I haven't been posting as much as I used to. Writing long articles takes a lot of time and energy, and since we've moved to Kirkland, I've been spending a lot of it getting my physical health in order. Save for a month or two of morning cardio early this...
I spotted this earlier this month on Craigslist but forgot to post about it until now. Wowee, wowee. It's a MkIII Toyota Supra—odds are good it's a non-turbo, but it's impossible to tell with the, err, modifications. Which involve...the front fascia from a 6th generation Honda Accord. My apologies for...
This weekend was a "fix the damned car" weekend. I ran my brakes down severely at the autocross two weeks back, so I had AutoLogic throw new rotors and Porterfield R4-S pads on all four corners. They also changed the oil and put a new battery, and the latter caused...
Some of you may have been following that I get tablets from the office on which to test Vista. The first of these was the Motion LE1600 and after that, I had the HP tc4200. Most recently, I've been using the Fujitsu T4010D tablet. The T4000 series is Fujitsu's mid-level...
Quit texting me. For the rest of you, here are two of the text messages I got today. Golly, do I ever love New Mexicans. Call when u leaving bitch üROYBALü üSALAZARü 4 EVER And, the second. Call me baby üROYBALü üSALAZARü 4 EVER I wonder if this doofus has...
How huge? Way huger than junk comments. Thankfully, the spam filters in Movable Type catch both. Over the last two months or so, I've caught around 20 junk comments. It's mostly automatic—roughly 50% of the time, it junks comments automatically. 45% of the time, it flags them as spam and...
Much like the ADD kid down the street who runs in circles in his front yard just long enough to get distracted by his bike and ride off into the middle of the street, I've completely forgotten about the whole bonsai thing. Well, I've remembered again, so I think this...
Regular readers of my journal may remember that I've painted a few cars and that I've said many times that I've had enough of it. Unfortunately, I'm a giant liar, and I spent a healthy chunk of Saturday sanding out a giant hail dent in the hood of the Mercedes...
Hoorah for another post over at Autos Articulated. I got a chance to ride in (not drive—ugh) a brand-new Audi RS4. It's goes quickly, stops quickly, and turns like a cow. Behold the excitement...and videos!...
The really big news for today was that we officially released Windows Vista Beta 2 to the masses. If you've been following the progress of Vista betas, you'll see just how far things have come from Vista Beta 1 (released in the middle of last year) and even the CTP...
I've posted a review of the Audi A3 3.2 DSG over at Autos Articulated. Hilariously, I completely forgot to actually take a picture of ... the front of the car. So instead, I've got pictures of the back. I suppose I'm going to have to think more about the content...
Since there's been some recent talk and pictures of the Scirocco, I figured I'd post a copy of a discussion from a Family Guy that aired ... a while back. See the clip here (~800kB WMV). Hilarity!...
At around 11am I've got my appointment with the Audi folks for the Audi: Streets of Tomorrow car tour thing. Since I'll be driving some pretty damned pricey vehicles (the RS4 goes for just under $70,000) I'm planning on showing up in my nicest attire. Unfortunately, I wore my banana...
There's not a lot in common between Aikido, flying, and auto racing. The setting is different, the people are different, and the philosophies behind each are very different. It takes a different attitude to succeed in each, and each results in a markedly different understanding of the way the art...
I've been an information packrat for a long, long time. I got this way trying to make sure I overlooked important information, and it's turned into an endless maze of paperwork, files, and emails that I'll probably never actually need. It's unfortunate, but I'm learning a lot in the process...
Do you see that? The 'M' badge tacked incongruously at the edge of the trunk lid, out in the farthest reaches of no-man's land? An abomination to taste!...
Since Bonnie got a kick out of the duck pictures from a few days ago, here is a gallery with all of the duck shots. Plus, the gallery contains the full-resolution shots....
I've finally gotten back into the swing of things and have just posted an article about the BMW E34 M5 (sold from 1991 through 1993 here in the US) over at Autos Articulated. It's good to be writing again....
In honor of passing 896 posts a while ago, here's a recap of posts whose index is a power of 2 or a multiple of 128. This post is largely copied from Power of 2 roll call (101). The entire static version of this journal is now 280MB. 1110000000 (896):...
I spent all day today at the novice school hosted by the local SCCA chapter. I took advantage of this because it gave me lots of exposure to top-notch autocrossers (guys like Alan Dahl and Dieter Beldi, both amazing drivers) and also because I got a ton of seat time....
I took this picture last weekend in the middle of Seattle. Awesome. And yes, they made it safely to the other side....
Over on Autos Articulated I've just written an article about why manufacturers throw events similar to Audi's Streets of Tomorrow I mentioned last night. But here's the short version: Next saturday, I'll be driving to somewhere in Seattle, where I'll likely be treated to good food, very upscale atmosphere, and...
Audi's Streets of Tomorrow is coming to Seattle next weekend. I'm already signed up. Booya....
We've taken the plunge and have gotten a Netflix account. So for the next [quite a while], that's what's going to be on the TV. I've done this once before—me and my roommates had a group Netflix account in Socorro, and each of us had our own queue. This was...
I haven't posted cat pictures in a while. Here's a shot of Fifo getting jiggy with his bad self on the carpet. I think he was high on catnip at the time. Enjoy....
In honor of finishing up the first original content on Autos Articulated, I'm posting ... a link. The article is called Guilt-free racing on a budget. More content should be spooned up shortly....
This is by far the best windshield banner I've ever seen strapped to a riced-out Civic. The rest of the car sports the usual assortment of chrome and stickers, but the banner front-and-center reads "Retired." That's hot....
I took this earlier today. I also got one of a Robinson R22 doing turns over Puget Sound. Seriously, how cool is that? P.S. This was taken with Layla's Sony DSC-T1, which isn't exactly capable of massive magnification. This plane was close....
After countless months of "too busy to work on it" and a few weeks of "we've just moved and I need something reliable," we've finally got the Mercedes back. So the short story here is that I rebuilt the carbs but didn't catch the big vaccuum leaks that both had...
It's almost holy, really....
I snapped a shot of this at around 8am Monday in Albuquerque. Of the 34 flights shown here departing the Albuquerque Sunport from the "A" set of gates (which is ... half of them) a whopping 29 are Southwest flights. Part of the reason here is that Southwest doesn't consolidate...
The ad copy here reads: "How do you back up 9.22x1018 TB of data? Instantly." A terabyte is around 1.1x1012 bytes (or around that, depending on how much of a nard you are) and 9.22x1018 is unambiguously exactly what it is. Multiply all that out, and you end up with...
I spotted this sign on the shuttle bus between the rental car zone and Albuquerque International. It turns out that while "standee" is actually a word, it's an odd one, and it sounds funny, to boot. No standees? Well, no backsies, either....
