Monday, December 26, 2005

Christmas Loot

Several of my friends this christmas received IPOD's. They are cool and woth some of them you can do soem realy neet things. I however realy dig the musical dice. above is an imaage of the MobiBLU, in black. Why do I like this? Lets look at the size:

I rest my case... It is cute, small, and holds a few tunes, then when the tunes get old, you can then turn to the radio (built in FM tuner) Or, aww shucks, here is the pitch....:

At only 1 inch in size, the MobiBLU Cube is the world's smallest, full-featured digital audio player! Imagine:

1. combining hundreds of songs,

2. a voice recorder,

3. clock,

4. calendar,

5. sleep timer and more.

All into one little cube smaller than a ping-pong ball. You've just imagined the one-of-a-kind MobiBLU - a breakthrough in portable entertainment.

Every MobiBLU features a single multi-function mini jack that allows USB 2.0 connectivity (for faster music downloads),

1. stereo audio output,

2. battery charging and headphone/earbud/antenna connection.

3. And playing time? An incredible 8 to 10 hours on a single charge.


Smallest MP3 Player in the World Measures less than 1 inch cubed and weighs less than an ounce!
OLED DisplaySelf-emitting blue OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) display provides superior sharpness, and a bright, easy-to-read display
WMA (Digital Rights Management)Download and play purchased music; works great with Music Downloads!


FM Radio Receiver and RecorderLets you listen to and record FM programming. Listen to your favorite programs over and over or save it on your PC!
* USB 2.0 Flash DriveCan transfer music files at blazing fast speeds AND can be used as storage for other types of files
* Voice RecorderBuilt-in, high-quality microphone allows you to record notes, a class or interviews for your memoires
* Five preset EQ modes:Normal/Rock/Jazz/Pop/Classic; you can also create customize equalization to suit your taste
* SRS WOW 3D Surround Sound and BassEnhances your music listening experience
* File Navigation System and Unlimited Folder CapacityPlays MP3 files saved in multiple folders; those files and folders can be selected and played as if in a Windows environment
* Easy & Convenient Built-in Clock With Date DisplayHelps you get there on time - on the right day!
* Sleep TimerFall asleep to your favorite tunes or radio station without worrying about having to shut the MobiBLU off
* Built-in Lithium-Ion BatteryNo extra battery or external charger is required; easily recharged by connecting into the USB port on your PC
* Resume FunctionAutomatically restores previous user settings and track location when the unit is powered ON in case of sudden power down
* Firmware-UpgradeableWhen new functions for the MobiBLU are developed, you'll be able to download the updates necessary to enjoy them on your MobiBLU player

Only draw back is that it has only a Gig of sorage, but DUDE.. This is to coo. All under $140.00...

- TVG

Cool New Toys

Tiny Hard Drive Revolutionizes Media Storage
The revolutionary StorCard, to be available in the second half of this year, is the exact size and thickness of a credit card and can contain from 100MB to more than 5GB of data. At first glance, it looks like a credit card and even has a magnetic strip like a credit card, for potential use in standard credit card readers.

The hard drive data, however, is accessed on a tiny spinning disk inside the thin card. This spinning wheel made of Mylar is engaged when the card is inserted into a StorCard Reader, a USB-connected drive or PC Card that reads and writes to the StorCard. The Reader is expected to retail for under $100 and the cards for under $15 each.

Amazingly, the on-board processor contains integrated software controls that can encrypt data securely in real time. The StorCard - like a credit card - is extremely flexible, without risking damage to the data it contains. Because of its high capacity and inexpensive price, the StorCard will be a viable solution for consumers and businesses. It will provide high performance to quickly handle large amounts of data and will support a volume sufficient to stream media files and could even store material that previously would fit only on a DVD.

- TVG

Saturday, December 10, 2005

Weird Fact of The Day

Weird Fact Box to the right. Yes I too am waiting for the information to change. I dont have the heart to remove it quite yet, in fear that the information might change and I will miss it.

- TV

Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Things that go Swoosh....

Nike has finale done it. They have tried before to enter the entersizement (entertainment and exercise mushed to make a word) field. Check this out, it is an arm band that you can fit your iPod Nano into and listen to music while you work out. I guess warring a belt during your work out is just not acceciptable any more. Me? I just turn on the radio and let the entertainment cabinet hold the radio. What is that? Ha Ha Ha (yes I am LOL!) what do I listen to when I am running? Normally the words, "Stop or I'll shoot." Running outside is over rated, People I use a treadmill, that way I am closer to the Fridge! Anyway, for about 40 Clams (US) you too can provide some one with a desire to play in traffic with a musical arm band.

