Month: July 2010

Orange Sky

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Two Words

The two words heard most often by Miata drivers from kids is, “Cool car.”

The two words heard most often by Miata drivers from little old ladies is, “Slow down!”

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One Small Post For A Man

Sorry. I had this nice long post reminiscing about where I was when Neil Armstrong first set foot on the moon 41 years ago today, but I don’t have time. I wasted the evening watching a so intentionally bad buddy cop TV show that *is* actually funny, The Good Guys and a so intentionally over the top show about cars that you don’t actually learn anything useful from it, Top Gear.

Maybe I’ll write that moon landing post next year (because we all know how emotional a 42nd anniversary can be.)

Oh, never mind, I just found out the whole thing was a government sponsored hoax: Conspiracy Theorist Convinces Neil Armstrong Moon Landing Was Faked

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110,000 Words

Here are six of the nine MMC cars that made the trip to Edgefield for breakfast today. I looks like the life-size statue of Strom Thurmond is orating around 110,000 words, perhaps recreating his famous filibuster, longest ever by a single senator at 24 hours and 18 minutes in length nonstop, in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

As we arrived at the start point for the trip this morning the Emperor past the 110,000 milestone.

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Galactic Rebellion For Dummies

This movie was recommended to me on io9, but I still haven’t found out who recommended “Love The Beast” to me (8 folks asked so far.)

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Morning Bobby

Several years ago it seemed like there was an abundance of people by the name of Robert who worked at The Valve Store™ and as a joke, myself and another coworker would always say, “Morning Bobby”, when we’d pass each other for the first time each day. His name is Joey and mine is, well duh, Brian, but we got a kick out of it.

Over the years the number of Roberts waned, Jims took over the top spot, yet we still kept up the ‘Morning Bobby’ routine. The number of folks named Jim hasn’t diminished any, but Bobs have made big advances again recently. My immediate supervisor is named Bob and his boss is named, yep, you guessed it, Bob. To differentiate between them they are sometimes referred to as Little Bob and Big Bob respectively. Our latest Industrial Engineer is also a Robert and usually went by Bob, but I think as a condition of employment, he had to willing to be known as Rob to avoid further confusion.

With them ceasing manufacturing at the home office in Florham Park, NJ we have had a few folks from up there make the transition to working here in South Carolina. The last two to join us are both named Bob.

Joey and I will may just start saying, “Morning Bobby”, whenever we pass anybody, because we will have a real good chance of being right.

Started up, went down, went up, back down, back up, still up.
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