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scroll_lock
11/20/09

In reply to Al Gore Makes Surprisingly Non-Wooden Appearance on "30 Rock"
I think Alec Baldwin was visibly relieved to have a middle aged man on the show whose weight's blown up even more than his own.
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Pick-me-a-winner
11/20/09

@scroll_lock: Was at a rather intimate event Wednesday night and Alec showed up looking dapper- straight from a 30 Rock taping. He touched my arm at the bar. I wanted to reference 30 Rock/Jack Donaghy soooo badly, but it just turned into a dorky "I'm a big fan. You are funny," at the end of the night....I'm way cooler in my head. Sigh.
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scroll_lock
11/20/09

@Pick-me-a-winner: Oh, I'd have likely done worse, clinging to his leg as he'd try to shake me off.
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Pick-me-a-winner
11/20/09

@scroll_lock: If I'd only stripped nude and jumped into the pool...sigh X2

#tips
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Matt Cherette
11/20/09

In reply to Al Gore Makes Surprisingly Non-Wooden Appearance on "30 Rock"
Tonight's episode was hilarious; I loved every bit of it. And, honestly, I think my favorite part was Liz's reaction when the gay hipster cop said that the fireplace's lack of a duct caused his apartment to smell like Burger King all day and Cinnabon all night.
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pureblarney
11/20/09

@Matt Cherette: I seem to enjoy any Kathy Geiss joke. When she held up the Teddy Ruxpin, I did a belly laugh.
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Matt Cherette
11/20/09

@pureblarney: Oh, yes -- definitely -- I absolutely love it when we're graced with a mention of/appearance by Kathy Geiss. The episode where they were trying to take her portrait was epic.

#tips
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Airvault
11/20/09

In reply to Al Gore Makes Surprisingly Non-Wooden Appearance on "30 Rock"
Albert.
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hotpinklovesofa
11/20/09

@Airvault: Seriously. Was that supposed to be a joke? How can someone not know that it's Albert not Alfred?
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wattwatt
11/20/09

In reply to Al Gore Makes Surprisingly Non-Wooden Appearance on "30 Rock"
and here it is
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Helio
11/20/09

In reply to Al Gore Makes Surprisingly Non-Wooden Appearance on "30 Rock"
that "a whale is in trouble" line was also recycled from The Greenzo episode from Season 2.

Al Gore has been making the rounds, and all his appearances have been entertaining and informative.

Anyone else overly appreciative of Gore's aspirated "H" in whale? No, just me? Ok.
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Adrian Chen
11/20/09

@Helio: good catch!
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Shadowlayer
11/13/09

In reply to Al Gore's TV Network Firing 80 People Due to Wild Success
That old fart asshole better not fire the guys from Supernews, thats the only show worth watching in that piece of shit network... #currenttv
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lionel-mandrake
11/11/09

In reply to Al Gore's TV Network Firing 80 People Due to Wild Success
They're moving to LA, ultimately they'll be closing down all the SF production. #currenttv
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Unsolicited Advice
11/11/09

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We're not losing money, these 80 people are just useless! #currenttv
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BearDownCBears
11/11/09

In reply to Al Gore's TV Network Firing 80 People Due to Wild Success
Think of all the greenhouse gasses those journalists won't emit by sobbing on the couch in a pile of Cheetos rather than running their dirty ol' laptop 40 hours a week. #currenttv
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lionel-mandrake
10/13/09

In reply to Its Staffers Rescued, Current TV Needs to Get Rid of Staffers
A wholesale move to LA has been in the works for a while. The fact is this, the production talent pool for cheap cable production is pretty shallow in SF. Thus they've had to ship people in from LA and more far flung places to get skilled staff. A move to LA will bring their overall costs down considerably.
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JennaW
10/12/09

In reply to Its Staffers Rescued, Current TV Needs to Get Rid of Staffers
As long as InfoMania and The Rotten Tomatoes Show are okay -- tell me they'll be okay!!!
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Jason McCabe Calacanis
09/29/09

In reply to Blood Rivalry Over Electric Cars Now Fueled by a Billion Taxpayer Dollars
These really are two different types of cars. The Fisker is a plug in hybrid that will go 30-50 miles on battery before buring oil.

The Tesla goes 200+ miles and never burns any gas. The new sedan will go 300 miles.

Fisker's car is EXACTLY the same technology as the plugin Prius--which you can install for $10k on a used Prius (which would cost $15-20k).

If you drive under 50 miles a day (which some folks do) you're better off spending $25-30k on a plug in Prius today than waiting to drop $90k on the same thing from Fisker.

If you want to go 200-300 miles you should wait for the $50k Model S from Tesla.
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bens
09/28/09

In reply to Blood Rivalry Over Electric Cars Now Fueled by a Billion Taxpayer Dollars
Whats unfortunate is that hydrogen technology offers benefits over the electric cars, but for some reason the government isn't investing in it that much. Hydrogen doesn't lose its charge over time, a tank of H is analagous to a tank of gas (in terms of miles,) and we have the ability to produce a lot of hydrogen cheaply, and in a renewable fashion. What happens when these companies use battery technology that's up to date and not 20 years old? Electric cars are merely a stop-gap when 80% of our electricity is generated using fossil fuels. Honda has a hydrogen car on the market. $465 million to build hydrogen infrastructure would go a long way to having people adopt a viable technology.
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Pope John Peeps II
09/28/09

In reply to Blood Rivalry Over Electric Cars Now Fueled by a Billion Taxpayer Dollars
Both of them are just wiring together about a thousand laptop batteries and then sticking the whole thing on a motor. The first one to get a reliable, new battery technology into a car will win whatever grudge they have going now.
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stopcrazypp
09/28/09

@Pope John Peeps II: It's actually not trivial even going with laptop cells. First you have to balance all the cells properly or you risk over charging them. Then there is the extensive safety features like 2 fuses for each cell, one fuse and a microcontroller for each module of 621 cells and for the whole pack, as well as a variety of sensors for acceleration, smoke, humidity, etc; this is esp. necessary for laptop cells since they are the only type of lithium battery which have a chance of catching on fire/ exploding so you must have a very good safety system in place if you want to pass FMVSS with laptop batteries. Then you have to run coolant and control the temperature. You also have the battery charging management to control the charge depth of the cells for cell longevity. Of course you have a whole bunch of computers on board to control all of this. Tesla also did a lot of work on traction control and power control for the motor. The way they implemented their regen braking gets a lot of good reviews. The reason they go with laptop cells is so far they still provide the best energy density and they are the only lithium cells made in enough volume today to make a good amount of EVs in the absence of automotive ready lithium cells. I imagine with their deal with Daimler that they will be moving to the newer cells Daimler is using if it makes sense.

So it is not as trivial as the garage conversion that everyone makes it to be (strapping some batteries together and putting it on top of a motor). And you can't ignore their contribution to igniting the current interest in EVs.

On Fisker though, I don't think they are using laptop cells. They basically contracted out all their drive train engineering to Quantum Technologies for the Karma and Sunset. The bulk of the money is going to be used for their third model ($40k) in the US, while the rest goes to US suppliers for their Karma.

As for the rivalry, isn't that even better, since competition means they will be trying to do better than each other, which ultimately results in a better product.
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iplaudius
09/25/09

In reply to In Which Rush Limbaugh Hilariously Runs Over Al Gore In a Car
This is what happens when you put a fatass drug addict behind the wheel.
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