Arm band naked:



Person having too much fun warring arm band:


Naked Person:

Hay!!! Get your mind out of the gutter, This is a family blog........

- TV

Sunday, December 04, 2005

Things that go ouch!

Sharp objects are more terrifying than bullets: A new horror movie survey says that impaling is the most common way for celluloid evildoers to do away with their victims.

The new Web site FamilyMediaGuide.com surveyed 100 of the most popular horror movies produced since 1975. It found more than 1,700 violent acts, with nearly a quarter of those involved victims being impaled.

The most violent film was 2003's "Freddy vs. Jason," with 167 violent acts, according to the site. Steven Spielberg's 1975 film "Jaws" came in a surprising second, largely because of the number of times the great white shark chomped into its victims.

Honorable mention went to Tim Burton's 1999 film "Sleepy Hollow," which featured 27 beheadings.

Oddly enough, the "Halloween" films didn't receive a mention.

- TV

Monday, November 28, 2005

Things are not as they seem.

So I was driving down a fairly major road in Anchorage, when I Observe a little vehicle seemingly having some issues, the vehicle is failing to maintain their lane of travel ( weaves in and out of its own lane), and is doing well under the posted speed limit. I watch the vehicle for a few blocks and think that it may be an impaired driver, and then call the Local PO-PO. They get all of the information that can be had, make / model - Plate - description of driver (all I could see was the top of a head cresting over the top of the drivers seat - the hair looked like that of a female), and with in minutes an officer pulls in behind the suspected vehicle and goes into affect. The car pulls to the left and pulls a u-turn into a parking lot. Then I see it, the driver is more than likely someone's grandmother. She advised the officer that she does not like to drive in bad weather and is trying to take it easy. Nuff said 10-8.

Now I can see this conversation around the dinner table:
"Mom, how was your day?"
"Fine Fine, met a nice man on the road after he pulled me over for DUI. Some other jerk on the road thought that I had been hitting the egg nog a little soon and called the Fuzz on me."
"Wa Wa What!"
And the conversation continues with what ever else you think could go on.

Ever notice how people who drive faster than you are jerks & people who drive slower than you are idiots? - TV

Saturday, November 26, 2005

FBI / CIA E-Mail Scam

IF it says it's from the US Central Intelligence Agency or Federal Bureau of Investigation, avoid it like the plague.

An e-mail is going around, claiming to be from the CIA or FBI. And if you open it using Windows, you'll be in big trouble. It's being called the worst computer worm of the year, The Washington Post reported, and lots of people are falling for it.

The bogus e-mail claims the government has discovered you visiting 'illegal' websites and asks you to open an attachment to answer some official questions.
If you do, the worm gets in and your computer gets infected. It can disable security and firewall programs and automatically send similar e-mails to contacts in your address book.

It can also keep you from getting to computer security sites that might help fix the problem, and may even open your computer to intruders who can steal your personal data. The e-mail even includes an authentic phone number for the FBI or CIA. And that has kept government switchboard operators busy in the US.

The worm - named Sober X - has spread so fast that the CIA and the FBI have put warnings on their websites saying they did not send out the e-mail and urging people not to open the attachment. In Europe, the Austrian investigation agency is looking at a flurry of similar bogus e-mails sent in its name. 'This particular virus is a mass-mailer worm and is the largest one we have seen this year,' said a senior official at Symantec, which sells the Norton AntiVirus software. 'It's as bad as it gets. With this particular type of virus on your system, there is a high probability that your personal information will be stolen.'

