Thursday, May 17, 2007
lotus time!
tis the season! I finally got my lotus running and pulled out of the garage on tuesday night. late last year the car stopped working and wouldnt start so i spent the entire tuesday night putting in new spark plugs, fuel injectors and tensioning the timing belt. it runs like a champ now!
DUMBASSES!
I absolutely HATE spandex wearing bicyclists who think they own the road. like these two A-Holes:
they always do about 10 MPH along the side of the street and you cant pass their slow asses without getting into the oncoming lane of traffic! the funny thing about this picture is, notice the BIKE PATH to their right that probably cost the city thousands to put in for morons like this. This is especially bad around lake calhoun... their bike paths are clearly marked with a stencil of a BIKE directly on the path, every 100 ft or something, yet you still get the "im too good for a path" idiots that ride in the already narrow street! I once saw a car full of hispanics driving around calhoun and they had to swerve to avoid one of these spandex wearing jackholes, so they pulled up next to him and reached out the car and shoved him over and yelled "BIKE PATH" as they sped off. I laughed my ass off!
they always do about 10 MPH along the side of the street and you cant pass their slow asses without getting into the oncoming lane of traffic! the funny thing about this picture is, notice the BIKE PATH to their right that probably cost the city thousands to put in for morons like this. This is especially bad around lake calhoun... their bike paths are clearly marked with a stencil of a BIKE directly on the path, every 100 ft or something, yet you still get the "im too good for a path" idiots that ride in the already narrow street! I once saw a car full of hispanics driving around calhoun and they had to swerve to avoid one of these spandex wearing jackholes, so they pulled up next to him and reached out the car and shoved him over and yelled "BIKE PATH" as they sped off. I laughed my ass off!
toy cars
OK, i know im 24 and i know these are hot wheels cars but this is a representation of what my garage is going to look like in a few years... these are all of my dream cars and even if i cant own all of them together, i will own one of each at least once...
left to right we have:
Hummer H1
Lotus esprit (check this one off the list!)
Delorean
Lamborghini Jalpa
Lamborghini Countach
Lamborghini Diablo
left to right we have:
Hummer H1
Lotus esprit (check this one off the list!)
Delorean
Lamborghini Jalpa
Lamborghini Countach
Lamborghini Diablo
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
cone!
ok, what the hell is this cone doing here? is it warning people of the sign (which is much bigger then the cone in the first place!!!)?
dark watch
ok i know theres enough talk on here about my new omega but i though i would post a nice nighttime illumination shot. Omega has some of the best illuminating watches ever and you really have to see how bright they are in person to appreciate it!
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
assault weapons...
The tragedy in virginia yesterday was extremely heartbreaking and words cannot describe how tragic this event was. I am deeply saddened that this happened and it is truly awful.I listened to talk radio all day at work today and as you can imagine this was understandably the only thing that anyone could talk about on air. The main thing that pissed me off extremely bad today, was everyone talking about gun laws and the like. As you are probably all well aware, I do own an UZI "assault weapon" so this touches on an issue that I feel very strongly about. It was mentioned a NUMBER of times that there is a strong possibility that the assault weapons ban that expired a few years back would be reinstated. I would like to take this time to tell you to ask yourself this question... Do you HONESTLY know what an assault weapon is? If the first thought that comes to your mind is "machine gun", then you are sadly mis-informed and you probably think this way because of the propaganda and lies told by the majority of the mainstream media. All machine guns have been banned since 1934 and even before that you had to be a federal firearms dealer or law enforcement to obtain them. A machine gun is any firearm that will repeat firing as long as the trigger is held.An assault weapon is any weapon with two or more of the following features: -folding or telescoping stock -threaded barrel -pistol grip -foward grip (hand grip other than the pistol grip) -barrel shroudNote that it has NOTHING to do with fully automatic fire!!! So every anti-gun person out there using the argument that creating an assault weapons ban will get "machine guns off the streets", is full of shit and wants you to associate all assault weapons with fully automatic weapons, which they actually have nothing to do with.My BIGGEST GRIPE with all of this is the fact that assault weapons are being brought up left and right, yet the killer at Virginia Tech used a Glock 19 PISTOL and a Walther P22 PISTOL.... NEITHER of which comes close to being an "assault weapon"...
