i found these LED candles that you blow on/off. they flicker like real candles. i guess its not really a super geeky gift, as i'm giving one to my grandmother and using one for a 'white elephant gift', but as a geek i'm excited by this cheapo little gadget:) the larger ones take AAA, so i bought a few of those instead of the smaller ones that take those stupid button batteries: http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/94ce/
just wanted to share my current MPG with everyone. my Prius calculates i'm getting 55.9, but i'm positive it's at least 2 or 3 MPG higher than that because the Prius calculates it's average MPG by assuming that electric driving = 100 MPG, although it's technically 0 MPG because you're not using any gas. i push the electric pretty hard, and i usually end up in the high 50s or low 60s (i calculate my exact MPG by dividing how many miles i drive in between tanks by the gallons i fill up). i employ a lot of "hypermiling" techniques to get such good mileage, such as pulse-and-glide, no jack-rabbit starts, and when nobody's around i go sssslllllooooowwwwww. here's proof: http://img470.imageshack.us/img470/7325/0515071843 oe6.jpg..... i'll easily pull 500 miles out of this tank, and i could go all the way to 560 or 570 if i really pushed it.
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i found these LED candles that you blow on/off. they flicker like real candles. i guess its not really a super geeky gift, as i'm giving one to my grandmother and using one for a 'white elephant gift', but as a geek i'm excited by this cheapo little gadget :) the larger ones take AAA, so i bought a few of those instead of the smaller ones that take those stupid button batteries: http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/lights/94ce/
just wanted to share my current MPG with everyone. my Prius calculates i'm getting 55.9, but i'm positive it's at least 2 or 3 MPG higher than that because the Prius calculates it's average MPG by assuming that electric driving = 100 MPG, although it's technically 0 MPG because you're not using any gas. i push the electric pretty hard, and i usually end up in the high 50s or low 60s (i calculate my exact MPG by dividing how many miles i drive in between tanks by the gallons i fill up). i employ a lot of "hypermiling" techniques to get such good mileage, such as pulse-and-glide, no jack-rabbit starts, and when nobody's around i go sssslllllooooowwwwww. here's proof: http://img470.imageshack.us/img470/7325/0515071843 oe6.jpg ..... i'll easily pull 500 miles out of this tank, and i could go all the way to 560 or 570 if i really pushed it.