A virus-research manager at McAfee said his company, which also makes anti-virus software, had logged more than 73,000 consumer computers reporting detection since the worm was discovered Monday. British e-mail security company MessageLabs said it has intercepted more than 2.7 million copies of Sober X and its variants, noting that 'the size of the attack indicates that this is a major offensive'.
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this is a geek BOLO
- TV

Tuesday, November 08, 2005

Urban Legends :-)

I do truly like a good Urban Legend, Here are some that I have recently run or re-run across:
A student at an elementary school found a gopher snooping around near the janitor's shed. The kid carefully picked it up and brought it to the janitor. The janitor decided to kill the gopher so that it wouldn't be digging up the grounds. He took it into a room where the cleaning supplies were kept and sprayed a strong floor cleaning solvent on the gopher. Three cans were used on the animal, but he was still very much alive wasn't allowed on campus, so storage rooms were the only places he could sneak one. So very annoyed and tired, the janitor lit up a cigarette. This, of course, caused an explosion and the janitor was the center of it. He was badly injured from both the explosion and inhaling the floor cleaner gopher was found clinging to the wall unharmed.
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Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha - Deep Breath - ha ha ha ha ha ha... Go Gophers.!. People if their is cause to place an animal to sleep DO NOT BE CRUEL, take them to an animal center or hospital. Or Else......
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Swimming in New Orleans -
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After hurricane Katrina caused levees to break in New Orleans, the city was exposed to waters inhabited by saltwater crocodiles. As people swam for land and cover during the days waiting to be rescued, some were dragged under by crocs that where too large and lethargic to go after their normal prey. The usual prey was being snatched by the more youthful crocs. Instead of competing with the young crocodiles, the bigger ones prefer the slow swimming of a human. Only the bigger ones have proven to be dangerous. The smaller ones do, however, go after house pets and small children.
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Found this one a few years ago, and it has umm uhhh come back around.?.
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Years ago while lying in my hammock I noticed my dog dragging something under the fence. Upon inspection, to my dismay, I realized it was the next door neighbor's 10 year old daughter's rabbit.For years I had watched her come home from school and head straight out to it's cage, free it and play with it in the yard. I knew today would be no different and fearing for our dog, I had to think fast.The rabbit was dirty, so I washed it off with the hose, combed it with the dog brush and blew it dry with the leaf blower. Upon finishing its grooming I jumped the fence and replaced it back in its cage hoping its death would be written off as "natural causes". Back to the hammock.Within the hour the neighbors Volvo pulled in as usual and out popped the little girl, and as usual she headed straight for the cage. Only this time she stopped about six feet away and screamed: "DDDDAAAADDDDYYYY!"Her father panic stricken stood looking at the cage. Being the good neighbor that I am I rushed to fence and asked if there was anything I could do.Her father less than calmly blurted, "What kind of sick bastard would dig up a little girl's dead rabbit and put it back in it's cage?"
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Hunting Story
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Some guys had heard of a good hunting spot, but needed the permission of the owner of the property. One of them went up to the farmer's house to ask if they could hunt on his land. The farmer agreed and told him that while he was out there, could he shoot the bull in the pasture for him. The hunter agreed. He decided to play a little joke on his friends and when he got in the car he told them the farmer had said no, so they were going to have to teach him a lesson. He pulled up to the field where the cows were, got his rifle and killed the bull, and said "That'll teach him." His friends jumped out of the car laughing, grabbed their guns and shot several cows before the dismayed joker could stop them.As they paid the farmer for all the cows they'd killed, he told them that if they wanted to do some more hunting, he had some pigs out back that were a lot cheaper than cows.
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Do a Self Exam...
*****
A women who had been in south America had been stung in her breast by a tropical insect. When she got home a few weeks later she started having breast pains. She went to her docter who said it was problably a rash and gave her a cream. A week later the women came back complaining that the pain had only gotten worse and that the cream had done nothing. The doctor recommended her one of his friends who was a specialist in breast cancer to see if he could help but unfortunately he was on vacation for two weeks. The pains got so bad the lady bandaged her breast. She waited the 2 weeks for the doctor to come back and went to see him. When she told the doctor the problem he told her to take the bandages off her breast. When she did to their amazement were about 9 holes in her nipple area in each a larva crawling inside. Apparently the insect had laid its eggs in her breast and they had hatched and began to feed off the fat and even milk tubes in the women's breast. The doctor immediately had her taken into surgery were they removed the larva. They found that the holes in her breast were up to 5cm deep.
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Not the right Dog
*****
A young lady was invited to visit a very rich old lady's house one day for tea. She nervously rang the bell and the butler showed her in. Right away she noticed a large dirty mutt chewing the furniture enthusiastically. As she had her tea and was shown around the house by the old woman, she couldn't believe they let the dog behave the way it did. The dog chewed at the furniture, ripped the curtains and relieved himself on the carpet. The young girl didn't say anything of course, assuming that besides being rich, perhaps the old lady was also eccentric. As the woman walked her to the door she said: "I hope you'll come back again sometime, but next time PLEASE leave your dog at home."
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Be carefully what you bring home!
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A rich old woman was visiting Mexico when a small ugly dog approached her on the sidewalk. She couldn't resist his sad eyes, so she took him back to her hotel and fed and bathed him.For the remainder of the trip the lady and her dog were inseparable. When the time came to return home, she smuggled the small dog over the border so she could keep him.Within a few days he got sick and she immediately rushed him to the vet, but there was nothing that could be done, he died in the office. After she stopped crying, the grief-stricken woman asked the vet what kind of dog he had been. The shocked vet looked at her and said: "Lady, that's no dog, it's a Mexican Sewer Rat!"
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If you are still with me, these are but just a few, Maybe more next time eh?
-TV

