Bike update, new frame fork and drive train.

Well I went off the deep end and bought a new track frame, so the fixie has been upgraded big time. New drive train: now 1/8″ Izumi ESH chain and added a Sugino 75 crank and bottom bracket, Dura ace cog, I went with a Campy record headset, all the Japanese stuff is njs spec. Yeah I know, what for? well because I can. The njs frame will have to wait until… I dunno. More photos HERE.

Department of Homeland Security buys Indianapolis a hovercraft

Below is a link to the story from the local TV station. Here is a taste:
It does seem like an odd thing. Indianapolis, what do we need a hovercraft for? How have we been getting along so far without it…

WISH TV 8: Indianapolis Gets a Hovercraft

Tags: Indiana, DHS

New Nukes in Texas

For the first time in ~30 years an application to build two new nuclear power plants at the South Texas Project site has been submitted to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission .  This will eventually help reduce carbon monoxide emissions, since most new electricity comes from coal fired plants.

This reactor is a proven design (ABWR) with four in operation in Japan.

Nuclear Power Reborn: Scientific American

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Tags: energy, nuclear, engineering, environment

Austin City Limits

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What a fun show, lots of dancing in the heat- totally worth it! It took a while to park walk over and get through the gate, but once in it was time to enjoy a bunch of music. We listened to a couple songs by Peter Bjorn and John, then made it to Blonde Redhead- wow! Wonderful stuff, I was dancing till they finished and LCD Sound System started a bit after. LCD Sound System was the most fun I have had at a concert in a very long time, excellent! After them all the rest paled. I love Spoon, they sounded great- music is top notch. Gotan Project was also nice we even tried to dance, those three piece suits must have contributed to the lack of energy and the pre-recorded rap was unnecessary. Bjork, well it’s Bjork she may or may not have some new fans, she closed really strong after a brief delay because a speaker caught fire. A fire was put out as we were trying to get in also, a fairly big one. Over all a great day in the sun, and yes the chairs and people camped out everywhere were a pain in the ass but we managed to weave through.
Go here LINK to see more photos.

Spoon video with dancing robots- "Don’t you evah”

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‘Radioactive Boy Scout’ Charged in Smoke Detector Theft

Apparently he got caught collecting rad material, the different stories out there say he admitted to trying to build a reactor. On fox you can see a video, (who knows how long it will last) if you listen ignorance it the key thread- they claim he was trying to make uranium from the lithium batteries. Yeah lithium: atomic number 3, atomic weight 6.941 converted all the way to uranium, atomic number 92 and assuming he wants to make a reactor he would be after isotope 235. I think they meant he was after the Americium which is an alpha emitter, when you hit lithium with an alpha you can get neutrons. You can do cool stuff with neutrons, but you need lots of time and lots and lots of neutrons.

Here is a link to the story from Harper’s:

http://harpers.org/archive/2007/08/hbc-90000749

Tour de France- Stage 9 Bike vs. Dog

Tour de France accident, puppy seems okay.