For the speedometer, let me specify a target speed, say 65mph because I routinely drive on a highway. Then denote that speed with a notch on the dial, or change the color of the indicator when I'm above the target speed.
For the fuel indicator, tell me how many gallons are remaining and make an informed guess about how many miles I can drive before running out of fuel (a city estimate, highway estimate, mountain estimate and an estimate based on historical use that factors in my location via GPS).
But a person seeing, from 1.5 miles away at night, a "low-flying object skimming across the sky towards the turbines" sounds like a small airplane and an over-active imagination.
Kids are already not in school enough, and when they are, they are "taught to the test" due to the colossal failure known as No Child Left Behind.
Tom Chapin says it best: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dAujuqCo7s
Second, this is a tax on parents and a drain on the workforce... parents take vacations to be with their kids as work productivity wanes or they pay for an extra week of summer childcare... and employers deepen their bias against hiring parents.
Third, don't forget the fate of kids who are afraid of dark confined spaces. The meatball factory seems like a reasonable alternative until they bring that stench home with them. Within two weeks the whole family has gone vegetarian in hopes junior will get moved to the saucing plant where he can bathe in the tomato sauce vat every day.
Insert a baby parrot inside on its back, secured with tiny leather straps. Close the lid to place the bird in solitary confinement.
At feeding time, if needed, press the button to lower a soft brush over the parrot's face to wake him up. Then say "Polly want a cracker?" and insert a cracker through the feeding slot and let go when you feel the bird grab the other end of the cracker.
You eventually train the bird to say "Polly want a cracker?" without your saying it yourself, and without using the button.
Because parrots are highly intelligent animals that require near-constant mental stimulation, the box is most effective if you leave the bird inside for several weeks until he is insane and readily repeats "Polly want a cracker?" with an incessant nervousness in his voice.
Such a device would give me peace of mind with regard to child abductions, although I'd use a different one that attaches to a shoe so it's less obvious. An alarming watch would simply get smashed with a hammer.
If used to track an untrusted teenager, well, you've failed as a parent.
I'm pretty sure what sunk the US auto industry was selling cars no one wants to buy, on top of very poor business practices. Unions rock. Bad management sucks.
It's The Running Man. Hook up existing cameras in stores and on public streets to the Internet. Do a body scan of Richard Dawson while he's still alive so he can be a virtual TV host.
Win fabulous prizes by reporting your fellow neighbors.
What's creepier is the sheer number of people who make these fake babies. It's a cottage industry. I write a baby blog and run into new "baby artists" all the time (never write about them though... what parent wants one?). Damn creepy.
The coding for the embedding is futzed, resulting in "We're sorry, this video is no longer available." But the video is available if you click through to Youtube.
For the fuel indicator, tell me how many gallons are remaining and make an informed guess about how many miles I can drive before running out of fuel (a city estimate, highway estimate, mountain estimate and an estimate based on historical use that factors in my location via GPS).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball_lightning
But a person seeing, from 1.5 miles away at night, a "low-flying object skimming across the sky towards the turbines" sounds like a small airplane and an over-active imagination.
Tom Chapin says it best:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dAujuqCo7s
Second, this is a tax on parents and a drain on the workforce... parents take vacations to be with their kids as work productivity wanes or they pay for an extra week of summer childcare... and employers deepen their bias against hiring parents.
Third, don't forget the fate of kids who are afraid of dark confined spaces. The meatball factory seems like a reasonable alternative until they bring that stench home with them. Within two weeks the whole family has gone vegetarian in hopes junior will get moved to the saucing plant where he can bathe in the tomato sauce vat every day.
Insert a baby parrot inside on its back, secured with tiny leather straps. Close the lid to place the bird in solitary confinement.
At feeding time, if needed, press the button to lower a soft brush over the parrot's face to wake him up. Then say "Polly want a cracker?" and insert a cracker through the feeding slot and let go when you feel the bird grab the other end of the cracker.
You eventually train the bird to say "Polly want a cracker?" without your saying it yourself, and without using the button.
Because parrots are highly intelligent animals that require near-constant mental stimulation, the box is most effective if you leave the bird inside for several weeks until he is insane and readily repeats "Polly want a cracker?" with an incessant nervousness in his voice.
If used to track an untrusted teenager, well, you've failed as a parent.
Never forget.
Win fabulous prizes by reporting your fellow neighbors.