My 1991 Ford Festiva got 50 miles to the gallon.
It also won rave reviews from Consumer Reports for the better part of a decade for reliability (Mazda made it.)

Now you can't buy them because they didn't have anti-lock brakes and airbags.

Instead, you buy a Prius for triple the price and act smug about your 45 miles to the gallon.

Bah.

N ot sure how to make it appear here, so just go to this link...it is awesome, you will thank me....

http://abpaximov.livejournal.com/986969.html

Anything interesting going on tonight in town?
Jules (i think) intends to drive to Milwaukee for MXPX, but since we just saw them last night in Madison, I'm not so inclined to invest the time and money to see them at the Rave...

 you have extra steel lying around the house, like cars rusting in the front yard....

now is the time to cash that junk steel in.   Steel is the new aluminum can....you can get a nice chunk of change for that stuff that used to get you a penny per pound.  We are looking to get nearly 50 cents a pound for our scrap at work....

M y (and my companies) 1 st million dollar building order came through today....I get to do the big spending on it.
Turns out the end user will be NASA, for the orion program which is taking us to Mars.

Dang.  Thats sweet.   "Don't fuck up" is running through my head alot this morning....

 Happy Birthday Bob!  (Psychotron ( Read more... )

O nly in the most convoluted political environment does it make sense to raise taxes on hospitals (and the people that use them) in order to justify getting more money to pay to heal sick people.

 http://youtube.com/watch?v=59Qr_-hxZU8

and more crazy fun:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wppjYDj9JUc

 Fair enough.
I'm now salaried and considered "management", with the largest raise I have ever seen in my modest existence, with another bump up (as yet undetermined) coming in 6 months.

And then we ate the minstrels.  *yay*.

i do phenomenally better at picking NCAA brackets when I just copy my favorite Yahoo sports experts bracket ( Read more... )