Goodbye Old Friend..........

Snickers 1992-2006

Situational Self Awareness Test

You are driving in a car at a constant speed. On your left side is a valley and on your right side is a fire engine traveling at the same speed as you. In front of you is a galloping pig which is the same size as your car and you cannot overtake it. Behind you is a helicopter flying at ground level. Both the giant pig and the helicopter are also traveling at the same speed as you. What must you do to safely get out of this highly dangerous situation?

Answer below:









































Get off the children's "Merry-Go-Round", you're drunk.

More than meets the eye?

So this poster was (finally) just released, even though people have been talking about this movie for months. It seems rediculous that it's taken Hollywood 20 some years to cash in on what was essentially one big long toy commercial. Although I'm glad they did, because had they tried to do this before, they most assuredly would have screwed it up.

Now, they've got the CG technology, and perhaps most importantly, the perfect man in the drivers seat: Michael Bay (see Bad Boys I/II, The Rock, Armageddon, Pearl Habor--basically any movie where the explosions and special effects are more important than the actual "story").

So if you're looking for me or any other guy next July 4th, try your local movie theater. This is gonna be huge........

Ha

This picture always cracks me up, so I thought I'd share......

Remember, remember, the fifth of November.....

Couple of quotes from one of my new favorite movies, V for Vendetta, which I finally saw this past weekend:


V:This is the most important moment in your life... Commit to it.



V:I, like God, do not play with dice and do not believe in coincidence.



V: Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of Fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is it vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a by-gone vexation, stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition. The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta, held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose so let me simply add that it's my very good honor to meet you and you may call me V.

Evey Hammond: Are you like a crazy person?

V: I'm quite sure they will say so.

Pointless....

No real point to this, just thought it was funny.

Discuss........

As I sit here at my desk, doing anything I can to not actually do any "work", I've decided to make a list of my past automotive exploits. Some of you have referred to my car ownership history as "excessive", or perhaps a bit "compulsive". But with my ultra-short attention span and penchant for getting bored with things within a few hours, I think it's rather fitting.

And so, at the risk of firing-up the benevolent Mrs. PB, (again), I've decided to post this list for your discussion. Tell me what you think. Maybe you liked a car, maybe you hated it. Maybe you were a passenger in the Fiero when we wedged 3 people in there, with the middle person standing up out of the sunroof while the car was going down the interstate. Whatever the case may be, I'm curious to see what other people may remember about a car that I've likely forgotten, provided none of these stories will result in any sort of jail time for me or anyone else involved.

(It should probably be noted this list is chronological, starting at the top with the S-10 and ending with the current Optima. Concurrent ownership of vehicle(s) is indicated laterally.)

Which Sports Car Are You?

*Edit*
It was brought to my attention, (thank you very much...), that I am not as competitive as the Corvette would imply, so when I took the quiz again I got a better result. Kind of weird, I've always wanted a Miata......

I'm a Mazda Miata!

You like to soak up the sun, but your tastes are down to earth. Everyone thinks you're cute. Life is a winding road, and you like to take the curves in stride. Let other people compete in the rat race - you're just here to enjoy the ride.

Take the quiz.

How to spend $1 million dollars in 10 seconds......

*UPDATES*
-This guy was being investigated for a bunch of stuff, including fraud and involvement in the Swedish Mafia (?)
-He allegedly was drinking at a party in Malibu prior to the accident, and was challenged to a race with a Mercedes McLaren SLR. The accident occured during that race, where the speeds may have reached almost 200 mph
-Apparently this guy "owned" 2 Enzos, although the Bank of Sweden was in the process of reposessing this one
-Insurance has already stated they will not cover this, due to the suspicious nature of the accident. That means this will be a total loss for whoever actually owns this car.

I saw this online yesterday, and told the official wife of PB I would post these on here today.

So apparently some guy trying to be cool in his Ferrari Enzo, goes cruising down this road in southern California at like 130 mph and loses control.

(For those of you keeping score at home, the Ferrari Enzo is a limited production Ferrari supercar, which costs somewhere in the neighborhood of $1 million dollars plus the fact that in order to even buy one, you have to own another Ferrari first. It could also be noted the Enzo is completely capable of going 200+ mph, although I don't think they'd recommend it on a back road.)

The initial report said they found a guy still strapped into the passenger seat with a busted lip, and no driver. The guy said the driver was "some German guy", who jumped out of the car and ran into the hills. Police found blood on the driver's airbag, but not the passenger's. Hmm........that sounds, interesting. I guess it turns out this guy was wasted, and after the crash jumped out of the driver seat, jumps into the passenger seat, and pretends to be some confused innocent passenger. I know the guy was drunk, but that's the best story you can come up with?

