Sturgeon’s Law

Ninety per­cent of every­thing is crap.


Derived from a quote by sci­ence fic­tion author Theodore Stur­geon, who once said, “Sure, 90% of sci­ence fic­tion is crud. That’s because 90% of every­thing is crud.” Oddly, when Sturgeon’s Law is cited, the final word is almost invari­ably changed to ‘crap’.

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Scotts Bluff Panorama Monetta - 29105 Space Needle VMI

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One Last Super Bowl Car Commercial Post

There are still more out there, but 6 is enough. So to fin­ish it off, via Jalop­nik: The Ten Best Super Bowl Car Ads of All Time*

*in the opin­ion of their readers

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Super Bowl Thursday

Deal­ing With The Devil

Where Babies Come From

It’s What Defines Us

Super Bowl Monday

First we watched the Super Bowl for the game. Then we watched for the com­mer­cials. Now we don’t even have to even watch to see the com­mer­cials. They’re on the inter­net weeks before. Here are three of the car related ones.

Nice Car

Nice Genie

Nice Accent

Way To Convey A Feeling VW

Last Octo­ber I included a pic­ture of the new New Bee­tle and more or less made fun of it. They have sup­pos­edly butched it up a bit to appeal to more men, I do think they suc­ceeded to a cer­tain extent, but it is not going to loose the “chick car” label. Not that there is any­thing wrong with that.

The Miata has a chick car label and I cer­tainly like them and truth be told I like the new New Bee­tle too. VW has released some offi­cial pho­tos of the NNB con­vert­ible. The above pic­ture shows a woman dri­ving a blue col­ored copy and a man dri­ving a red one. Click on the pic­ture and you will get a blow up of the red car and it looks like he is not happy to be dri­ving a chick car.

My Favourite Game

A cou­ple of decades ago at a Miatas At The Gap event some­one handed out a Mix CD that included a bunch of dri­ving songs. It included The Cardi­gans tune My Favourite Game and while it is a cool song I could never really fig­ure out the dri­ving con­nec­tion, until this morn­ing. Thanks Jalop­nik.

Radio Paradise HD

My favorite inter­net radio sta­tion has it own chan­nel on the Roku box. It is called Radio Par­adise HD and it streams the same music as the radio stream, but with the addi­tion of pho­tos that com­pli­ment the title, artist or lyrics.

Tonight I decided to upload a few of my pho­tos to see if they might use them. The sub­mis­sion form had room for eight files, so that is how many I uploaded for now. Maybe next time I do a few Enchanted Ceil­ing shots. One of the one tonight was the above image of Carhenge from our 2009 trip out west.

For the first time in about 3 weeks we rode the tan­dem to work. This is a great time of year for this because now that school is out for the sum­mer traf­fic on the way to work is almost non-existent and not much more on the way home.

This is going to leave a hour long hole in my Sat­ur­day morn­ing — Click & Clack Hang Up Their Microphones

Photo Fun

Three pic­tures are worth 3,000 words…

Started up, went down, back up, back down, still down.
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