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Half Moon Bay

Bathroom Mirror

Talk about screwing with folks!

Not During Dinner!

This is so gross.

Got there from a "horrible way to die" page focusing on digestive ailments:

1. Farting to Death

2. PICA

3. Roundworms

4. Celiac Sprue


Sorry I felt compelled to share this with you....

Don't Do It

5 Differences

Right/Left

Right brained or left brained ? I was mesmerized by the "detail" in the shadowed portrayal of the spinning dancer.

Tesla Roadster

There is always torque available, along with more torque, and with extra torque available for later. It’s an incredibly easy car to hustle around the corners, because the torque curve is so tall and flat, with power available at *all* times. My mind is free to wonder about other important things, like what the car would be like climbing all the way to redline – I’m only halfway up a gauge that “goes to eleven” – a whopping 13,500 rpm. The suspension and steering feel really nicely dialed in. The road textures are communicated nicely to the steering wheel, without any jarring sensations. The feel is neither plush nor harsh – but as expected the car grips the road and carves around with no body roll. I’m really impressed at the noise/vibration/harshness characteristics of the interior – being a prototype I’d expected a lot more rattling inside the cabin, but there were none.

Acceleration	0 to 60 in under 4 seconds
Top Speed	125 mph

Now the kicker...it's electric!




The Tesla Roadster offers double the efficiency of popular hybrid cars, while generating one-third of the carbon dioxide.

Plug it in at night when you pull into the garage, and you can drive more about 245 miles (based on EPA city/highway cycle) on that charge the next day.

With your electrical company's incentive pricing factored in, it will cost you roughly 1 cent per mile to drive the Tesla Roadster. But the incentives don't stop there. Depending on where you live, other bonuses may include:

• Single-occupancy access to all carpool lanes
• Income tax credit (awaiting new legislation)
• A luxury car that's fully exempt from the luxury car tax
• No parking meter fees in an increasing number of major metropolitan areas

base price: $98,000

Nothing

20 Things You Didn't Know About... Nothing

There's more there than you think.

And when you are stoned on caffeine (see previous post) nothing seems like something and seems more interesting than it might actually be!

1 There is vastly more nothing than something. Roughly 74 percent of the universe is “nothing,” or what physicists call dark energy; 22 percent is dark matter, particles we cannot see. Only 4 percent is baryonic matter, the stuff we call something.

2 And even something is mostly nothing. Atoms overwhelmingly consist of empty space. Matter’s solidity is an illusion caused by the electric fields created by subatomic particles.

3 There is more and more nothing every second. In 1998 astronomers measuring the expansion of the universe determined that dark energy is pushing apart the universe at an ever-accelerating speed. The discovery of nothing—and its ability to influence the fate of the cosmos—is considered the most important astronomical finding of the past decade.

4 But even nothing has a weight. The energy in dark matter is equivalent to a tiny mass; there is about one pound of dark energy in a cube of empty space 250,000 miles on each side.

5 In space, no one can hear you scream: Sound, a mechanical wave, cannot travel through a vacuum. Without matter to vibrate through, there is only silence.

6 So what if Kramer falls in a forest? Luckily, electromagnetic waves, including light and radio waves, need no medium to travel through, letting TV stations broadcast endless reruns of Seinfeld, the show about nothing.

7 Light can travel through a vacuum, but there is nothing to refract it. Alas for extraterrestrial romantics, stars do not twinkle in outer space.

8 Black holes are not holes or voids; they are the exact opposite of nothing, being the densest concentration of mass known in the universe.

9 “Zero” was first seen in cuneiform tablets written around 300 B.C. by Babylonians who used it as a placeholder (to distinguish 36 from 306 or 360, for example). The concept of zero in its mathematical sense was developed in India in the fifth century.

10 Any number divided by zero is . . . nothing, not even zero. The equation is mathematically impossible.

11 It is said that Abdülhamid II, sultan of the Ottoman Empire in the early 1900s, had censors expunge references to H₂O from chemistry books because he was sure it stood for “Hamid the Second is nothing.”

12 Medieval art was mostly flat and two-dimensional until the 15th century, when the Florentine architect Filippo Brunelleschi conceived of the vanishing point, the place where parallel lines converge into nothingness. This allowed for the development of perspective in art.

13 Aristotle once wrote, “Nature abhors a vacuum,” and so did he. His complete rejection of vacuums and voids and his subsequent influence on centuries of learning prevented the adoption of the concept of zero in the Western world until around the 13th century, when Italian bankers found it to be extraordinarily useful in financial transactions.

14 Vacuums do not suck things. They create spaces into which the surrounding atmosphere pushes matter.

15 Creatio ex nihilo, the belief that the world was created out of nothing, is one of the most common themes in ancient myths and religions.

16 Current theories suggest that the universe was created out of a state of vacuum energy, that is, nothing.

17 But to a physicist there is no such thing as nothing. Empty space is instead filled with pairs of particles and antiparticles, called virtual particles, that quickly form and then, in accordance with the law of energy conservation, annihilate each other in about 10^-25 second.

18 So Aristotle was right all along.

19 These virtual particles popping in and out of existence create energy. In fact, according to quantum mechanics, the energy contained in all the power plants and nuclear weapons in the world doesn’t equal the theoretical energy contained in the empty spaces between these words.

20 In other words, nothing could be the key to the theory of everything.

Caffeine

Recently I've been buying half-caf beans trying to cut back my intake.

I don't know why?

But, yesterday I was at Pete's, and had a hankering for some Major D's, I just couldn't see altering my favorite blend. So, this morning I brewed my first pot of full strength coffee in a while.

Wow...

Caffeine increases heartbeat, respiration, basal metabolic rate, and the production of stomach acid and urine; and it relaxes smooth muscles, notably the bronchial muscle. These symptoms start anywhere from fifteen to forty five minutes after caffeine is consumed, except the central nervous system which is hit between thirty and sixty minutes after ingestion.

The amount of caffeine in the blood reaching the brain determines the severity of its effects on the body.

For the average non-smoking adult the effects last about five to seven hours.

Doses of over 750 mg (7 cups of coffee) can produce a reaction similar to an anxiety attack, including delirium, ringing ears, and light flashes. These amounts of caffeine may come from a single dose or from many doses in a short period of time.