Month: February 2011

Oh Boy! A Special Edition Miata!

I really could have used that sarcasm font for the post title.

It is a top of the line Miata (power hard top Grand Touring) with special interior and exterior colors, plus a few shiny bits and nearly every option in the book tacked on. Naturally the price reflects this, $31K. Yikes! To make it really special there are two exterior color choices. Huh? Why more than one? Maybe because not many people will want a car painted with the pigment made from poor marine mammals unsuspectingly trapped in tuna nets, Dolphin Gray, and will opt for the Sparkling Black. Truth is, the gray is not a bad color on the car, but the porpoise colored leather on the seats is just icky.

Started up, went down, still down.
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Proof that Men Have Better Friends…

Friendship among Women:
A woman didn’t come home one night.
The next morning she told her husband that she had slept over at a friend’s house.
The man called his wife’s 10 best friends.
None of them knew anything about it.

Friendship among Men:
A man didn’t come home one night.
The next morning he told his wife he had slept over at a friend’s house.
The woman called her husband’s 10 best friends.
Eight confirmed that he had slept over, and two said he was still there.

118,000 Stubbies

Stubby is the February 2011 Free Papertoy of the month over at Custom Paper Toys and is fairly easy build with only 4 pieces. I didn’t particularly care for the slogan that was being espoused by the original, so I changed it to something that is more office work related.

When putting it together I had the hardest time getting the pencil point inside the hexagonal shape of the pencil. I actually had to reprint the body a second time and attacked the build from a different direction before successfully getting it together with the flaps inside. Tonight when I linked the toy’s web page I noticed that the originator’s construction showed the pencil tip flaps on the outside. I had wondered why the flaps were rounded in shape…

I am also currently working on Stubby the Rocket which is a papercraft model by Robert Nava of the “mascot” of Tor.com, a Science Fiction site. I hope to be finished by this weekend.

OK, that was only 2 Stubbies, so I’m 117,998 shy, but the Emperor is not, he ticked past that mileage point on the way to work this morning.

Yesterday Donna had a dentist appointment and I gave her one of my Minimimmoes to give to the receptionist. Tonight we went out to eat and I left another Minimimmo on the table when we were done (I also left a monetary based tip too.) I guess I’ll make a few more and just leave them about haphazardly about the CSRA.

Started up, still up.
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Truck Day

Today is Truck Day, the day they load up an 18-wheeler with baseball equipment outside of Fenway Park and drive it down to the FRS’s spring training home in Fort Meyers, FL. The truck left Boston today around noon for arrival sometime on Friday.

Google maps says the trip is nearly 1500 miles and should take one day and one hour. The truck driver must be only driving 8 to 10 hours a day with 3 overnight stops. After a few minutes of GMap research I figure my best chance to watch the truck go by on I-95 is near Walterboro, SC around lunchtime on Thursday. 🙂

Home

Home is a movie for those of us who didn’t catch the point of Koyannisquatsi from its Hopi Indian title and time lapse photography images. Home also uses time lapse imagery, but to drive its point home (no pun intended, unless of course the film makers did mean it that way too) there is an in your face narration that leaves little to doubt the movie’s message; humans are mucking up the planet.

I’m a sucker for time lapse, so I’ve watched a little more than half of Home and will finish the rest tomorrow. Both Home & Koyannisquatsi are available to watch in their entirety on YouTube. From reading the comments, Koyannisquatsi has a few commercials placed in it, Home does not.

Started up, still up.
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Now Here’s Something You Don’t See Everyday

A Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder parked just like a pedestrian Camry at the North Augusta Riverview Activities Center on an early Sunday morning. “Honey, I’m going down to the park and go running. I’m taking the Lambo.”

It still has the local Mercedes dealer paper tag on the back and judging by the wheels I’m thinking it is a 2007 model. It is much smaller than I imagined it was, looks not much bigger than a Miata. But in truth, this car is 14 inches longer, 9 inches wider and only 3 inches shorter in height. It weighs a whopping 900 pounds more than a Miata, but that penalty is nicely offset by the 420 more horses than than the Mazda’s 140. I wonder how much a 4 year-old Lamborghini goes for?

Started down, went up, still up.
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Special Super Bowl Post

Right now it looks like Troy’s seven fingers up is at risk as the Steelers trail 21 to 17 near the end of the 3rd quarter.

We finally got a really nice day for geocaching, so we headed over to North Augusta and snagged 8 of 10. Seven of the eight finds were along the rails to trails Greeneway and one of those caches was quite the adventure. It was off the trail and down a steep embankment to almost the Savannah River. It was so steep that we had to walk down and up using a zig-zagging path similar to Tour de France cyclists in the Alps. We ended up walking a shade over 6 miles doing those 7 caches.

Started up, went down, still down.
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