Year: 2002

Ugly Knob

Liar, liar pants on fire! I still ain’t got no picture of the knob. Subconsciously I must think it is ugly. Starting to get used to feel, but the look….

Today was Polo with the Miata Club. Only two other cars showed up. Was it because it was Sunday? Was it because it was Polo? Was there an Autox somewhere? Was it me? Oh, well the 6 of us had fun. The only down side was that we were way early because we didn’t have anyone raise their hood at the welcome center and of course it isn’t too hard to keep a 3 car train in check. Sooo, we just went for a longer drive.

Started down, still down.
Top Transitions since 02/01/02: 107

Slightly Off Putting

Tomorrow, I promise on the pics of the MG Woodoo shift knob. The jury is still out, not sure I like the aluminum top and rubber middle (can’t see the aluminum bottom normally) and the transition between the feel of the two materials is, I can’t put my finger (no pum intended) on it, slightly off putting.

Decided to exercise the top today. Took the boot off because of the iffy weather and then ended up put the top up twice while running errands when I could have put the cover on.

Started down, up, down, up again, down again, still down.
Top Transitions since 02/01/02: 107

That Hosting Company

4 days and still nothing yet from the OR Attorney General, I imagine it will take a while and all it will be is a canned response.

The web_hosting_troubles group at Yahoo has been slow. Today someone joined just to chime with his offer of low cost hosting. Geez, kick a group when they are down why don’t you. I unsubscribed. I think it is time to get over it and move on. This is not the first time I have lost money on something and I’m sure it will not be the last. There goes a perfectly good domain name too.

What’s next?
mastersmiataclub.com
mastersmiataclub.net
mastersmiataclub.info
masters-miata-club.org
masters-miata-club.net
masters-miata-club.com
masters-miata-club.info
mastersmiata.com
mastersmiata.net
mastersmiata.info
masters-miata.org
masters-miata.net
masters-miata.com
masters-miata.info

MG Woodoo!

What happens when you put a Magnum Spun Voodoo knob on Calvin’s Transmogrifier with a MGW Gripper knob – you get a MG Woodoo! Looks OK, feels OK, not sure what to think, will drive the weekend with it and see. Pictures tomorrow in the light.

Started down, still down.
Top Transitions since 02/01/02: 103

Rubber Ring

I took the Voodoo knob off and put the OEM knob from a 99 Miata back on. I have plans. I like the rubber ring from around the MGW gripper knob and I love the feel of the shape of the Voodoo, so why not the best of both worlds. I pried the rubber ring off the MGW and took some measurements. Applied those to a drawing I made of the Voodoo knob and turned it over to a buddy who is a wiz with a lathe. I’ll let you know what happens. Some folks hate it, but I actually like the way the stock knob feels. I like the Voodoo better, so if this doesn’t work out, I’ll get a new one, this time in pearl so I won’t have to keep renewing the spun finish.

Started down, still down.
Top Transitions since 02/01/02: 103

Episode II

Spent a few hours last night getting excited about the new Star Wars film. All started when I noticed a display in the supermarket for Lays chips with photos of 3CPO on the bags. (Already with the marketing, sheesh.) Went to the Official Site and watched the four medium sized trailers for the film. You can’t watch the large size ones unless you upgrade to Quicktime Pro. I wonder if that helped Apple, or hurt them. The Ifilm site has a countdown clock to the Episode II release date on a page full of fan fiction films. I watched 3 or four of them too. “American Jedi” is worth a click, American Pie meets teenaged Obi Wan Kenobi….

That Hosting Company

Nothing yet from the OR Attorney General….

Someone invited me to join the web_hosting_troubles group at Yahoo, lots of other THC Screwees there. I signed up, and even posted a reply there. Boy howdy is that a pain in the butt to use. Not literally use, but finding your way around through all the ads, sheeesh.

Add that to Mike McBride’s Forum on this subject and I now have officially too many places to post and not enough time to do any of them justice.

Now that I’ve said it again, I don’t particularly care for THC Screwee as a label, but at least it rhymes. 😀 Anybody else got an idea? We need a logo , maybe a slogan…shirts, mugs, mousepads 😉