Oooh, It’s A Big One

The latest Rolling Stone came in the mail today. It was all shrink wrapped in plastic. Probably to protect the shiny silver bordered cover of this “Special Double Issue.” I don’t know what makes it special, except for perhaps that photo of Bill Wyman without his shirt on. I don’t know what makes it a double issue, because in thickness it is about the same or maybe even thinner than the last issue. Oh, I see why now, Ozzy is on the cover twice! Once by himself and another with his TV family….

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Most Nissans. Most. The commercial then shows plenty of pictures of ugly Frontier pick-ups, lame duck Maximas and not-so-trendy-anymore Xterras. Missing from the list I’m sure is the new 350Z and the hot Altima. How many knuckleheads will go down to their Nissan dealer thinking he’ll get that deal on a Z and end up seduced and buying something he really doesn’t want? Sadly, probably enough that makes it worth their effort to concoct the campaign. Sigh.

Geek Used To Be A 4-Letter Word, Now It’s A 6-Figure One

I just bought a Lockergnome sweatshirt last week. They were closing them out and $9 for an embroidered XL sweatshirt was too good to pass up. I also bought it because it was forest green and just last month I decided to retire my green Hartford Whalers sweatshirt. It was over 15 years old and the cuffs were fraying and it had a couple spots on it (it’ll make a nice waxing rag for the Miata.) Along with my sweatshirt they threw in a CD from Gnomedex 2002 and a bumper sticker that reads, “Geek used to be a 4-letter word, now it’s a 6-figure one.” Cute, but it won’t get on my car. What might is the Chris caricature that adorned the left side of the sticker. I trimmed all around it and think I’ll stick it on the back bumper for now – then move it to the trunk lid with the rest of my stickers in a couple months.

I haven’t tried the CD yet for fear it will be more of Chris’s home movies. I think I will plop in there, may be some good freeware on there…..

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Self Gift Giving

Ordered a couple of my Christmas presents to the Miata tonight.

First up was a customized caricature from CarArtz.com I sent in pictures of the car, wheels, etc. and sometime after Christmas I will have a picture to frame. (the photos included the car with the Alley Gator Teeth so I guess that is what is going back in the mouth.)

Secondly I ordered the Moss Motors Short Shifter Kit. They had it on special for $119, down from $169. You can track the shipment here.

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Its A Small World After All

Every night I get all set to post to this little blog, but before I do I usually click on a couple of random Blogs from the recently updated column on the left of the Blogger home page. Sometimes I wander for hours reading stuff others have written. Tonight I stumbled on 4 or 5 that were cool which led me to this one – Ho Ho Holy Shit – absolutely great! On the right hand side there are links to the blogs of contributors and one of them happens to be Gretchen Pirillo, wife of Mr. Lockergnome Chris, whose embroidered head adorns the sweatshirt I happen to have on. Small F*cking Internet.

Out With The Rabbit

Back from a weekend in Hilton Head. Once a year we get the run of a 2-bedroom condo down there for free. Well actually it is in payment for doing the owner’s web page (man, I hope the IRS isn’t reading this) he owns a couple and manages a lot more. I did the original page a ways back and do a couple of updates to it yearly to keep the units and their photos updated.

Actually had the top down on both Friday and Saturday afternoons. Felt good as it had been almost a week since the car was convertiblized…

Yesterday I washed the grime off the car. When I was finished, I pulled the Wabbit Teeth out of the mouth. Never did grow to like them. May give them away if I can find a sucker that’ll have them. Should I put the Alley Gator teeth back in or should I go with something different?

Today it was actually nice enough to ride home with the top down.

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Off To Hilton Head Island

Tomorrow is the half day off I’ve been working extra every day this week for and me and the Mrs. are driving down to Hilton Head for the weekend. Sounds like a big deal, but actually we are staying a friend’s condo and we are bringing our DVD player and three movies to watch. We usually just hang around the condo like we hang around the house, the big difference being we can see the ocean from the window on HHI, while at home we see the neighbor’s decrepit boat that is filled with leaves.