richard Dawkins’ “The Selfish Gene”
Alison Benjamin & Brian McCallum’s “A World Without Bees”
Now I just need to find the time to read them.
It’s been a queitly held interest of mine, at least in the field of wind energy, but I always felt that the vertical axis wind turbine’s day would come. Yes these turbines are less efficient than the standard propeller bladed turbines we see sprouting up on many hilly locations, but they work with wind from any direction without need to turn themselves into the wind like prop based units. And as exibited by Dr. Bill Becker with his Aerotecture aeroturbine, they can operate in any wind strenght and self govern without the need for any braking mechanism (cost/complexity issues) or turning out of the wind (reduced productive time). They also remind me of the “sail” on Kevin Costner’s boat in Waterworld which looked very cool – the sail that is, not the film.
An article on the Beeb’s website now describes how Caltech is using these vertical axis turbines to generate greater energy yields than when using standard prop type turbines. They speak about schooling fish and turbulence – basically you can place these turbines more densely on a given size of land plot in comparison to prop bladed turbines as they are unaffected by the turbulence which governs how far apart prop based turbines must be placed, thereby increasing the yield per given plot of land by up to 10 times. Simples.
Interesting story on the Beeb’s website about space junk. What kind of international incident is waiting to happen over collisions or items falling out of orbit?
Had these sitting on my hard drive for an absolute age so I thought I’d better get them up so that other people can laugh at them as I have done. Nothing says knacker nowadays more than cheap shitty plastic chrome piping. Why do this to your car? WHY? At least it’s only on the arse of this Seicento.
Shitbox Civic “coupe” with skobe flip flop paint and wah exhaust that belongs to one of the students at UL. You can hear it coming a mile away. And it doesn’t sound nice. It goes something like this…ssssSSSSSSKKKoOooOBBBBbbEe, sSsSSsSSSSSSKKKKKKKKKKOOOOOOOOOOOBBbEe.
Just in case you forget your girlfriends name. Or just in case she forgets her name. Either way, what do you do when you dump her/get dumped by her. Nice rust bubbling through on the bodywork though. And look more cheap shitty plastic chrome piping.
Even more chrome. Not piping this time. No no, we’ve gone for the full on bling of cheap shitty plastic chrome trim pieces. Nice AA badge though.
Spoke to soon. The Return of the Cheap Shitty Plastic Chrome Piping.
It’s spread to the interior as well. Surely there must be some kind of cream the owner can get to clear the spread of the infection right up?
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