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There was a very good criticism of my methods used to show how the Pontiac G8 didn’t stand up to the BMW when using a M5 ( something more in the same class as the G8 ).
Just in case the commenter comes back and finds his comment deleted, I did not intentionally delete the comment just because it was critical of something I wrote. In fact I have never deleted a legit comment on this blog, even the ones calling me a douchebag/fag/tard/etc. I was flipping through the “New comments” pane hitting ‘Mark as spam’ on all the spammers and accidentally the whole legit comment 
What the comment said was basically that comparing a 2005 M5 to a brand new car isn’t the proper way to “reset the bar”, and that the Pontiac G8 in the commercial versus the 550 is actually the G8 GT, not the G8 GXP.
While this does change the atmosphere of the G8 v/s BMW 550 argument, it still doesn’t come out in Pontiac’s favor.
The G8 GT *is* better priced, nearly $20k cheaper. And the 0-60/quarter mile numbers are in a dead heat with a BMW 550. However, Pontiac still has just wasted a colossal amount of money trying to go after a market that has no interest in its products.
A person shopping for a $45k-$55k luxury car is not going to cross shop for a $35k-$45k sports car and vice versa. The BMW 550 ( and 5 series in general minus the M5 ) is not even sports minded, and has never been regarded as “sporty”. The 5 series was to fill the gap between sports racer 3 series types and 7 series executive types. What came out was a luxury saloon that would respond at the gas pedal.
Even resetting the argument back to G8 GT versus 550 in terms of engineering puts the BMW miles ahead of the G8 GT.
The GT has the same huge engine with the same absurd power loss. Instead of the 6.2L ‘vette engine that the GXP got, the GT has a 6L that can only push out ~310hp to the wheels versus the 550’s 4.8L that is pushing out ~325 at the wheels. Honestly if they want to declare this as an engineering victory, that 6L behemoth should be running all over the smaller 4.8L in the BMW.
Instead you get performance numbers that are equal, and in most cases slightly in favor of the 550 ( 5.1 0-60 for the BMW versus 5.3 for the GT ).
And in the number that counts, skidpad rating, the 550 pulls around 0.03-0.04 more g than the GT.
But all these numbers mean nothing. The cold hard fact is that Pontiac shoved money into the G8 and an advertising program that went after a superior car and car company, and was promptly skewered in the market. The G8 was one of the worst selling investments in Pontiac history, and production has been cut by 97% as Pontiac starts to pull out the lifeboats. The G8, much like Pontiac, makes a lotta noise, and brings nothing to back it up.
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So I had this awesome dream last night, and actually remember the whole thing.
Zed Shaw created an international company called, naturally given Zed Shaw’s ego, Zed Shaw International Inc. The company’s sole purpose was to create ebook PDFs, print and sell them to developers. He had approached Andy, Chris and I to get TehDev articles for reprint, and arranged for us all to fly to HQ in Europe.
Oh yeah, one weird thing about this dream was that Chris actually was my co-worker Steven.
For some odd reason that I can’t remember, Chris/Steven and I ended up missing the flight. Andy called from the plane and let me know that it would be making a touch-an-go stop at the next airport, so we went racing down this four lane highway with the plane right above the car.
Suddenly the plane nosedives and tries to make an emergancy landing on the highway right in front of us. Unfortunately they land a bit too hard, the tires go flying off the plane and it skids across eight lanes of traffic, killing all kinds of people.
As the police show up, Zed Shaw comes to the wreckage and presents evidence that Andy, Chris/Steven and I sabotaged the plane. Chris/Steven is deported to China ( where Steven actually is from ) and is publicly executed for helping crash the plane.
I was sent to a “camp” for adults where all you do is play shotgun tag with these odd, painful barrel clip shotguns.
While hanging out in the camp, I get a package from Andy containing some chipsets, a Skype phone and a soldering gun. The instructions inside told me to activate the phone and save the boards.
After activating the phone, Andy called and told me what he had found out. Apparently Zed Shaw sabotaged the plane and set us up to take the fall so he could gank all our TehDev articles and not have to pay for them. He also wanted us out of the way because we were all superior programmers. Sweet.
The flaw in his plan was that while he was able to make Chris/Steven and I miss the flight, Andy had gotten on and was presumed dead. Being the super genius that he is, Andy had spent the time in hiding, building…. A TIME MACHINE. Sweeeeeet.
