The U.S. Is More Like Sweden Than You Thought.

Ensenada's Finest

I noticed this lovely vehicle on my recent trip to Mexico. I suspect the double wing design was not developed in a wind tunnel. A tunnel analysis would've shown more lift/drag ratio gains could be achieved by reducing the ride height.

Update: Re: Ride height. I failed, in my earlier comments, to allow for the fact that Ensenada is in Baja California where dirt roads abound. Perhaps the ride height is a necessary feature for the local environment. My apologies to the...uh...designer. Also, with dirt roads in mind, it might have been more appropriate to start with a Plymouth Duster rather than a Dodge Dart.

Crash!
I don't own Google stock. But my son does. He said this is what he saw when he checked the price this morning.

It has a certain pucker factor doesn't it?

Needless to say, he had a few moments of personal crisis and reflection.

P.S. The stock never plunged like that in real life. I don't know what happened to cause Yahoo to show it.

P.P.S. And why is Uncle Rodney at the top of the gift list? Everyone knows my name should be first.

I'll Be Skipping This One

In The Aesthetics of Decay, Dylan Trigg confronts the remnants from the fallout of post-industrialism and postmodernism. Through a considered analysis of memory, place, and nostalgia, Trigg argues that the decline of reason enables a critique of progress to emerge. In this ambitious work, Trigg aims to reassess the direction of progress by situating it in a spatial context. In doing so, he applies his critique of rationality to modern ruins. The derelict factory, abandoned asylum, and urban alleyway all become allies in Trigg's attack on a fixed image of temporality and progress. The Aesthetics of Decay offers a model of post-rational aesthetics in which spatial order is challenged by an affirmative ethics of ruin.

Ecological Burial

Freeze Dry Me.

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