random rant: hate it when you leave a cd out and it gets scratched at it starts skipping. when i get a better cd drive i should rip em onto mp3 to avoid that kind of thing. need to get paid first though… maybe then an ultraplex would be good.

i’m gonna take a step back until i clear some stuff off my todo list. hopefully i’ll be able to get enough done that i can have some fun this weekend. rent.net actually works. too bad bookmarking is such a bitch (crappily designed cgi), and the interface/organization/navigation sucks. i’m kvetching again.

hmm, blogger, crapping out again. time to get some more boxen, burn that venture capital!

automotive industries has a ton of info on the honda insight. i want to like the car… maybe the next gen will be good enough (when i dump my languishing buick). ai has a dec99 feature on the insight and prius, also there’s a guy with a dedicated insight log / site.

What’s the future hold? Soon after you read this, GM will unveil its hybrid-powered Precept, the automaker’s bid for the 80-mpg “supercar” jointly developed under the government’s Partnership for a New Generation Vehicle program. Precept breaks so much new design and engineering ground that the team’s motto was, “This is rocket science.” Expect a feature on Precept in AI next month — and an equally advanced PNGV study from Ford. Both concepts will be drivable by 2003, though GM has yet to prove Precept can achieve the 80-mpg bogey. By that time, the critics may see Insight and Prius in a different light.

here’s the january 2000 precept article. pretty frickin cool. “We eventually adopted two mottos: Yes, we must reinvent the wheel, and yes, this is rocket science!”

ever get that realization that you have not enough time to get everything you need to get done done? sucky feeling, huh? i left behind while i was chillin in austin, and picked it right back up now that i’m back in la.