For the curious: Launch loop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. No exotic materials required, and the inventor figures only $10 billion USD for construction. Of course Brad Edwards was always saying the space elevator would be a mere $15 billion, too.
I recently bought a good elliptical and a shelf like you mention; I watch vids or read scrolling text/listen to music while working up a sweat. The X trainer really does seem more strenuous than walking/swimming, for what that's worth. I also have a recumbent style exercise bike; I put two plastic egg crates on either side, and the legs of a metal TV table rest on them, allowing me to use the laptop while pedaling.
For swimming I bought an underwater MP3 player - 1 GB, sound transduces through bones in your skull. Kinda dull audio but gets the job done. For my (non-stationary) bike I bought another MP3 player, iPod fits inside, speaker is inside what looks like a thermos of some sort. Yes, I get bored pretty much instantly exercising.
Maybe the cars could park on tables that would slide out to free up those that are in the middle. Somehow. Doesn't address the problem of freeing up those on a 2nd tier...maybe a forklift? We're getting really complex and hence expensive, but it seems people are ready to pay whatever it takes to get a spot. Whenever I've been in SF I've always been quite horrified at the lengths drivers have to go to get around or park.
I suppose they're maxed out on parking garages. In her novel the Lathe of Heaven Ursula LeGuin passingly remarked on how downtown Portland OR was chockablock with PGs, even in the alternate reality the book was set in. Seems businesses there accounted for a glut of traffic in the area, which is very compact; it's basically just a small region on the west bank of the Willamette river that can't expand in any direction. Perhaps SF missed out on maxing out on vertical parking structures, for whatever reason.
Drivers are parking in bus lanes? Man, but these people are desperate. I always thought a solution to the parking nightmare in SF and elsewhere would be to modify those car carrier semi trailers so they could be used as mobile mass parking in some fashion; build upwards, in other words. Might block the view from somebody's Queen Anne though, so scratch that.
On page 7 of the photo gallery they quote the theater's CEO that they'll be using 1570mm film, which commentors were quick to point really means 15/70 sprockets per frame/width. The idea of film as wide as a compact car is interesting to envision, though.
There's an excellent movie store in Portland Oregon, Movie Madness, who used to have a section for rare music video. Really amazing stuff but you had to cough up a $100 deposit to take something home. Whereas now there's just an utter avalanche of this sort of thing on YT.
No no no. Cast your vote for Tarquin Fin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F'tang-F'tang-Olé-Biscuitbarrel. I vow to implement a better character set for usernames on this POS website, for a start!
I think poster is revealing him/herself as a proponent of abiotic oil, or a Weak version thereof - the idea would be that only short chain hydrocarbons are being generated deep in the crust, if I'm guessing correctly. Thomas Gold pushed an abiotic source for gas but not oil, IIRC.
"Gas" means NG to people who discuss energy a lot, sorry about the confusion. BTW the US is still the 3rd largest consumer of oil for power generation in the world, even after decades of struggling to do away with the need. This is courtesy HI and AK, the newest states, where it's still prohibitive economically to move away entirely from burning oil. Nationwide you also have many's the off-road and backup diesel generator too, of course.
55.4% hydro in Oregon. This is down from 73.6% in 2000, according to the Energy Information Administration. The slack has been taken up by everybody's favorite fossil fuel, gas, at 17.6% in 2010, now at 28.4%.
They'll be kitty corner to any geothermal power coming out of Newberry Volcano, maybe FB can tap into that. Or make up claims to be doing so, since the juice is going to be sent to CA anyway, from what I've read.
They could set it in a retirement home. Trying to think of films that are; Coocoon? So take that and add, I don't know, Spam?
Also trying to think of comedic geniuses who still were writing good material that late in life. Perhaps certain standups, Carlin comes to mind. Helps to be really pissed off, perhaps, to compensate for all the brain shrinkage.
That headline made me think of an Onion piece: TIME Announces New Version Of Magazine Aimed At Adults. Would help if I knew what Google+ is. OK, it's their answer to Facebook, got it. Wow. Why did they give it a name that sounds like a multivitamin?
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For the curious: Launch loop - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. No exotic materials required, and the inventor figures only $10 billion USD for construction. Of course Brad Edwards was always saying the space elevator would be a mere $15 billion, too.
I recently bought a good elliptical and a shelf like you mention; I watch vids or read scrolling text/listen to music while working up a sweat. The X trainer really does seem more strenuous than walking/swimming, for what that's worth. I also have a recumbent style exercise bike; I put two plastic egg crates on either side, and the legs of a metal TV table rest on them, allowing me to use the laptop while pedaling.
