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Back in 2008 or so, when gasoline was $4 per gallon, our fair town invested $9,000 in a "GEM e2".
The Chrysler made electric car was recommended by our then chief of police, who hoped to patrol the town simultaneously fighting crime and and saving on gas. Sadly, today, barely able to travel a quarter mile on a full charge, it is destined for the scrap heap unless someone can come up with $1600 to replace the six 12-volt batteries for the now road-weary buggy.
(Heads up, Leaf and Volt owners!)
According to a story in yesterday's Texarkana Gazette it wasn't long before the vehicle with a 25 mph top end and a 35 mile range was deemed ill suited to fighting crime and catching speeders (our main crime) and was donated to the water department for use in reading water meters. Allegedly workers could read meters without leaving the driver's seat. (Not mine. It's several feet from the road and two feet below grade in a meter well.)
Nevertheless, it is noteworthy that in April of 2009, The GEM did earn some of its keep when it was called in to assist in the apprehension of a local bull who was terrorizing the south side of town, namely my yard.
As seen here, the bull rendered some assistance to the GEM . The entire story is here in my rarely maintained blog.
Perhaps I should attend Monday night's city council meeting and suggest that, rather than spend the money on batteries or scrapping the little beauty, the town should purchase a bull along with a yoke and harness to give new life to the hapless GEM.
Surely good bulls can be had for less than $1600 and they certainly have a trade-in value!
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Why fall for the GM (Gumment Motors) bull when you could actually use the real thing!
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Update: Monday, 12-5-11: An internet search reveals a full set of new batteries for the e2 can be had at Nextag Stores for a mere $514.50.
Jerry Yang, the founder of Yahoo, and his wife funded this innovative green building on Stanford campus that will be the home of the Environmental Sciences Department. Here is the engineering behind it.
Dave, who works in the building across the street told me that Stanford has mandated that there will be no new buildings with air conditioning and no datacenters. Datacenters, which need serious cooling, will be elsewhere with one in Livermore. We were having a picnic lunch at our on campus picnic spot and were both Xootring this way afterwards. It's cute when two are xootering together in conversation. A picnic saves Dave having to drive to meet me in town which is what we used to do when we lunched together at restaurants.
Happy new year to all flickeranians! Lucky enough to have warmer temps and snow so thought about detail as a theme, so went out with the F3 and MicroNikkor to look closely. Hope everyone had a safe holiday, and thanks again for a great year and looking forward to the one ahead!
Erin Brown, Lawrence, looks at discount cosmetics at Hy-Vee Food & Drug Store, 3504 Clinton Parkway. A former makeup artist, she has cut back on some costly beauty products but held on to others as she’s adjusted her finances since the birth of her child. Photo by Richard Gwin. See it on LJWorld.com: www2.ljworld.com/photos/2011/jan/17/205933/
Nearly 7 billion souls living today around the globe will spend somewhere in eternity. What are you doing to bring them to Jesus Christ?
I have held off posting this capture. I don’t know, perhaps it is one of those photos that you had to be there to feel the moment? For me, it is my favourite of my ‘Close Encounter’ of the Doe Series from last summer.
Hollywood has tried many, many times to capture that rare and special moment when someone is lucky enough to experience a special connection between themselves and a wild animal.
This was my special moment. This was the moment of trust.
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Daylight saving time...bah! I didn't remember until 12:30 (1:30 Daylight nonsense time) that there was a time change. I had been wondering why, on top of an exhausting night, I was so tired and then Mum piped up "Remember the time change?"
so i was driving around looking for a feature. (starting to sound familiar, huh?) anyways, i couldn't really find anything. the area they needed it from is rural and it was a weekday.
so as i was driving back around 4, feeling defeated, the light was nice and i passed this field freckled with these backlit, glowing dandelions. i sped past thinking, self, make a note that these flowers look pretty at this hour. then i thought, hold up, who calls themselves self? right. me. then i decided to make a 3-pointer in a driveway, park, and lay on the ground amongst the flowers with my 200mm. i'm a total dork. i'm sure all the people in the cars speeding past agreed.
AND i forgot to make a wish.
if i had, though, the list below might be a place to start:
Things I Took For Granted Before I Moved Here (aka rural NE North Carolina):
fruitcakes. kudzu. kelton.
target. water pressure. 3 meals/day. bank of america. free time. thai restaurants. my own bath tub. people with a full set of teeth. shows. indie movie theaters. 24-hour-diners.
still... i could get used to this.
all except living without the top 3.
(editor's note: although, i don't really have anything against spiced cakes and devouring vines, fruitcakes and kudzu are nicknames. my BFF and my cat, respectively)
Beans, they are so easy to grow and so nice to eat. At the end of the growing you can save some seed for next year. You get all this then for nothing!
It is all a bit silly really as we have enough beans here to plant a field of them next year, but there is something about popping beans out of their pods that "once you pop you cannot stop" as the TV ad keeps telling me. T&J certainly enjoyed it all. We have here a mixture of runner beans and french beans. The smaller black ones are sweet peas, as you can see not all of them were fully ready as they are green and far from dried. These have gone into the airing cupboard for a while.
The beans are now in paper envelopes in a dry dark place in the garage, away from any mice and ready for next year.
There is a trend lately to design retro, penguin-book style covers and posters for popular movies and contemporary video games. Here's my take on the movie Saving Private Ryan.
Before we completely shut off the flow of Terrell Creek to install the new culvert, our biologists catch and transfer any fish in the work area. Once the fish are caught and moved, then we redirect the flow of the creek around the work zone so we can install the new culvert.
Some Icelandic anarchist added an old Icelandic flag to the flagpole. Police and firemen came to the rescue!
On this picture of the same scene an alien flies by!
Members of the Fire Department at the scene of a simulated airplane crash at Maurice Bishop International Airport, Grenada.
Jerry Boyle, Saving a neighbor, 06-19-08
Here are a few pictures of Brian Archer trying to save the neighbors house.
His house is safe being up on stilts but that isn't stopping him from going
the extra mile to help someone else out. He has spent countless hours
plumbing a system to remove any water that leaks inside the floodwall
that was installed after 1995. The in ground pool has basically become the
sump for the system and as long as the wall isn't topped it looks very effective.
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Loading a casualty into the back of an MRAP MaxxPro ambulance now requires four men ascending a step ladder. (Photo by US Army)
Read the full story now: mrmc.amedd.army.mil/index.cfm?pageid=media_resources.arti...
Story written by: Merrie Aiken, USAMMDA Medical Support Systems Project Management Office
We have 3 Tesco stores in Bexhill … aren't we lucky!! There is this big 24 hour one on the outskirts of town and 2 much smaller ones.
I'm not the biggest fan of Tesco and really don't like this big store. However, I am very impressed with our little local Tesco in Little Common, which I think is more like a Waitrose than a Tesco.