Archive for the 'Automobiles' Category
Encounters of the Pedestrian Kind
0 Comments Published September 27th, 2006 in Automobiles, Cultural, Humor, Small TalkFor those of you who haven’t spent a significant amount of time as a pedestrian, I figured I’d give you a quick guide to the possible encounters you’ll have with other pedestrians.
It’s Warmer Because God Loves Us
1 Comment Published September 12th, 2006 in Automobiles, Cultural, PoliticalSenator Larry Craig (R.-Idaho) says “[Industrial Carbon Dioxide] is not a pollutant.” Senator James Inhofe (R.-Okla) has been quoted for saying that global warming is a “hoax.” Here’s a quote from an article he wrote:
Despite the lack of a scientific consensus to warrant such measures, climate change alarmists  in the heat of [...]
Driving Statistics with Gender Comparison
9 Comments Published August 28th, 2006 in Automobiles, CulturalFor those who don’t know, I am often fascinated by statistics. It’s interesting the things you can prove, and the things people think they prove by misinterpretting statistics. Here’s an example:
For young males, driver fatalities rose by 1 percent [from 1994 to 2004], compared with a 15-percent increase for young females
I find it funny that of all the photos I took, this one turned out the coolest. The others I took because I wanted to capture how nice the car looked in the sun after the hours of cleaning. This one I took because I wanted to show some of the other MR2 [...]
News Agencies and Cellphone use while driving
0 Comments Published June 30th, 2006 in Automobiles, CulturalI have my Google Homepage setup to display news articles from various sources as well as RSS feeds and other useful data, so that I don’t have to check too many sites (the ultimate point of technology is to make us as lazy as possible, right?). This morning I saw an article about drunk [...]