Friday, November 04, 2005

Blog Spamers..

Again I know that I am wasting my time with this, however...

They say that my time is your time, not any longer.... Now I shall say your time is my time and not the Blog Dumpers...

In an effort to make this a more enjoyable site and not have you read too many:

"Comment Deleted
This post has been removed by the blog administrator.
October 31, 2005 5:19 AM"

I have added (again) a word verification system to the blog. I know it hutrs, however if you let your fingers do the walking you can walk it off. Sound harsh? If you want to receive information on how to "get hot chicks," or "refinance your home for only $0.99" or "hot gal on gal on gal on guy on sheep action", let me know I am sure that one of the search Eng's can help out, however I don't want that crap on the blog.

until the next comment or temper tantrum...
- TV

Monday, October 31, 2005

Hmmmm, Postcards that come in Black Plastic...?


Image may or may not be of real Ummm "assists" no no Product For sale, ON THE POST CARD..



Sexy postcards won't have stamp of approval? Wed Oct 26,12:53 PM ET

The "Girl from Ipanema" may soon have to cover up, at least if she wants to appear on a postcard in Rio de Janeiro.

Postcards of bikini-clad beauties frolicking on Rio's famed beaches could be banned from sales in the city's shops and newsstands in an attempt to discourage sex tourism.

The Rio state assembly approved the ban on Tuesday night, and state governor Rosinha Matheus has 30 days to ratify it.

"These postcards ... attract to our city the wrong kind of tourist and promote deplorable sex tourism," said the bill's sponsor, deputy Alice Tamborindeguy.

"I hope the governor sanctions this proposal because otherwise we are doing a disservice to the state and showing disrespect for women."

Postcards of lithe and tanned women in bikinis on beaches such as Ipanema and Copacabana are ubiquitous at sales points in Rio. The image was immortalized in the bossa nova song, "Girl from Ipanema."

With its sun, sea, mountains and sultry lifestyle Rio is a popular tourist destination. But prostitution is also rife, and the United Nations and other groups have expressed concern that it is growing as a magnet for foreigners seeking cheap sex.

Last March the Brazilian government launched a campaign to stop the sexual exploitation of minors by tourists, which including involving hotels in cracking down on their guests.
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How would you react if a buddy sent you a post card wrapped in foil?
- TVG

{Photo from:
http://www.jaymekohler.com/archives/ind-20031115-0505.html }

Saturday, October 29, 2005

Cat Nap?

Suspect in W.Va. Break-In Found Asleep Fri Oct 28, 5:35 PM ET

A suspect in a break-in at a veterinarian's office wasn't hard to find. He was sleeping in his office at a neighboring business and allegedly had some stolen items in his pockets.

Chad Lee Mays, 26, of Malden was charged Thursday with breaking and entering. Mays owns a tire shop next door to the Kanawha Boulevard Animal Hospital in Charleston, according to a criminal complaint filed in Kanawha County Magistrate Court.

Charleston police responding to the break-in saw a tire shop employee outside that business early Thursday morning, waiting for it to open. The employee said Mays was inside sleeping.

Mays told police he had heard an alarm go off at the veterinarian's office but did not see anything. He then said he needed to use a restroom and walked into another room where Patrolman S.S. Midkiff saw a computer similar to one that had been reported stolen, the complaint said.

Police searched the suspect and allegedly found cash and vials of veterinary drugs in his pockets.

Mays was being held Friday at South Central Regional Jail in Charleston.

Information from: The Charleston Gazette, http://www.wvgazette.com
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Those Cat Naps will get ya every time!
- TV

Friday, October 21, 2005

What about the twisted moose?

