| Sunday, May 11 2008 |
Cute.
Well, it's heartening to know that in the era of eco-tardism run rampant, at least the real car guys behind the scenes still know how to have fun.
Case in point, the window sticker for the FR500S racing Mustang from Ford.
I think my favorite part is the fuel economy blurb.
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| Friday, May 9 2008 |
Friday Night interrogation.
I dislike these things, I really do. But it's all her fault for finding the really interesting and/or amusing ones, so, whatchagonnado.
1.ONE OF YOUR SCARS, HOW DID YOU GET IT? I believe my favorite scar, if there is such a thing, is one across my left middle finger. Unintentionally self-inflicted, and a good reminder of what becomes of certain things. Yes, I know that's cryptic. Sue me.
2. WHAT IS ON THE WALLS IN YOUR ROOM? If by room one means bedroom, a few framed drawings from an old and very talented friend.
3. DO YOU KNOW WHAT TIME YOU WERE BORN? Some time in the morning. Figures that I've never been a morning person.
4. WHAT DO YOU WANT MORE THAN ANYTHING RIGHT NOW? A vacation, some place warm, with cheap drinks, and mostly naked women. Or completely naked, I'm not picky. Being a guy, however, I'll settle for a beer.
5. WHAT DO YOU MISS? Nothing worth missing.
6. WHAT IS YOUR MOST PRIZED POSSESSION? My Ducati.
7. HOW TALL ARE YOU? 6'4ish.
8. DO YOU GET SCARED IN THE DAY? Not in the day, not in the night, and nowhere in-between.
9. WHAT’S YOUR WORST FEAR? Running out of gas, altitude and luck, all at the same time.
10. WHAT KIND OF HAIR COLOR DO YOU LIKE ON THE OPPOSITE SEX? Red, or dark, or better still, dark red.
11. WHAT ABOUT EYE COLOR? Blue, green, black, it's all good. I draw the line at orange.
12. COFFEE OR ENERGY DRINK? Both. Often.
13. FAVORITE PIZZA TOPPING? Meat.
14. IF YOU COULD EAT ANYTHING RIGHT NOW, WHAT WOULD IT BE? Maine Lobster with shrooms, asparagus, parsley root and burgundy wine sauce, at Bouley.
15. FAVORITE COLOR OF ALL TIME? Rossa Corsa.
16. HAVE YOU EVER EATEN A GOLDFISH? Not recently.
17. WHAT WAS THE FIRST MEANINGFUL GIFT YOU EVER RECEIVED? A pocket knife my father gave me. Still have it.
18. DO YOU HAVE A CRUSH? Yes, but it's on a car.
19. FAVORITE CLOTHING BRAND? Just about anything Ralph Lauren designed.
20. WHAT KIND OF CAR DO YOU WANT? One that weighs less than 2,000 pounds, has more than 600 horsepower, and absolutely no driver aids or safety provisions. A Shelby Cobra, in a word. Well, that and a few dozen others that are on the short list.
21. WOULD YOU FALL IN LOVE KNOWING THAT THE PERSON IS LEAVING? I plead the 5th Amendment.
22. HAVE YOU BEEN OUT OF THE USA? Yup.
23. YOUR WEAKNESSES? Actresses. Old Ferraris. Older Scotch.
24. MET ANYONE FAMOUS? You could say so, yes.
25. FIRST JOB? Picking parts at an auto warehouse part time at the ripe old age of 13.
26. EVER DONE A PRANK CALL? Not that I'm aware of.
27. DO YOU THINK EVERYONE OUT THERE HAS A SOUL MATE? Perhaps, but finding mine would get in the way of pursuing Scotch, Ferraris, and Friends with Benefits, so I'll likely never know.
28. WHAT WERE YOU DOING BEFORE YOU FILLED THIS OUT? Eating almonds and blackberries.
29. HAVE YOU EVER HAD SURGERY? Oh yeah.
30. WHAT DO YOU GET COMPLIMENTED ABOUT MOST? I don't really get complimented, in the traditional sense. It's more a series of being thanked for fixing something as often as not.
