Live a Low-Carbon Life.  Runover Bicycles.

Backround Preparation of a Vegan Lifestyle

Driving produces less carbon dioxide than walking.  Like usual, I’m making a bold claim.  My personal hero, Carl Sagan, coined the refrain, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.  This is why I nearly plagiarized my title from the blog that reported the NY Times article .

Here’s how it works: If you need to pop down to the store which is say, 3.0 miles round trip, walking will burn enough calories that drinking a glass of milk to replenish them will cause more CO2 to be emitted than if you drove a reasonably efficient car. 

The Times’ article cites a study done by Chris Goodall, a member of the British green party; he is an envirojunkie and author of the book How to Live a Low-Carbon Life.  (more…)

SuperCar Extravaganza DVD

A horrid drive at inconceivable cost, briefly punctuated by 1 or 2 amusing stats. One of these involves getting nowhere a few eye blinks quicker than a competitor.  Wow at the lackluster delights. If you want to save yourself from dropping 70 large at the same dealer that sells Aveos, get a forklift, put a Hemi in it, and stick a vibrator in your butt.  It’ll be nearly as fast, and just as safe. 

That’s my terse text opinion of the ZO6-optioned Corvette I drove for my latest DVD that you can watch below.  Then you can read at Youtube why I think my view seems in contrast to perhaps every Vette driver in the known Universe.  Also check out the dozens of riveting comments in the Q&A follow-up.  I did.  And I was riveted enough to spark this blog. (more…)

The Official Phone of God

There is no doubt about it, the fanatic iPhone frenzy is en fuego. People geekier than the under and over weight male who have never seen female genitalia Star Wars crowd, I call them iLosers, lined up around the corner 2 days in advance to buy an Ipod that’s been scotch-taped to a phone.

To give you an idea of the gravity of the situation, we need to have a look in the current marketplace.  On the left we have the white collar, corporate loving, can’t live without my Blackberry. On the right we have the the oldest and largest world standard of handheld operating systems, the Palm Treo with eleventy billion applications available for free on the internet. And in the middle we have the Razr: the smallest, cheapest, hip phone that’s so easy to use, even The Gimp can handle it. (more…)

Save the Planet: Don’t buy a Hybrid

Its the Sun Stupid.

Your ability to live is now threatened. Antarctica is dissolving, the Penguin is doomed, and it’s now so hot out that Al Gore had to shave off his beard. The former veep gives us a curt, conclusive and even frightening prognosis in his new eloquent documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth” — essentially a slideshow where he bangs on about global warming in front of a live studio audience.

Apparently since his close call with Dubbya, he’s been a man on a mission — becoming the Michael Moore of CO2: Lugging his iBook around the globe giving away hundreds of free pie-charted Powerpoint presentations to any green bean who’d listen. (more…)

No Fun Stuff on Planes

I was checking out Transportation Safety Administration’s (TSA) website for travel tips which has an interesting and comprehensive list of items NOT allowed on airplanes anymore. Ok, so i’ll have to leave my ‘box cutters’, ‘razor blades’ and ‘meat cleavers’ at home. That probably wont be a problem.  But I cant bring my ’spear gun’? Nor my ‘realistic replica of firearms? That sucks because I often like to take my ‘realistic replica of firearms’ and pretend I am Aston Kutcher and shoot myself twice between the eyes.

Even if an item not on the list can be confiscated if they feel it might pose a threat. So you can forget about bringing your new Stella perfume by Yves Saint Laurent since last someone got theirs impounded because the bottle is shaped like a hand grenade.  I mean no matter how fast you pull the applicator and no matter how far you lob it, it will still never blow up.  However, it scares timid people and thats a safety issue.  The only real threat I think is that everything will end up smelling like roses and wood. (more…)

May the extract be with you.
Well today is the EVE of a momentus occasion. Yet another introduction of yet another soft drink. Yes, you guessed it..The success of Vanilla Coke has prompted the Pepsi Corporation to introduce a new flavor to strike a blow at their famed nemesis….So they have decided to make their own vanilla infused cola beverage. And what do the pepsi creative genius’ call it? Yup, it wasnt too hard to guess….Pepsi Vanilla!
So on this special day, I thought it would be a good idea to review not just the best ones, but also the worst one.   I’m also taking the liberty to sample some of the more popular liver libations out there for those of you off the wagon. (more…)

Beautifully Written.

Well the latest iteration (11th edition) of Merriam-Webster’s dictionary was released last week. Though I am almost finished reading it, I can tell you so far that this book really kicks some serious ass!

Let me show you some examples of what I am talking about…Here are some of this year’s NEW words.  No, I am not making these up:     

• Dead presidents noun plural (1944) slang : U.S. money in the form of bills; specifically : DOLLARS
• Brewski noun [2brew + -ski, suffix in Slavic surnames] (1978) slang : BEER (more…)