If you could photosynthecize could you handle being green?
And, is it reasonable to build your own flatbed trailer and tow it with a civic?
This is what I get for getting up before dawn and reading financials.
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
"hyperinflation mortgage indexing"
Shit. I read live-wire on yahoo.finance for VGZ and he ranted on about this and, well, I'm fairly given to conspiracy theories, rave about the Money Masters, AFTF and Zeitgeist but this idea scares the hell out of me because it'd have to happen if inflation goes hyper; man o man, sell-buy-sell-buy everything-retire-die!
ps - I can't find this idea anywhere else via google...
Shit. I read live-wire on yahoo.finance for VGZ and he ranted on about this and, well, I'm fairly given to conspiracy theories, rave about the Money Masters, AFTF and Zeitgeist but this idea scares the hell out of me because it'd have to happen if inflation goes hyper; man o man, sell-buy-sell-buy everything-retire-die!
ps - I can't find this idea anywhere else via google...
Thursday, February 7, 2008
An Exercise, Silly cpt it Confirms Literature
A few months back I had experimented with e85/gas ratios ranging from 1/8-1/1 with varying results; basically the mpg ran a little higher to no change at the smaller end to power issues and stalling at the 1/1. I dropped it for the time being but ran out of gas a week ago and decided to use a gallon of ethanol to get to the station where I topped it off with 10 gallons of e85. The pump guarantees a 70% minimum ethanol in the mix, and I met with some interesting/annoying results. Immediately I noticed that equivalent power was to be found at substantially higher rpm, 4200 vs. 2900, and soon thereafter I found that it took two to three starts on cold mornings to get it to stick. Additionally, I found that after the engine warmed, a little higher than normal, the system has serious power issues based on how much I was pushing and at what rpm; basically, an acceleration of no more than ~2miles/hr/s could be got below 4000 rpm and a persistent chugging/shaking of the whole vehicle could be temporarily remedied by an in-transit shutdown/clutch pop without pedal depression to high rpm (popping it in 3rd gear at 65 mph without pressing the gas pedal) or by stopping and shutting down for 5-15 minutes. My cousin hypothesized I needed more air, via a cold-air intake, one house mate thought I needed more fuel and should replace the fuel filter, another said I needed more compression and that the higher rpm performance showed this. Personally, I am thinking that it seemed like engine flooding/incomplete combustion since the engine definitely had more power and less chugging at higher rpm.
After my first experiences of power loss etc. I thought to put a couple of gallons of 91 octane gas in to see if that made difference, which it didn't. I included this in the mpg calculation, 379.4 miles/(11 gal. e85 + 2 gal 91O) = 29 mpg, a 22% decrease from my usual 37 mpg. This is consistent with the ~29% lower energy density of e85 vs. gas (http://www.epa.gov/air/caaac/mstrs/2006_10_dunham.pdf). At $2.14/gal and $2.850/gal for the e85/91 octane mix and regular gas respectively, 0.074$/mile vs. 0.077$/mile. Whatever the case, normal operation was restored after refilling with reg. unleaded.
After my first experiences of power loss etc. I thought to put a couple of gallons of 91 octane gas in to see if that made difference, which it didn't. I included this in the mpg calculation, 379.4 miles/(11 gal. e85 + 2 gal 91O) = 29 mpg, a 22% decrease from my usual 37 mpg. This is consistent with the ~29% lower energy density of e85 vs. gas (http://www.epa.gov/air/caaac/mstrs/2006_10_dunham.pdf). At $2.14/gal and $2.850/gal for the e85/91 octane mix and regular gas respectively, 0.074$/mile vs. 0.077$/mile. Whatever the case, normal operation was restored after refilling with reg. unleaded.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
VLC Automated Net Stream
I managed three hours of dreamland (deep sleep actually/probably) and I slept for a ~hour.75 nap that evening and crashed again just after midnight. I wanted to continue this sort-of ubermensh sleep system and I'd been using windows task scheduler to automate a playlist for my alarm. But I heard some days before a collegue listening to npr in the middle of the day when the local station is usually blasting yuppy drivel (you know, Yanni-cheap classical-quick-turn it off kinda CRAP,) so I thought to maybe wakeup to something dreamy, tenuous, long-range faintly connected to the world like bbc early morning report by using the statewide npr net cast.
I found at their page three streams, wmv, mp3, and aac, the latter of which is basically high def audio; nice. It opened befault in vlc, which along with media player classic thoroughly satisfy my every perceptual need, and so I thought perhaps to automate that as my alarm. VLC can be run from the command line with lots of switches, it turns out, and so I made a batch file:
cd "c:\program files\videolan\vlc"
start vlc.exe http://www.*.org/listen/live_newsinfo_aac.pls
and alarmed it via task scheduler. All to no avail, in any case, since I sheduled it for 4:50 PM, it does work just fine otherwise, the aac better sounding than FM. Wake well and good dreams.
I found at their page three streams, wmv, mp3, and aac, the latter of which is basically high def audio; nice. It opened befault in vlc, which along with media player classic thoroughly satisfy my every perceptual need, and so I thought perhaps to automate that as my alarm. VLC can be run from the command line with lots of switches, it turns out, and so I made a batch file:
cd "c:\program files\videolan\vlc"
start vlc.exe http://www.*.org/listen/live_newsinfo_aac.pls
and alarmed it via task scheduler. All to no avail, in any case, since I sheduled it for 4:50 PM, it does work just fine otherwise, the aac better sounding than FM. Wake well and good dreams.
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