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I’ve developed an intense like for Damien Maguire. It’s not precisely his haircut or fashionable taste in clothes notable as they are. Nor the strong resonance and perfect Irish diction of his speech, which I do enjoy. It is rather a combination of his pathological honesty with, and most of all, that he simply knows […]

Very interesting times. First, no Jeremy Clarkson didn’t go green. It was an April Fool’s joke. Yes, I get it. In this week’s show we deal with a couple of things but I would say front and center is our current efforts to forge ahead with a CHAdeMO kit for electric vehicles. I kind of

I’ve written on the topic before. And I’m uncomfortable with becoming a constant whiner. But would you guys grow to fuck up? How in the world, with an INTERNET PRICE MATCH GUARANTEE, guaranteeing absolutely that if you find a HIGHER price on the Internet anywhere, WE’LL MATCH IT, do we keep attracting this clingy, grasping,

I wonder at the parameters of our day and our age. They are in any other generation a miracle. There is a kind of magic in the global pooling and sharing of information as well as commerce deriving from the Internet, and increasingly from the miraculous devices that implement it in every increasing utility. I

In 1985 I started a ragged little newsletter titled Denver PC Boardwatch in Denver Colorado listing 218 electronic bulletin board systems. Over the next five years it kind of grew to encompass all that was going on online including online services such as CompuServe, GEnie, and what would become America Online. In 1987 we did

Some days you are the bug, and some days you are the windshield. And so it goes. We have a busy 2:23 video this week. Last week we saw Damien Maguire install his Siemens 1PV5135 motor and DMOC 645 controller in the BMW 840ci. This week we visit with Ed Clausen and his BMW320i with

This week I continue to “wing it” and Brain is off to Palm Springs, while we suffer down to 3 degrees fahrenheit. I won’t trade him however as he has both parents who had fallen in the kitchen and had to be rescued by the fire department. Dealing with all that will not be easy.

Greetings all and a Merry Christmas to each of you. I hardly post on Facebook beyond noting we’ve done another video. For one thing, it tends to be brief, and anything worth writing to my way of thinking is roughly worth 4000 words at a bare effort and 8000 if it’s anything of note. A

“The Little Red Hen” by Joseph Jacobs There once was a farm with a big red barn. And in that big red barn, there lived many animals, the smallest of which, was a little red hen. The little red hen may have been little, but she was the most active resident of the farm. When

Ed Clausen provides a seasonally appropriate description of a somewhat advanced application of postive temperature coefficient heating to his BMW 320iS electric car. The 320iS is actually a somewhat rare and very interesting BMW and may be the perfect electric vehicle car to start with as a donor. It was the precursor to the e30