Thus the circuit boards with the phone. The schematic that was included allowed me to modify the phone in order to receive calls from Andy’s special headset when he went back in time. Back to the year 1946. Back in time in order to.. wait for it…
Kill Zed Shaw’s dad and cause Zed Shaw to not exist
From here the dream became awesome, and way too long to try and detail out. Basically Andy went back to 1946 and started setting traps for Zed Shaw’s dad to fall into. Unfortunately the first attempt took out a random stranger, who ended up being the father of the owner of my eye doctor office, which instantly caused my eyesight to worsen and made it impossible to see.
The second attempt he accidentally took out GW Bush’s grandfather and caused the entire US to change. The third attempt was the charm: setting a piano up 5 stories and dropping it on Zed Shaw’s dad. Mission Accomplished.
Chris/Steven instantly reappeared, I ended up suddenly on a golf course in Florida wearing coke-bottle glasses, and Andy became the millionaire owner of Andy’s International Inc.
Best. Dream. Evar.
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Foxedy – The act of unknowingly transcending satire by becoming a blind parody of oneself. See Fox News & TheFoxNation.com
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On cue, MM is blaming Obama directly for the NY flight thing. She had the nerve to post this blurb, the irony is just delicious:
Using military resources for a cheap photo-op. Scaring the pants off the public. Exploiting 9/11 imagery for self-aggrandizement. Keeping secrets and causing mass panic.
Um, can you imagine if a GOP administration did this?
Can you imagine?!
There are just no words. Apparently the last eight years are a happy void in her mind.
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As hard as they tried, the April 15th anti-Obama tea parties just didn’t achieve that goal of being ‘non-partisan’ and a ‘grassroots campaign’. According to Michelle Malkin, the protests were about American’s being fed up with high taxes, even as 90% of the crowd protesting were receiving a tax cut courtesy of the stimulus plan.
Michelle’s adorable readers shared their stories of heroics and oppression from the protests, like this gem from chotii:
Lots and lots and LOTS of cars honked and waved and thumbs-upped. The guys driving big rigs (garbage trucks, 18 wheelers, UPS-sized vans and so forth) seemed to be uniformly glad to honk their approval. Even one public bus driver did!
…
A lot of people tried to pretend we weren’t there. The people in hybrids and SmartCars seemed especially likely to try to make believe we didn’t exist.
OMG those hippies in hybrids and Smartcars, who are receiving tax breaks and spending less on gas, didn’t notice a couple of hundred people standing around on the sidewalks and parroting GOP rhetoric? Shame!
Of course the entire thing was non-partisan and just about taxes. It was covered evenly across media outlets and definitely was a grassroots campaign. /sarcasm
I mean, let’s look at how the media reported on the protests:
• Fox News Corporation — 133 mentions( Over Fox News and Fox Business )
• CNN — 36 mentions
• MSNBC — 32 mentions
• HLN — 24 mentions
• CNBC — 17 mentions
Definitely no hidden agenda there right?
Or let’s look at some of the corpor… sorry I mean lobbyist… wait, sorry I mean grassroots supporters of the Tea Parties and I’ll even use the Conservapedia.com definition (when available ) so I’m not accused of being an evil liberal!:
- American Family Association: The American Family Association or AFA is a non-profit conservative Christian organization that believes in protecting family values through consumer activism.
- Freedom Works: FreedomWorks is a conservative non-profit organization based in Washington D.C., United States.
- Americans For Prosperity (AFP) is a Washington D.C.-based political advocacy group which describes itself on its Web site as “… an organization of grassroots leaders who engage citizens in the name of limited government and free markets on the local, state and federal levels.”Who sponsors RightOnline, which helps show conservative bloggers how to harness the web to win people to their cause. Which, as a sidenote, nothing wrong with that.
- Sen David Vitter (R), who is sponsoring a bill to recognize the protests and declare April 15th as National Tax Protest Day. Yeah, seriously.
ThinkProgress has a list of the politicians who jumped on the opportunity to speak at the protests, and I’m happy to report that they are from both sides of the issues. Oh wait, nope, they’re all beltway Republicans. My bad.
But ThinkProgress is an evil liberal website, so I’m sure there were *some* Democrats in attendance that actually *are* upset by the stimulus plan and taxes.
As far as the attendance numbers, it was pretty good. No official headcount, but the estimates are around 500-1500 persons per protest, with ~2000 protests across the nation, putting the total around 1-3million people participating. Without discrediting the turnout, Fox News is calling it “Mission Accomplished” on the Fox Forum, Michelle Malkin calls it “MASSIVE” and “historical” in her posts.