The assault weapons ban of 1994 that recently ended did NOTHING. It simply made it so that companies that were producing said weapons could not produce them with the features mentioned above. The DC Sniper used a Bushmaster XM-15 rifle to commit the murders in the beltway area of the eastern US in 2002.
This rifle is a civilian legal, semi-automatic clone of the M16 rifle (fully automatic) that is standard issue with US Marines and used extensively by police forces and military. This rifle is an assault weapon, BUT the specific rifle Malvo used was produced and manufactured and sold legally to him, a non-law enforcement or military citizen, WHILE the assault weapons ban was active. Prior to the assault weapons ban, this gun would have had a bayonet lug and possibly a threaded barrel and would come sold with 30 round magazines/clips. Upon the setting of the ban, all Bushmaster firearms had to do was simply get rid of these insignificant features and they were still able to sell the rifles that average people wouldnt be able to tell the difference in anyways. This specific gun used did not have a telescoping stock but many of Bushmaster's other rifles do. At the time of the ban passing, all Bushmaster had to do was weld the stock in an open position and that made it pass regulation. The fact is that yes, the BAN did pass, but there were (and still are) still countless numbers of the pre-ban guns in existence, fully equipped with threaded barrels, folding stocks and all that "bad stuff"!!! The prices of these guns just increased because people still wanted them. Government did nothing and still cant do anything about the countless number of assault weapons that existed before the ban passed. Now, lets take a look at another tragedy... The Columbine shootings of 8 years ago. The killers used a number of different weapons including a sawed off shotgun (good luck EVER banning shotguns!!) and an Intratec TEC-9.
(upper right corner)The media wanted you to believe that this Tec-9 was a machine gun like I have mentioned before, but it was NOT. You can go to any gun show to this day and find a number of them on sale to civilians. They are your average ordinary 9mm pistol that just looks mean.
In the 80's they had a shroud around the barrel with holes in it to help with heat as well as a threaded barrel, as shown above, but the assault weapons band deemed that "dangerous" so Intratec just made their guns as you see in the picture above of all the Columbine weapons... No threaded barrel or extension. They also sold them with smaller capacity magazines/clips (do I have to mention the hundreds of thousands of mags already produced before the ban out there that could hold 32 rounds??). My point here is that the gun used in Columbine that the media wants you to think is a fully automatic machine gun, was in fact a semi automatic 9mm pistol, manufactured DURING the assault weapons ban!!!!Then there is the famous North Hollywood Shootout in which two masked bank robbers robbed a bank and walked out with AK-47's and fired at everything in sight for an hour. THESE were illegally obtained machine guns! Not what the media says is "commonly available" and tells you are the types of weapons that are readily avaiable without background checks at gunshows. Oh P.S. it took me MONTHS to pass FBI background checks in order to obtain a license to get my UZI, and /i urge ANYONE reading this to try buying an "assault rifle" at a gunshow without them asking for your permit to purchase!!!My UZI is a SEMI automatic 9mm PISTOL that fires ONE shot with every pull of the trigger. I bought it DURING the assault weapons ban. I have six 32 round PRE-ban magazines for it that were produced before the ban.
