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GeekNights 070510 - Your Thursday Show Ideas
Tonight on GeekNights, we discuss, after ranting a bit about After Hours Formalwear, your Thursday show ideas. In the news, the US government wants to restrict access to satellite images, and many gas-saving techniques are bollocks.
Scott's Thing - Prison Algorithm March
Rym's Thing - Mother's Day Picture
Scott's Thing - Prison Algorithm March
Rym's Thing - Mother's Day Picture
Comments
I'm really considering a scooter or motorcycle just for the savings in gas.
I used to think watching Rachael Ray was the best but, since you got married, she has added a few pounds to her back side.
Cooking with Scott: How to use a search engine to find local restaurants.
Not all of the woman on the Food Network are "good looking" Though that one who has the movie director dad... Is Guida her name? She's hot!!!
Me? I prefer to cook the sandwich without the water, and I prefer to use two slices of Velveeta thick sandwich slices, and either some nice black peppercorn turkey, or some sliced rotisserie chicken between the two slices of cheese. Of course, only buttering the one side of each slice of bread. THAT, my friends, is a deluxe grilled cheese sandwich. Also, some Bullseye brand original flavor BBQ sauce, or some Heinz 57, makes a good sandwich dip.
I am behind the idea of a Star Wars episode because Star Wars is the real Jam !
I know you've done shows about various cartoons, but how about a show about the Saturday morning ritual? You could talk about how some comic books would have a two-page spread previewing an upcoming season, how sometimes the networks would have a special show of previews before the season started, how you'd wake earlier than you'd ever dream of waking during the week, then have to watch the farm report before the first cartoon started. Then you could talk about the line up and how the cartoons eventually gave way to the live action shows around noon. Then about one or two o'clock the only thing on was Wide World of Sports and The American Sportsman. You could talk about how you watched art and stories evolve over the years. You could, for instance, talk about the ups and downs in quality of The Superfriends. Were you the right age to watch Thundarr or Dungeons and Dragons? Thundarr's quality really went up and down, even between shows. You might compare and contrast the animatedd shows and the live action shows. Was Kaptain Kool and the Kongs any better or worse than Scrappy-Doo? Did you watch The Kids from C.A.P.E.R.? Liddsville? The Monkees? Ark Seven? How about Elektra Woman and Dyna Girl? How did they stack up against The New Batman Adventures?
How about a show on action figures? How they really sucked in the 80s and 90s (especially the Secret wars and the Super Powers lines), the difference between Megos and Marvel Famous Covers figures, the differences between Marvel Select, Marvel Legends, and DC Direct figures, Todd McFarlane figures, whether you should open the packages or buy an extra one to keep it "mint", making custom figures, etc.
I still have some of the ones from the 70's (where the light saber was inside the arm) and those figs were far from buff!
SHINANOMACHI, Japan (Reuters) - Japanese motorists may one day pump their cars full of sake, the fermented rice wine that is Japan's national drink, if a pilot project to create sake fuel is a hit with locals in this mountain resort.
The government-funded project at Shinanomachi, 200 kilometres (124 miles) northwest of Tokyo, will produce cheap rice-origin ethanol brew with the help of local farmers who will donate farm waste such as rice hulls to be turned into ethanol.
"We want to present the next generation a preferable blue print -- a self-sustainable use of local fuels," said Yasuo Igarashi, a professor of applied microbiology at the University of Tokyo who heads the three year project.
If the project catches on with locals then it could pave the way for similar endeavours across Japan that will see Japanese cars running on Japanese-made biofuels in the future, he added.
Japan, the world's second largest gasoline consumer after the United States, is entirely dependent on crude oil imports and it has been hit by the surge in oil prices.
With hefty carbon emissions reduction targets to meet under the Kyoto protocols, Japan is turning to biofuels. Yet motorists in Japan are still far behind drivers in Europe and the United States in their consumption of green fuels.
Some analysts say Japan is at a major disadvantage as high prices for local farm produce mean locally-made green fuels are exorbitantly expensive.
Added to that is a lack of support from the country's powerful oil distributors and a failure by the government to provide policy incentives such as mandatory usage.
That is where Igarashi and his team come in. They hope to show that biofuels are feasible and inexpensive by developing a low-cost fuel and encouraging a local community of about 10,000 people to take part in producing that fuel.
SWEET AROMA OF BIOFUELS
Production has just begun at the facility at a former high school field in Shinanomachi and a sweet, sour aroma, similar to that of unfiltered sake, wafts into the air.
"We like the idea," said Shigehiro Matsuki, the mayor of Shinanomachi.
"The new fuels are renewable... instead of fossil fuels which are running out."
Unlike spacious sugar cane plantations in the No.1 ethanol exporter, Brazil, family farming is dominant in Japan, with a majority of farmers working regular jobs and growing rice, the staple food, on their weekends.
There is plenty of potential to develop biofuels from agriculture waste and abandoned farmland, Igarashi said.
The project will test its biofuel on a "flex-fuel vehicle," which can run on any mixture of gasoline and green fuels and which is gaining popularity in the rest of the world as the battle against global warming heats up.
But Japan has no flex-fuel vehicles even though Japanese car companies Honda Motor Co. Ltd. and Toyota Motor Corp. produce them for the market in Brazil. So the team imported a red Ford Focus from Britain for the project.
With one 1 kilogram (2.2 pounds) of rice needed to produce 0.5 litre of ethanol, the main challenge will be creating a low cost biofuel that can compete with ordinary gasoline, which is now sold at around 135 yen ($1.13) a litre, including gasoline related taxes of some 56 yen.
($1=119.75 Yen)
I don't know why we can't do the same thing with corn.
First, its not really surprising that Scott finds that carbonated soda hurts his mouth. Basically the only thing that carbonation does is trigger pain receptors - in most people that ends up just making the sensation seem more intense but I suppose it shouldn't be surprising that some people aren't cross-wired that way. Sex works the same way too.
Second, if you really need idea that badly how about a show on metasyntactic variables and other forms of geek jargon? I'm sure many listeners could be enlightened with a discussion of the wonders of foo, bar, baz, and qux - or whatever you guys use at RIT.
If I'm driving, I can speed up before the hill so I have enough momentum to avoid down-shifting.