March 2010
35 posts
Things you should watch/listen to.
Do you like big explosions? What about the BIGGEST explosions? Then you should consider finding a copy of “Trinity and Beyond”.
http://www.amazon.com/Trinity-Beyond-Atomic-Movie-Blu-ray/dp/B002VCPFGY/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1268913119&sr=8-2
It’s a documentary about the development, testing, and use of the first atomic bomb project. The film is narrated by...
Stress all at once.
So the track day is in 3 days and the weather doesn’t look like it’s going to cooperate, but that’s not what this post is about. I woke up this morning like all morning, let the dog out, grab breakfast, surf web, answer emails, validate new accounts, etc….
Then while checking the sites the event is posted on and updating it hit me all at once, this is a big deal. I have...
6 Days To DI Palooza
http://www.dallasimports.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=137112
Holy crap only 6 days it seems like just yesterday I was starting the planning phase of all this and now it’s almost here. I hope there is a good showing, lots riding on this that’s for sure.
After 20 years, you analyze a lot. You remember people, heroism. “The...
– Alive 1993
Everything Random: I Bought a CD, not a Licensing... →
*this is not mine, its quotes from a comment and found via gcn1*
It is sad but predictable to see John Prior (Letters, August 10) trotting out the old fallacy about music that we buy a product encumbered with a licence.
Let us walk through my most recent purchase. I strolled into the store,…
Small world.
Yesterday while shopping for trophies for DI Palooza I find out the guy that runs the place is on the city council for Allen. I tell him what we’re doing for our event and he gets super excited, the city of Allen has been wanting to do a car show at their new convention center. We talked for about two hours about the prospect of what could be done and he’s going to find out all the...
Professional Critics
Are almost always wrong, it really irks me and you think I would have learned by now not to trust them. For instance I skipped “Kung Pow” for years because of reviewers saying it was garbage and 1 or 2 of my friends saying it wasn’t worth it. One day my room mate brings it home and says it’s hysterical so I figure why not. That movie changed my laugh and jumped to the very...