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ALWAYS REMEMBER - Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Volkswagen’s latest product probably won’t be very good on gas and it has a rather high price tag. But that hasn’t stopped a handful of people from putting down payments on the car before production started earlier this month.

Each Bugatti Veyron 16.4 will cost an estimated $1.24 million, according to media reports. For that, buyers will get an all-wheel-drive two-seat sports car with a lightweight carbon-fiber body and 16-cylinder engine capable of producing 1,001 horsepower.

VW purchased the Bugatti name in 1998, according to a report in the industry newspaper Automotive News Europe, and introduced a concept version of the Veyron at the Tokyo auto show the following year.

It has taken the intervening six years to perfect the car, according to the Automotive News report and others, and there had been doubts that the car would ever actually be sold. In a 2003 public debut at Laguna Seca Raceway, a prototype Veyron spun out of control.

In 2003, according to Automotive News, the car still suffered from two major problems: The enormous engine tended to overheat and the car, capable of top a speed of well in excess of 200 miles per hour, was unstable at high speeds. Several reports have placed the car’s top speed at about 250 miles per hour.

Hey all,

I like to buy wild and wacky tees from time to time, and get people asking where I found them. Here’s a list of the sites I source my wacky humor wrapped up in cotton linen from.

WARNING: The last 5 sites do include offensive material so suck it up!

- 80’s Tees
- Busted Tees
- Choice Shirts
- Defunker
- Funny-Shirts
- Toxic Tees
- T-Shirts.com
- DeezTeez
- Sick Idiots
- Sinful Shirts
- T-Shirt Insanity
- T-Shirt Hell

Enjoy!

Jug

Just a week into September — historically the most active month for tropical activity — the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season has already seen 15 named storms, six of which reached hurricane strength with winds of at least 74 mph. Four of those became major hurricanes, with sustained winds of at least 111 mph.

According to the National Hurricane Center, the historical averages for a hurricane season are 10 named storms, six hurricanes and two major hurricanes. Those numbers have already been met or exceeded this season, which doesn’t end until Nov. 30.

The largest number of named storms ever recorded was 21 in 1933, a record that will be broken if just seven more storms develop in the next 12 weeks. And if that happens, the hurricane center will run out of names for the first time since it adopted the system of assigning names to storms in 1953.

The letters Q, U, X, Y and Z aren’t used, because few names begin with those letters, so the 21st and last name on this year’s hurricane list is Wilma. After that, Greek letters will be used to designate storms, beginning with Alpha.

The largest number of hurricanes ever recorded in the Atlantic was 12 back in 1969, according to the hurricane center, and the largest number of major hurricanes was eight in 1950.

“Our minds can shape the way a thing will be if we act according to our expectations.”

Thought this was a good quote I came across today…

“The goal of changing should be achieving improvement, without change there can never be improvement.”

Hope everyone had a great long weekend!

Someone forwarded this to me by email, thought I would post it here rather that clog other people’s email inboxes with it. Certainly worth a try, I guess. I’ll be camping Septmeber 1st so I won’t be buying any gas, not at $111.9 a litre here today in Surrey, B.C.

IT HAS BEEN CALCULATED THAT IF EVERYONE IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA DID NOT PURCHASE A DROP OF GASOLINE FOR ONE DAY AND ALL AT THE SAME TIME, THE OIL COMPANIES WOULD CHOKE ON THEIR STOCKPILES. AT THE SAME TIME IT WOULD HIT THE ENTIRE INDUSTRY WITH A NET LOSS OF OVER 4.6 BILLION DOLLARS WHICH AFFECTS THE BOTTOM LINES OF THE OIL COMPANIES.

THEREFORE SEPTEMBER 1st HAS BEEN FORMALLY DECLARED “STICK IT UP THEIR BEHIND ” DAY AND THE PEOPLE OF THESE TWO NATIONS SHOULD NOT BUY A SINGLE DROP OF GASOLINE THAT DAY.

WAITING ON THE GOVERNMENT TO STEP IN AND CONTROL THE PRICES IS NOT GOING TO HAPPEN. WHAT HAPPENED TO THE REDUCTION AND CONTROL IN PRICES THAT THE ARAB NATIONS PROMISED TWO WEEKS AGO? REMEMBER ONE THING, NOT ONLY IS THE PRICE OF GASOLINE GOING UP BUT AT THE SAME TIME AIRLINES ARE FORCED TO RAISE THEIR PRICES, TRUCKING COMPANIES ARE FORCED TO RAISE THEIR PRICES WHICH EFFECTS PRICES ON EVERYTHING THAT IS SHIPPED. THINGS LIKE FOOD, CLOTHING, BUILDING MATERIALS, MEDICAL SUPPLIES ETC. WHO PAYS IN THE END? WE DO! WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE. IF THEY DON’T GET THE MESSAGE AFTER ONE DAY, WE WILL DO IT AGAIN AND AGAIN.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS AND MAKE SEPTEMBER 1ST A DAY THAT THE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA SAY “ENOUGH IS ENOUGH”.

Very nice. It’s a complicated subject, gas, solar, hybrid, cost of manufacturing, conspiracy theories etc.

A step in the right direction.

Experimental Hybrid Cars Get Up to 250 Mpg - Yahoo! News

Head over to Aidya’s blog… scroll a bit and check out the “Hemi Powered” BBQ. It’s freakin retarded how someone can be in such tune with my needs as a man!

Jug

P.S. Djin, I gotta say this beats the Nitrogen tank beer cooler.