The resulting crash scene stretched out for almost a mile, with the engine sitting about a 1/4 mile from the rest of the car. The body of a Ferrari Enzo is primarily carbon fiber, which is great for saving weight, but doesn't really withstand a crash very well. Although the fact that the guy walked away from this is pretty amazing.....

Poll

I guess it's been a while since I was last here huh? Haven't really had too much to post about lately, plus I've been moderately busy at work. Not usually with work related stuff, just while I'm here---slacking off, mostly.

I imagine most of you know about the demise of the Civics, and subsequently the arrival of the Audi. What the Audi needs most is a new paint job, which I was going to have Maaco do for like $250 bucks.

This morning though, in my Internet travels, I discovered a way to paint it myself for like $50 bucks. So now I need to pick a color---I thought I might throw this out to you fine folks and see what colors you would suggest.

So go ahead, be honest---feel free to pick a couple colors if you like them.

(You might notice the lack of a "pink" option, Cooter, so don't even think about it.....)

Don't quote me.......

"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it." ~Ellen Degeneres~

Mel Gibson is insane

I've mentioned this to a couple of you, but I finally got a pic to share.

Apocaylpto is an "action/adventure" movie about the decline of the Mayan empire, written and directed by Mel Gibson. Crazy Mel Gibson. How crazy?

That crazy.

Mel thought it would be cool to put an Easter Egg of himself into his own movie trailer, about 3/4 of the way through it. It's almost impossible to see at full speed, but if you go frame by frame you can see it pretty clearly.

Anyway, I thought it was pretty funny, and definitely worth sharing.

Fork in the Road........

(This is a purely hypothetical situation mind you, but I do appreciate your opinions should a similar situation ever present itself. It should be also noted that some opinions have been made quite clear, and repeatedly, but feel free to give them again. Finally, you're not choosing someone to die like you might have in gc's blog the other day, so no pressure.)

Multiple Choice:

1)Say you had a small amount of money set aside that you really wanted to do something "fun" with. Would you rather:

A) Buy an upcoming PS3, because it's going to be awesome

B) Spend that money continuing a project that's been sitting in your driveway for 4 months now

C) Sell said project in your driveway, but keeping with the auto theme, do something to your everyday car that you've always wanted to do

D) Buy a motorcycle

E) Take a vacation sometime

F) Stop being selfish, you're too old for fun, and there are other things you could use the money on

Parallel Universe

What my life would be like, if I was born as a polar bear:

Snakes on a Plane!!!

Snakes + Plane = Snakes on a Plane

Here's a quick plot summary, in cartoon form:

And some gear to wear when you go see it:

or

So there you go kids---Snakes on a Plane, tell your friends.

So it ends......

So it's over---I ate meat today.

Exactly 6 months after I began, I am no longer a vagitarian. I had a grilled chicken sandwich for lunch today, which was delicious by the way, thereby ending my vegetable exodus.

"Verily, he went unto the meat and yea, it was good".

Before I get questions, complaints, cries of outrage or protest let me explain---this whole thing for me was to accomplish a specific purpose. I was trying to get my self to eat better, pure and simple. Eating better means feeling better, and I was feeling like crap after every meal.

Now I'm the kind of person that turns things like this into a slippery slope, however, and so knew that if I was ever gonna accomplish what I wanted I would have to go whole hog, so to speak. No meat, period.

Which worked, for a while. But here we are, 6 months later and ~25 lbs lighter, and I feel like I've accomplished what I set out to do. I feel much better, and I certainly eat better (most of the time, not so much over the holidays though, way too much sugar).

The problem I was running into was protein wasting---I just can't get enough without the meat. I know some of the weight I lost was muscle mass, which I had planned on. But lately my muscles have been pretty sore after doing stuff, and I've been way too grumpy for no apparent reason, both serious signs of protein deficiency. It was literally to the point where I was actually checking out supplements, and I thought to myself "This is retarded, why am I going to go out and spend that kind of money when the answer lies right in front of me?"

So I am from here on out adding chicken to my list of acceptable foods, and possibly turkey. No red meat and no pork though, although I suspect eventually pork may cross the line into acceptable. I'm not sure anyone really cares, except maybe Mrs. PB, who will probably be ecstatic both that I mentioned her and that I'm eating chicken again.

So that's it, just a little note to anyone bored enough to read this. I'm happy with my decision, and still feel like I'm accomplishing what I set out to do.