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I just finished watching Truth in 24, and if you are a geadhead I have to say you owe it to yourself to watch. The 24 Hours of Le Mans is for me the only truly compelling event in motorsports. F1 just seems way too technical, delicate, and overdone. NASCAR reminds me of driving down … Continue reading “Gearhead Flix: “Truth in 24””
My car has been running poorly of late. Nothing serious, just not feeling like it should. A bit of power loss, really. But mostly the symptom I noted was crappy fuel economy. Mind you, what I consider “crappy” most people would kill for: 43-46 MPG. That is way off the usual 50 MPG that my … Continue reading “Oh yeah, that’s what I’m talking about!”
I snapped this shot yesterday on my way into work. I had stopped to get gas at my freeway exit. Yes, I said get gasoline. I drove the pickup truck to work since I was planning to buy a barrel of Methanol for my home-brew BioDiesel, and ironically the pickup has a gasoline engine. I … Continue reading “Prices at the Pump, Biases in their Minds”
When I do things for myself, I rarely pause and consider how I do the things that I do. I just do them. Writing is one of these things. I just sit down and start banging my thoughts into the keyboard. I occasionally stop and correct, edit, rewrite, but generally what you see here is … Continue reading “Learning by teaching”
When I was officiating hockey games in my younger days we were provided a lot of coaching, more so even than the players in the contest. One of the things impressed upon us was the fact that the best officials are invisible. The ideal contest is one where the participants and spectators went home having … Continue reading “Book Review: Team of Rivals”
Oddly, I received a Press Release from a friend the other day. Not something that happens very often! 😉 It included the photo above. That smirking brit on the left trying to look like a Rock Star is our very own John “Mad Dog” Morrow and his PR states the following: Seattle Mini Owner to … Continue reading “Mad Dogs and Englishmen, playing in the mid-day snow.”
OK, not the best of photographs, as the background is way too busy, but I have to admit I still like this shot. Perhaps it is my life-long lust for Jim Hall’s Chaparral Can-Am cars. I saw them in the flesh, being driven in anger at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin when I was … Continue reading “Car Photo of the Day: I still love this car.”