Timewaster's Guide Archive

Girl survives rude emoticon, becomes texting queen

I mean, seriously? A national texting championship? Dont get me wrong, texting is a nice form of communication and all, but people shouldn't be so obssesed with it, doesn't seem healthy to me

So we go to eat on occasion here at work at little known/small eating establisments (i.e. non-mainstream/chains/whatever) and we know a few good little nooks and crannies around here. Today we went to this place called "Simient custard", which is, as it name claims, a custard stand, but they sell actual food too. They make a really good buffalo chicken wrap for 4 bucks, and to top it off, it's about a foot long by 5 inches wide, so it's quite sizable.

Anyways, to the point of this thread, what sort of small, non-mainstream eating establisments do you have around you that you love to visit, sort of like a local secret?

I know this game is ancient by today's standards, and the official servers dont exist anymore, but anyone ever play this? I love this game, very much so.

I used to play on a private server about a year ago, but they delete your accounts after 60 days of inactivity, but they removed that policy, so i started playing again! Someone should come play it with me! You can play it on any console you own, or download their BB client and play it on PC.

My character name is Eerongal, but I think you need to have someone's guildcard before you can message them, so if you wanna play it, you can hit me up via AIM, it should be in my profile!

Link to scht server here:
http://www.schtserv.com/

Gmail autopilot

CADIE

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If you could power your car off of compressed air from a standard air compressor, would you?

The above link leads to a car called the "City flow Air" made by a company called Motor Development International, based in luxembourg. They have a line of cars from small, three person cars (airPod) to goods/passenger transport vehicles (MultiFlowAir), they currently *AREN'T* in production, but the company predicts to have a factory starting in New York near the end of 2010/start of 2011. These vehicles are run off of compressed air, some of them hybrid air/gas vehicles, some full air.

The city flow air, full air compression version, gets up to about 70 mph, the hybrid version up to about 80.  The hybrid version gets around 1500 KM (almost 1,000 miles) to a full tank of gas. The way their "Hybrid" versions work is that they work off of air up until a certain point (i think like 40-50 mph) then kicks in the gas power for the upper speeds. Obviously this vehicle isn't a speed demon/hot rod sort of car. Obviously, it's very environment friendly.

The prices for each are projected at approx. this (in US dollars, converted from euros):

AirPod ~ (no Current price estimate)
OneFlowAir (basic Model) ~ $5,000
OneFlowAir (standard model) ~ $7,000
MiniFlowAir ~$12,000
CityFlowAir ~ $17,000


So my question is this. Would you support the idea of car fuel sources moving to Air Compression? The technology appears to be quite possible, and economical. In theory, would you like to see this fully replace petroleum driven vehicles, or would you just want it to become a "hybrid" driven vehicle technology? Personally, I'm kinda interested to see if this can be incorporated with either electric or hydrogen, to create a very economical, clean vehicle power source. Mostly, I just wanna save a bunch of money on gas.

Edit: Oops, forgot to post this, as well. This page contains a demo of their 2002 experimental vehicle. They still currently use it as a test vehicle. Note that it is very bare bones, and has no sound suppression at all.

Get it here!

Anyone else ever play this game? it's currently in alpha, and it's a rogue like game combined with a city-builder that generates a huge, persistent dynamic world. I've been playing it all weekend. It's cryptic, but once you get the hang of it, it's fun as all heck!


Also here's a wiki dedicated to the game that i've found very helpful.

Research Finds Chimps Can Plan Stockpiling, Use of Weapons

Monkey-related doomsday theories aside, Just thought this was an interesting article I would share.

I'm bored, so I figured I would start up a forum Choose Your Own Adventure. For those who don't know, I'm basically going to present a situation, and take suggestions from everyone, and do things based on those suggestions! I don't know how much time I'll have to update, but I'm gonna try to update about once a week or so, so keep the suggestions rolling until I get a chance to get around to it. If for whatever reason, you feel I update to slow, and you have the gumption, feel free to make your own parts of the story, and I'll move on from there. I'll try to keep it going until everyone loses interest, but it should hopefully provide a bit of a distraction!

Note that I won't use EVERY suggestion, just the ones that catch my interest and are easiest to do!

Simple example of how it works:

Me: I find myself standing in a room, with 1 window and two doors to the north and south. What should I do?

Poster: Open the window and climb out

Me: Opens the window and climbs out.





so here goes.....

So one day I'm sitting at home,




When suddenly, I became bored with life!!


So I decided to become a super hero!


Unsure of what powers I really possess, I head to the rooftops to look for trouble, when suddenly....


A CRY FOR HELP!!


Ever vigilant and ready for action, I.....



Help guys! What do I do!?