Those electric go-carts have deceptively aggressive acceleration. I was trying to take a cool picture when the go-cart lurched forward. I lost my balance, and my mind decided a good place for my left foot to try to gain balance would be on the road. Of course, the cart was moving forward, and my mind didn't quite understand that if my left foot was anchored on the road, leaving my right foot on the electric cart would create an increasing distance between my feet. I'm going to put my Economics major to good use by creating a graph:

graph of groinal limit

As you can see, when I reached the "red line" (the groinal muscle elasticity limit), my right foot decided to abandon the electric cart. This led to me "falling off the go-cart."

Han was quick enough to capture my agony on his camera. I would like you to note the amusement Yush, the driver, is exhibiting in frame 3; I never did forgive him for so intentionally making me hurt my groin. I probably never will. In fact, I may go and delete his Tabulas account RIGHT NOW. Frame 4 clearly shows the new "safety" measure that I undertook to foil Yush's plan on hurting me again: foot on bar. Sometimes foiling evil plans is so simple...

Be careful ... those go-carts have deceptively aggressive acceleration.

Currently listening to: Sean Paul - Ever Blazing
Posted by roy on April 7, 2006 at 12:49 AM in Ramblings | 7 Comments

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Comment posted on April 8th, 2006 at 01:56 PM
Isn't that just a golf cart? I know they can accelerate quickly, but I've never had occasion to put a limb outside before I was stopped. As a passenger I have tried to get out before it was completely stopped, and even that caused me to fly backward. Be careful man, what would happen to Tabulas if you died. :-)

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Comment posted on April 7th, 2006 at 08:15 PM
Aren't you going to post about the new Xanga features? Not only are they competing with Tabulas, but Facebook/Myspace are in their targets as well. =) As soon as I saw that, I immediately thought of your site.

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Comment posted on April 7th, 2006 at 10:01 AM
who cares about the graph? is your camera ok?? ;)
Comment posted on April 7th, 2006 at 04:29 PM
the camera is fine ;)
Comment posted on April 7th, 2006 at 08:00 AM
I am impressed by the graphs you've been pumping out. Very clear, simple, yet visually uhh... neat :D

are you doing those by hand in a program or are you setting up some kind of excel spreadsheet graph?
Comment posted on April 7th, 2006 at 09:20 AM
photoshop ;)
Comment posted on April 7th, 2006 at 06:02 AM
Roy, you never fail to amuse me... (: