Exercise Machines recommendations?

I'm considering getting an exercise machine. What I always hear about them is that people buy one, use it for a month, and then it becomes a rack to hang clothes on.

Anyone here have an exercise machine that they used beyond 6 months? Still use it today?

An Inconvenient Truth

I saw An Inconvenient Truth in NYC today (see the trailer). It was great!

I had heard a number of people who saw it say that Gore sure isn't "stiff" when his handlers aren't making him talk about things that aren't his passion, like the environment. Now I understand. We was natural and smooth.

I first heard of global warming when Karen Gerwin's father came to my 4th grade science class (1978? 79?) and talked about it. At the time, it was still just a theory. It's amazing to watch the timeline of science progress and see how so many of the predictions came true. People fought tooth and nail to claim CFCs weren't a problem, and yet eventually the entire world turned on a dime to stop the hole in the ozone layer. The people that fought that fight literally saved the world. The same arguments are made about the current CO2 problem and I swear the people that stick it out to fight for reductions in CO2 emissions will also save the world.

For more about this movie, visit www.climatecrisis.net

I wish everyone would go see this movie.

Driving to work Meme

This is for people that drive to work each day.

Step 1: Calculate how much you spend in gas each month driving to work (take 1 week and multiply by 4.3).
Step 2: Look on craigslist.com to see how much an apartment would cost that was adjacent to where you work. (If there are no living spaces next to your office/place-of-work, find the nearest.) Use this site to do it easier.
Step 3: What is the ratio (Step 2) : (Step 1)

My answer:
Step 1: $ZERO (I take public transportation, which costs about $200/month for parking and the train)
Step 2: $1300 to $3100
Step 3: 200 : 1300 or about 1:8

Update: In an earlier draft I swapped 1 and 2. No, I don't spend $3100 on gas!