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Monday, November 24, 2008
So you have 17 years of spare time, and a really good knack for engineering. What should you do? How about HAND BUILD a replica Lambo Countach...in your basement, part by part, and one day, have the need to extract the car.  Check out the site: http://www.kiengineering.com/Home_Page.html  Sunday, November 23, 2008
I put it off as long as I could, but with the forecast for slick stuff coming this week, I had to take off the M5's and put on the BBS's with the winter time Blizzacks. I swapped the rims yesterday in the 20 something degree temps...and today, was able to test drive and ensure there was no wobble or balance issues at 3 digits. Once that was done, it was time for one last heated powerwash of the year: I really hate the way this car looks in the winter...I am going to paint the BBS's to see if I can improve the looks...when I have a spare moment that is:  Saturday, November 22, 2008
Another road race season is in the bag, and an OYL friend went down hard this year, and is lucky to be alive. Scott Smallwood was racing his 125 with USGPRU at VIR and went of track and hit a tirewall. It has been a long recovery, and Scott is getting better. Just found an interview from the day of the event, with footage of the wreck... http://onthethrottle.tv/pages/page/usgpru_sun_18_125gp_vir_08/143_571_813 Check out Scotts site with updates on his progress: http://www.smallwoodracing.com/ Thursday, November 20, 2008
Sunday, November 16, 2008
A few interesting thoughts: intuitive high bandwidth to information data massive data minority report micrsoft surface spacial computing imersive intelligence human interface So, we now have a working prototype through a company called oblong. Watch the video, very interesting, yet......still some years behind the thoughts we had of a full avatar based OS that allows one to video conference, find files, and manage business, from anywhere, anytime, fully virtual. Ahhh, give them time, someone will come up with it. g-speak overview 1828121108 from john underkoffler on Vimeo. Saturday, November 15, 2008
 About damn time... It was some years back when I was watching The Matrix, when I thought "about time someone came up with a unique idea for a movie". Well, tonight, Marvel did the same thing. I have seen tons of press internally about Ironman (we have a CX and DMX in the movie), but I finally got the time to take a look. Nice flick, seriously entertained for 2+ hours, and the movie is....great. Technology, cars, technology, cars, guns...what else do we need? I highly recommend it. I slipped out a $5 spot to stream it HD ... WELL worth it in HD btw. On to other things... XP, it runs well, especially on my old hardware, buuut...looks a bit dated. So I mod'ed my install on my primary machine to be XP under the covers, but Vista, all things visually. Performance of XP, visuals of Vista...best of both worlds. Kind of amazing, just 3 simple freeware tools, and I have this:  Just to explain what you are seeing...that is IE8 beta, rocket dock up top, google desktop widgets, my streaming home surveillance video (see any deer in there?!?) and the new Vista destop. From a vista perspective, I have transparency working, full shadows and the vista bar, etc....very nice. And no, I do not use the on-screen keyboard that often...I am using a Mac keyboard and therefore have no printscrn key...so that is how I have to screenshot my desktop. Friday, November 14, 2008
Last Sunday the Mini-me and I spent the entire day together. All the girls were out of the house for the day, and we got some good bonding time together watching world superbike, motogp 125 races, some super-moto...oh, and we took some naps. Good day. Shot a few pics of the little guy...the ladies love the drool mini-me...keep it up...  Saturday, November 08, 2008
Last week, I got the priveledge to participate in our yearly summit with Microsoft at the Redmond Campus. Great time, extremely beneficial from a technology review, and I got to see some REALLY cool things that I cannot breath a word of....not any time soon that is. So, this was my first time to the Northwest, and it is a long day of traveling, both there and back (especially when you have to connect through ORD). On the last day, we were given the opportunity to visit building 90 and vistit the Microsoft company store. We were given slips to allow us to purchase up to $120 worth of microsoft software...at employee rates. I bought Vista Ultimate ($50), Office 2007 Visio Standard ($15), and Windows Vista Home Basic ($5). The Vista basic I am going to load on the girls pc.  Inside, the store is very nice...software as long as you can see:  The entire store, was something, anything, with the word "Microsoft" on it. Jackets...$50, and nice ones at that:  After the store, we headed over to the new Micrsoft Museum. Very cool room of all the differing software and hardware, some available today and some not yet. This globe was pretty cool...counting down the emails sent, number of windows users, xbox live connections, etc:  The Microsoft Surface table has to be the single most impressive technology I have ever seen or used. I played with it for about 30 minutes, could not believe how well it worked:  Those are the only photos of Microsoft that I have, as I did not have my camera until Weds night. We had a partner event, with Cisco, Brocade, Symantec, Emulex, and others, and I won one of the gifts. Earlier in the day when the gifts were announced, I said "I will participate in this one as I need to win the small digital camera". Then when we got to the event, I said "Hey, I think I am going to win something tonight". I did not win the XBOX 360, or the Amex checks, or the zune....but I won the Canon PowerShot A570IS! Nice. And to think I was minutes away from buying a camera before going (no way I was going to lug my DSLR around the country...it is afterall bigger than my laptop!!)  And ... of course. We worked VERY hard. We had very early mornings and long days of discussions with Engineering, Product marketing and many discussions on the integration of our products jointly. This was 4 levels above Tech-Ed, and I still contend that Tech-Ed is the BEST conference on the planet. This also reminded me why I have always been in the Microsoft space...I enjoy it. So, who knows, maybe in time I will make a change internally to get more Microsoft focused again. As hard as we work, we also play hard. A few nights of 3 hour (or sub-3 hour) sleep. We drank things like this:  ...served by Rada (who was really cool) at Joey's:  Dave (pictured above with his Mohito), is from London, and we quickly got to talking cars, and all things BMW. He has an e46 M, so we got to chat over drinks and shots for hours... A great workcation. I learned more in a week than I can say I have in the last 2 years...it was very productive and very well worth the time. Saturday, November 01, 2008
I always joke with the wife that when something is completely out of the realm of possibility...."looks like someone in marketing got a hold of this one..." That hits home, as her last career (pre-mommy) was in Marketing and Design... So I am drinking coffee and browsing the web when I come across the most genious marketing blitz ever, BMWfilms. This is the film, that when I watched it, knew that I had to have the e39, and well, since I have been a happy e39 owner since about 04, I have to say the film worked. It was flawless, the action, the speed...until...the "air" scene. Nuff said, still a good flick and quite entertaining. |
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