I will admit that there are lots of auto makers in which I will not buy, and I will not support my friends to purchase. One of which being a Honda, sure they are decent cars, the older civics and accords are the equivalents to today's Cobalts, they are just throw away cars, and really not good for anything accept for uncomfortable cheap commuting. Honda has recently announced that they will not be any electric cars for the time being. Seems to me that they are being the only smart Japanese auto maker that sells in North America. CNET - Honda News
This electric car thing has bothered me for sometime now, and this article finally answered some of my questions and concerns. They have basically proved to me that right now, the way to go for cheap commuting would still be a hybrid, which is a gas over electric. Where pure electric energy in which you have to charge, they say, you will still only get approximately 60 miles out of a full charge. The only goof that would be is for running errands around town. I don't believe that would be any good for myself, considering, it's approximately 20km to city limits at highway speed. I can' see myself relying on a vehicle like that, especially to e producing heat in the winter.
I can't see owning or even think about owning a electric car, until laptop computers have made it. I mean, Lithium-ion batteries, are awesome. BUT, the answer to portability is being able to take it wherever, whenever, and expecting it to work. Well looking at batteries that way, cars and computers are in the same category. If my laptop won't keep me using my full range of portability for more than 4 hours, how can i expect a car to do the same/better. Sure when you compare the size of batteries, the car's is much larger and should last longer. Then you must think about the amount of 'juice' is required for the car. You have many lights, including bright, energy draining, headlights, plus all your electronics to keep you moving and safe, as well as a heater to keep you warm, or an air conditioner. Well sure an electric car would be great, but do you want to pay that hydro bill for filling it up? I think not, people complain about the high cost of hydro when they run an air conditioner to keep the house cool. Well imagine filling a battery big enough to run all that for a few hours. NO THANKS
Where if you run a Hybrid Toyota Camry your only burning approximately 5litres per 100km. Which for you Americans, works out to be approximately 40mpg. Where, well, our electric car will be god knows how much, won't be reliable, as in, if you run low on energy you can't go and just put $20 in the tank. Also who says that the emissions will be less with a electric vehicle versus a hybrid. I believe there only backup for that is they have no way of recording or keeping track of how much emissions are put out to get the amount of energy to fill the battery.
All in all, until I can have use my laptop for full reliable portability, then I won't trust a electric car. But I guess the quick point to be made by this post is, I still won't buy a Honda but surprisingly they seem to be the only ones who are being smart about this electric car business.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Life
As I lie on the grass staring at the stars, I begin to think and wonder, as many have before. What does this world have in store for me, what is expected of me, and many look for a sign or thought that will help them on my journey's. I did the same old, there's the big dipper, there's Orion's belt, there's the north star, as many of us, I'm sure, have learnt in our childhood. Why weren't we ever told, life is just a life.
Put yourself in perspective of the stars, you are nothing, a minuscule little being that is really gonna have no affect on life, life in general. The only thing you will affect in life are the people in which you encounter along your journey. You are a small, little, dispensable, wasteful, piece of energy that could one day... DIE. Not trying to be in the negative sense, just trying to bring the understanding of life.
You begin your life, you live your life, then you die. Therefore really having no affect on the universe what so ever. Therefore, the only affect you will have in life, is on other minuscule pieces of energy, in which, can only do the same for you. Sure we have evolved a lot, and put forth lots of effort into making life more enjoyable, but how many people out there don't enjoy their lives. Some people are homeless, and some people are extremely wealthy. You think that if we didn't have the evolution and technology, or think of, even if we didn't have text, or words, would there still be so many unhappy people in this world. The only reason people live unhappy lives is the affect other people are having on them. Whether or not it's direct correlation, the affects one is having on another controls the way they will live their lives.
I believe that living your 'enjoyable' life requires infinite amounts of happiness. The only way to come to happiness is not by pleasing other people, not trying to act the way someone expects you to act. Honestly, if someone doesn't like who I am, fuck them, I don't need any of their negative affects on my life. Think about how many people there are on earth. Your not gonna affect a percentage of them. In a way you could, but you will never connect, therefore ever get the satisfaction of affecting their lives in a positive way.
