A 2 year old Shar-pei/labrador mix that we adopted from the Oakland Animal Shelter. More pics here.… Read the rest
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F1 Heritage
I just got this great decal of the years in which Team Lotus won the F1 constructors championship. It may have been well before my time but there was a period in the 60s and 70s that Lotus was by far and away the best team in Formula 1. The genius of Colin Chapman combined with the talent of drivers like Jim Clark, Graham Hill, Emerson Fittipaldi and Mario Andretti resulted in Lotus not only having the fastest cars but also the best drivers – makes you feel sorry for their opposition 🙂
For more info on the racing history of Lotus check out their wikipedia page.… Read the rest
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It’s alive
On Monday we finally got our Lemons car started for the first time – still need to put the cooling system on buts its a relief to finally get it running. I promise I’ll have a series of posts about the actual prep work.
It’s Alive from rnair and Vimeo.
P.S.: The smoke is just oil smoke and the unbolted exhaust – the video got cut off because my phone died on me 🙁… Read the rest
* The yellow car is a Lamborghini Gallardo (which is the only lambo with regular doors) while the silver car is a Honda with what are known as Lambo doors
Photo found floating around the interweb.
[tags]irony, photo, lambo, doors, lamborghini, honda, ricer, funny[/tags]… Read the rest
I had an interesting experience this morning – my cellphone (which is set to get automatic time updates from the cell tower) suddenly reset its time back by 8 hours and as a result my cellphone alarm didnt go off. When I got up it said that the time was 11:30 pm when it was actually 7:30 am. I tried restarting the phone and even forced a network time update but the phone stubbornly said that the time was 11:30 pm and there was nothing I could do about it. When I was driving to work the phone finally set itself to the correct time and the alarm started going off about 2 hours later than it was supposed to.… Read the rest