Axodys

Just under three weeks and counting until National Novel Writing Month (note the awesome new web site with forums!) commences so I’ve been thinking a lot about what I’m going to write about this time around. I’m thinking about reusing the setting and some of the characters from last year’s attempt, but I’m not entirely sold on that idea. I may just go a completely different direction this time around. Regardless, I’m hoping to have things a bit more planned out with a rough plot outline at least to keep things going. I was really a bit too ambitious and a little too scattered last year and I think that’s part of the reason I ran out of steam once basketball season started up.

I’m not sure what happened, but I really haven’t done a whole lot of posting in the last couple weeks. I’ve been somewhat busy lately, but really it only takes a few minutes to compose a post. I think there may be some kind of inverse relation to time spent in Net Newswire Lite or something. Of course on top of my aggregator fun I have been doing a ton of reading lately as well. I read Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy over the course of last week and then yesterday while sick at home I devoured The Way Between Worlds, the conclusion to Ian Irvine’s The View from the Mirror quartet. That’s something like 1800 total pages read between the four books involved! No wonder I haven’t been doing much posting.

Oh, and by the way: both the quartet and the trilogy are really, really good.

Seattle P-I: Tiny car could be big answer. [via Sheila]

This little car has a ton of cool features and it was designed by a father-son team from Spokane! The acceleration is insanely impressive: As far as performance goes, the Tango is no slouch. Since electric cars–especially small ones–are generally thought to be slow and weak performers we set out to blow some minds by designing the Tango to accelerate through the standing 1/4 mile in 12 seconds at over 120 mph and travel from 0 to 60 mph in under 4 seconds.

Apparently the price point will be around $20,000 if they manufacture 10,000 a year; if they can ramp up to 100,000 it drops to $10,000.

Commuter Cars Corporation

I had a pretty fun weekend, but the cold that I developed around Friday has been slowly getting worse. Today’s addition: moderately runny nose. Joy.

Well, I’m finally starting to develop the sore throat, general fatigue and sickness that Mary has had for a while. Unfortunately we’re planning to drive across the state this evening so there’s no time for rest after work. As long as I stay well hydrated I should be okay though.