Landing in Alaska? Fear moose collisions no more
Fri Oct 21,11:15 AM ET
Pilots flying into and out of a small airport north of Anchorage, Alaska, no longer have to keep an eye out for stray moose on the runway. The municipal airport at Wasilla, a town about 40 miles north of Anchorage, has installed an electric anti-moose mat around the airfield. The barrier, similar to grated cattle guards on ranches, aims to prevent collisions between aircraft and the area's large moose population. "They'd feel a shock and they'd also hear a snap. Those two things would cause the moose to not go in there," said Archie Giddings, public works director for Wasilla. Airfield workers regularly had to chase the large ungulates away and moose have proved adept at getting through the gates of the airport's conventional fence, Giddings said.
A bull moose can weigh 1,000 pounds and stand 6 feet high. "If they ever did come to the runway and have a collision with an aircraft, that could be disastrous to the pilot," Giddings said. "An airplane could disintegrate if it hits a moose."
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Or the area moose will learn to like it and all park on the mat.
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Dead man gets parking ticket
Fri Oct 21,10:38 AM ET
Australian authorities have apologized to the family of an elderly man who was given a parking ticket while he lay dead in his car in a suburban shopping center. The 71-year-old man, known to be seriously ill, went missing nine days ago and his body was found in his car in a shopping mall car park in a Melbourne suburb, police said. A parking ticket had been placed on the car the day before his body was found. "It's just tragic. It must be just so sad for the family and we extend our sincere sympathies to them," local mayor Paul Denham told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio on Friday. "The circumstances surrounding the location of this poor fellow must make it all the harder for the family. It is simply a case of the parking officer not noticing."
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So .... Do they still have to pay the fine?
- TV

Saturday, October 15, 2005

Snow Bunny?

Have your attention? One Playmates stand aganst KFC.

Nice thought, however...

New gadget to make theft of mobile phones harder
Thu Oct 13, 2:42 PM ET
Finnish scientists have invented a device to make it harder to steal mobile phones and laptops by enabling them to detect changes in their owner's walking style and then freeze to prevent unauthorized use.
The VTT Technical Research Center of Finland said the device, which is has patented but has yet to sell, could prevent millions of portable appliances being stolen every year.
"A device is equipped with sensors that measure certain characteristics of the user's gait. When the device is used for the first time, these measurements are saved in its memory," VTT said in a statement.
The gadget would monitor the user's walking style and check it against the saved information. If the values differ, the user would have to enter a password.
"Compared with passwords and traditional bio-identification, the new method is simple: confirmation of identity takes place as a background process without any need for user's intervention," the researchers said.

One problem I see with this is that as some one is being chased or, is thought be being followed, your gate changes, you go from your normal la de daa, mode to a defensive mode. I wonder if the phone would still lock and prevent you from calling for help? Hmmm, I will need to see more data. I still think a fingerprint scanner would be a better option on the phones, some computers are putting them in.

- TV

Tuesday, October 11, 2005

Odd little smiles...

Some of the things that I do while, hmmm how does one say this, spending valuable time on the internet ... Is visit on line cartoons. What I like is that these cartoons are also in the paper, however you can go back and review the last months toons here. 2 of the toons that I like are

link icon & link icon

9 Chickweed has changed a little, however I have been reading it for so long that it still holds my attention. Someone just jumping in on the toon, it may be a little strange.

Get Fuzzy is just Odd, I like it that way. Check them out, let me know.

- TV

Saturday, October 08, 2005

This fire truck brought to you by ...

STOCKERTOWN, Pa. They may not be able to change their tires in less than 20 seconds, but Stockertown's fire department is looking for something decidedly race car-like: sponsorship. The tiny borough of 650 residents bought a fire truck but hasn't been able to scrape enough money to pay for it. So the fire chief and the City Council president dreamed up the idea of selling advertising space on the fire truck. So far, no one has signed on. /

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Hmmm I wonder why, Hay Match makers, would you be interested insponsoringg our fire truck? Or how about, Hay Local Liquor store, would you be interested in sponsoring our DUI program?

Yes, Yes, Yes I know, now here in the above clipping do they use any of the examples that I have used here however, how would you like to be the business owner of "ABC Demolition" and have a reporter standing by a fire truck (reporters like flashing lights) with thebillboardd "Brought to you by ABC Demolition while at a fatality accident, or a house or business fire. Not so much thank you. How do you also let visitors know that this is an ad and not an endorsement for said business. Just some thoughts. What do you think.
- TV

Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Who gets to blow out the candles?

