For those who don’t know me… that was sarcasm.
On the Life website…
Oh yeah… tires that light up. From the inside. (ok, this would be kind of cool at first)
Venetian sunglasses, for when your eyes want a little privacy.
When you’re willing to risk death for your invention, that is dedication. When you’re willing to go to certain death for your invention, that’s just stupid. Birdman costume.
Yes. Yes this would work. Now I can restrain my 30MW bundle-of-energy English Shepherd, Zoe. My problems are solved with the Dog Restrainer.
Cigarette holder for two. When you need this kind of intimacy you don’t need more of it, you need professional help. Get all the psychiatric disciplines involved, while you are at it.
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Reuters brings us more science from London (apparently).
Many prehistoric Australian aboriginals could have outrun world 100 and 200 meters record holder Usain Bolt in modern conditions.
Some Tutsi men in Rwanda exceeded the current world high jump record of 2.45 meters during initiation ceremonies in which they had to jump at least their own height to progress to manhood.
Any Neanderthal woman could have beaten former bodybuilder and current California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in an arm wrestle.
Except for several key points. Prehistoric man was about as intelligent as a brain-damaged guinea pig. Prehistoric man died around age 25 if he was very very lucky to have lived that long. Prehistoric man didn’t have SUV’s, DVR, answering machines, microwaves, Tito and Tarantula albums… hey, their life sucked.
These and other eye-catching claims are detailed in a book by Australian anthropologist Peter McAllister entitled “Manthropology” and provocatively sub-titled “The Science of the Inadequate Modern Male.”
Oh yeah, I’ll run right out and buy that.
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Inner-lit tires would be seriously cool.
Hey I started my bike commute to work today and it went pretty good! At about 42 minutes it’s only about ten minutes or so longer than the same trip by car. Going back will be slower & harder since it’s more uphill but that’s ok, I need the exercise. As a bonus I calculate that it will only take 367 round trips to pay for the bike in gas savings ;-D.
And now look at what you’d save in car insurance, upkeep, spare parts…
“save in car insurance”? I’m not getting rid of my car dude!
Oh? You mean we don’t all live for work and home? You do things other than eat-sleep-work?
How odd.
I was doing some work in my notebook while waiting for the doctor to come in and puncture my neck again and he looks at the equations and says “I haven’t seen anything remotely like that since college, and even then… what do you do?”
I told him and he got this look on his face like “Dude, you don’t look much more intelligent than a bag of hammers, you dress like you’re from the wrong side of the tracks, and you don’t talk fancy…”
I honestly and truly get that a lot. They look at me and see a redneck and don’t realize that I’m a redneck engineer.
Oh, I digressed, didn’t I? My point was that I tend to work all the time, so it doesn’t occur to me that you might not drop the car entirely.
Yah I saw that prehistoric man thing on drudge yesterday. Reminded me of a comic panel I saw a couple years ago where one puzzled caveman remarks to another: “You know, we have pristine water and air, eat all organic food, get plenty of exercise and yet we never live past 40. I just don’t get it.”
LOL – Good one, Enas. 🙂