06-29-05  07:13, Miles Maxted told James Bradley about Re: Levitation...

 How do, Miles?

 MM> Hey, we get the Letterman show here -
 JB> 

 MM> Don't praise me - Canadian engineer Marshall McCluhan invented the 
 MM> Global Village that gets Letterman to the ends of the earth 
 MM> daily...(met McCluhan once, many moons ago).

Memory is telling me he was a Communications Prof. Hey... If he also knew
how to plug in a TV or multi-plex... I have renewed admiration!

Speaking of McLaren... Wasn't it Marshal McLaren that pioneered a lot of
animation techniques at Canada's Nation Film Library?

 JB> See, normal kids try to hide their wounds, and learn how to treat
 JB>  lacerations at emergency wards through experience. Either that, or
 JB>  we'd just wee on it.  Oh, and when we puke our guts out, we *lock*
 JB>  the door to the washroom. 

 MM> Heh !  Teaching in a NZ country school once,  the timid kid at the 
 MM> staffroom door with a hurting foot was told by the senior woman to 
 MM> wait until teachers had finished their lunch.   I went outside to 
 MM> have a look, and found he was right - his foot WAS hurting - he'd 
 MM> somehow pierced it with a 6 inch nail....

WA!!! I just know the kid was stoically wondering when someone would notice
there was an issue worth address! Heck, I put a rusty tack into the very
*point* of my heal, that kept me from baseball practice for a week, so I
could only imagine what a through-and-through could do to curtail your
recess!

 JB> You know, it's just about time that we see another aluminium clad
 JB> composite sports car for the masses. I read longingly at the MR2 II
 JB> turbo. Supposed to be some power::weight to contend with there!

 MM> The new Mazda MX is supposed to be pretty cool - but if you really 
 MM> need to go,  how about the latest Bugatti Veyron - 1001bhp and 0- 
 MM> -186mph in 14 seconds ?

Health issues, and winter issues... 1001 at the brakes, and *only* that
kind-a acceleration.... You tellin' me Bugatti put two more wheels on it?


Unfortunately, the weather and my "bum" hip, does keep me from
straddling a scooter, and even if it was a possibility from my
restrictions, the rain and snow tend to take the enjoyment out of a two
wheeler for the majority of the year.

 JB> BTW, D'ya know much about the SHO Kawasaki  engine?

 MM> Less than nothing - motocycle engine ? Very high power to weight 
 MM> ratio ?  Excellent for powering go-carts and club racers ?

Now... THERE'S an idea! "Call up Monster Garage. Have *I* got a
project for *you!*"

No idea, if the series is called SHO, but they did OEM the Ford Taurus,
*SHO*. Super High Output, is one way to say it. I have no torque or HP
rating on it, but the car used to beat our '68-'69 Mustang Highway Cruisers
the RCMP used for the ultimate in get-up-and-go. THIS WAS AN OFF THE LINE
FACTORY DRIVE!

If I'm not mistaken, the engine used three valves/, and either variable
timing, or higher lift for go-no-go performance, but I'd doubt there wasn't
*some* issues with maintaining that much rubber on the road. My niece's
(once-removed) hubby tried to sell me one, but he is a Florida State Drug
Detective, so... 




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