Two of the three Back to the Future films were worth watching, the third one based on a western motiff should have stayed in the can. The coolest stage prop was the time machine itself which thankfully wasn’t the refrigerator as once planned.
John Delorean may have died in 2005, but the car with his last name lives on.
Espey’s company acquired the parts and engines that were left over after DeLorean’s company went belly up; it also owns the trademarks and many of the engineering drawings. Espey’s 20-person operation handles a dozen or so rebuilds a year and has an eight-month waiting list. (Buying and restoring a used DeLorean will cost you about $25,000; they’ll strip one to the frame and completely rebuild it for a base price of $42,500.)
We’re still looking to buy a car and unfortunately the Delorean rebuild is over twice what we’re looking to spend. The Delorean wouldn’t be complete without the Flux Capacitor. I wonder if that’s included?
One of the coolest looking cars ever created, I can see why a fanbase lives on. Although the linked article gives most the credit to the Michael J. Fox movie, what other cool looking cars under $50,000 can you cite?
Amazing the chemicals needed to keep a pool clean and the number of insects that land in the pool and can’t get out. Must be a rough life being an insect around a pool. Hey, there’s a pool.
As mentioned last week, my wife and I have begun a friendly stock competition. We each started with $500 and we’re going to see how each of us does. I’m blogging about the picks and her first pick was 20 shares of SHOR at $12.15 a share. As of this writing she’s made $7.00. We’re both using the site Zecco which offers up to 10 free trades a day, 40 free trades total a month.
The initial account setup experience for Zecco has been slower than I remember setting up other online accounts. My account should be ready sometime this week so I can start trading. Meanwhile, she’s taking advantage of my downtime.
One thing I’ve learned about Zecco so far is that you have to request for uninvested cash to be swept into their money market account by a special form (PDF) which you can fax or email to them, otherwise it just sits there with no interest being paid. Also, the instructions for how the whole new account process works on the website aren’t very good.
Update 6:14pm PST: My wife Skyped me to say she made her second trade today: 16 shares of MXWL at $15.40 via Google Finance:
Maxwell Technologies, Inc. (Maxwell) develops, manufactures and markets energy storage and power delivery systems. Its products are designed and manufactured to provide failure-free, low-maintenance, performance over the life of the applications into, which they are integrated.
MXWL closed today at $15.67 so she made another $4.32 bringing her total portfolio up to $511.32 (a little over +9% for the total portfolio which isn’t bad for a couple days).
Brian Shaler’s DiggStatus compares your digg user account to the aggregate of all Digg users in the following areas. DiggStatus was built using PHP, MySQL, Flash, and XML.
The comments in italics are generated from the system about my digg account:
- digg account age: “Looks like you joined Digg while it was still young.”
- total stories dugg
- stories dugg per month
- total stories commented on: “Either you’re new to Digg or you’re too much of a coward to voice your opinion in the comments.”
- comments per month
- total stories submitted
- stories submitted per month
- stories promoted to the front page: “Stop wasting your time browsing profiles on MySpace and find an interesting story for the Diggnation to read!”
- profile views
- friends
- people that have befriended this user: “:-( Nobody Likes you. Not even me. Now get out of my face, loser.” LOL! I had two friends that generated this response and juar made sure to add those two people as my friends. Will it cause me to escape loserdom in this tool’s eyes? Probably not, life goes on
Brian’s no stranger to making Digg Flash tools. His list shows he’s also made: Wheel of Upcoming Stories, Digg Heat Map, Digg Radar, Digg Taggr, Mapping the Digg Community and No Comment Digg RSS Feeds.
I don’t use Digg much any more but I can see more active Digg users enjoying these tools. Nice work, Brian.
More fun than a stress ball? A little on the violent side, but Stair Fall has game. Bring the stick man the most pain on the stairs for big points. My best score is displayed above and was achieved by moving the mouse up and slightly to the left to bring the stick man tumbling nearly the full length of the stairs.
Unfortunately when tested Stair Fall will not work as one of the Wii browser games, so no Wiimote stick man suicide action yet.
Brian Shaler’s 