That must mean when the anti-war protests broke out in 2003 that Michelle, Fox, FreeRepublic et al were astounded by the 20 million persons in 800 cities across the WORLD protesting?
hahahaha yeah, sorry. When The anti-war protest happened in DC in 2007, FreeRepublic reported how “low” and “thin” their numbers were at 25,000 attendees. Which happens to be about 25 times the amount of tea-party goers that showed up in DC. 25,000 = thin, 1,000 = massive. If that is how they are with numbers, I don’t think any one of ‘em has a better idea on how to fix the economy.
Conclusion
Ok enough of the snark, in all seriousness, I am GLAD that so many people turned out and coordinated these events. I’m glad that a portion of the protesters had best interests at heart and are honestly upset about how our government has been run, not over the past three freakin months, but DECADES.
At the same time I’m ashamed that right-wing pundits and politicians had to overshadow the protests and turn them into same-old beltway Obama bashing, and equally ashamed of the simpletons that were at there to protest a man and not an errant idea, policy, or even entrenched system.
Regardless of political affiliation, American’s coming together and protesting is EXACTLY what this country was built on, and I hope to see more of it. I may not agree with the partisanship that the GOP and it’s guard dogs pushed on the protests, but I can agree with the sentiment and ideals that the protests stood for: that Americans are finally getting involved and will let their gov’t know when they aren’t happy.
Hopefully that’s something that people on both sides of the aisle can agree with.
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Went out to Del Rio with my lovely wife and had some good ole Mexican food to celebrate our four year anniversary. Got a few pictures up right here.
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I finally got around to updating my picture page, seen here. A couple of albums that were just floating around are hard-linked now, including the awesome V-Day pictures.
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Lazy Saturday update: Here are some stats from our music library, courtesy of Media Monkey ( which rules, and thank you Metalfrog for introducing me to it )
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Here’s something new, I’m going to write about my recent weight loss activities using Wii Fit ( and also the flu )
For starters, if you are serious about losing weight or maintaining, I highly recommend signing up for a profile at Calorie Count. I’ve been looking for a site like that for months now, and was about to just give up and build it myself.
Basically you have a Food log and an Activity log. Each has a very handy search function that allows you to simply punch in what you ate ( or did ), and it will bring back calories, fat, etc in the food and calories burnt for the activities.
They even have a recipe analyzer to let you know just how healthy your concoctions are. I ran my M Yass Chili through the interface and got an A on the nutrition rating 
When I was in college I used to be able to eat two Hungry Man meals a day and not gain a pound. I was weighing in around 145-150lbs in 2004 ( at a height of 6′ ).
After I got a real job and was able to afford food, and had a girlfriend that knew I was way too skinny and unhealthy, I started gaining weight. At first it was a good thing, but then I gained a bit too much and found myself at 234lbs in 2008.
Thanks to that recent bout of the flu, my stomach had a chance to shrink and I started listening to my “no more, Im full” alarm. At the end of March I was 223lbs thanks to a limited calorie intake and “light” activity.
I’m not afraid to admit it, I have a sedentary lifestyle. I work in an office, with a very expensive cushy chair, and I go home to either work in my home office in a cushy chair, or sit on the very cushy couch that we have.
This apparently burns about 70 calories an hour. Hell even drinking a glass of water will burn a few. But it doesn’t do much when you’re intaking 2000-2500 calories a day.
Since I do enjoy the videogames and my parents bought us a Wii Fit for Christmas, I decided to push activity into my life via the Wii Fit and a simple run on the treadmill. Right now I’m up to 20mins daily of moderate activities on the Wii ( that includes Fit and Sports ), and starting tomorrow I will add a quarter mile jog on the treadmill ( 4-5mph, nothing too intense ) three days a week.
The WiiFit activity alone has helped knock off 0.7-1lb per week for me. I figure if I add in the treadmill and gradually work up to a half, then full mile, that will put me at ~2.0lbs per week, which is the healthy limit for weight loss. Anything more and you will rebound and put it back on naturally.
The most important thing to remember is that it’s all just a game of numbers. According to my CalorieCount profile, I need to intake 1850 ( or less ) calories per day and burn 2650 in order to lose 2lbs per week. Amazingly I burn about 1400 calories a day naturally, just by moving around, walking in the office and working ( sitting at a computer and working burns around 80 per hour ). With WiiFit+Sports activity for 1 hour I can add ~350 burnt calories to that, and the treadmill will burn around 700-800 per hour.
My current goal for April 11th is 220lbs, with an overall goal of 185-190lbs.
