Looks beautiful man... um does it run?

Yeah it runs, well the engine runs, but it's got no lights. The scooter that is.

I'm saving the "Big Reveal" of the new scooter paint job until I have that sucker in full working order. So expect a few less scooter posts (I know it'll break everyone's hearts) until those kind people at SPD have a chance to put a new central nervous system in my dearly beloved.

In other news: The New Year quickly approaches.
We'll be ushering in 2006 at PushPush Theater's New Year's Party featuring the talents of DJ Rene spinning black circles... and also playing records...

Here is something interesting, these guys at SpaceTimeTravel.com have created a computer simulation illustrating what we should see when moving at nearly the speed of light. When you begin to move as fast as the light surrounding you, your field of vision would expand, everything you passed would not in fact move behind you, but would become squished at the edges of your vision. And get this... When you go fast enough (theoretically) you could actually see things that are BEHIND YOU. You'd be "cathing up" to that light coming from behind you.

It is physically impossible for humans, or anything besides light, to travel at the speed of light, and in fact even approaching those speeds would surely cause serious problems associated with being alive... But through these simulation we can speculate on what it would be like.

This subject was also covered with similar detail in Episode 8 of Carl Sagan's Cosmos: Travels in Space and Time.