Life, in itself is simply YOU, you need to live your life the way you want to. Money will cloud everything you will ever want to do in life. Think about it though, you are an organism that will grow, learn, and roam until it's your time to die. I lie in bed at night, trying to fall asleep, and have come up with this way to relieve stress, and as a reminder, bring you back to reality that you are an organism. I close my eyes, and look out into the world. No, not a 'mental fuck' just close your eyes, imagine your in a GIGANTIC black room. A room bigger than you can ever imagine, now how small do you feel? Really small, you feel so small, you feel pretty well insignificant. Well, that's what you pretty well are. Your life only matters to you, the people you affect, so all you can do is make it how you can, and live life to the end, as successful as you can be, however you define success, it only matters to you.
My cousin linked to my blog in her blog the other day. She then told me that she receives around 1000 hits a day. In all reality, that's not very many people, considering how many people are online, at any given point in time. However, my cousin is just an organism like everyone else, a very smart one at that. Not only does she get 1000 hits a day, she is affecting approximately 1000 different people a day. Whether or not it's positive, it's their choice to read it, and connect with it. They are looking to her for interest, for knowledge, for whatever she has written about recently. In my eyes, she is being successful, not knowing how much money she's making doing it, it doesn't matter. She is doing what she likes to do, and is affecting 1000's of lives with it. She may not change the world, but she is a part of how people are living their lives.
I have been faced with many dilemmas in life, and will continue to, as many others do, it's inevitable. However, just remember you are you, and only you, do what you feel will make your definition define you as successful. I am going to do my best from here on in, looking up at the stars has brought me to a realization!
Cheer's to my cousin, Chantelle, and cheer's to anyone and everyone who is living a happy, successful life, and helping others along the way.
Put yourself in perspective of the stars, you are nothing, a minuscule little being that is really gonna have no affect on life, life in general. The only thing you will affect in life are the people in which you encounter along your journey. You are a small, little, dispensable, wasteful, piece of energy that could one day... DIE. Not trying to be in the negative sense, just trying to bring the understanding of life.
You begin your life, you live your life, then you die. Therefore really having no affect on the universe what so ever. Therefore, the only affect you will have in life, is on other minuscule pieces of energy, in which, can only do the same for you. Sure we have evolved a lot, and put forth lots of effort into making life more enjoyable, but how many people out there don't enjoy their lives. Some people are homeless, and some people are extremely wealthy. You think that if we didn't have the evolution and technology, or think of, even if we didn't have text, or words, would there still be so many unhappy people in this world. The only reason people live unhappy lives is the affect other people are having on them. Whether or not it's direct correlation, the affects one is having on another controls the way they will live their lives.
I believe that living your 'enjoyable' life requires infinite amounts of happiness. The only way to come to happiness is not by pleasing other people, not trying to act the way someone expects you to act. Honestly, if someone doesn't like who I am, fuck them, I don't need any of their negative affects on my life. Think about how many people there are on earth. Your not gonna affect a percentage of them. In a way you could, but you will never connect, therefore ever get the satisfaction of affecting their lives in a positive way.
Life, in itself is simply YOU, you need to live your life the way you want to. Money will cloud everything you will ever want to do in life. Think about it though, you are an organism that will grow, learn, and roam until it's your time to die. I lie in bed at night, trying to fall asleep, and have come up with this way to relieve stress, and as a reminder, bring you back to reality that you are an organism. I close my eyes, and look out into the world. No, not a 'mental fuck' just close your eyes, imagine your in a GIGANTIC black room. A room bigger than you can ever imagine, now how small do you feel? Really small, you feel so small, you feel pretty well insignificant. Well, that's what you pretty well are. Your life only matters to you, the people you affect, so all you can do is make it how you can, and live life to the end, as successful as you can be, however you define success, it only matters to you.
My cousin linked to my blog in her blog the other day. She then told me that she receives around 1000 hits a day. In all reality, that's not very many people, considering how many people are online, at any given point in time. However, my cousin is just an organism like everyone else, a very smart one at that. Not only does she get 1000 hits a day, she is affecting approximately 1000 different people a day. Whether or not it's positive, it's their choice to read it, and connect with it. They are looking to her for interest, for knowledge, for whatever she has written about recently. In my eyes, she is being successful, not knowing how much money she's making doing it, it doesn't matter. She is doing what she likes to do, and is affecting 1000's of lives with it. She may not change the world, but she is a part of how people are living their lives.
I have been faced with many dilemmas in life, and will continue to, as many others do, it's inevitable. However, just remember you are you, and only you, do what you feel will make your definition define you as successful. I am going to do my best from here on in, looking up at the stars has brought me to a realization!
Cheer's to my cousin, Chantelle, and cheer's to anyone and everyone who is living a happy, successful life, and helping others along the way.
Monday, September 1, 2008
Drunk Driving
People who drink and drive are idiots. I don't mean the people that go out with friends, have a beer or two and then drive home. That's not a concern of mine, it's the people who can barely walk straight let along keep control of a vehicle.
I remember a few times where I had been fairly inebriated and a passenger in a vehicle with a sober driver, anyways, doing 80km/h down the road, I don't even understand what's going on, let along how to respond to it. People on the road like this, scares me. An awesome example of how much damage a drunk driver can cause, I lead you to this link.
http://s6.photobucket.com/albums/y224/devile/Clgry%20Wreck/
Simple story, at 1 am my friend woke up to a god awful noise. Got up, got dressed ran downstairs to a mess of vehicles and a pile of flashing lights on his street. A drunk driver had hit, his yellow car, then he room mates grey truck, then his roommates blue truck, which was slammed into their neighbours truck. Upon collision the drunk driver's truck had rolled and slammed into the curb, ejecting him out of his windshield. He was on his feet before the police showed up but then taken into custody. If you refer to the link you will see the damage caused by the dumb ass.
Drunk driver's need to be taken out, and have their license removed and an eye kept on their property making sure they aren't still driving a vehicle around. I find that even worse, because not they are unlicensed, and not insured, and again possibly drunk. NOT GOOD AT ALL. Better yet, get some vigilante's to deal with them... YEEHAW, seems like vigilante's is the only answer to just bout everything...
I remember a few times where I had been fairly inebriated and a passenger in a vehicle with a sober driver, anyways, doing 80km/h down the road, I don't even understand what's going on, let along how to respond to it. People on the road like this, scares me. An awesome example of how much damage a drunk driver can cause, I lead you to this link.
http://s6.photobucket.com/albums/y224/devile/Clgry%20Wreck/
Simple story, at 1 am my friend woke up to a god awful noise. Got up, got dressed ran downstairs to a mess of vehicles and a pile of flashing lights on his street. A drunk driver had hit, his yellow car, then he room mates grey truck, then his roommates blue truck, which was slammed into their neighbours truck. Upon collision the drunk driver's truck had rolled and slammed into the curb, ejecting him out of his windshield. He was on his feet before the police showed up but then taken into custody. If you refer to the link you will see the damage caused by the dumb ass.
Drunk driver's need to be taken out, and have their license removed and an eye kept on their property making sure they aren't still driving a vehicle around. I find that even worse, because not they are unlicensed, and not insured, and again possibly drunk. NOT GOOD AT ALL. Better yet, get some vigilante's to deal with them... YEEHAW, seems like vigilante's is the only answer to just bout everything...
Violence In Small Towns
This past friday night, a few of my friends were headed to the bar. They parked their car in a big empty parking lot behind a bank, which is close to the bar. They were starting to walk towards the bar when one of my friends was punched in the back of the head. WTF sy the other two as they also get hit. I'm not sure what else happened as I didn't see it. But from what I know, one of them (my friends) had to get about 5 stiches in his lip, and the other two were also taken to hospital to get checked out.
Of course a police report was made, however, these friends of mine said that they have never seen these guys before.
Alrighty in a town with a population of approximately 23,000 people, you would think that viloence wouldn't be a huge problem. Well in the past month, a black man had been stabbed by a bunch of teenage white gangbangers. The scary thing to add to this is, the stabbing happened within two blocks of my friends getting beaten. The police, well they do their best, but, a small town all of this should be easy, but it's not, I guess.
