New theme and banner pic…
I found a new theme I liked enough to live with for a while, (probably.) I swapped out the default image (Half Dome in Yosemite) with a picture I took at last year’s Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta. It was taken just before turn 6 a little while after sunset. Seeing these cars come howling into the braking zone with brake rotors glowing is definitely one of the coolest sights of the race.
I’ve also loosened up the comments system a bit, so as long as you’re not a spammer you should be able to post comments easily now.
I’m not getting an iPhone. Yet.
Tomorrow is the big day. The day the world changes. At 6pm, the iPhone will go on sale.
I’m not getting one
I’ve been repeating this to myself for quite some time. I own a lot of Apple stuff, but I’m not the biggest Apple fanboy I know. I mean, I only bought my first iPod a couple of years ago when the first Nano came out. I can’t really be that obsessed, can I?
I’m not getting one.
I watched David Pogue’s review.
I’m still not getting one. Even though I really do think Apple’s got another winner here. I’d probably be standing in line too, but the fact is at the moment I just don’t need one, mainly because I don’t travel near as much as some of my colleagues. Hey, I’ve got a perfectly good laptop after all… Plus, I can smugly proclaim that I’m “waiting for version two” before I plunk down my cash.
Like the iPod though, there will probably be a point when I can stand it no more and I give into my inner geek. Hopefully by then AT&T’s bandwidth will improve, they’ll fix the inevitable first generation gremlins and the thing will hold more than 8GB, (less the 700MB the OS uses of course.) Until then, I’ll just pretend I don’t want one. I have a perfectly good phone that plays MP3s and takes pictures, right? Nope, I’m not even going to link to it.
Not. Getting. iPhone. Must. Resist.
Arrrrrgh…
I shall smite thee with many guitar solos
I’ve played a lot of guitars over the years (decades?) but this is one of the coolest I’ve seen. OK, so it’s just slightly over the top. Custom made by ESP for Toshihiko Takamizawa of the Japanese rock group The Alfee, this one plays on all the classic guitarist fantasies. Guitar as weapon, guitar as phallic symbol, guitar as vehicle for soaring improvisational odysseys.
The guitar is currently available for a Buy It Now price of $4,500 on eBay. From Gizmodo:
O Lord, bless this thy Angel Sword Guitar, that with it thou mayst blow Christina Aguilera and A-HA and Ricky Martin and Enrique Iglesias to tiny bits, in thy mercy. If you want it, follow these steps: first shalt thou get to eBay. Then shalt thou pay $4,500, no more, no less. $4,500 shall be the number thou shalt pay, and the number of the payment shall be $4,500. Once the number $4,500 be paid, then riffed thou thy Angel Sword Guitar towards thy foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.
Datalogging on the Lawnmower
Way back in 2003 when we had a bigger yard, I decided to take my Garmin GPS V and put it in the cupholder of our riding lawn mower one sunny afternoon. As expected, it logged my time and distance, as well as displaying a nice pattern of my zig-zags across the grass. Since I had just watched an F1 race on TV (and likely due to the stupefying effects of heat and humidity) I decided to write this little piece afterward:
It’s not about the bricks
Nevertheless I couldn’t help but feel something special as I touched the hallowed strip of bricks and thought of all the great drivers and cars that have passed over the start/finish line at Indy since 1909.
Here’s an aerial view of this spot.