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Apparently the “fine” bloggers over at RedState have started to run out of things to blame Obama for, so they decided to start making things up.
Most of you have probably already heard about the Microsoft bridge that will connect West & East campus, which currently is separated by a public highway. If not, here is the original CNN story.
Basically the Mayor of Redmond applied for $11mil in stimulus money to help build the bridge, which would alleviate traffic on the public highway and connect the two sectors, and Microsofts campus’.
Erick Erickson of Redstate.com, a mouth-breather neocon version of DailyKOS, somehow found a way to blame Obama:
Instead of the blue screen of death, let’s call it the blue span of death. Like the bridge to nowhere, Microsoft has somehow gotten its hands on $11 million of the stimulus dollars to build a bridge that will connect Microsoft to . . . well . . . Microsoft.
This is another example of Obama deciding he knows what’s best and us winding up with a raw deal.
Apparently Erick doesn’t do the whole “reading comprehension” thing, since the article he goes on to link states that the Mayor applied for the funds, and Microsoft has footed a little less than half of the bill for the bridge, which would be open to the public.
Last I checked, there are funds available for public infrastructure projects, and the Redmond Mayor took advantage, although Erick seems to think that Obama personally cut Microsoft a check for $11mil. Due to the low IQ of Redstate readers, the comments on the story are basically an echo chamber.
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After nearly three years and some pretty impressive numbers, Christy and I have decided to part ways with our company.
The primary reason actually isn’t because of money or the recession, but that I absolutely love the projects that I am working on for Citizant, and I’ve decided to leave the private sector entirely and focus solely on my work at Citizant.
Operating E29 was a blast, and I definitely learned a lot from owning my own startup. I’m planning on writing a few articles here on Kinderism about what to do and what not to do if anyone is interested. Trust me, all those “don’t do this” articles you see on the net and then ignore? Yeah, definitely don’t do that.
In other news, I came down with the flu last week and have been out of commission for an entire week. I’m going to get back into the swing of posting to Kinderism ( and TehDevs! It’s back! ) here soon.
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Yeah, it’s been a while, I have more posts coming, I just wanted to toss this tidbit up there.
I played the demo for that Wheelman game recently, the one where Pontiac paid bundles to have the “official” car in the game be a G8, even though they are begging for taxpayer money to keep the company running.
But that’s another rant.
Anyway, the car in the game sucks. Bodyroll to the heavens, can’t hold a corner worth a shit, and the rear end looks like the rear of a Civic you would find deep in the Valley. As I previously wrote, Pontiac had this cute campaign going after the BMW 5 series, saying that the G8 was superior.
If they wanted an even more stupid comparison, they should have attacked the BMW 330 for not being able to do 0-60 as fast as their precious G8. Nevermind that the 330 has about 200 less horsepower, it’s all about the marketing angle right?
So, I posted up another comment on the Youtube video for the 5 versus 8 commercial:
kinderstod
Ok let me get this straight… Pontiac creates a 6.2L engine that is only capable of getting ~400HP, and a car that can only pull a 0.9 on the skidpad. ( Protip: To the ones saying “This is better than a Mustang” the Mustang gets .87-.88, so you’re right there with them ) The MSRP is $45,000
Then, they go after the stock 5 series?
You know what you can get for $45,000?
A 2005 BMW M5 with a 5L engine that gets 500HP ( Since the Germans know what the fuck they are doing ) and 0.99-1.1 on the skidpad.
And I don’t see BMW crying to their government for a handout either.
I’ve gotten quite a few flames so far, one from “buyamericanyounazis”. This is the average intelligence of the Pontiac G8 fanbase: they would rather spend $45k on yet another crappy American sedan/coupe that can’t hold it’s own against other cars in it’s class, than buy a superior sports car ( or even sedan, the M5 SEDAN gets better times than the G8 coupe ) just because it’s BY GOD AMERICAN ( built in Australia ).
Even better, if we’re not counting price range, for $70k you can get a BMW M3 with an even SMALLER engine that STILL gets more horsepower than the G8.
Maybe they should use that bailout money to hire better engineers, rather than starting a pissing match against another car company that can kick the shit out of you.
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It’s fun to look through the stat logs for Kinderism and find out where some of my stuff is ending up.
I’ve actually gotten three trackbacks through to MichelleMalkin.com using a subtle and different title tag for my MM bashing posts.
Apparently MuadDib from Dexter, MO found my Vampire Subculture picture funny and put it as her “About me” section: Interpals.net
The GradeA Bullshit picture is popular ( and I yanked it from somewhere else ), folks over on FreeRepublic are using it to troll each other.