The one friend who was jumped, was visiting from calgary, a 'BIG BAD CITY,' he comes here, and well, you get the point. What is the world coming to, who knows... I think we need more vigilante's out in this town. ~I will raise my hand, and volunteer my services, as long as there's some sort of guarantee~
This never used to be a city that anyone should be scared of going out at dark, atleast i never have. All of a sudden in the past month it seems you can't go out at night. First it seemed like 'black' people weren't allowed out at night, now it's anyone. Kind of interested to see what happens here over the rest of the year...
Of course a police report was made, however, these friends of mine said that they have never seen these guys before.
Alrighty in a town with a population of approximately 23,000 people, you would think that viloence wouldn't be a huge problem. Well in the past month, a black man had been stabbed by a bunch of teenage white gangbangers. The scary thing to add to this is, the stabbing happened within two blocks of my friends getting beaten. The police, well they do their best, but, a small town all of this should be easy, but it's not, I guess.
The one friend who was jumped, was visiting from calgary, a 'BIG BAD CITY,' he comes here, and well, you get the point. What is the world coming to, who knows... I think we need more vigilante's out in this town. ~I will raise my hand, and volunteer my services, as long as there's some sort of guarantee~
This never used to be a city that anyone should be scared of going out at dark, atleast i never have. All of a sudden in the past month it seems you can't go out at night. First it seemed like 'black' people weren't allowed out at night, now it's anyone. Kind of interested to see what happens here over the rest of the year...
Life, the wonders...
Life in general is great, if you can live it to it's fullest. How do you live it to your fullest, well, I'm trying to figure that out. In my opinion, being able to live life to it's fullest, you must be successful. Ya, ya, ya... Successful = career, I went to high school too, and I know the things that were planted into our brains. Sure everyone needs a career, but define career. Let's take a second to look at the definition...
Career: a profession for which one trains and which is undertaken as a permanent calling
-Webster's Dictionary
OK, so that definition, basically, DEFINES LIFE. So yes, your good at something, and you pursue this thing, then get good at it, and make money/living with it. Well, I think that life should be filled with being good at a little bit of everything. Think about it, when you go to your high school reunion, which of the following would you feel better saying; a. I know a little about a lot. OR b. I know a lot about a little.
OPTION A should be the answer. Could you imagine yourself having your fingers dipped in a little bit of everything, bringing in money from all over, being friends with everyone, and the one's you don't get along with, you don't talk to, although they still pay you for your services in one way or another.
I WANT THAT. This was my rant about life, and i believe that you should be able to start this life at an early age, maybe just out of high school. If you can, than how, NO ONE takes you seriously. I am making it my current goal to find out, who will take someone at a young age who will take me seriously and get this ball rolling. Sure, i need a "career" to get me going, cover my bills and such, but once the ball gets rolling, HANG ON. I want the WORLD, but I guess you must start somewhere. Peace.
Career: a profession for which one trains and which is undertaken as a permanent calling
-Webster's Dictionary
OK, so that definition, basically, DEFINES LIFE. So yes, your good at something, and you pursue this thing, then get good at it, and make money/living with it. Well, I think that life should be filled with being good at a little bit of everything. Think about it, when you go to your high school reunion, which of the following would you feel better saying; a. I know a little about a lot. OR b. I know a lot about a little.
OPTION A should be the answer. Could you imagine yourself having your fingers dipped in a little bit of everything, bringing in money from all over, being friends with everyone, and the one's you don't get along with, you don't talk to, although they still pay you for your services in one way or another.
I WANT THAT. This was my rant about life, and i believe that you should be able to start this life at an early age, maybe just out of high school. If you can, than how, NO ONE takes you seriously. I am making it my current goal to find out, who will take someone at a young age who will take me seriously and get this ball rolling. Sure, i need a "career" to get me going, cover my bills and such, but once the ball gets rolling, HANG ON. I want the WORLD, but I guess you must start somewhere. Peace.
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