Built when an Austrian with a funny mustache was building Autobahns, this product of Munich is a true classic.
Car Photo of the Day: Merc & Maser
Taken at the start of the 2008 New England 1000, two iconic 6-cylinder cars (the maser has been lumped however, with a SBC… sigh) parked in a town square in Vermont.
workworkwork, twitter
A very busy day today at work. We had some scheduled maintenance performed on our UPS systems. That in and of itself is not a big deal, it is just that last time we did maintenance on our UPS system something went completely sideways on us. Once burned, twice shy as they say.
I did my usual documentation and communication gig, which kept me moving back and forth between the datacenter and my desk to post updates. At the urging of a few clients I also tried out a new coms channel, namely Twitter. If you wish to follow what’s happening at a micro-level at the d.f facilty, go here.
On a totally unrelated note, my back is killing me. In a way I’ve never felt before. It is like I have a knife stuck between my left shoulder blade and my spine. Nothing I do seems to make the constant pain go away. I’ve tried mild OTC pain killers, I’ve tried ice, & heat. I’m trying bourbon at the moment. I had a herniated disc once, and that was much more painful, but this is in some ways worse as it just won’t stop.
Car Photo of the Day: a tire’s eye view
What things look like from the passenger-side “tyre” of a Jaguar XK-SS.
Imbolc
This winter, like the last one has been colder, clearer, and our precipitation has come frozen rather than melted. Every time I think the thaw has finally come and the rains have returned it turns colder and I wake up to snow on the ground. Hope Springs Eternal however. Over the weekend it snowed, …again. This time though I noted this irrefutable sign of Spring, one of our daffodils popping through the snow cover.
When we lived in the UK our house was in the midst of a large dairy farm and when we first saw it from the car of our letting agent it, the farm, and the long drive from the road were awash in daffodils. The following Spring the bloom happened again, not long before we left the UK as Spring turned to Summer. When we found this home in the Cascade foothills the boys and I planted daffodils all over the property, lining the driveways in the hope that it would cheer Sue up. So now ever year they return in early Spring, providing a reminder of our time in Wiltshire… (and drive me crazy as I mow around them once the grass starts growing in earnest come April & May!)
No blooms yet, but hope springs eternal.
Car Photo of the Day: Name that car.
Yeah, it’s an underhanded softball pitch, but somebody could use a big homer.
Happy 151st Birthday Dr. Diesel!
Rudolf Christian Karl Diesel was born on this day in 1858. He published “Theorie und Construktion eines rationellen Wärmemotors zum Ersatz der Dampfmaschine und der heute bekannten Verbrennungsmotoren†in 1887. Thank you Herr Diesel, for all of your work. Because of you, I (and many others) have the option of transportation without strict dependance on petroleum as our only source of fuel.
To celebrate, I’d buy one of these, if it were available. C’mon VW, ship it!