Archive for May, 2007

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How much am I supposed to spend on a wedding gift?

 I love the little links that GMail scrolls at the top of your inbox - there is so much good stuff that gets put in there! With our impending wedding approaching, I found this interesting.
Personally I think the whole idea of practically expecting presents, wedding registry, etc is inherently pretentious - and yet it is so commonplace […]

Drunken driving — in wheelchair! - Vehicular Peculiarity - MSNBC.com

Alex comes through again - those Crazy Germans!!
BERLIN - A wheelchair-bound German stunned police when they pulled him over for using the road and allegedly found he was 10 times over the legal alcohol limit for drivers.
“He was right in the middle of the road,” said a spokesman for police in the northeastern city of […]

links for 2007-05-22

Summit head/Summit cam LTR TPI numbers - TPI - Third Gen .org : F-Body : Chevrolet Camaro, IROC, Z28, Pontiac Firebird, Trans Am
Good cheap TPI combo for 275RWHP/356RWTQ
(tags: camaro f-body modification engines)

links for 2007-05-21

Smallbiztechnology.com
(tags: Lenovo)

Tom’s Blog: water, I love you, but atm, I hate you
(tags: lenovo proactive)

Wyrtual Life » Blog Archive » Lenovo and the ring of po…innovation
(tags: lenovo customers proactive)

.: BEHOLD THE POWER OF BLOG
(tags: lenovo+service proactive)

Project B4C: Steering getting better

So this week instead of super-over-researching the front suspension, only over-researching it this time, I dove right in to trying to figure out why there was several inches of play in the steering. We were also hearing loud popping noises from the suspension when turning the wheel hard over to nearly the end of turning […]

Way to go Honda

Kat’s 06 Accord, a dealer leftover purchased a few months back, has had terrible brake shaking since we got it. She figured it was the difference in driving (her first) stick, understandably, but the first time I really got behind the wheel I noticed the shaking.
I expected them to replace the pads and cut the […]

Men convicted of stealing miles of railway line | Oddly Enough | Reuters.com

Crazy Germans - nuff said
BERLIN (Reuters) - A court in Germany has convicted three men of stealing over four km (2.5 miles) of rail track, weighing nearly 500 tonnes, to sell as scrap metal.
The court in the city of Marburg said Tuesday the men, aged 26 to 29, pretended to be working for the national […]

ABC News: Mom Reportedly Drove Getaway Car for Teen

Thanks to Alex for pointing me to this - another story about those CRAZY GERMANS! 
BERLIN (Reuters) - A 36-year-old German mother-of-five drove her son to a jewelry store he wanted to rob because she was afraid he may come to some harm, Bild newspaper reported Wednesday.
While her 17-year-old son and his two accomplices stabbed and robbed a […]

SEI Breckenridge Gel Fuel Fireplace - what’s the catch?

Kat found this fireplace at Home Depot. No CO2, ashes, soot, etc. Completely independent, no ventilation required. What is the catch here? (Besides the price tag)

Add elegance and romance to any room with the Gel Fuel Fireplace. Realistic fireplaces require no ventilation or electricity. UL approved Gel Fuel for indoor use, burns cleanly without […]

24 Hours Not Enough?

Work it up to 36 hours and I’ll be happy…
They studied 12 healthy young adults (average age: 28) who volunteered to spend 65 days living in individual rooms without windows, clocks, or any other time cues.
…..<snip>…..
Next, the scientists tacked on an extra hour of light to each participants’ natural amount of daily wakefulness.
The researchers didn’t […]