During the ban I could have still went and obtained as many 32 rounders as I wanted. There is an EXTREME surplus of the things. Point here: the ban did NOT "ban UZIs and AK47's" (like i keep drilling into your heads) which is what every anti-gun person wants weak minded people to believe!My point is that the cosmetic features that were deemed dangerous and inappropriate on assault weapons are what made the ban, and contrary to what 99% of the public believes, NOT a permanent "end-all" ban on "machine guns" (which, as I have mentioned, have been completely banned since 1934!) Also, no matter what the government tries to ban, there will always be loopholes around it and not to mention the insane amount of already produced "assault weapons" already out there. Oh, and there is no hope in taking these guns away because it is in the constitution, and that is a topic that will be argued about with no results until the end of time! ALSO lets not forget the black market! The bigger the ban, the bigger the black market! (edit: as of this writing, it was noted on the news that the guns used in the Virginia Tech massacre had their serial numbers etched off. A CLEAR sign that they were purchased on the black market illegally!)My other main point is that the media is bringing all of this up when it has NOTHING to do with yesterday at all! There were no assault weapons used at any time! Last thing... If ANY of you try to associate me with the likes of the Virginia Tech killer or even think that i would EVER be that sick in the head just because I own and UZI and play Grand Theft Auto, go choke on a piece of your own shit.p.s. Karl, I dont want to argue about this. This is about the ban and the fact that media keeps trying to bring it up at inappropriate times, not my ownership or the "need" for firearms. That post will come at a later time! ;)
The assault weapons ban of 1994 that recently ended did NOTHING. It simply made it so that companies that were producing said weapons could not produce them with the features mentioned above. The DC Sniper used a Bushmaster XM-15 rifle to commit the murders in the beltway area of the eastern US in 2002.
This rifle is a civilian legal, semi-automatic clone of the M16 rifle (fully automatic) that is standard issue with US Marines and used extensively by police forces and military. This rifle is an assault weapon, BUT the specific rifle Malvo used was produced and manufactured and sold legally to him, a non-law enforcement or military citizen, WHILE the assault weapons ban was active. Prior to the assault weapons ban, this gun would have had a bayonet lug and possibly a threaded barrel and would come sold with 30 round magazines/clips. Upon the setting of the ban, all Bushmaster firearms had to do was simply get rid of these insignificant features and they were still able to sell the rifles that average people wouldnt be able to tell the difference in anyways. This specific gun used did not have a telescoping stock but many of Bushmaster's other rifles do. At the time of the ban passing, all Bushmaster had to do was weld the stock in an open position and that made it pass regulation. The fact is that yes, the BAN did pass, but there were (and still are) still countless numbers of the pre-ban guns in existence, fully equipped with threaded barrels, folding stocks and all that "bad stuff"!!! The prices of these guns just increased because people still wanted them. Government did nothing and still cant do anything about the countless number of assault weapons that existed before the ban passed. Now, lets take a look at another tragedy... The Columbine shootings of 8 years ago. The killers used a number of different weapons including a sawed off shotgun (good luck EVER banning shotguns!!) and an Intratec TEC-9.
(upper right corner)The media wanted you to believe that this Tec-9 was a machine gun like I have mentioned before, but it was NOT. You can go to any gun show to this day and find a number of them on sale to civilians. They are your average ordinary 9mm pistol that just looks mean.
In the 80's they had a shroud around the barrel with holes in it to help with heat as well as a threaded barrel, as shown above, but the assault weapons band deemed that "dangerous" so Intratec just made their guns as you see in the picture above of all the Columbine weapons... No threaded barrel or extension. They also sold them with smaller capacity magazines/clips (do I have to mention the hundreds of thousands of mags already produced before the ban out there that could hold 32 rounds??). My point here is that the gun used in Columbine that the media wants you to think is a fully automatic machine gun, was in fact a semi automatic 9mm pistol, manufactured DURING the assault weapons ban!!!!Then there is the famous North Hollywood Shootout in which two masked bank robbers robbed a bank and walked out with AK-47's and fired at everything in sight for an hour. THESE were illegally obtained machine guns! Not what the media says is "commonly available" and tells you are the types of weapons that are readily avaiable without background checks at gunshows. Oh P.S. it took me MONTHS to pass FBI background checks in order to obtain a license to get my UZI, and /i urge ANYONE reading this to try buying an "assault rifle" at a gunshow without them asking for your permit to purchase!!!My UZI is a SEMI automatic 9mm PISTOL that fires ONE shot with every pull of the trigger. I bought it DURING the assault weapons ban. I have six 32 round PRE-ban magazines for it that were produced before the ban.
