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To The Limit 2

Derek — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:40:58 +0000

Remember the last time I took my car to the limit? If not, I’ll refresh your memory. I have an 18 gallon gas tank. When I filled it up, I put in 17.879 gallons. That means something like 1.936 cups of gas were left in my tank before filling.

I did it again (unintentionally, mind you) – but went even further:

0.05 gallons = 0.8 cups of gas left in my tank.

Can you beat that one, Mom?

Election Day

Derek — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 11:33:06 +0000

The professor of my first class today said that if we voted before class she wouldn’t call on us. That was incentive enough for me to vote early. As my polling place is in my building, I thought I would get to the polls when they opened and beat the crowds. At 5:55am there were already 300 people in line. I’m nearly at the front of the line now, so it took about an hour. And now, I can go back to bed.

Update: Someone just passed out in line. Firemen attended to her and then she voted. What a trooper.

Another Bug

Derek — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 01:02:47 +0000

Mom and I caught this one last night. Yeah, we’re pretty tough. And now she has him strapped down in the insect torture chamber. Not to 50!

Giant Bug

Derek — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:50:02 +0000

What is this thing? I saw it at the gas station in Las Vegas.

Hofbräuhaus

Derek — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 23:40:12 +0000

I went to lunch at the Las Vegas Hofbräuhaus today. It shared some similarities with the one in Munich, but I think anyone who has been to the original would have no trouble telling them apart. Also, they seem to use the Euro there. My pretzel was $12.50. They claim to import them from Bavaria, so maybe they do. It was good, just not $12.50 good.

Mostly I made this post to try out the WordPress app for the iPhone. It lets me blog from my phone. It’s pretty buggy.