|
|||||
|
Try making a complete sentence out this these new found Euphemisms “Savoring the Technicolor Bishop“ “Slamming the Brass Wookie“ “Tainting the Yogurt” Here are some examples: The film shocked audiences nationwide with its frank depiction of two men slamming the brass wookie. Have Fun. I am not a huge car buff, but I have found out this week that both of my cars are now considered rare.
I guess it’s pretty cool if I can keep both of them in great shape for about 20 years. It will totally suck to try and sell one off in a couple of years as most people won’t want some sort of rare car that parts may be hard to find. I guess I need to treat them with care and keep them looking good as long as I can. HERE’s to having 2 cars that are 1 out of 48 in the World.
Ok, so the problem with some of the electric cars is that there isn’t a great way to keep them charged other than plugging them in to an outlet.
Well, here is my idea. It stemmed from the thought that electric cars are too quite. Why not have a pipe that runs under the car where the old exhaust ran and have it intake air on the front and then make a sound out of the back or sides like a trumpet or other horned instrument. The faster you go the louder and more noise it makes. I wasn’t thinking Harley type loud, but just enough to where you could here the car coming and give it an old time low motor-ish rumble. But wait there’s more. Why just have the tube produce a sound? It seems that it should be possible to place turbines inside the tube or tubes that could use the wind force to spin and create electricity. I at first thought that you would have a small opening on the front that channels the air flow into chambers for maximum pressure at lower speeds (say 30MPH might be the optimum speed). Inside the chamber would be many little fans that catch the wind and spin, I envisioned the fans that run on computer CPU’s. Having a few tubes running under the car catching the directional airflow that is there anyway and spinning many little rotors would seem like it could make a lot of extra power. I guess you would have to account for the added weight of the tubes on the car, and the tubes may add to the drag, although the air does pass through the tube and is under the car catching air that was already broken by the front of the car. I liked the tube idea in that typical windmills try to catch air from many directions, with the car it can really only be going in one direction so the air is always coming from the front. Then I got to thinking if an array of small fans was the right way to go, or if there would be more power generated by a turbine setup. Instead of 20 or more little fans in the tube, why not one turbine like in a jet that would be larger, yet spin faster with the available wind force. I had pictured like a tube from the front and a larger part in the tube sort of like the mufflers of today. Inside the muffler would be a turbine catching the forced directional air from the cars movement and creating power to return to the batteries. So I did a little Google searching and did not find anything under “Tube Wind Turbine Generators”. I attribute this to the fact that it’s hard to force air down a tube. But in a car that is moving in a linear direction it isn’t. I did find some formulas on calculating the power you would get, but it’s based on Windmill type generators. It was interesting to read that a setup with the fan blades falls into the formulas given, and that a single fan would only be able to gather about 30-40% of the available force of the wind, which makes sense. So in the case of the array of fans it is possible to almost achieve near 100% efficiency as you would have a multitude of fans pulling the energy out of the force. Say if inside the tube you had 20 fans. The first fan takes 20% of the force and converts it to energy, then the next takes 20% of what is left and so on. In my theory, if you want to call it that, at 30 MPH all fans would be spinning, at 20 MPH maybe only the 1st 15 fans have enough force to spin and the last 5 don’t have enough wind to spin. Of note though at 40MPH there might not be as much gain as the fans would all be spinning and at some maximum revolutions and thus not generating any more energy than at a lower speed. Then I think about something like a jet turbine that would spin faster. Then I have the thought that current wind turbines are attached to a generator. The small fan idea works in that each small fan could have a small generator and have wires feed out of the tube. A jet turbine type fan would need to be attached to a generator too. And as I think about it the jet turbine would not use up as much air as the array of fans would, although you could put 2 or 3 turbines in the tube to gather the passing air. That is it in a nut shell. It totally seems plausible to be able to have inlets on the front of an electric car that force air into a tube that later passes the air over either fan blades or though a jet turbine of sorts that would