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I am not good with computarz

Posted on August 16, 2008 | Filed Under

Ok, I guess I’ll try my first meme.  Blame Liz if this is screwed up somehow.

::What were you doing 10 years ago?

August 1998.  If memory serves, I was in Moscow in the middle of the crash of 98 and on my mission.  The value of the ruble was rubberbanding up and down and the govt dropped 3 zeros off the currency.  Food was flying off the shelves and I was dealing with incredible digestive sickness and had to eat a kilogram of yogurt for breakfast every day.  Yeah, you read that right, 2.2 lbs of yogurt first thing in the morning.  It was that or make the screaming diarrhea even worse by not eating it.  Wonderful choice.

::5 years ago? 

August of 03 - Megan and I were married all of almost 3 months and getting used to being married.  Lots of sex, and cuddling.  Lemme see what Megan’s journal has to say about it (why yes, I DO have it handy)…  This entry is from the 30th.  Close enough for govt work, its close enough for you. 

“A year ago today Quinn and I met.  We celebrated our anniversary by watching movies and playing computer games while it rained.  I made a cheesecake.  Its not a very good one - I dont think that there is enough sugar in it.  We watched The Red Violin (which was very good) and this morning (well, it felt like morning cuz we didnt get out of bed till at least 11.) we went rollerblading.  We took the weekend to sort things out.  We made resolutions and made good on them, and I can say things have never been better.  We’re very tight and worried financially, but we dont fight about money.  And I have become much stronger and less prone to depression over lack of money.  It’s nice.  I do hope the trouble ends soon (ed. note - it didnt).  I told my husband today that I want to have children.  Thats a humungous jump for me.  He’s so very supportive and I love him so much.  His love for me seems to have grown.  Thats the way it feels.  We’re trying very hard and both have several things on our plates - I’m glad that we don’t tend to turn on each other but TO each other.

We’ll see where things go.  Overall I’m so happy in my life;  I think we both are, but I really hope finances look up soon”

Well there you have it.

::Last year?

This is almost a year to the day I got in the first of 3 accidents in 6 months that pretty much destroyed my good health.  Some 19 year old kid was on his cellphone and rear ended a guy who was stopped at a red light, who hit me.  I was sitting stopped at a red light and got nailed from behind.  My neck has never been the same since.  Before the accident, I was 230 lbs, and was lifting weights 4x a week.  I was huge, and I’ve never been stronger in my entire life.  I hope that Teancum can carry on the exercising and good health that I’ve tried to teach by example.

::What are the 5 things you want to do before the end of the year?

1)  Teancum’s birthday.  I’m really, REALLY looking forward to this, he’ll be 3 this year and just being here with him I can really FEEL that we’re sealed and I’ll be here to be his father in whatever manner the lord sees as fit and as best for EVERYONE involved.

2)  Hold myself together for the month of December.  So not looking forward to the holiday season.  I know alot of single people get depressed during the holidays, but its rediculous that I have to deal with THIS on top of everything else.

3)  Be able to swim laps for a solid hour without stopping.  I can get to half an hour right now, but I cant go farther because I dont eat enough to sustain that.  I’ll get past it eventually, I love having a flat and firm stomach.

4)  Get started on the CCIE certification that was derailed by Megan’s death.

5)  Be able to do 100% home teaching.  Laugh it up, but when you have a list where 75% of the people dont want contact, thats a real pain.

Man this is cheesy

Posted on August 14, 2008 | Filed Under

I just felt impressed to mention something.  Go get a copy of the soundtrack to the movie version of “Rent” and listen to Seasons of Love, first track on the first CD.  Thats the song Megan and I listened to after Teancum was born, and everyone was done wandering over and seeing this new bundle of joy.  We just sat there together and Megan held Teaq in her arms and we just looked at our son and cried with joy.

Gentlemen, it’s been emotional. 

A cookie to whoever knows where that came from. 

Well, I’m off

Posted on August 14, 2008 | Filed Under

I’m heading out tonight to go see my son Teancum down in Kentucky.  He’s been down there for 2 months with Megan’s sister and her husband, as well as his cousins.  He’s loving it down there, and he has made so much progress its amazing.  I love him so much, I can’t wait to see him.

I can’t wait to bring him home.  I’m not doing that yet, but soon it’ll happen.

Also - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl61-ZbsUzg

Star Wars Home Teaching

Posted on August 11, 2008 | Filed Under

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5NXrxd_Vfw

I think the title speaks for itself.

Deep Thoughts

Posted on August 10, 2008 | Filed Under

It’s nature. How do you make nature against the law? It grows everywhere. Serves a thousand different functions, all of them positive. To make marijuana against the law is like saying to God made a mistake. You know what I mean, it’s like God on the seventh day looked down on his creation:

“There it is, my creation, perfect and holy in all ways. Now, I can rest.”
[Mimes God looking around - spotting pot]
“Oh my me.”
“I left freaking pot everywhere.”
“I should never have smoked that joint on the third day ..crap.”
“That was the day I created possums. Haha. Still gives me a chuckle.”
“If I leave pot everywhere that’s gonna to give humans the impression they’re supposed to… ‘use’ it.”
“(sigh)Now I have to create Republicans.”

How would you describe yourself?

Posted on August 4, 2008 | Filed Under

I wash myself in the shower with Comet and steel wool. I scrape the stubble off my face with a Ka-Bar and use gasoline for aftershave. Then I comb my hair with a live wolverine. I put crystal meth in my coffee. When I go to work, I chase down cars on foot, drag the drivers out, kill them, and then take their cars to work. When I take a smoke break, I burn styrofoam and inhale the fumes. When I go hunting, I just stare at the deer. They follow me home and climb into my freezer. Because they know. They know.

