NEV

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being without simple transportation, can make the short trip long. yesterday i had an interest to attend the first major automobile show in north america, the california international auto show. i was told that there would be many neighborhood electric vehicles (NEV) and the public introduction of the saturn ion. indeed the ion was there, and most like it will be mom’s next gasoline powered car, but their all electric shuttles lacked. i wanted to see the segway but it was not be be found. the most likely candidate at around $6,000 was the daimlyerchrysler GEM car. for a novelty, the sparrow was nice, but three times more than the GEM the last car i needed to see was a four door ford version, but it did not appear. if you know of a NEV i should look into, please send it to me.

IM names

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i wish i could get all my siblings and friends to have open whenever they are online IM. now in OS X apple made ichat which in the culmination of a five year agreement to share technology. very similar to AOL instant messenging ichat has fun emoticons and chat rooms, that makes conversations fun. when i’m online i always have ichat open. this then frees up the dial-up connection so anyone on a computer can reach you. if i ever get a mobile phone, not only will it have bluetooth for syncing, but it must be IM compatible (i would need a keyboard too). when i get up early, i always look for my brother across the ocean, but only once every two weeks to i find him on IM. i hope i will find him online, or even aiko soon.

green energy provider

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when choosing a green energy provider you have several choices. i prefer all solar, all wind, and all biomass. hydroelectric, nuclear, and natural gas are too large and devistating to warrant extra attention. how many salmon have died, societies and natural wonder buried, and lives ruined due to hydrolectric? go solar. go wind. go biomass. i guess you can also go hydrothermal, but is much harder to find.

privacy snoops

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scott mcnealy claims privacy is gone, so starting today. for those of you who insist that the FBI carnivore e-mail snooping system, the NSA echelon system does not exist, and other methods to remove my privacy from e-mail are not important, i’ve decided to take it one additional step and publish all my e-mails to the public domain via my blog. if you write me, expect to receive the response in the blog, instead of a reply message. this way all groups locally and around the world can share in the answer. so in the future no reply message, but the blog message. now if you option for PGP security, then i will gladly write back securely.

hydroelectric options

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when it comes to renewable energy, i prefer the smaller project to the global scale project like dams (hydroelectric). so many wonderful areas of this planet are capped due to a hydroelectric dam. societies have died due to hydroelectric. if i bought into a green power system, i would look exclusively for either an all solar, biomass, or wind driven turbine to reduce the dam destruction. i also like natural gas as the fossil fuel over coal or oil. nuclear is also very good, but in light of 9-11 and other events, maybe it’s not the best 22nd century energy source.

NSF approved textbooks

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while i teach my computer class in lancaster, ruth has asked me to help her with elizabeth’s science course too. the first step will be trying to find an age appropriate study guide and textbook. doing a brief 15 minute search with google i’ve found several NSF approved textbooks. if you have any opinions on these or other middle school books, send them along. the complete list in in the PDF.

other resources

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crdg
stcms

anaheim auto show

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today in anaheim opens the earliest auto show in north america, as i enter 2003, it’s time that i become responsible for my own tranportation. i need a way to get from home to the train station, be it the metrolink or the simple subway. if i take connecting bus transit the 12 minute trip takes 60 minutes. the show is near disneyland, so all i have to do is take the red line to the blue line to the green line, and transfer to the 460 bus line. it should take around 2 hours on a good, day and who knows on a bad day.