Archive for November, 2003
No Comments »Bill posted this quote yesterday.
“We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups.
I ask, in my writing, What is real?
Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudorealities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms.
I do not distrust their motives. I distrust their power. It is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind.
I ought to know.
I do the same thing.”
(original posting here)
Vancouver’s Cooperative Auto Network has a Car Cost Calculator to try and give an accurate estimate about the costs of owning/renting and driving a car.
My car costs from 1999-2001 –
~ $367.25 per year
My car coop costs –
~ $145.18 per year (i’ll check this against the real figures at home)
My estimates for daily, year round bike riding over 5 years
One time costs –
$1500 bike (good for 5-8 years)
$400 all weather biking gear
$90 for a good lock
$100 for a good helmet
$35 for a good rack
(paniers optional)
——
$2125.00
Recurring costs –
$50 yearly tune up done by a bike shop
$100 yearly on replacement parts (tubes, tires, chain lube)
——-
$750.00
5 years of daily bike riding…
~ $2875.00
or
~$575.00 per year
I suppose calculated like this it’s more expensive to own a bike. So in defense of biking I need to bring up the health benefits of cycling, the state fuel subsidies and the uncalculable cost of car pollution.
A ratio of maximum webserver up-times (in days) between the Republican National Committee running Microsoft IIS on Windows 2000 (the little number); and the Democratic National Committee running Apache on Linux (the big number).
Read the article at Linux Journal.
I’ll compare this ratio with the final vote count…
Forbes printed an article on the business of marijuana in Vancouver.
- Richard : Nice site design.
- Old Personal (57)