Again with the Bullshit picture, WordForge.net users are trolling each other in the politics forums.
Somewhere in this SodaHead thread about “hatin on christains[sic]“, someone got mad over something I said ( probably the TraditionalValues thing ) and linked to it.
I’ve got the market on “suze orman criticism”, “suze orman is an idiot”, and “tanglewood apartments manassas”. Next up, I’m going for “michelle malkin sucks” or something.
And last but not least, I get a lot of reads from Lithuania, Slovakia and Estonia. Probably because my grammar sucks so bad that they think I’m not a native speaker 
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So Miley Cyrus did the Asian eyes thing in a photo, and someone in Cali decided to file a $4billion lawsuit over it.
Apparently they think that this no-talent hack has $4billion in the first place, or that she has any relevance other than trying to become sluttier and sluttier so she can eventually pose nude at 18.
Anyway, the real point is that Michelle Malkin, like a true hypocrite, has flip-flopped on Asian racism. When the Spanish b-ball team did it, she called them racial bigots, and her readers called for the Chinese to bomb Spain, et al.
When Cyrus does it, she says that she posed for a “stupid photo” and then throws some Asian self-hate into the post. Never wanting to be outdone in the race for King dumbshit, one reader somehow connected the lawsuit to Democrats. Seriously:
Ok, so blowing people up - or your girlfriend blowing herself up under your direction - is ok and results in a Profesorship and juice at the White House. Pulling your eyes back results in a $4 billion lawsuit. Yes, the Dems have made their mark.
And on the Spanish thread, one reader said:
That being said, I dislike Spain. Those pansies were “neutral” in WWII
Yeah, apparently we’re still hung up on WWII and how awesome America Fuck Yeah! was, and how Japanese import cars should be banned, etc.
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A bit of non-news first: Stephen King came out and said Stephanie Myers is a shitty writer.
In the reddit thread that followed, teflonbob came up with a hilarious plot for a book:
That could be the premise for Kings next novel, a post-apocalyptic world where Meyers, Rowling and King each control a faction in the burnt out wastes of America. Meyers rules the tweens and 40 somethings, Rowling rules the pre-tweens and King has a raging horde of twenty-to-forty-somethings which ravages the country side and occasionally raids civilization.
…
I can see it now..
“Who run muggle town?”
“ROWLING RUN MUGGLE TOWN!!” - proceeded by JK Rowling ripping the head off of a Meyers’ follower.
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Phillip K. Dick unfortunately dies in a firefight soon after the bombs drop. Before he died he took out numerous FBI and CIA agents who were at the time tracking him (he was right all along!)
Terry Pratchet, Margrett Weis, Tracy Hickman, Richard Knaak, R. A Salvatore and the re-animated corpses of H.P Lovecraft and J. R. R. Tolkien find refuge up in the free-states of Canada. Piers Anthony lived with them for a short time however he was kicked out because his Xanth series was just too wierd for even a group that lived with two re-animated corpses. They are guarded around the clock by fanatic fanboys (and fangirls) who fancy themselves druids in a system reminiscent of LARPing.
Arthur C. Clarke (who had faked his death in 2008 to join Stanley Kubrick on the monolith circling Saturn) returns to Earth to teach the wasteland children the fundamentals of survival in a scene very reminiscent of the 2001:Space Odyssey ape scene in Africa.
Douglas Adam’s left years ago with the Dolphins and thus was unaffected by the chaos. Upon hearing about the decimation of Earths civilizations he simply states ‘Took long enough, but now where am I going to get a good cup of tea?’
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I would but it would only end up being some wierd hybrid of a biopic fanfiction that would never see the light of day. It would be reviled by millions and adored by only a small cabal of readers on 4chan and maybe an irc newsgroup.
Just by the authors involved you know that in one chapter you would find out there was a secret romance before the ‘end time’ between two of the ‘Author Overlords’ and that child is the rightful heir to not only one but two of the ‘Provinces of the Book.’ King’s royal tabbard would have either a car or a tower silhouette. Rowlings would be a lightning symbol or a wand while Meyers would be a set of vampire fangs or a tear drop (or perhaps a slashed wrist.)
Ugh, this shit just rights itself when it comes to a lot of these authors. :\
I think teflonbob should get on this, I would definitely buy it. I would say “If he doesn’t, then I will and give him credit”, but I don’t know enough about each of authors to make it convincing.
