The View From Down Here

I took these pictures a few weeks ago. Local businesses were promoting a Monster Truck show by strategically placing monster trucks throughout the town to help promote the show.

A few days before the truck show, I was heading home on a bright and sunny afternoon when all of a sudden I thought I saw a CJ Jeep that had run on-top of another vehicle. I began to slow down and when I got closer I noticed that it was just a monster truck that was sitting next to a normal passenger car.

Being the car lover I am, I had to snap a shot of my car next to a monster.

Gameshow

My post the other day about "America's Funniest Videos" and men being hit in the genitils doesn't even compare to this. The 60 second AFV video montage of men being struck is painful and funny, but this video is downright corrupt and hilarious.

Go Kart Accident

I've been holding on to this video for a few years--I just recently got the motivation to transfer it to the computer. Anyhow, my dad built this go kart using scrap parts from around his shop and from some motorcycles that had been donated to him.

Like all of my dad's hand-built projects, the go kart is superbly-built. The motor on the kart is a Kawasaki 750 GZP, the frame made from scrap tube-chasis framing, the seat is from a Subaru Brat, the axels were custom made, and the brakes are from a Kawasaki bike. The kart screamed! Believe it or not, after the accident the only thing that needed to be replaced were the front steering linkages.

Since the ending gets cut-off and all you can hear is the noise of a wreck, the guy who was riding the go kart ended up hitting a curb which launched him and the go kart into a wire fence. When they ran to help him, the guy was found in severe pain laying on the other side of the fence in the grass and the go kart was wrapped in the fence. The guy riding was rushed to the hospital and ended up dislocating his shoulder, broke his knee and wrist, and had minor bumps and bruises all over. Luckily, he avoided head, neck, and back injury. He still laughs about the accident to this day.

After the accident my dad ended up putting a harness on it and requires anyone who dares to ride it to put on a helmet. The kart hasn't run in about a year--after showing this video to anyone who inquires about riding it, they change their mind.

RIP Sam

1998-2006

America's Funniest Videos

There is something refershing about sitting down on a Sunday evening and watching an hour of America's Funniest Home Videos. I can't quite place it--a series of video montages of men being struck in the genitils, babies doing cute baby things, dogs chasing their tails, cats doing backflips, and people inflicting injury upon themself--it never gets old and it I'm guaranteed to laugh my ass off, even if it's a repeat.




Last week I posted a video of dredg covering Lionel Richie's "Hello." This is my all-time favorite best dredg video.

Thom Yorke - Cymbal Rush

Hello dredg

Signs

I have to admit that I find the above picture stupendously hilarious. If I was 16 again, and had nothing better to do than play Golden Eye on Nintendo 64, I'd be cutting stencils to make "Hammer Time" logos that I could go spray on any "STOP" sign I could find--any sign for that matter. "SCHOOL CROSSING, HAMMER TIME."

This sign reminds me of an idea that I have had for years--put your favorite band, radio station, movie, subject, university, song name, or even your own name on a "ROCKS" sign so it reads like the picture below.
Mt. Hood and basalt rocks in the background--the sign is definitely overkill--but you get the idea.

Cycle Drift

Fans of cycling, drifting, and absurdity will enjoy this.

Jay-Z and Phish

Hybrid Reminder

Next time you drive your "green" hybrid, remember where the nickel for your battery came from

Doug Benson on Last Comic Standing

Unfortunately, the NBC producers of Last Comic Standing have their heads so far up their asses that they wouldn't recognize talent if they shit in their own faces. Speaking of faces, prostitutes have faces. Did you know that 90% of prostitutes can fit the heads of baseball bats in their...........This post edited by Blogger.

Fuelonomics Part II

I made a post back in March breaking down fuel costs for a fuel-efficient and a non-fuel-efficient car. The breakdown helped to steer me away from purchasing a car that was more fuel-efficient than my current car. (My new decision for purchasing a newer car will be for maintenance reasons.)

Earlier today I came across this interesting article that equates driving a Toyota Prius and using flourescent light bulbs. From the article,

We can estimate the annual greenhouse gas savings from a Prius vs a Toyota Matrix, FWD, automatic. The Prius gets an EPA-rated 55 mpg, vs 31 mpg for the Matrix. Assuming 12,000 miles annually, it will save 169 gallons of gasoline per year. Since each gallon produces 11.1 kg of CO2-equivalent GHG emissions, the Prius saves 1,875 kg of CO2-equivalent annually.

I would guess each bulb can save you about 85W (100W-15W), so 15 will save you 1275W. If the lights are on 2400 h/yr (6.6h/day), they will save 3,060 kWh. Using a national average of 1.35 pounds of CO2 per kWh, this will save 4131 lb or 1,875 kg of CO2. So it doesn't seem like an unreasonable statement that the two are comparable.

I am still not convinced that Hybrids are viable products. The production of a Hybrid vehicle requires the same, if not more, energy to produce and we all know (I hope we all know) that the production of any automobile is a very environmentally harmful process requiring already limited resources and energy.

I still contend that car pooling, mass transit, or riding a bicycle is better than purchasing a Hybrid, however for those of us who have to commute by automobile, a hybrid is one way to curb our dependence on foreign fuel and to curb our release of CO2 into the atmosphere.

Crock

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RIP Sony Pen Drive

Here are the remains of my Sony 512MB Pen Drive. It lasted me just over 2 years when it finally shit the bed on me last week.

The broken pieces are as of a result of the device being dropped, kicked, thrown, washed, stomped, eaten, and passed. The scotch tape you see is my attempt to make the device appear whole while trying to maintain Sony's sleek styling.

I remember back to last June and the moments prior to delivering the presentation of my thesis--dropping the Pen Drive and watching the plastic shell enclosure shatter below me on the tile floor. I remember my colleagues gasping and me beginning to sweat, cursing under my breath. Fortunately, the Pen Drive survived the crash and I was able to give my presentation putting my comrades in a deep deep coma.

I'm not sure how the Pen Drive died. I'd like to think it went piece-fully.

Aston Martin Flying at ALMS at Mid-Ohio Speedway

The text is very small, but they indicate that the car ended up flying farther than the Wright Brothers inagural flight in 1903.

RoboCop vs. Neo

I'm such a nerd for these mix-up trailers.

Bad Hair Day

Your hair can't be that bad...

Une Future American Idole

She's only a toddler and yet has more talent than Katharine McPhee.

10 Things I Hate About Commandments

I can't stop laughing.