Horrifying weapons from the future

Posted on July 29, 2008 | Filed Under

On the far-out-but-still-theoretically-possible scale, here’s some suggestions from David Langford’s War in 2080 (which actually covers much further into the future than that):

- a big enough gamma-ray flux can apparently accelerate a star along the main sequence. Shine a freaking massive gamma-ray laser at a star, and it’ll go nova (or supernova, if the star’s big enough).

- black holes can hold charge - therefore you can manipulate them. Ideally, you want one big enough so that it doesn’t evaporate through Hawking radiation too quickly, and small enough that you can shove it at your target… One that’ll intersect the orbit of an enemy planet, drop through its surface and swing back and forth around the centre of gravity, devouring the core and spewing out x-rays.

- and relativistic missiles. If they’re big enough, they’re utterly devastating and pretty much unstoppable. As you detect it, the weapon is following on, a tiny distance behind its own image… These things are pretty much the ultimate in planet-killers, and (given stupendous amounts of time or energy) break no laws of physics.

Of course, all the above pretty much require you to be:

a) insane,
b) situated outside the solar system you’ve taken a dislike to,
c) incredibly profligate with time and energy, and
d) able to hold a grudge for a long time.

Without physics bending FTL communications / travel, it would just be firing the Super Dyson-Swarm Space Laser (SDSSL) for a week, waiting a few years / few hundred years for the target to be destroyed, then waiting that same amount of time for the destruction of the planet to be visible from Earth again. We’d have to be REALLY pissed off at this other planet.

Let’s think about this for a second. Basically there’s one of two reasons why you would fire a planet-killing weapon at a planet.

A) Somebody you REALLY hate is there, and you want to get rid of them.

B) You’ve instituted a policy of “shoot first, shoot second, obliterate the planet, and then shoot anyone who asks questions.”

If the reason is A, well then you already know they have a colony and you want to kill them. If the reason is B then you’ve already established a plan of universal ethnic cleansing, and the revelation that one of the planets you’re blowing up actually is inhabited should be cause for celebration.

If it’s B, though, you have to hope that in the several hundred years or so it takes you to pick up the initial signs of civilization that they haven’t spread out enough to be impractical to wipe out with this weapon, or worse, started using some form of communication that doesn’t leak out to you. Something directional, maybe. Once they figure out what’s going on they’re going to want you very, very dead.

The CIA has done bad things, yes.

Posted on July 27, 2008 | Filed Under

But “the biggest, most well funded, and most evil terrorist organization in the world”? I heard that Dick Cheney wanted to appoint Darth Vader to head the CIA with Voldemort as his deputy, but Bush worried about Senate confirmation.

Some people just lack the proper perspective.

More thoughts

Posted on July 25, 2008 | Filed Under

Ok - I finally found the energy to go out and snap some photos. Its night time, but its better than nothing. I have alot of cleaning up under the hood to do. The battery will be getting relocated down to the frame rail, and I’ll be hiding as much of the harness as I possibly can. I have a COP setup going on and that will eliminate the plug wires.

Otherwise its pretty solid. Made 487hp/391tq at 22 psi uncorrected for altitude. The 1150s are maxed with E85 (no gasoline for me!), so I’ll be putting a second fuel rail in with 4 more injectors (550s or 660s) and that should get me around 550hp uncorrected at the wheels.

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Whats better than hot monkey sex with Jessica Alba?

Posted on July 25, 2008 | Filed Under

My car is!

Well, got the car back from Jack last night, and drove it to work this morning. Normally when I get up in the morning, I’m pretty tired and have to fight to stay awake. Today? Not so much. As soon as I woke up, the first thought was “Hrmmm i like that song my radio is playing”, followed quickly by “I get to drive the Spyder to work today”. The adrenaline shot that followed pretty much got my ass out of bed A LOT faster than usual.

A little background here. Before I gave the car to Jack, it was a 1999 Mitsu Eclipse Spyder GS-T. When I got it back, it was a 1999 Mitsu Eclipse Spyder GSX tuned by Servion. About the only thing that was the same as when I dropped it off was the body.

The car is incredible. I really loved just driving it, and honestly the turbo lag is about perfect. I can downshift and get into boost instantly, or I can just cruise without it and have plenty of torque. The car is as smooth as it was stock, and its WORLDS more fun. On the way to work today, I only barely boosted it in 3rd gear, because it goes too damn fast on boost and I was going over 100 before I knew it. Its easily controlled and it just wants to GO GO GO when you put the hammer down.

Servion tuned this beast. I cannot believe how SMOOTH it is at idle and part throttle. Thanks to the 4g64 bottom end it has, I can putz around town off boost and still enjoy the hell out of the car. After delivery of the car, Kevin took me out in the car and showed it off. Part of that involved launching the car. Heh. 1st gear is pretty much all motor torque since the turbo lags alot, and second gear is like a damn bullet. Ever been in a car that did an AWD burnout? Yeah.

Jeremy was the epitome of professional and knows exactly what he’s talking about. Revolutions Performance was the same, and I will not hesitate to recommend them to anyone in the state. Its worth the trouble of getting your car there if you arent in the Springs, you WILL be happy you used their services. No one but Jeremy will ever tune my car, and no one but Jack or Kevin will work on this car.

This was the project car my wife wanted to build before she died late last year. I know that somewhere, she’s pissed she cant drive the car and I can. I love and miss you Megan.

Driving this car feels like I’m Batman and I’m off to go kick some serious ass. I rev the engine and my dick feels 12 feet long. Wow. It made 487HP/391TQ uncorrected, and I cannot wait to get the new fuel system in and turn the boost up to 30+ psi instead of the 22psi its running now. Heh.

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