Seriously, “ROWLING RUN MUGGLE TOWN!!” made me choke on my coffee.
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Michelle Malkin and her idiot’s are all over this one as usual. And, almost on cue, MM reader zyzzyg starts crying about Islamic schools:
Religion does not sound like economic stimulus to me.
However, I don’t want to see money going to Saudi Wahabist Madrassa Academies.
Yes, meetings should be held, and if that means Muslim/Islamic Schools are barred from sharing in any monies, then I am all for it.
TraditionalValues.org, a radical Christian organization bent on removing the separation of Church and State, are now attacking the Stimulus plan as being “anti-Christian” due to a certain subsection of the document which states:
No funds awarded under this section may be used for …
(C) modernization, renovation, or repair of facilities—
(i) used for sectarian instruction, religious worship, or a school or department of divinity; or
(ii) in which a substantial portion of the functions of the facilities are subsumed in a religious mission; or
(D) construction of new facilities.
TraditionalValues.org then goes on a bash spree, stating that:
This new administration and its secularist allies in Congress don’t accept the First Amendment’s protections of religious activity even as they cite the First Amendment to defend all sorts of bizarre and offensive speech and art.
Aaaaactually, the subsection of the bill in question does follow the First Amendment principles of not being involved in religion. If you are a religious institution, then you won’t receive federal funding.
I’m certain that if the text is removed and a religious Madrasah receives funding, TraditionalFailuws would be on the horn about “Islamofacism” and all that noise.
With all the things wrong with the Stimulus Bill ( and there are a lot of things wrong with it ), this has to be one of the biggest non-issues.
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(From Facebook)
Answer one word for each question. This is harder than you think!
1. Where is your cell phone? none
2. Significant other? yep
3. Your hair? brown
4. Your mother? Nurse
5. Your father? Fisherman
6. Your favorite thing? SKITTLES
7. Your dream last night? Nuclear
8. Your favorite drink? Scotch
9. Your dream? M3
10. The room you’re in? Loft
11. Your fear? Snakes
12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Italy
13. Where were you last night? Home
14. What you’re not? Open
15. Muffins? CHOCO
16. One of your wish list items? Vacation
17. Where you grew up? WVA
18. The last thing you did? Code ( No mom, not *that* kind of code )
19. What are you wearing? Nothing
20. Your TV? HD
21. Your pet? Cavaliers
22. Your computer? 64
23. Your life? Awesome
24. Your mood? Awesome
25. Missing someone? Henson
26. Your car? Paid-Off ( Hyphen’s count? No? :/ )
27. Something you’re not wearing? Pants
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I have Kinderism all coupled up with Facebook now via Facebook-Connect. You can login to Kinderism via the Facebook button and have all your shiny stuff imported. You can also invite friends, which I admit is kinda pointless at this point since they can’t do much except give me traffic
I have some plans though, namely in the ‘web based game’ arena that awards points that can be sent back to your facebook profile via apps.
Also, for those interested, I’m using the FBConnector from Sociable with a few hacks to get it to work correctly with my other plugins.
Oh, and I also fixed that damn overlapping comment box.
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I have the last of my exterior upgrades coming next week for the BMW. The only things left are repair items, which consist of replacing the rear bumper ( cracked in one place and has a blemish where someone backed into it ), pull the dents out of the driver side, and have it re-sprayed to remove all the scratches.
When I first got this car two years ago it had a cracked turn signal lens, one lens was yellow and the other clear, the hood didn’t fit right, it had just been in an accident where the whole front was ripped off, the exhaust tip had fallen off, the intake manifold piping was shredded and dumping dust and bad air into the engine, it misfired and would quit when stopping at red lights or putting the transmission into reverse, and it smelled like old Chinese food.
After this last batch of upgrades, basically everything is as I want it to be, at least 100% on the outside. I still need to fix the carpet where it is stained, and I would like to take out the trim and replace it with carbon fiber or at least OEM replacements.
So to cap on the exterior upgrades, after next week the car will have the following mods on the outside:
- 6000Kelvin HID Lighting Upgrade
- Clear Euro Turn Signal Lenses
- InvisiLite Silver Turn Signal Bulbs
- Clear Euro Sidemarkers
- M3 Sport Trim
- M3 LED Clear Rear Taillights
- Debadged trunk lid
- Carbon Fiber roundels
- BavAuto Windshield sticker
- Carbon/Kevlar Track Brakes
- Staggered Tires: 225/45-17 on the front, 245/40-17 on the rear
Next post, Christmas pictures of Kinder Eggs and such!
