As interesting as this is it bothers me that architecture these days is less about decorating a building and more about making the building an interesting shape. Problem is we can only take so many buildings shaped like pyramids and accordians before we notice that they really all look the same. This will be the most impressive building shaped like something that isn't a building, and with that I hope it is the ultimate example of this style of architecture.
In the troper community we call this "word of god" when an author gets wind of a dispute and decide to settle it. Here's something though, how would you know how long you spent? Tally marks scratched into the wall would be erased the next morning, any scraps of paper in your pocket you may keeping track on would disappear. The only way you could keep track is in your head, which I'm sure you can imagine would be very difficult what with the madness and all.
Doesn't say anything about the mini's engine, the mini was one of the first front wheel drive cars with a laterally positioned engine. Of course, the engine was an existing unit usually placed longitudanally or however you spell that so of course it had a fan on the front, which now faced the side of the engine compartment. Of course there wasn't any room in the front of the engine compartment for the radiator, and the fan was already facing the side of the compartment so why not just put the radiator at the side of the engine and punch holes in the wheel well so air can come in. They couldn't do away with the big grill though even though there was no longer a radiator in front of it. Big grills are british. So the grill now just let rain in to soak the distributor cap which was now facing frontward. Solution? A rubber mat over the distributor cap. This design persisted in Austins and MGs for the rest of the decade. Of course the large amount of air cooling provided by the big grill with no radiator in front of it caused one side of the engine to always be hotter than the other, so minis tend to eat head gaskets, but all great cars have their problems. The gearbox and the engine sharing fluid was a first too.
Ah, the differential. The concept can be really hard to understand if you can't see it in action, even if you have the sort of visual mind that car people have. Modern differentails are essentially the same, even in front-wheel-drive vehicles. Though many now have a small modification to the design that locks the two wheels together if the difference in speed is too great, making it easier to get around in the snow. And easier to do drifts. Another useful application for the differential is combining inputs, let's say you hook what was one of the outputs to an electic motor and what was the original input to a handcrank, the original second output (which is now the only output) will spin at the combined speed of both the new inputs. I love gears and cogs.
You know, it's been a good twenty-five years since the first anti-smoking P.S.A.s hit the airwaves (and cememnted a young contrarian named Sofar Jones as a lifelong cigar lover) and this is the first time I've ever seen someone actually make fun of them. *lights a stogie*
Everything I own /is/ in a ten by ten room. Except a moldering 35-year-old station wagon, I keep that outside. I even keep the various tools I own in here. It's kind of cramped in here honestly.
The enormous guts are a byproduct of the enormous amounts of food you have to eat day to day to grow the kind of muscles those guys have. The wrestlers of the occident usually aren't super-trim neither, though they tend not to grow to such proportions (possibly they would if we didn't have weight classes in our leagues)
You should see some of the strange controls on early cars, though the Model T's controls were partly an artifact of its inexpensive production and design process, not only that but the car was designed to be sold to those who had never driven before. Hence its planetary transmission, standard transmissions of the time had no synchronization and were quite difficult to master. By the time the twenties rolled around though the modern clutch-brake-throttle arrangement had become popular, though many cars still had hand throttles, chokes, and manual advance/retard on the steering wheel.
The photographer must have had to sift through a thousand shots before he found one in which none of the ten players' genitals were exposed to the camera.
It's kind of cramped in here honestly.
The photographer must have had to sift through a thousand shots before he found one in which none of the ten players' genitals were exposed to the camera.
Still what are you gonna do if you've got two feet of arm and five feet of ass. Do you guys really dislike the morbidly obese that much?