Man Braves Cars, Bureaucrats to Bike on Tollways
// January 31st, 2008 // No Comments » // Cycling
Seems awfully dangerous to me, but more power to this Dell employee down in Texas who commutes to work every day back and forth on a tollway. I’m slightly jealous – not of the danger he faces, but the fact that he is able to commute, and has for his whole working life. I can’t imagine taking I-40 or even 70 to work everyday on a bike. Plus, I think it’s illegal (and unwise) to do so here in the state of North Carolina.
Holy crap, that’s a ton of money for $500 worth of parts. It’s one help of a replica though – complete with ’71 quarter, cigarette burns, etc. But, anyone who buys this is putting it in a display case somewhere. I would never expect to see someone playing one of these onstage or even in your garage. If you wanted to do either of those things, you’ve probably already built your own replica for a lot cheaper than the $50,000 price tag on these bad boys.
Ah.. ’98 was a good year for me.. I was in my sophomore year of college and ended up driving to San Antonio with two friends to cheer on the Tar Heels in the Final Four. Unfortunately, we lost that first game to Utah, but Final Four is an amazing accomplishment in Division I basketball.
There are some great tips in this substantial list of ways to maintain your car. Some are damn obvious, such as changing your oil regularly, following the break-in period guidelines. Other suggestions though, aren’t as obvious.
Yeah, this is complete bullshit! Amanda told me about this last week. It was obvious that the throat cam thing was a complete sight gag, using a pre-rendered/recorded video loop. We were watching a Blue Man Group video from HDNet just this weekend and it’s obvious by the size of this camera that there would be no way the camera could even remotely be put down someone’s throat. This guy is just trying to get free cash, and it’s messed up as the Blue Man Group outfit puts on good and entertaining shows.
Is there really anyone out there (besides Time Warner) who thinks this is a step in the right direction? As we get more and more streaming and large file download services from the likes of TiVo, Amazon, Netflix and Apple (iTunes – both rentals and purchases of standard and high def) among others, Time Warner’s paying for the bandwidth you use will only result in castration of these services and mass exodus away from Time Warner’s services. I really hope their idea dies a horrible and quick death.
