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Tip #1. Reduce air resistance.
At freeway speeds the majority of your engine's power is going towards moving air out of the way. As responsible, conserving drivers it is our communal duty to share this burden. All you have to do is make sure you follow the person in front of you as closely as possible. Hopefully the person behind you will be inspired by your economical driving and do the same. this will create a kind of "train" of cars all using the same airstream and everyone will benefit, granted, the car in front may benefit less than those in the middle but because drag also occurs behind a vehicle moving at speed they will benefit from your presence.
Tip #2. Every pound matters.
Weight is a large factor in your cars efficiency. Make sure you remove any unnecessary items from your vehicle no matter how light they may seem. Common unnecessary items include magazines, bottles of water, jacks, spare tires , carpeting , seats , steering wheels , etc.
This vehicle has been made extremely economical.
As for the driver themselves and any passengers the vehicle may transport. I recommend they maintain the lowest body weight that that particular individual can survive at.
You may want to remove any piercings or at least replace any heavier metals with aluminum or other lightweight metals/alloys
Also, clothing is completely unnecessary while driving
Tip #3.Maintain a constant speed
You may have noticed or heard that driving on city streets uses more gallons of gas per mile than does freeway driving. This is because of the constant need to slow down and then accelerate back to speed.
But studies have shown that the vast majority of drivers decrease their speed well below what their car needs to be at in any given turn. The less you decelerate before a turn the less you have to accelerate afterwards meaning your engine will have to do less work and use less fuel.
In japan gas is very expensive and must be conserved AT ALL COSTS.
Tip #4: The hood mounted grappling hook gun.
Why even run your engine when the person in front of you is already running theirs?
Design specs coming soon...
Im exhausted and cant sleep so im doing this thing where i write stuff again.
A while ago i backed up ~300gb of movies on a home brew external hard drive. then i tried to bring it to the folks place on thanksgiving to see if their laptop could play some of the HD stuff on their HDTV. it couldn't process the compressed video fast enough so that was a failure, plus the drive must have got bumped too hard on transport cause windows no longer sees it as formatted, so now i have this software restoring the files and copying them to one of my internals which is going to take, days or something. its been at it for 5-6 hours and its still on the A's ('aqua teen hunger force: colon movie' at the moment ) .
I really wanted this hard drive thing to work as im tired of burning DVD's . I may still pursue it and just be gentler to the drives.
My motorcycle broke a few weeks ago, i tried to fix it for awhile and and eventually realized it basically needed a full engine rebuild which was beyond the value of the bike to attempt so I just took it out and worked the shit out of it until i felt the engine self destructing between my legs and finally seizing . Sold it for a few hundred and bought a bandit 1200s.
ive been reading orson scott card lately , I burned through the ender's saga books in the last few months.I love how he makes these complicated moral issues so damn interesting . Science fiction is perfect for that, If you have an idea you want to explore you can set up some kind of hypothetical future where the circumstances are exaggerated just so that the idea has a chance to play out its every possible intricacy . I just recently found out card is a mormon and dont know what to do with that.
Actually, I just now looked into it and found a huge number of his political views are in conflict with mine. Thats always weird, you start feel like an author shares a certain world view with you and then come to find things get much more complicated in the nonfiction world. i also found out that he wrote all the insults for the original monkey island game though, and thats awesome.
Ive also been reading 'collapse' by jared diamond, which is really interesting but im moving slowly through it. it ties in nicely with the apocalyptic fetish ive had the past few years, dealing with real world societies that have crashed . It explores all the factors that come into play; economic, religious, social, environmental, etc. so far ive read about Montana, easter island, Pitcairn islands, Anasazi and Maya . towards the end he gets to more modern societies like Haiti, Rwanda and Australia (hypothetical?).
I also reread world war Z last weekend. I think its becoming one of my favorite books of all time. they're making movie which is cool, but i think a miniseries would be better, preferably hbo or something so it could high production value. The book is a series of stories about a world wide zombie outbreak told from different points of view so it would lend itself well to that format .
the restoring process has moved on to the B's now, hooray! Barton fink! Bar-Ton Fink! Bar-Ton Fink!
I don't make it nearly as often as I did when I was young.
Recruited by a clandestine police organization, "K" must stop a
plot by student radicals to create anarchy in Japan. Armed with
a hi-tech steel yo-yo, and a new name (Asamiya Saki), she must
infiltrate an elite high school to find the terrorists but finds
an even more sinister plan is about to unfold.
it may be a little cerebral for my taste but we'll see.
My parents invited me over to a BBQ on Monday and I said no! this weekend is MINE!
im probably gonna waste it playing that game...
update: I just spent 4 hours on the site, I haven't done that in forever. well maybe about 90% of that on the site, i spent some time on alternakids when i noticed the good docta had gone anon , hopefully thats temporary.
oh yeah i got an ammo box with graffiti tools in it from a Nine inch nails promotion thing. so, uh, thats cool. i guess.
sleep.
the power was out last night from about 8pm to 9am this morning. me and janet had a good time walking around ventura blvd in the darkness. and now i know which buildings around me have backup generators, which will be useful information when the zombies come.
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