Commuting
Travel to Space: Expedition 18 Lifts Off!
This is a great view of Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft’s lift off. The ride is carrying Expedition 18 Commander Michael Fincke, Flight Engineer Yury V. Lonchakov and American space flight participant Richard Garriott to their workplace on a long commute.
The Photo was taken at the time of launch today, Sunday, Oct. 12, 2008. Surprisingly The Astronauts went on their long commute from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Commuter’s Delight: Zero Emission Vehicle
Commuters usually split gas costs when they share rides. I am wondering that with this ride, the Gas bill would be “0″ , how would they split the bill among them.
This nice little green and echo friendly vehicle is called “Dogsled”. This human powered quad cycle spotted at Woodward and blogged by Ange’s Space. Commuter’s Delight:
Travel Tips: Taking a Taxi in Ghana
So it’s Sunday and I’m in bed eating a very large mango and thinking about taxi drivers, waiters and bouncers. I have no patience for any. And my current impatience has developed as a result of my very many experiences with them. Let me start with the taxi drivers.
Here in Accra my usual routine is to walk down my street to the side of the main road and wait for a taxi to approach. I live on the busy part of town so getting a taxi is not a problem. The problem is the taxi drivers.
The usual thing is to stop a taxi driver, tell him where you are going and ask him how much he will charge for the distance; depending on his mood he will either smile at you, look away or give you a monkey face and tell you a figure, (sometimes reasonable, sometimes not).
Unspoken Agreement: Always Bargain
In Ghana taxi drivers (and in fact all business people) have this unwritten and unspoken agreement that the buyer must always bargain with the seller. So you either ask for a reduction or tell him how much you are willing to pay. If he accepts you get on board if not you look for the next taxi.
But make sure you act confident about getting another taxi with the rate you are offerin
g. This can actually make him accept your offer. See, taxi drivers in Accra are not very logical in their approach to their work. Maybe I just can’t figure out how they reason, but i think they operate on emotion: greed and pride being dominant.
Some taxi drivers would rather drive around empty (and waste fuel) than take your offer which may be a few pesewas short of the rate they’ve become used to. With the bargaining process a driver may give in to your offer because you raised a good argument to beat his own or through the exchange you showed that you know the taxi driver-passenger system. Read the rest of this entry
How to save money by reducing the commuting cost
[ad#ad-2]Indeed there are difficult times ahead. Gas prices are going to hit $5 a gallon any day now. This will have an inflationary impact on everything that moves as transportation costs will go up… In fact all business costs will go up as a result of higher fuel prices. The businesses will have no other alternative but to pass these costs on to consumers. It is fair to say that It is not the gas prices that have gone up. It is our salaries that are shrinking. Each dollar today buys us less amount of goods then this time last year.
Higher oil prices are also a threat to American way of living. they infringe our freedom of movement right. Middle class city workers living in suburbs, commuting daily to work are the real victims of this Oil saga. They own a overpriced home at high mortgage rate, they are also making payments on their car. Only reason they moved to suburbs and are enduring the bashing of long daily commute is that they want better life at a lower cost.
Tripping - Argument With Taxi Driver
[ad#ad-2]Tomorrow I’m working in Cape Coast. I’m not amused. One of our volunteers there is causing trouble. I’m doing damage control. Our volunteers, one out of ten of them acts matured. The rest of the time it’s just like running a nursery school. It’s the pettiness that kills me. Anyways so I’m working in Cape Coast tomorrow, If I wake up.
Today, I worked on the refugee camp. Getting there was a 45 minute drive. I go there every Thursday on evaluation visits with our volunteers there. How things have changed! We now have volunteers who seem happy with the improvements we’ve made. Last year I had to deal with the devil and her cohorts. It wasn’t pretty, I had just been employed. Dumped into incredible chaos.
Today, only one out of the three camp NGOs, I scheduled meetings with was available as assured. Then, I had to run around the camp looking for the second person because she wasn’t where she said she would be. The third person was out of coverage area.
This morning I had an argument with the taxi driver I took to work. He wanted me to pay more. It’s very annoying when a taxi driver does that. I got to the road side flagged him and told him where I was going.
“2.50″, he said.
“I’ll give you 1.50″, was my response. Read the rest of this entry
2008 Land Rover LR2 Review
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With luxury and performance to spare, reviewers are almost unanimous in saying that the Land Rover Range Rover is a wonderful full-size luxury SUV, among the finest overall luxury vehicles on the road.
Most Creative Advertising Ideas
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I’ve seen a few things in my life. I deal with business ideas on a daily basis, and I can assure you that I have seen my fair share of crazy and insane ideas that actually worked and brought in a lot of money. Hopefully the following crazy and insane Advertising ideas will encourage you to stop wasting your life away with templates and do something really crazy for your next marketing campaign.
Enjoy!
Really Strong Hairs
Extreme Commuting: Real Cost
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A man came home from work late, tired and irritated, to find his 5-year old son waiting for him at the door.
SON: “Daddy, may I ask you a question?”
DAD: “Yeah sure, what is it?” replied the man.
SON: “Daddy, how much do you make an hour?”
DAD: “That’s none of your business. Why do you ask such a thing?”the man said angrily.
SON: “I just want to know. Please tell me, how much do you make an hour?”
DAD: “If you must know, I make $10 an hour.”
SON: “Oh,” the little boy replied, with his head down.
SON: “Daddy, may I please borrow $5 ?” The father was furious, “If the only reason you asked that is so you can borrow some money to buy a silly toy or some other nonsense, then You march yourself straight to your room and go to bed. Think about why you are being so selfish. I work hard everyday for such this childish behavior.
Top 10 features we want in a commuter’s car
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The daily commute is a fact of modern life. It makes sense to purchase a car that keeps the ride to and from work as pleasant as possible. That means foregoing certain features because they’re not practical on a day-to-day basis in bumper-by-bumper traffic.
I surveyed few of my friends to determine which of the features they consider a-must in commuter’s cars. Here are 10 that we look for in cars we evaluate; we think you should consider them as well.
- Comfortable seats: Different people have different requirements when it comes to seat comfort. Features such as side bolstering or lumbar support, for example, work well for some, but are obtrusive for others. Power controls are always good — they allow you to fine-tune the sea position while you’re driving, rather than having to stop the car. A seat-height adjuster can go a long way toward making a seat a comfortable fit for very short or very tall drivers, but some manufacturers insist that one size fits all.
A telescoping steering wheel and adjustable pedals can also be a great help. Those who live in colder climes or suffer from back problems may benefit from seats that are heated. And of course, a comfortable seat means nothing if you have long legs, and the seat doesn’t scoot back far enough to accommodate them. The important thing here is to drive the car before you buy it; it’s the only way to know if the seat meets your needs.
Good News for Commuters: Liverpool, Chester And Ellesmere Port
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For passengers travelling between Chester and Ellesmere Port, Train times have beend changed and Merseyrail has put in more 6-car trains inorder to increase commuting capacity. This change is part of Merseyrail’s improvement plans to provide a more dynamic and dependable service on the Chester line. Good thing is that they have done it one basis of passenger feed back data they collected.