31. WHAT DO YOU WANT FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY? A Lamborghini Muria, delivered by a flock of half naked girls. (What, I'm a guy.)
32. HOW MANY KIDS DO YOU WANT? Somewhere between none and zero, at least until medical science figures out a way to hatch them pre-grown to around the age of 12.
33. WERE YOU NAMED AFTER ANYONE? Some guy who did some stuff.
34. WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST TURN OFF WITH THE OPPOSITE SEX? Not owning any thong underwear.
35. WHAT IS ONE THING YOU MISS ABOUT GRADE SCHOOL? A complete lack of responsibility? Yeah, that was sweet.
36. WHAT KIND OF SHAMPOO DO YOU USE? Old Spice EverythingWash™
37. DO YOU LIKE YOUR HANDWRITING? Well, I can read it, sort of.
38. ANY BAD HABITS? Probably, but if I gave them any mind I'd probably end up being one of those people who forever obsesses about doing everything perfectly, followed closely by becoming a clock tower sniper.
39. ARE YOU A JEALOUS PERSON? Was. Bought that ticket, took the ride, and hence no more.
40. IF YOU WERE ANOTHER PERSON, WOULD YOU BE FRIENDS WITH YOU? I'd at least buy me a beer. With a shot of Mac 18.
41. DO YOU AGREE WITH FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS? I believe I wrote the book on the concept. If not, I probably could.
42. HOW DO YOU RELEASE ANGER? Drive fast and/or break things while listening to Metallica.
43. WHAT’S YOUR MAIN GOAL IN LIFE? End up with a legacy that looks something like what might have happened if Chuck Yeager, James Dean and Humphrey Effing Bogart went on a road trip in a LeMans prototype car.
44. WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE TOY AS A CHILD? Anything that involved guns, airplanes, explosions, or killing bad guys. I believe I was the last generation to be raised properly.
45. HOW MANY NUMBERS ARE IN YOUR CELL PHONE? A lot.
46. WERE YOU A FAN OF BARNEY AS A LITTLE KID? After my time. I recall scribbling several rather involved methods for its execution in high school, though.
47. MASHED POTATOES OR MACARONI AND CHEESE? Taters.
48. DO YOU HAVE ALL YOUR FINGERS AND TOES? More or less.
49. DO YOU HAVE A COMPUTER IN YOUR ROOM? One occasionally in the bedroom, three or four in the office, more than I care to count in the basement.
50. PLANS FOR TONIGHT? Design cars, watch westerns, and type things, evidently.
51. WHAT’S THE FASTEST YOU’VE EVER GONE IN A CAR? ~205 indicated.
52. WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO? Shotguns.
53. LAST THING YOU DRANK? Light blue gatorade. I'm sure it has a named flavor, but I identify them by color more often than not.
54. REPUBLICAN OR DEMOCRAT? By the current yard stick, neither.
55. DO YOU HAVE A LOW SELF ESTEEM OR A HIGH SELF ESTEEM? Medium-high, depending on how recently something's blown up in my face.
56. WHAT BOOK ARE YOU READING? I barely had time to read this quiz.
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| Thursday, May 8 2008 |
Good.
Looks like Toyota's practice of building people-movers and hippie-haulers is beginning to catch up with them.
Toyota Motor stunned markets on Thursday by posting an unexpected 28% drop in fourth-quarter profit and forecasting a decline of similar magnitude in annual net profit in the current fiscal year.
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"Although we expect overall steady growth of the world economy to continue mainly in resource-rich countries and emerging countries, we face a variety of risks in the future business environment, including further slowdown of the economy in the United States, fluctuations in exchange rates and the stock market, and higher energy and raw material prices," Toyota stated. The car giant acknowledged it would also have to "pay close attention to higher downside risk of the Japanese economy whose recovery is at a standstill."
Yeah, sure, blame the economy and market, sure. Doesn't have a
thing to do with the fact that you haven't built an interesting car in a decade, no.