be able to generate electricity for the car while it was moving. The trick is how much energy could the tube create, how much weight does it add, how much drag does it create, and how do you keep the insides of the tube from gathering junk from the road? Ever have an interesting idea, maybe even a great invention, but weren’t sure what to do with it? I had a couple of thoughts about electric cars on the way into work today that I thought I would share, with all of my loyal followers, which is just above the number Zero. Ok, the first thought I had, which may not really work yet, but it was a thought. I have a high powered sports car and why couldn’t I have a high powered electric car? the thought I had if is the car was large enough that you could have one small electric engine run the front tires, and a little larger engine run the rear tires. I had thought that the transmission would be an issue, but the electric cars use just one transmission with variable gearing, so it might be possible to have 2 motors running the car. I had envisioned a 40%, 60% split. Each engine would have it’s own battery array, that would be charged by plugging in the car as is standard in electric cars now. Here is where one idea gets interesting. The Front engine which is smaller could be the engine that drives the whole car. The operator would turn-off the rear engine and that would give the rear engine batteries to the front engine for longer trips. There would be less power, but more battery life. If you were going short distances, and/or racing the car, you would have both engines on for the power and 4 wheel drive performance. I suppose that there would have to be some sort of regulator on that matches the correct amount of power given to both engines when they are on. One would think that it’s feasible to have 2 independent motors driving the car if they were in unison and did not have to shift gears, or shifted gears in unison. Well, I had to do a Google search to see if there was such thing as a dual engine car with independent transmissions and I found one by Audi. Check it out at SeriousWheels.com. Cool so the idea of having dual engines is possible and I think the electric motors are small enough to actually fit in some sort of normal looking sports car. If the batteries get smaller and more efficient like I hear in the news, then it is totally plausible to have a Dual Engine Electric car. If you want power you use 2 engines, if you want efficiency you use one engine and the 2 battery arrays. What about the Stereo. I started to think that electric cars are going to be a issue with Heat, A/C and the stereo. I love a big booming stereo and that would just suck the life out of my super hopped up dual engine race car. Next brilliant idea. What is the stereo was independent of the car itself? The idea is that if the batteries are smaller now and have more juice, why not have an independent battery for the radio. The thought progressed on my drive in to be that the radio would have it’s own battery and a small solar cell on the outside of the car that could charge just the radio battery. If the radio battery was fully charged, then the extra energy could be diverted to charging the other battery arrays. Sounds plausible doesn’t it. I also thought that the radio would need some sort of stiffening capacitor for the speakers and bass to draw from when needed so as not to suck on the battery too hard. The capacitor would be filled by the battery, and the battery filled by the solar cell, or plugged-in charging system. I guess what would really be needed to make this cool stereo work is a few things. 2) A battery that can drive the stereo and speakers. This I think has to exist currently, but it would need to be small and light weight, which I think exists too. 3) A solar cell that is small enough to not look “nasty” on my sweet ride, that can charge the radio battery. I think there are new bendable solar panels out there, that may work in this case. 4) A stiffening capacitor that can be charged by the battery and deliver the proper punch to the stereo without killing the battery or “clipping” the radio. This is old school technology and has to exist already. Anyway, this is my brilliant idea I had while driving into work. All I need now is about 5 million dollars, a strong leadership team, and some electrical engineers with the electric car know-how. Maybe I could find a startup company in Asia that would spring to the chance to make my invention come to life and then be the 1st to market the low voltage/power self charging radio to the emerging electric car market. Are my thought valid, totally insane, or already under development somewhere. Too bad it costs so much to try and patent an idea. This article is assuming that you have installed CYGWIN on your Winders environment already. I had troubles getting SSHD to run on the system and as with SSH it ended up being dumb file and/or directory permissions.
I was thinking of getting personalized plates for the Viper.
