Showing posts with label green. Show all posts
Showing posts with label green. Show all posts

03 October 2009

Okay, I got a little autobiographical in Suki IV

Where to begin with Suki IV.

Early in the book, two Generals are out with John, Suki and their charter flight crew for lunch at Fort Hood Texas.  The Generals tell Suki about John getting picked up by a Cosmotologist in Waco, back when they were all Lieutenants.  The same thing happened to John's dad, Josef, when he was a Lieutenant.  I pretty much described what happened to me when I was there once.

I did love the steaks at that Officer's Club too.

There was a very attractive Asian bartender at the Eglin Beach Officer's Club, who adored my son and the staff flocked around him when the then wife and I brought him there.  I did chase him into the Gulf of Mexico in January of February, when he was very young.
The car I am restoring is going to be green and I plan to set it up like I describe John's car near the end of the book.

I am sure there are other things that I will add to this post as I notice them.

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26 September 2009

Al Gore Welfare

$529M Gov't Loan To Develop $89,000 Hybrid Sports Car

theodp writes "The WSJ reports that a tiny car company backed by former VP Al Gore has just gotten a $529M US government loan to help build an $89,000 hybrid sports car in Finland. The award this week to California startup Fisker Automotive follows an earlier $465M government loan to Tesla Motors, purveyors of a $109,000 British-built electric Roadster. Fisker's other investors (PDF) include the Al Gharaffa Investment Co., a Cayman Islands corporation."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.