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May 18th, 2006

unixronin: Ummm....   It's an avatar.  No, not an Airbender or a Na'vi.  Just an avatar. (Hiro-ic)
Thursday, May 18th, 2006 08:15 am

First, the radial-engined motorcycle built by Jesse James.  What's even cooler-but-crazier, if you read the comments on this article about an alternate take on the radial-engine concept, some guy (see the second comment) is thinking about building a motorcycle with a rotary¹ engine.  Not rotary as in Wankel; rotary as in WW1 rotary aircraft engines, where the entire cylinder array spins around a fixed crankshaft.

And, for a different kind of cool just because it's such outrageous snake oil, check out the miracle hydrogen-power solution to the world's energy needs from the guy who's invented the "very unique¹ elecrolysis process" that turns H2O into the magic wonder-gas HHO.  Just think, if he used his wonder-gas to run a generator to drive his electrolysis machine, he could have a perpetual motion machine!

(....Not.)

[1]  Dammit!  I used the word 'rotary' three times in this post.  And each time, I consistently typo'd it as "rotaty".  And somehow I only spotted ONE of the three typos each time I checked it........ each time I fixed one and glanced at the others to make sure I'd got them right, the others looked OK.

[2]  Last I knew, the formal definition of "unique" was something like "there exists precisely one such".  Does something that's "very unique" use a smaller than usual value of "one"?

unixronin: Pissed-off avatar (Pissed off)
Thursday, May 18th, 2006 12:12 pm

So, as previously reported, I have surgery on my left knee today.  According to the original schedule, I needed to be at St. joseph's Hospital day surgery center at 1430E for surgery at 1630E.  Then they called me again yesterday afternoon and rescheduled, telling me to be there at 1345E for surgery at 1550E.  Now they just called me and rescheduled AGAIN¹, and I'm now to be there at 1530E for surgery sometime between 1730E and 1800E.

I wish they'd make up their minds.

[1]  To be fair to them, this second reschedule is apparently because my orthopedist, Dr. Lynn, has an emergency.  I suspect this means that "1730E to 1800E" is rather on the soft side and could easily slip further.