I always thought that the little lines cut into the pavement before stoplights were pressure plates. They’re actually inductance loops. Inductance is the property of a wire or circuit element to ”induce” currents in an isolated but adjacent conductive media. When a vehicle stops on or passes over the loop, the inductance of the loop is decreased, indicating the presence or passage of a vehicle.
Yay! After twelve hours of travel, Robert and I are safely and stinkily back home in Atlanta. Time for sleep!
I want a Rollup Keyboard.
When using text-based messaging formats such as email, web post, or IM, it is often necessary to express emotions not normally possible to express by common punctuations. One such expression is that of abject terror:
With its symbolically huge saucer eyes and slack mouth, this is very close to my expression when reading this.
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More wackiness from the land of the rising sun… It’s Windows Media, but damned funny.
I’ve uploaded a few more pictures from my vacation. Until I get around to setting up a nice page for them, you can see the shoddy index format here.
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Japanese people evidently pay money for this sort of thing.
Words fail me.
Plague-bearing neckties.
Acne may prevent cancer.
You’ll live a long and healthy life as a hideously deformed monster.