My wife and I both like Guinness Drought so we were excited when we heard Guinness was releasing a special 250th Anniversary Beer. Arthur Guinness founded Guinness Brewery in 1759.
The special 250th anniversary beer was a little hard to find in the U.S.; however, Wegman’s Grocery Stores and Total Wine both carry the product in [...]
One of my wife’s coworkers owns two goats that she milks in the morning and evening. She was nice enough to give my wife a big jar of goat’s milk to take home. Good stuff.
The Washington Post reports:
A train control system that should have prevented Monday’s deadly Metro crash failed in a test conducted by federal investigators, officials said yesterday, suggesting that a crucial breakdown of technology sent one train slamming into another…
The findings suggest that the oncoming train in Monday’s crash might not have received information that a [...]
Here’s a video of a vintage steam powered motorcycle in action:
Hi-tech entrepreneur Jason Calacanis seems to be going goo goo ga ga over plug-in cars. Additionally, many environmentalists and politicians think plug-in electric cars are the answer to today’s problems.
Potential Problems
However, low-tech writer Kris de Decker points out some potential problems with relying electric batteries to power our automobiles:
The electric car is not a technology [...]