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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

No feeling...

There's really no feeling like that of riding a Polaris RZR at top speed (or a similar bike, like a Kawasaki Teryx or a Yamaha Rhino)

The feeling of wind pressure in your chest...

The vibration and powerfully loud sound of the engine taching out beneath you...

The feeling in your stomach as you, against all good judgement, shift up and pull on the throttle and feel the bike take off underneath you...

ahh.

Open-air motor vehicles :-)

Saturday, July 26, 2008

I have a song stuck in my head... it's blinding me like a flood light

It's from Flight of the Conchords on HBO... the song is called "Ladies of the World." The Flight of the Conchords are super funny.

Anyways, it's really early and it's bright and sunny up here in the bay area! The light shining through the window that woke me up was something akin to a flood light. It woke me up!!

And if you've ever walked beneath a motion-sensored flood light, then you know the kind of brightness I'm talking about.

Enough light to host the World Series of Baseball... for mice :-)

Unless you had a ton of flood lights, then you could light up a stadium for humans playing stick-ball.

In case you can't tell... I just woke up and can't really think straight! I feel silly... :-)

Thursday, July 24, 2008

I would have been scared... deadly residential lighting?!

As scary as it is, before we had the luxury of high pressure sodium lights, MERCURY VAPOR was used for lighting! can you believe that??

luckily they were never really used in residential lighting applications... can you imagine living in a home with mercury vapor all around?

what a frightening thought!

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Two Types!

That bright glow comes in two flavors: commercial lighting and residential lighting.

www.accessdiscounts.us carries both, with mass quantity and selection so you can get any kind of fixture you're looking for, wherever you're looking to put it

check it out today! :-)

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Free the Net???

San Francisco's "Free the Net" program isn't working so well. It's supposed to blanket the whole city in Wi-Fi, but it's horribly slow and unreliable.

But luckily, most of my friends' apartments have wireless or at least a network cable i can use to stay connected on the go... which makes me wonder, how would you get on the internet in the middle of the desert?

Well, you'd need a satellite, and also a satellite internet provider... but there are some inherent problems with satellite communications... rain fade, where the signal gets beaten off it's path to your dish by shattering rainfall, or latency, which is a delay (of any duration) between the sender and the receiver of the satellite signal. Sure, 3 or 4 ms of latency is no big problem, but if you start having to wait 30 seconds to a minute for a page to load, that's going to sap your productivity. That's why a good satellite internet provider will make sure to use the highest-quality routers and connectors to keep latency at bay, and large satellite dishes to help diminish the effects of rain fade.

Monday, July 21, 2008

Trade Shows/Industrial Art

I was looking at some of the work done by a custom exhibit company and must say, I was blown away. At E3, custom exhibit company Expo 3 did an exhibit for Fox Entertainment that featured 2 stories, 14 conference rooms, 9 vignette themes, 6 live state shows (with full theatrical lighting) and--get this--a cocktail lounge!

Apparently Fox wants your business, and Expo 3 is sure to create a booth that will catch all eyes!!!

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Google

When I do a google search for "mens wedding bands" It brings back about 1.8 million hits. That's a lot... and I'm willing to bet that if you went to every ring store in your area and looked at each and every ring, they wouldn't have nearly that many. So the moral of the story is, if you're looking for mens wedding bands, you should look online first! You can see wayyy more rings and save the money and hassle of driving/parking/snaking through crowded malls and shopping centers, etc.

But maybe that's just me. Maybe you love traffic, gas at $4.75 a gallon, crowds, overfilled parking lots, and being away from home.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Fashion Weekly!

Wearing mens rings don't make you any less manly. I know I know, in the past, rings worn for fashion were only worn by women, and the only ring a man would wear would be mens wedding bands. But nowadays, current mens fashion allows for man-rings thanks to the "metrosexual" trend of the early millenium. So get with the times with a men's ring!

Saturday, July 12, 2008

Worst Show Ever! Get Some grow lights!!

Oh wow... Saturday morning TV can get pretty ridiculous. This show is called "Coastal Gardening" and the host has to be the most pathetic, pretentiously-fakely-excited host I've ever seen. He's chatting with someone in a greenhouse about getting butterflies to come into your garden. As a bit of a gardener myself, that greenhouse looks pretty tempting... Unfortunately, I don't have a grip of money and a large plot of land to build one. Luckily, grow lights are much smaller and cheaper than a large greenhouse, and can be used to grow a variety of exotic flowers, plants, and veggies. You can even use grow lights to keep your garden clean & green indoors

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Ch-ch-ch-changes!

Baby furniture has changed! When I was growing up, my sisters crib and mine were both hand-made. Nowadays (i'd guess with all the home remodeling/design shows on TV) designers have turned their focus to baby furniture and are making some pretty fancy stuff. A lot of the cribs I checked out were much nicer than the bed I sleep in! Lucky babies!