n8 foo

Went up to Monterey Bay, CA for the Historics again. It was pretty fun this year. John, Mark, Karl and I went up for the 4 day trip. We took John's Ford Escape, Karl's 2002 and Mark's MR2 Spyder.

Highlights:

Using the MR2 Spyder Frunk
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/222457809

Karl pissing off the side of a mountain
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/222459017

Mark doing a dusty burnout and subsequently John and I nearly getting
killed in a head-on collision
http://www.vmix.com/viewVideo.php?ID=1243215

The current model Toyota F1 race car setting the Laguna Seca all time lap record of 106.309. He (I think it was Ricardo Zonta) beat it 3 times that weekend, besting the 2001 record (Honda Champ car) by more than a second. And more than 4 seconds faster than the Ferrari in 2003.
http://www.vmix.com/viewVideo.php?ID=1243220

A million Coopers on the track
http://www.vmix.com/viewVideo.php?ID=1243222

A million Mini's:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/222444643/in/set-72157594247743094/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/222444004/in/set-72157594247743094/ (hehe)

Flaming Drinks:
http://www.vmix.com/viewVideo.php?ID=1243242

Seeing a Mazda RX-792P Start, warm up and rev.
http://www.vmix.com/viewVideo.php?ID=1243246

Watching a Lister pretty much destroy everyone on the track:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/222450249

Seeing Old Yeller again:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/222450149

Hearing a Lexus pace car tear up the track with it's super loud squealing tires:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/222449804

Actually seeing under the hood of a Toyota 2000GT...they started them and drove them around the track. Holy shit!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/222446206/in/set-72157594247743094/

Couple of funny plates and stickers:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/222429701/in/set-72157594247723487/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/222430639/in/set-72157594247723487/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/222429724/in/set-72157594247723487/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/222432875/in/set-72157594247723487/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/222433231/in/set-72157594247723487/

Seeing the 2 under-hood urinals in the new Mustang GT500. LAME ENGINE BAY.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/222430483

And some awesome driving:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/222457169/in/set-72157594247761996/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/222459331/in/set-72157594247761996/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/222458611/in/set-72157594247761996/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/222456759/in/set-72157594247761996/


The rest of my pics here:

Monterey Historics 2006: The Drive
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/sets/72157594247761996/

Concorso Italiano 2006
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/sets/72157594247723487/

Monterey Historics 2006: Paddock
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/sets/72157594247743094/

Monterey Historics 2006: Races
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/sets/72157594247749628/

Monterey Historics 2006: Misc
http://www.flickr.com/photos/n8foo/sets/72157594247765359/

...since last I posted in my blog. I've been so damn busy with work. But I'm slowly getting things under control and hopefully having more free time to do these sorts of things.

What have I been up to lately? Hrmm. Check out some of these vids:

• Me, Eddy and Clint building out our new datacenter for work.
• Damian and I riding the "Snakes on a Plane" ride at Comic Con
• At X-Sanguin 1 & 2
• Looking at the moon

And these pic sets:

• X-Sanguin party pics
• Comic Con 2006
• Joseph's Graduation
• Tracy ran the Rock n Roll Marathon
• An amazing treehouse in TN
• A couple of astronomy photos
  

Now for something that entertained me quite a bit this morning:

From somethingawful:

Whew. And for any 14-year-old girls who love Avenged Sevenfold who might be reading this: it’s not too late. You have until the age of seventeen to start liking real music, but after that you’re pretty much doomed to liking awful shit for the rest of your life, so straighten up now or you’ll eventually become a pregnant stripper, and you’d better hope against hope that Myspace is still around then so you can find a dad for your little sack of crap.

A 14 yr old's response:

...HEY IM A FUCKING 14 YEAR OLD AND UMM IM NOT GUNNA END UP A PREGNANT STRIPPER BECAUSE OF A BAND!!!! ...

And his response to that:

It may be true, Chitchatgirl, that you will not end up a pregnant stripper because of a band. You will end up a pregnant stripper for any number of diverse and inevitable reasons, which may include your love of Avenged Sevenfold, but may be entirely peripheral to it. You may become a pregnant stripper because of your crystal meth habit, or because you were abused as a child, or simply because I am going to devote about 3% of my mental energy, from this day forth, to willing you to fail. Hey, it probably won't make any difference, but when you do fail, it'll make me feel psychic.

Truly great. The rest of the thread is here: http://www.somethingawful.com/index.php?a=3990