Friday, June 27, 02003
My dad had his pacemaker replaced after having his old one in seventeen years. Apparently he just missed the record of 18 years between replacements. Oh well. Maybe next time. In the meantime I guess he can visit the pacemaker club community, and keep up with the Dick Cheney pacemaker cartoons.
According to that first article there is 40K of software in the thing ! Oh my !
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"Now that the war is a reality it is more important than ever to establish cow protection worldwide."
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Wednesday, June 25, 02003
Hurray for Suffolk County !
In a 13-4 vote, lawmakers made good on their vow to override Gaffney's veto on SUV restrictions.
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Tuesday, June 24, 02003
I did a doubletake yesterday when I saw a Ford Taurus with Virginia alternate fuel tags. It turns out that :
All [Taures] are flexible-fuel vehicles, so if you are eco-conscious and live near a gas station that offers E85 ethanol-based fuel, you [can] put either type of fuel into the tank at any time and feel no difference in performance.
Seeing that the car could be driven for thousands of miles without ever tasting a single sweet drop of ethanol, it seems plain wrong they should get alternative fuel plates. Sure, the gas-using hybrids get to the alternative fuel plates, but at least the battery's pumping out it's gas-saving goodness all the time. Not just when it's convenient for the driver.
Bah on Taurus owners, and hot buttered bahs on Ford.
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