Why didn’t anyone tell me…

Bought a race car.
Really?
Why, yes. For $150.
What?
It’s a ‘91 Mazda MX-3, with all that heavy annoying glass removed except the windshield, all that heavy creature comfort nastiness removed, like carpets, door panels, and handles and things. Gone! It’s nothing but a shell with an engine.
Wha… why?
24hoursoflemons.com, that’s why.
Oh yeah. I believe the word [...]

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Graceling
So at first, there was a lot of kitch. A lot of too predictable-ness. An ominous guy appears in chapter 1 that is able to counter her, what a surprise, he’s ALSO a super-rare fighter. Yeah, we won’t be seeing HIM again. And he won’t be the love interest.
But the thing is, that having pushed [...]

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Ultralight roadster, 47 mpg, racetrack worthy. Bolt a couple seats on the back and it’s a family car.

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So now I have a question for you all, my three loyal readers. I joined this Facebook thing in an effort to reconnect people to people – specifically myself to more distant relations, and myself to long lost hometown friends. But I can’t help but think as a new user, why do people stay there?
I [...]

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Recently the only hours I have are occupied hours. The work situation is stable, but so busy that I don’t even take lunches properly any more. This has cut into my daytime light photography quite a bit. Not that I can find much in a 30 minute circle from work to go visit that hasn’t [...]

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I just finished the full length adaptation of Blade Runner (the book), which is the stretching out of “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep”, both by Phillip K. Dick. First, it’s not the movie. It’s not even the same story. The thing that impressed me most is the split personality he exposes between the priority [...]

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2 books to skip

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I think it’s time someone took those old cameras out of circulation, and I think I’m the man. So I’m holding a photo contest of a different sort. Send me a photo of your oldest camera body or other equipment in the act of being violently destroyed, and I’ll pick the best one and send [...]

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Brisingr, or why the heck after 3 books does the hero still annoy me? I went back and dread the first two books because I couldn’t pick the fine details from memory, and that was annoying. But I do have this to report, the book gets better around the two-thirds point.
I also think I figured [...]

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So we’re using this thing at work called staf to trigger tests, copy files, collect results, that kind of thing. I mention this because at least my experience with it is marred. This is at least partially because I’m using it on groups of virtual machines that are resumed in the middle of their dhcp [...]

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