Home

Home is a movie for those of us who didn’t catch the point of Koyannisquatsi from its Hopi Indian title and time lapse photography images. Home also uses time lapse imagery, but to drive its point home (no pun intended, unless of course the film makers did mean it that way too) there is an in your face narration that leaves little to doubt the movie’s message; humans are mucking up the planet.

I’m a sucker for time lapse, so I’ve watched a little more than half of Home and will finish the rest tomorrow. Both Home & Koyannisquatsi are available to watch in their entirety on YouTube. From reading the comments, Koyannisquatsi has a few commercials placed in it, Home does not.

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Now Here’s Something You Don’t See Everyday

A Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder parked just like a pedestrian Camry at the North Augusta Riverview Activities Center on an early Sunday morning. “Honey, I’m going down to the park and go running. I’m taking the Lambo.”

It still has the local Mercedes dealer paper tag on the back and judging by the wheels I’m thinking it is a 2007 model. It is much smaller than I imagined it was, looks not much bigger than a Miata. But in truth, this car is 14 inches longer, 9 inches wider and only 3 inches shorter in height. It weighs a whopping 900 pounds more than a Miata, but that penalty is nicely offset by the 420 more horses than than the Mazda’s 140. I wonder how much a 4 year-old Lamborghini goes for?

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Special Super Bowl Post

Right now it looks like Troy’s seven fingers up is at risk as the Steelers trail 21 to 17 near the end of the 3rd quarter.

We finally got a really nice day for geocaching, so we headed over to North Augusta and snagged 8 of 10. Seven of the eight finds were along the rails to trails Greeneway and one of those caches was quite the adventure. It was off the trail and down a steep embankment to almost the Savannah River. It was so steep that we had to walk down and up using a zig-zagging path similar to Tour de France cyclists in the Alps. We ended up walking a shade over 6 miles doing those 7 caches.

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Almost A Million Miatas

Mazda MX-5 Miata number 900,000 rolled of the assembly line sometime yesterday, a soft-top, six-speed manual-equipped Copper Red MX-5, and destined for Germany. It took 21 years and 10 months to get to that figure, so after some not so quick math I figure that the one millionth car will be made less than 2-1/2 years from now on July 13, 2013.

The photo accompanying the Autoblog article has this caption: 20th Anniversary Mazda MX-5 Miata special edition ? Click above for high-res image gallery. I don’t remember any 20th Anniversary Edition. So I clicked on the link and was taken to a post from March 3, 2010 about the car at the Geneva Motor Show. This was a photo of the European 20th Anniversary model. There were also a Japanese and a British version of the 20th Anniversary car, but alas, no US version. You would have thought we would have gotten one too, after all, according to the 900,000th car press release, the US received nearly 45 percent of these little cars.

In that gallery are a couple of photos that interest me, one showing the outside badge proclaiming “20th Anniversary” and other was of the sill plates with “20th Anniversary” above “0000/2000.” The Emperor is a 2003 model, I wonder how much it would cost to have a couple 13th Anniversary badges made up? Of course the number plate would read 1 of 1.

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Groundhog Day

Another Desktop Gremlin, this one is a Special Edition available only to “subscribers” i.e. people who sign up with their email address to receive notice when a new gremlin is available. Some folks* might classify the octopus as the groundhog of the deep and this cephalopod mollusc saw his shadow this morning thereby predicting 6 more weeks of winter, unlike the landlubbing marmota monax on Gobbler’s Hill.

*mental unacheivers and bloggers

This morning while discussing the upcoming evening’s entertainment, whimsical holidays and animal weather predictors at work, I came up with the brilliant idea to watch Groundhog Day with Bill Murray and Andie MacDowell tonight and wondered why TNT didn’t run a 24 hour marathon of this movie like they did with A Christmas Story on that day. I don’t own it, so I asked myself, “I wonder if it is available as a Watch It Now movie on Netflix.” Good news, sure enough it is, bad news, Donna hates the movie* (maybe there are a lot more like her and that is why there is no 24 hour marathon.)

*She liked it the first time, but once was plenty.

Our network is locked down pretty tight at work, no Youtube, no Vimeo, no streaming music, so I figured there was no way I could watch Netflix, but being the curious type I had to try. You know what? A person could watch the streaming Netflix. At least I’m pretty sure I could, as soon as the Starz Play intro started I disconnected. I don’t know if alarm bells went off in the basement in St Louis or not, but I’m certain I didn’t want to get caught watching a movie at my desk because my instincts told me management would probably frown on it.

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