I titled this post Nikola’s Newest Incarnation to tip my hat toward old Nikola Tesla, who changed all our lives, and to pull out a terrible pun. See, this is about the upstart automobile manufacturer Tesla Motors (hence the Nikola). And since they build cars… Incarnation = in”car”nation. Get it? [...]
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Nikola’s Newest Incarnation
Posted in Daily Life, General Mischief, tagged family, car, American, vehicle, mileage, price, charge, Nikola Tesla, pun, electric, upstart, automotive, automobile, Tesla Motors, MPG, hybrid, conversion, technology, roadster, sports car, acceleration, mph, horsepower, rpm, power connector, suspension, amenities, AC, air-conditioning, power windows, power doors, stereo, cruise control, convertible, Model S, Signature, Sport, delivery, performance, sedan, capacity, speed, hatchback, trunk, battery, hood, Volkwagen, seat, touchscreen, 3G, connectivity, tech, life span, maintenance, impressive, product, progress, dream on September 18, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Father Used to Know Best
Posted in Daily Life, General Mischief, Personal Insights, tagged advertising, aid, babysitter, background, bills, card, child, child care, Christmas, clothing, club, commercialization, couch, coverage, dental, dinner, dollar, expendable, expensive, family, father, Father's Day, federal, flowers, food, fool, garage, gender, gift, golf, goofy, grill, holiday, household, hungry, idiot, income, indicator, internet, jewelry, law, lawnmower, leafblower, local, lust, maintanence, marginalize, maternal, medical, Memorial Day, men, money, mortgage, mother, Mother's Day, movies, newspaper, offspring, optometry, parent, paternal, paycheck, quaint, race, regulation, rent, repair, restriction, role, rude, school, selfish, shoes, single father, single mother, society, socks, stamps, state, subsidy, summer, supplement, supplies, tax, television, tie, transport, utility, vacation, vehicle, women, work, wrench on May 15, 2009 | 1 Comment »
After visiting a friend’s blog, I discovered that I had completely forgotten Mother’s Day. I’m not a mother myself, and have no mother or maternal relations, so I often forget. But I think fathers are getting a raw deal.
Mother’s Day gets splashed all over the television, newspapers, and internet advertising like a second [...]
Blood Money
Posted in Daily Life, Personal Insights, tagged blood, catch-22, civilization, family, injury, Ralph Waldo Emerson, work on February 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I work for a living, earn my own way in this world, and sometimes it comes with a price. Given, every job makes its demands, forces us to spend hours of our days for money to spend in return. But more than hours, days, weeks, months, years, jobs often demand a blood sacrifice. For some it may [...]
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