Expect a big birthday party next year in the Greco household. Suzanne and Michael Greco celebrated their shared birthday Saturday by welcoming their first child, 8-pound, 8-ounce Maxwell Allen Greco. ''We're wondering what the odds are of having the whole family born on the same day,'' said Vicki Greco, Michael's mother. ''It's just amazing.''

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That is just weird.
- TV

See Alaska be fore you die (B4UDIE)

I am mixed about the following promo drive to get people to come to Alaska. Check out the article:
http://www.ktuu.com/cms/templates/master.asp?articleid=185&zoneid=1

personally I like the fact that we can strech out and not knock the block off of our neighbor. Or that one can pass gas (fart for the younger generation) with out the neighbor calling and say "Liver & Onions again eah? LOL, I used to have a friend who used to say "ampersand" instead of "And" .. Kind of funny Kind of strange. Anyway YOU Tell me, would this billboard make you want to rush home and pack your bags to come to Alaska? Until next time...

- TV

Monday, October 03, 2005

Blog Dumpers...

Groan,
Ok, it may just be me however I do find it cool when I post and suddenly I see some one has commented to the post. It is like Christmas time and some one has left a present under the tree, I hit the post and find that it is not a gift, it is a flaming bag of Poo - Poo called E-spam. What the heck! Don't I already get enough E-mails from estate members of wealthy bankers or country men that have passed on, been kidnapped, or 'taken out' who want to share their 40,million dollars with me just out of random chance because my screen name seamed nice. Please I would get these e-mails if my address was:

BabbyEater@RiverOfStix.death
rather than
HayIAmANiceGuy@willingtogivebankinfo.com (duh, not real addresses)

Not born yesterday people.

It all comes down to this, have you used or would you use the anti-e-spam devices that are out there? If some one was using a device that made you verify that you are a real human behind the keyboard and not an automated mass mailer, would you take the extra step to place a posting or just clear them from your favorite places? Let me know what you think. Unless it is that I should enter into a time share deal, for a next to nothing price, you can just hang on to that one.

That is the rant... yup, that is it. If you are a real person and have posted, thank you I am interested in hearing/seeing what you have to say/type. Lets keep it up.
- TV

Sunday, October 02, 2005

Reminds me of Humpty Dumpty ... In A Good Way.

Care to Comment? I thought that this was cool, however I think that I would like to driving the frying pan that, of course, is sold seperatly...



New concept car: a rotating egg on wheels
Fri Sep 30, 3:46 AM ET -


Tired of all those three-point turns? Nissan Motor could have a solution.
Japan's second-biggest auto maker has developed a concept car featuring an egg-shaped cabin atop a wheeled platform that can swivel around 360 degrees, doing away with the need to reverse when emerging from narrow spaces.
"With this feature, parking in tight spots is a cinch," chief designer Masato Inoue told reporters at a sneak preview of the bubble-shaped, three-seater electric car this week.
The car, named Pivo after the word "pivot", operates on an experimental system called drive-by-wire, which eliminates the mechanical linkages between cabin and chassis to enable steering, braking and shifting through electronic signals.
The system is the car's version of fly-by-wire technology, which has controlled commercial jets for more than a decade.
Nissan will showcase the Pivo at the Tokyo Motor Show, which opens to the public on October 22.
At the preview this week in Zama city, near Tokyo, a driver slid the 2.7-metre (8-foot) long Pivo into a tight imaginary parking spot, then rotated the cabin with the push of a button to face "backwards" to come out of the space in one motion.
"With the Pivo concept, we want to demonstrate the myriad possibilities that drive-by-wire could achieve," Inoue said.
Shiro Nakamura, Nissan's celebrity design chief, said on Friday the real-world application of the concept could be but a decade away.
"Who knows, in 10 years our March (or Micra, subcompact car) could look like this," he said at a media event at Nissan's showroom in Tokyo's Ginza shopping district, where the car was being prepared for display to the public.
Other auto makers such as General Motors and DaimlerChrysler have also developed drive-by-wire concept cars featuring cabin interiors that resemble cockpits.
Quirky concept cars are always crowd-pleasers at international motor shows, which auto makers use to show off next-generation technology and draw attention to their newest production vehicles.