Use vertical strokes when washing windows outside and horizontal for inside windows. This way you can tell which side has the streaks. Straight vinegar will get outside windows really clean. Don't wash windows on a sunny day. They will dry too quickly and will probably streak
and more (and some of them may even be true)
Saturday, March 25, 2006
Friday, March 24, 2006
The Official Ramen Homepage
The Official Ramen Homepage is dedicated entirely to the art of cooking this inexpensive, instant dish. You'll find a range of recipes including Sinful Breakfast Ramen, Hamburger Ramen Stroganoff, and other creative versions of this fast food.
- from Cool Trinks and Trinkets #395
- from Cool Trinks and Trinkets #395
Thursday, March 23, 2006
Tom Cruise vs. South Park
Actor Tom Cruise threatened to boycott promotion of his upcoming Paramount Pictures film unless a sister cable TV network pulled a "South Park" rerun lampooning the Church of Scientology, industry sources said on Friday.
Representatives for Paramount and Cruise, a prominent Scientologist, denied he made any such threats or had anything to do with the Comedy Central network canceling plans to air a repeat of the "South Park" episode titled "Trapped in the Closet," on Wednesday.
The controversy caused Isaac Hayes (the voice of Chef) to quit the show. And Comedy Central caved in by cancelling the planned repeat.
But Stone and Parker threw together a new show featuring The Return of Chef (with edited snippets of Chef's voice from past show) featuring the Super Adventurer Club. (And, true to form, even more slanderous than the original.)
Representatives for Paramount and Cruise, a prominent Scientologist, denied he made any such threats or had anything to do with the Comedy Central network canceling plans to air a repeat of the "South Park" episode titled "Trapped in the Closet," on Wednesday.
The controversy caused Isaac Hayes (the voice of Chef) to quit the show. And Comedy Central caved in by cancelling the planned repeat.
But Stone and Parker threw together a new show featuring The Return of Chef (with edited snippets of Chef's voice from past show) featuring the Super Adventurer Club. (And, true to form, even more slanderous than the original.)
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Manakai O Malama
A Honolulu clinic that offers different forms of health care sets up a fund to help needy patients
Sunday, March 12, 2006
Don Knotts
Don Knotts, the saucer-eyed, scarecrow-thin comic actor best known for his roles as the high-strung small-town deputy Barney Fife on the 1960s CBS series "The Andy Griffith Show" and the leisure-suit-clad landlord Ralph Furley on ABC's '70s sitcom "Three's Company," has died. He was 81.
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Who could forget Barney and Gomer in the haunted house, in search of Opie's baseball.
In the cobwebbed darkness, the pair hears a ghostly moan.
The exchange is short, but unforgettable.
Barney (with jumpy excitement): "What was that?
Gomer: "I don't know, but it don't sound like no baseball."
* * *
Who could forget Barney and Gomer in the haunted house, in search of Opie's baseball.
In the cobwebbed darkness, the pair hears a ghostly moan.
The exchange is short, but unforgettable.
Barney (with jumpy excitement): "What was that?
Gomer: "I don't know, but it don't sound like no baseball."
Sunday, March 05, 2006
ethanol a scam?
[3/5/06] A recent careful study by Cornell University's David Pimentel and the University of California at Berkeley's Tad Patzek added up all the energy consumption that goes into ethanol production. They took account of the energy it takes to build and run tractors. They added in the energy embodied in the other inputs and irrigation. They parsed out how much is used at the ethanol plant.
Putting it all together, they found that it takes 29 percent more energy to make ethanol from corn than is contained in the ethanol itself.
[4/19/06] Making 4 gallons of ethanol requires the energy in 3 gallons of ethanol (4/3 = 1.33). So you must make 4 gallons of ethanol to save 1 gallon of gas. But ethanol has less energy per gallon, so to save 1 gallon of gas, you must make 6 gallons (4 x 1.5) of ethanol.
To become energy independent, we would have to grow corn on every square inch of the U.S., including Alaska, and then half that much again. To meet President Bush's goal of ethanol providing 30 percent of energy, corn would cover 50 percent of the United States.
[6/20/06] DuPont and BP, riding the global wave of enthusiasm for bio-based fuels, announced today that the two companies have developed a new biofuel called biobutanol that they say has 30% more energy density than ethanol.
DuPont and BP (nyse: BP - news - people ) have been working on the new fuel since 2003. The two companies plan to introduce the first generation of biobutanol in the U.K. by the end of 2007. And they hope to roll out an improved second-generation biobutanol by 2010. DuPont and BP aim to make the fuel competitive with gasoline, even when oil is priced as low as $30 to $40 a barrel. In the U.K., the partnership will produce the new fuel by extracting fermentable sugar from sugar beets and converting that into a fuel, similar to the way ethanol is produced.
Putting it all together, they found that it takes 29 percent more energy to make ethanol from corn than is contained in the ethanol itself.
[4/19/06] Making 4 gallons of ethanol requires the energy in 3 gallons of ethanol (4/3 = 1.33). So you must make 4 gallons of ethanol to save 1 gallon of gas. But ethanol has less energy per gallon, so to save 1 gallon of gas, you must make 6 gallons (4 x 1.5) of ethanol.
To become energy independent, we would have to grow corn on every square inch of the U.S., including Alaska, and then half that much again. To meet President Bush's goal of ethanol providing 30 percent of energy, corn would cover 50 percent of the United States.
[6/20/06] DuPont and BP, riding the global wave of enthusiasm for bio-based fuels, announced today that the two companies have developed a new biofuel called biobutanol that they say has 30% more energy density than ethanol.
DuPont and BP (nyse: BP - news - people ) have been working on the new fuel since 2003. The two companies plan to introduce the first generation of biobutanol in the U.K. by the end of 2007. And they hope to roll out an improved second-generation biobutanol by 2010. DuPont and BP aim to make the fuel competitive with gasoline, even when oil is priced as low as $30 to $40 a barrel. In the U.K., the partnership will produce the new fuel by extracting fermentable sugar from sugar beets and converting that into a fuel, similar to the way ethanol is produced.
Save The World
The wizened sage sits alone upstairs in his secluded wooden house, massaging his temples in fatigue as he speaks to the camera. Sleeping only two or three hours a day, he is grappling with weightier problems - translating the theory of meditative power into a blueprint for feeding the hungry and bringing peace to the world.
A few hundred meditators on either side of a conflict is all that's needed to create an aura of peace. "We create world consciousness and coherence. Therefore, fighting will stop all over," he says.
"Don't fight darkness. Bring the light, and darkness will disappear."
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A bad movie on the SciFi Channel? Actually that's what Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is doing these days.
A few hundred meditators on either side of a conflict is all that's needed to create an aura of peace. "We create world consciousness and coherence. Therefore, fighting will stop all over," he says.
"Don't fight darkness. Bring the light, and darkness will disappear."
* * *
A bad movie on the SciFi Channel? Actually that's what Maharishi Mahesh Yogi is doing these days.
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