Archived News starting from 05-07-2008 and earlier
BlogAfter the
initial report on Captain George's Ice Cream and Middle Eastern Restaurant,
Duane and I decided to make a follow up visit today. It looked
just as freaky on the outside as I had remembered, but the
inside was more
strange than freaky. The strangest by far was a
waterfall on the
porch. They have a $7.95 special which yielded a lot of really good mediterranean food. So much so we didn't even have room for ice cream. I've downgraded my rating from pedophilic to strange with really good food. We spent the remainder of the lunch hour listening to a really bad KITT GPS voice and making pirate jokes involving sexual innuendos.
The
Detroit SCCA Season Opener was today and aside from a sunburn that left me looking like a racoon it went quite well. Thanks to
Stavos and
Lisa I have just enough
vanity photos of my car to last me to the
next event. Results aren't yet posted, but while I'm sure I placed close to last (if not dead last) in my class, I managed to reduce my time each run as I slowly remembered how to negotiate turns properly again. The typical boredom between heats was alleviated by first Lisa then Stavos who both came to visit making the day go by alot quicker. Now that I worked out the cobwebs I'm ready to move up to second to last.
UPDATE:Results
finally posted, looks like I didn't do as well as I'd hoped. Also
more photos with cars other than mine.
Stavos, Tammy and
Lisa began the transformation from barn to high tech computer gaming facility in preparation for the
Barn LAN. After Transformation, and a short delay involving my failure to bridge wireless and wired networks, a low turnout proved to only slightly reduce the level of nerd-joy. However, a BBQ and Quake III shenanigans boosted it back up to acceptable levels.
My bicycle helmet wound up next to Dan on our way to Best Buy today, which gave him an idea for a dare. Once the dare was given, I was clear to
engage in
shenanigans with him and
Tigerbomb at the expense of Best Buy employees and customers. Tigerbomb noticed the soulless employees had no reaction to the spectacle, or perhaps I just wasn't all that strange to them, but the customers made every effort to avoid eye contact at all times. At checkout I stood uncomfortably close to Tiger which silenced the cashier who had no idea that I knew him. I could almost hear the cashier panicking about what the guy in the bicycle helmet was going to do next.
After hearing about how Speedway or Citgo gas stations have crappy gas one too many times, I decided to rant about how gas gets from incoming crude oil tankers to the gas pump. I found a
great article describing the process, which confirms all gas to all Michigan stations flow out of the same pipeline. The only differences are what additives each company adds to the gas before it gets to your tank. Stations that only put the minimum detergent additives required by law into their gas are still feeding you the exact same base gasoline that every other station provides. So while your fuel system may not be cleaned as well by lower cost gasolines, your engine is still running on the same fuel no matter where you fill up. Adding a $10 fuel cleaner bottle once a month will get you the same end result as high additive gas for possibly less cost. This shouldn't be confused with
octane of course, which is dictated by your vehicle. Putting 93 octane in a car that requires 87 is just wasting money (and gas) as your engine won't be able to take advantage of the higher compression the higher octane allows for. With that my rant is complete.
Wondering what do to on the first 80° day of the year in Michigan? Have your wife wash your car in her bikini of course! Sorry, no closeups, that was reserved exclusively for me.
With the announced
retirement of phpBB 2.0, I decided it was time to upgrade
the forums to the new 3.0 version. This new version has built-in protection against spambots and a bunch of other cool features that
Stavos will most certainly exploit. You can also blame him for the crappy appearance until he gets a better theme uploaded and applied.
Thanks to
Sonic Michigan who took the
latest photos of the construction site. He's also claiming May 14th as the opening date, so I'm definately getting pumped. With the cement poured and sign up, I'm inclined to believe him!
Lisas planned trip to her grandparents was extended another 340 miles so we could take in all that is
New York city. In the two days we had available we managed to hit
alot of attractions, including liberty island, ground zero, late show taping, central park, shea stadium, and times square, with my favorite attraction being the subway. My primary motivation for visiting was to see what was left of the
1964/5 Worlds Fair, and sadly there
wasn't much left. Of all the huge and optimistic pavilions that were constructed for the fair, only the Unisphere survived in tact. The New York Pavilion was the only other structure, which was left to rot, so I took it as my duty to collect a few souvenirs after breaking into the
Circarama. Here's what it
used to look like before it was left to die.
A stop in Southgate on our way to New York yielded an
updated photo of the Sonic construction. Lisa was
ecstatic about finally seeing the site of the new Sonic. The only apparent progress is columns for the front roof and the curb around the building. Still no parking lot or order stations, probably early to mid May before they're done at this rate.
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