I’m sure everyone reading this blog has been on a diesel powered bus. I’m sure almost none of you know what air breaks are – but I’m going to try to make the case that you should know what they are, and that you should care about them.
In a car, breaks are hydraulic (or, if [...]
Archive for March 13th, 2008
The Problem with Air Breaks (or, “Why All Buses must become Hybrids”)
Posted in Technology, writing on March 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
On Theft
Posted in writing on March 13, 2008 | 4 Comments »
A while back, I had my digital camera lifted at a party. It was apparently taken “by accident”, but it is hard to see how such an accident could take place unless the would-be-thief in question had a camera of the same (or, if very drunk), similar model of their own. I don’t believe this [...]