During the ban I could have still went and obtained as many 32 rounders as I wanted. There is an EXTREME surplus of the things. Point here: the ban did NOT "ban UZIs and AK47's" (like i keep drilling into your heads) which is what every anti-gun person wants weak minded people to believe!My point is that the cosmetic features that were deemed dangerous and inappropriate on assault weapons are what made the ban, and contrary to what 99% of the public believes, NOT a permanent "end-all" ban on "machine guns" (which, as I have mentioned, have been completely banned since 1934!) Also, no matter what the government tries to ban, there will always be loopholes around it and not to mention the insane amount of already produced "assault weapons" already out there. Oh, and there is no hope in taking these guns away because it is in the constitution, and that is a topic that will be argued about with no results until the end of time! ALSO lets not forget the black market! The bigger the ban, the bigger the black market! (edit: as of this writing, it was noted on the news that the guns used in the Virginia Tech massacre had their serial numbers etched off. A CLEAR sign that they were purchased on the black market illegally!)My other main point is that the media is bringing all of this up when it has NOTHING to do with yesterday at all! There were no assault weapons used at any time! Last thing... If ANY of you try to associate me with the likes of the Virginia Tech killer or even think that i would EVER be that sick in the head just because I own and UZI and play Grand Theft Auto, go choke on a piece of your own shit.p.s. Karl, I dont want to argue about this. This is about the ban and the fact that media keeps trying to bring it up at inappropriate times, not my ownership or the "need" for firearms. That post will come at a later time! ;)
lambo
ok this is the first exotic of the season... it has officially begun! I will be posting all of the nice cars from around the minneapolis area that i photograph but this year it will only be the best of the best....parked at ridgedale mall was this silver lamborghini gallardo owned by a friend of mine named joe. he traded in his silver ferrari 360 modena spyder for it... way to go joe!!! screw ferrari!
fashion is stupid
ok this pisses me off... this store is a crock of shit.this is a CLOTING STORE.... see the ad in the front window? yeah, there are no CLOTHES to be seen!!!!the store smells like butt from half way down the hall and the music is so god damn loud that you probably cant even hear what the cashier says your total is. and dont EVEN get me started on hollister.
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
evil
ok its that time of the year again for a peeps related entry... i found these little bastards lookin all mad and evil... not waht they are supposed to look like...
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
audi
Ok this is from two saturdays ago at the minneapolis auto show.. pretty much the only car worth taking pictures of... the Audi R8.... this is the car that was in the movie I Robot with will Smith, only that one was a modified one to look all futuristic. This thing is audis fastest car and has some really sleek looking lines. Base price starts at about $110,000.
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
bling? no... CLASS!
hmm, whats this white box?
ooooh, looks like a nice red leather something-or-other inside.... I wonder whats inside!?!
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OH MY GOD! its an OMEGA!!!!!!
Thats right ladies and gentleman, after months and months of trying on awesome expensive watches, ive finally stepped up to the plate and got the Omega Seamaster 300M Diver Chronometer Automatic (the James Bond watch)...
This thing is seriously awesome and one of the finest timepieces I have ever seen... It cost me a pretty penny but it i worth it in every way. Like ive said before Ive wanted a watch like this since I was in eighth grade and now my dream has finally come true! No one except Molly understands why this watch costs so much though... well this isnt your everage "put batteries in it and tell time" watch... this is like a lambrghini and it is handcrafted and has over 100 different mechanical parts inside that make it so when you move your wrist, it winds itself and has enough power to be sefl wound for 44 hours... Its internal bearings are made of actual rubies and the face of the watch is scratch resistant sapphire crystal. It is water proof and pressure proof down to 1000 feet below the sea. It has a ton more features that make it totally awesome but I think ive said enough. The last photo is my "artsy" photo...
oh and by the way, if you think your getting this thing off of my wrist, your gonna have to prepare to be sliced... and you all know the size of Knife I carry ;) ;)
ooooh, looks like a nice red leather something-or-other inside.... I wonder whats inside!?!
