Under the Dome

Under the Dome by Stephen King 

Let's put it this way, it's almost 1100 pages long and I finished it in a week. One of my all-time favorite Stephen King books, right behind "Bag of Bones." It's about a town that is completely cut off from the rest of the world physically by an invisible force-field-like dome. There are power struggles and a meth lab and almost everyone dies. In short AWESOME. It's not like the old King novels that took half the book to get to something exciting -- by the third page two people and a woodchuck have already died. This one got me really worked up. I found myself thinking about the book non-stop when I wasn't reading it. I felt like I was going to miss something by letting it sit shut. Absolutely one of the best books I've read EVER.

Tesla Roadster

I cannot get over the Tesla Roadster. Not only is it appealing aesthetically (who am I kidding? It's smokin' hot!) but it is also all electric. That's right. No gasoline. How awesome is that? Now for the ridiculous specs. This car offers 288 horsepower and 295 ft-lbs of torque (On the sport model, on the regular model it has 273 ft-lbs.) And if that isn't impressive enough on its own, since it is an electric motor, all of its torque is available all of the time - not on an rpm-based curve like a fuel engine would be. The Roadster Sport goes from 0-60 in only 3.7 seconds while the base model does it in 3.9 seconds (for comparison, the SRT-8 Challenger takes 4.8 seconds to do so and gets 13/19mpg city/hwy.) A full charge can take the Tesla Roadster 245 miles, and when it's time to recharge, it can plug into a normal grounded wall socket.

Downfall is... the base model runs $101.5k including government tax credits, and the sport model is $20k more. Christmas present anyone?

Fiddler on the Roof

Eeek I forgot Sunday!

Happy Belated Sunday???

One of my favorite movies of all time is The Fiddler on the Roof. I realize it was released a full 18 years before I was even born, but seriously, it's quite epic. It is really like three stories in one. All three of the oldest daughters have their own story, and Tevye, the father, ties them all together. If watched closely, it is hilariously funny. Tevye makes up ridiculous stories to tell his wife and has the most expressive body language I've ever seen. The best part, of course, is the music. I haven't watched the movie in months, yet I found myself singing "If I was a rich man" in the living room last night. (That's right, Gwen Stefani fans, she didn't come up with that on her own... and the dancing is better in the original anyway.) Heaven forbid anyone say the word "Tradition." I WILL break out into song.

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