I’m frequently criticized for my speed, but speed is a wonderful, glorious thing and it’s rightfully celebrated in all walks of life. It’s no frivolous endeavor, but fundamental to success in nature – when it comes to prey versus hunter, the faster survives and the slower does not. Humans choose to measure their speed against … Continue reading
Category Archives: Speed
Interesting site in case you get pulled over…
http://ratemycop.com/ There is not much you can do if you are pulled over and the officer you are dealing with is unpleasant. And I’m afraid that I am speaking from personal experience when I make that statement. The site above at least gives one a chance to document their experience and to compare it with … Continue reading
Pursuit of the Land Speed Record
Jimmy Ames has enthusiastically agreed to provide financial support to my and Brandon’s ambitious project to set a new land speed record on the flats of Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. We’re aiming to break the 1,000 mph barrier (The current record is 766 mph). Here is a prototype of the vehicle we are constructing in … Continue reading
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Oopsie At The Train Station
This made me late yesterday, but I got over it after I read the sign. Continue reading
Lights Out Time On Frenchtown Road
At my first job during high school I used to work at Lucky bagging groceries. Justin Ames bagging groceries? Yeah, I’m not above a little manual labor now and then and it was a good first job because the hours were flexible and it paid quite well (Also, as I found out later, Snoop Dogg’s … Continue reading
Project Daedalus
A project to send a large ship to another star still fires the imagination (at least it should). By the low standards of today, it seems an impossible dream, yet just such a ship was seriously proposed on a cold night in London in 1973. Members of the British Interplanetary Society (B.I.S.) conducted the Space … Continue reading
The Velvet Rocket 