For swimming I bought an underwater MP3 player - 1 GB, sound transduces through bones in your skull. Kinda dull audio but gets the job done. For my (non-stationary) bike I bought another MP3 player, iPod fits inside, speaker is inside what looks like a thermos of some sort. Yes, I get bored pretty much instantly exercising.
Here's a pic you might find useful as wallpaper.
Bonus: sloth defined.
We're Raveling in our cleverness this morning.
Maybe the cars could park on tables that would slide out to free up those that are in the middle. Somehow. Doesn't address the problem of freeing up those on a 2nd tier...maybe a forklift? We're getting really complex and hence expensive, but it seems people are ready to pay whatever it takes to get a spot. Whenever I've been in SF I've always been quite horrified at the lengths drivers have to go to get around or park.
I suppose they're maxed out on parking garages. In her novel the Lathe of Heaven Ursula LeGuin passingly remarked on how downtown Portland OR was chockablock with PGs, even in the alternate reality the book was set in. Seems businesses there accounted for a glut of traffic in the area, which is very compact; it's basically just a small region on the west bank of the Willamette river that can't expand in any direction. Perhaps SF missed out on maxing out on vertical parking structures, for whatever reason.
Drivers are parking in bus lanes? Man, but these people are desperate. I always thought a solution to the parking nightmare in SF and elsewhere would be to modify those car carrier semi trailers so they could be used as mobile mass parking in some fashion; build upwards, in other words. Might block the view from somebody's Queen Anne though, so scratch that.
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Here we have Wikipedia at its most absurdly straight-faced. Includes helpful picture of the City of Buffalo, New York, United States.
This from a guy with hundreds of "submissions." o:
On page 7 of the photo gallery they quote the theater's CEO that they'll be using 1570mm film, which commentors were quick to point really means 15/70 sprockets per frame/width. The idea of film as wide as a compact car is interesting to envision, though.
We are the 1%.
There's an excellent movie store in Portland Oregon, Movie Madness, who used to have a section for rare music video. Really amazing stuff but you had to cough up a $100 deposit to take something home. Whereas now there's just an utter avalanche of this sort of thing on YT.
Extra apropos: Eisbock. More alcohol, less water!
+1 Chip up the nose.
How about recordings in clay? Tenser, said the Tensor: Pottery Recordings. Been covered here at some point, I'm certain.
"Watson, come in here, I - goddammit!"
Now come on, that could have been "heck" for all we know. The audio's such a garbled mess.
That! stilted and formal! cadence all of these! speakers use! on these old! recordings! is amusing! too!
Or Meg Foster.
Are you getting sick and tired of them?
Any word on the release date for Google Chrome Google? ;)
Alternatively Moz could announce the release of Firefox Google, which would sow enough confusion for them to regain some market share, I bet.
No no no. Cast your vote for Tarquin Fin-tim-lin-bin-whin-bim-lim-bus-stop-F'tang-F'tang-Olé-Biscuitbarrel. I vow to implement a better character set for usernames on this POS website, for a start!
I think poster is revealing him/herself as a proponent of abiotic oil, or a Weak version thereof - the idea would be that only short chain hydrocarbons are being generated deep in the crust, if I'm guessing correctly. Thomas Gold pushed an abiotic source for gas but not oil, IIRC.
"Gas" means NG to people who discuss energy a lot, sorry about the confusion. BTW the US is still the 3rd largest consumer of oil for power generation in the world, even after decades of struggling to do away with the need. This is courtesy HI and AK, the newest states, where it's still prohibitive economically to move away entirely from burning oil. Nationwide you also have many's the off-road and backup diesel generator too, of course.
55.4% hydro in Oregon. This is down from 73.6% in 2000, according to the Energy Information Administration. The slack has been taken up by everybody's favorite fossil fuel, gas, at 17.6% in 2010, now at 28.4%.
They'll be kitty corner to any geothermal power coming out of Newberry Volcano, maybe FB can tap into that. Or make up claims to be doing so, since the juice is going to be sent to CA anyway, from what I've read.
They could set it in a retirement home. Trying to think of films that are; Coocoon? So take that and add, I don't know, Spam?
Also trying to think of comedic geniuses who still were writing good material that late in life. Perhaps certain standups, Carlin comes to mind. Helps to be really pissed off, perhaps, to compensate for all the brain shrinkage.
That headline made me think of an Onion piece: TIME Announces New Version Of Magazine Aimed At Adults. Would help if I knew what Google+ is. OK, it's their answer to Facebook, got it. Wow. Why did they give it a name that sounds like a multivitamin?