News flash, guys. You ate the big three's lunch in the 90's because you built innovative, fun, reliable cars, and in some cases, really quite technologically advanced
fast ones. You recruited a lot of die-hard domestic fans who would no longer put up with the shortcomings of old in a sports car, or pickup truck. You even fostered a rather large scope of motorsports development, which earned you even more fans around the world in all sorts of demographics.
And then what did you do? You alienated
every single one of them by dropping every single interesting vehicle from the lineup, and closing up shop in every racing effort short of snob-central F1.
I'm both amazed it took this long to catch up with them, and heartened that it did.
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Figures.
So lets say you're a MSM producer with an agenda, and can't find any worthwhile evidence with which to pedal said agenda. Why, you can just make stuff up! Nobody will notice, right?
15-year old Camilla Hempleman-Adams went to the North Pole to ski...specifically to become the youngest woman ever to ski the North Pole.
Unfortunately, she's also been drinking the global warming Kool-Aid, so MSNBC thought it would be the perfect story to further push their "green" garbage:
Uh...did you catch that footage about 45 seconds in? Are those...penguins?:
Someone might want to remind those stupid penguins that they are at the WRONG pole! Sheesh!
It gets better, as you might imagine.
(Via Mike)
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| Saturday, May 3 2008 |
Heh.™
Can't really sum up the current oil politics any better than this:
Barack Obama wants to slap a big giant tax on oil companies.
What the hell, it’s not like they’re going to use those big profits to drill for oil in this country — we won’t allow it.
Though, perhaps I can cause a bit of bacon to become airborne, as I finally agree with Hillary Clinton on
something.
Hillary Rodham Clinton called for a vote Friday in the Democratic-controlled Congress on a summertime suspension of the federal gasoline tax, a plan that Barack Obama dismissed as a political stunt that would cost thousands of construction jobs.
Is it just my imagination, or did she just get real smart real quick? I have no doubt that this particular mask is being held on with a fairly cheap chinese glue, and the good 'ol socialism is never far from the surface as evidenced thus:
Clinton has proposed making up the lost revenue by imposing a windfall profits tax on oil companies.
...but it'll certainly make things a bit more interesting in the short term.
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| Tuesday, April 22 2008 |
As is my way.
So, you might well ask yourself, what does Mr. Lion do on Earth Day? Of course, if you ask yourself that, you haven't been reading this for very long.
So far, the count is: Two tires, three gallons of engine oil, a half gallon of brake fluid, and untold pounds of hydrocarbons lovingly returned to the wild in part of my observance of Earth Abides Day.
As I don't really have a huge amount of time on my hands just now, a pictorial of the last week and change of my life.
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| Monday, April 7 2008 |
Go figure.
I knew, eventually, the NY Legislature would do something right. Apparently that time now.
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver says his chamber is rejecting Mayor Michael Bloomberg's proposal to charge a fee to help reduce traffic and pollution in Manhattan. The decision comes after days of closed-door negotiations. It means the city will forfeit $354 million in federal money for kick-starting the initiative.
Suck it, Bloomy.
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Amazing.
We have standards, however low the bar in some cases, for damn near everything of consequence in this country. Driving. Owning firearms. Blowing stuff up. Attending College. Building things. However, there's still no education requirement, unfortunately, to be a politician.
Case in point: The utter lunacy of Ace Jesse Ventura, the latest troofer to burrow out of the woodwork.
I won't even bother quoting any of the usual mindless asswitery he babbles about. However, the response linked above is certainly worth it.
And please don’t get started on the “falling in its own footprint” as a justification for your cockamamie theory that it was a “controlled demolition job” either. Just where the fuck should it fall? Again, we’re talking about 500,000 tonnes, that’s 5 with five zeroes behind it, of building dropping down. It’d take quite a bit of a push to tell that kind of inertia to go anywhere but straight down. Not even your considerable heft leaned against one of them would suffice.
There are times I wish I could apply general physics and sciences to politicians with a clue bat.
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