I created a spreadsheet to compare the total cost of ownership between different cars. To view, download, and edit the spreadsheet at Google Spreadsheets : http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=pCRoTBbGNNnWWlB6TDkmQDw It basically concludes that hybrids still aren't worth the price. But at least it's still a good statement. Just an expensive statement. Total Cost of Ownership for Cars : TCO Summary 2006 Prius Civic Hybrid TDI Civic LX Honda Fit 99 Ford Escort 2003 Jetta 2004 Prius Salv 2004 Civic 35k Base price $26,000.00 $22,000.00 $16,091.00 $17,000.00 $15,700.00 $5,000.00 $8,000.00 $22,988.00 $9,555.00 Sales Tax $2,145.00 $1,815.00 $1,327.51 $1,402.50 $1,295.25 $412.50 $660.00 $1,896.51 $788.29 Tax + Base $28,145.00 $23,815.00 $17,418.51 $18,402.50 $16,995.25 $5,412.50 $8,660.00 $24,884.51 $10,343.29 Annual fuel cost $1,764.71 $2,250.00 $2,045.45 $2,571.43 $2,727.27 $3,103.45 $3,103.45 $1,764.71 $2,812.50 Monthly insurance $60.00 $60.00 $60.00 $60.00 $60.00 $60....

I went to India in search of friends, teammates for Village, and to meet with awesome companies doing social enterprise stuff. Here's a few touristy pics to peruse. india 2006

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Rosetta Stone: Learn a foreign language with powerful learning software - I've been using Rosetta Stone software to learn Portuguese and absolutely love it. Most courses teach you to translate from English to another language. Rosetta Stone uses pictures and audio to connect the language straight to the concept like when you learned your native language. This is powerful learning software!

Tim McGinnis - Thursday, May 18, 2006 One of my roommies in Pasadena. http://tim-mcginnis.com/ AJDOWNTOWN.com - Experience it! - Sunday, June 05, 2005 AJDOWNTOWN.com - Experience it! My friend and roommate Adam is going into full-time missions in Morroco in the near future with Campus Crusade for Christ. I spent the last two months reading books of his shelf. Quality stuff like "Witnessing Without Fear", "Master Plan of Evangelism", "Praying with Power". Kadee Jo's Website - Kadee Jo's Website I made Kadee create a website so she could tell all her friends about her faith and what she's doing about it. Websites of Friends - Here's the lin...

Ecclesiastes 3:11 God makes everything beautiful in its time. - Saturday, December 03, 2005 Ecclesiastes Chapter 3... 9 What does the worker gain from his toil? 10 I have seen the burden God has laid on men. 11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end. 12 I know that there is nothing better for men than to be happy and do good while they live. 13 That everyone may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all his toil—this is the gift of God. 14 I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that men will revere him. I thought I posted on this earlier, but I guess I didn't. This verse came to me in a dream that gave me insight about my relationships with women; essentially don't rush romance. Wait for the right woman, instead of getting into hal...

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"Meaningless! Meaningless!" says the Teacher. "Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless." -Ecclesiastes 1:2 I remember a clear sunny day riding home from school on the big yellow bus when I first tried tracing 'why' all the way back. "Why I am riding on this bus?" To go to school and back. "Why am I going to school?" So I can get a job one day. "Why am I getting a job?" So I can raise a family. "Why am I raising a family and having kids?" So my kids can do the same thing I'm doing: Go to school. Go to job. Start a family. It's an endless cycle with no ultimate destination. "Well hold on maybe I'll find the cure for cancer or something and help humanity move forward?" So what? What is the point of advancing society? "Well the more we advance society the less people will suffer." So what? What is the ultimate purpose of reducing the suffering in the world? What will that lead to? The...

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It wasn't my smoothest talk ever, but it went pretty well. Allan Benamer author of www.NonprofitTechBlog.org interviewed me for a podcast. I've never listened to a podcast much less made one, so this is a pretty cool first-time experience. :) Village development is going pretty well. Seattle didn't have power this weekend due to trees falling on power lines, so my programmer Anton has some catchup to do but nothing scary. For you game geeks out there our main algorithm challenge is pathfinding for characters on the map. Things here in Palo Alto are pretty quiet. Most of the Stanford students have vacated the premises for the holidays. I will too but not until Christmas day. I'm doing a pseudo-holiday of one week in VA.

Not too long ago the site would crash constantly, the search tool sucked, pages loaded way too slow. But now all that has changed. It's more or less what you would expect with the Google brand: fast, reliable, and friendly. Now what we need is a Firefox plugin that can extract my myspace profile and insert it into Orkut and other social networks. Myspace still sucks by the way. Hopelessly faulty, annoying ads, slow pages, can't auto-resize photo uploads, just a dumb service all around. At least the Firefox Adblock will fix the ad problem for you. If you need an invite to orkut email me at firstname@darianhickman.com.

Dr. Bussard talks about his research sealed for 11 years in government secrecy and how it could transform world economics, end global warming, eliminate nuclear waste, etc. This is his presentation at Google Headquarters:

I'd like to announce that 'tenfold' is now a verb. Whenever I have to explain social enterprise I use the wonderful example of Kickstart. Their pump technology has helped subsistence farmers of Sub-Saharan Africa tenfold their income, going from making $110 a year to $1100 a year on average, basically moving them into the Sub-Saharan middle class. And now it's time to tenfold my bullet points on current life. I made Waldorf salad 3 times now, twice successfully, with help, though. =) Running a mini-multinational company is kinda fun. Nevermind that I spend my entire day in front of Gmail and Gtalk and Google Spreadsheets and Google Groups and Skype. Village is getting great coverage recently in two of my favorite sites: NextBillion.net and WorldChanging.org My brief visit to the 1570 this weekend for Mike and Angela's wedding made me miss Pasadena. I'm still amazed at the quality roommates, church, and friends I have there. *sniff *sniff *tender moment No ...