I was thinking stuff like “SNAZZY” and “FLYBYU”, they just weren’t me. Plus I don’t want a plate that screams “Give me a ticket” when I am driving a bright red car that is already screaming “Give me a ticket”. I wouldn’t want to wreck my awesome record of being pulled over 19 times and not having a ticket. Although, none of those times were in a 600Hph bright red supercar. Then I got to thinking what about these Plates? I go by “TheMilkman” in many of my online games, much to the chagrin of Milkman Dan which is “A” Milkman, but not “The” Milkman.  TheMilkMan Then I also thought, what the heck and go Funny and with something that most people won’t have on a really nice car such as a Dodge Viper.
Let me know what you think would be a good license plate for the car? Notepad++ has become my favorite editor when coding PHP or XML. It just has so many useful little features. You can have all of the documents you need opened in one window and separated with tabs. You can have a 2nd workspace hidden within the same window, which is great when you are updating some code, you can have the original in one “view” and the new code in another view. The FIND feature of looking into all open documents, or documents in a directory is awesome to have if you are stuck on windows and don’t have cools tools like ‘find’ and ‘grep’ handy. I have also setup my own “language” that parses through Java error logs so that you can collapse each error and skip all of the “at ..” lines when not needed. The TextFX plugins are awesome and the XML re-indent tool has been a real life saver and speeds up fixing messed up CSS sheets and other XML coding. Read more to get a list of the Notepad++ keyboard shortcut keys. Continue reading Notepad++ Keyboard Shortcuts Importance of Color in BusinessPosted by Megan Dorn under Random thoughts, Small Business Colors do more than make your business or product look pretty. They actually have a real impact on consumers’ perceptions of your business, which can in turn have an impact on your sales and revenue. I read in a post on the Toilet Paper Entrepreneur recently that “research reveals people make a subconscious judgment about a person, environment or product within 90 seconds of initial viewing, and between 62% and 90% of that assessment is based on color.” Basically what it comes down to is that color is probably much more important to your business than you think, and it pays to know what you’re doing in that department. You don’t have to be a color strategist (yeah, that’s an actual job) to be effective in your use of color, but you should probably know the basics regarding what different colors convey. So here they are:
Color should be taken into consideration in all sorts of aspects of business. Look at your logo, marketing collateral, office paint colors, and even what you wear to meetings. It all conveys a certain message. So is your color scheme conveying the image you’re trying to project?
Best Source for Meaning of Colors:
http://www.color-wheel-pro.com/color-meaning.html If you have chosen a certain color it would be useful to know all of the complementary colors as you rarely will use just one color. Check out the following sites to get an idea of colors. http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html I also found this site that gives an example of what a blog may look like using the main color you have chosen. While browsing the web the other day and I was in the midst of entering a search term when an odd little window unexpectedly popped up. I found that my keyboard was no longer responding, so I clicked the peculiar popup’s close box and continued typing. All was fine until I had occasion to enter an upper case “R,” then suddenly the strange ruler window popped up again. What the hack was going on? To make the Shift-R ruler “feature” go away, I typed Ctrl-Shift-J and the Shift-R now works as it should. You may need to bring up the Developer Tool Bar before hitting the keys strokes to make the change take effect, by selecting View | Explorer Bar Moore’s Law is more of an observation than a law, and it is often misconstrued to mean that about every 18 months computers and everything associated with them double in capacity, speed, and so on.
With Moores law there always appears to be a bottleneck that needs to leap-frog the latest new thing. For example; Memory gets faster, disks get bigger, but the bus in the Mother Board is slow. The next big bottleneck will be the internet. No one imagined that all of the fiber available just won’t be enough for people’s home use. |
|||||
|
Copyright © 2010 LosByers- Interesting Musings Helpful Hints from a Unix System Administrator - All Rights Reserved |
|||||
First my daily driver is a 
I have the production numbers for the 2008 Dodge Viper listed below, so according to the chart my car is 1 of 65, but the list here doesn’t show which cars have stripes, so I would guess the Viper is about 1 of 48 as well.
It was titled “Ruler”, and offered some options to check, such as “Snap to X/Y axis” and “Hide Tick marks.”