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OH MY GOD! its an OMEGA!!!!!!
Thats right ladies and gentleman, after months and months of trying on awesome expensive watches, ive finally stepped up to the plate and got the Omega Seamaster 300M Diver Chronometer Automatic (the James Bond watch)...
This thing is seriously awesome and one of the finest timepieces I have ever seen... It cost me a pretty penny but it i worth it in every way. Like ive said before Ive wanted a watch like this since I was in eighth grade and now my dream has finally come true! No one except Molly understands why this watch costs so much though... well this isnt your everage "put batteries in it and tell time" watch... this is like a lambrghini and it is handcrafted and has over 100 different mechanical parts inside that make it so when you move your wrist, it winds itself and has enough power to be sefl wound for 44 hours... Its internal bearings are made of actual rubies and the face of the watch is scratch resistant sapphire crystal. It is water proof and pressure proof down to 1000 feet below the sea. It has a ton more features that make it totally awesome but I think ive said enough. The last photo is my "artsy" photo...
oh and by the way, if you think your getting this thing off of my wrist, your gonna have to prepare to be sliced... and you all know the size of Knife I carry ;) ;)
work
Ok so i finally had to quit south side automotive because i really need some more money if im going to be affording life and paying down debt and stuff.... I found a new job at a place called Gerand Engineering that makes and ships out meters and valves and all that stuff for the fire sprinkler systems in office buildings... My dad has worked there for a while and so has my cousin so as of yesterday (thursday was supposed to be my first day but I got a paid snow day for both thursday and friday) I am now an official warehouse worker, making much more money then i was at South Side.... not to mention I now get longer breaks, and the possibility of benefits such as insurance, vacations, and all that cool stuff! Below are some pictures of the warehouse that I spend all day in.... I have had MANY MANY different various jobs assembling things and packaging things and double checking other peoples work and it just makes the day FLY by! I am really loving it! Plus I get to work with my dad who is a really awesome guy to work for because he knows how to be organized like I like to be and he knows just about everything about this job, so if i have any questions, he is there for me!This is the assembly area where everything gets put together before going out into the warehouse:
aisle 1 of the warehouse:
aisle 2 of the warehouse:
(you can see teh door that leads to the assembly room from aobve)
aisles 3 and 4 of the warehouse:
view from aisle 2 looking towards the shipping counter:
aisle 1 of the warehouse:
aisle 2 of the warehouse:
(you can see teh door that leads to the assembly room from aobve)
aisles 3 and 4 of the warehouse:
view from aisle 2 looking towards the shipping counter:
beer!!!
went to a party over the weekend and there was this awesome table in the basement that was being completely covered in used beer bottle caps.... took a cool shot of it....
dogs!
ok i just had to post some pics of the two dogs i see every day... my (moms westie):
and Mollys Chihuahua:
and Mollys Chihuahua:
snooooooooow
ok in case you live in a different state, you damn well know we got lots and lots and lots of snow in minneapolis last weekend... here are some pics of my backyard covered in a nice white blanket... I HATE THIS STUFF.
Thursday, March 1, 2007
bond
Ok, screw that other watch, im going with the Omega Seamaster 300M Diver... This is the watch that Pierce Brosnan wore in all of his movies that he played James Bond in.... Its one of the most popular watches in all of Omegas line and it has that really cool bezel that rotates so you can tell elapsed time or time remaining if diving (or other various situations)... The watch goes for about $2000 and I should have one on my birthday so stay tuned then for an extensive review! yes, I am buying this watch partially because of the James Bond awesomeness, but Ive wanted a luxury timepiece since I was in 8th grade and got a chance to take apart a really excellently crafted rolex replica that ran on a swiss made automatic movement (self winding and uses no batteries). This is one of those types of watches and if you even knew what went into producing one of these you would see why they cost so damn much. This isnt some ordinary target-bought timex here.... this will be a piece that I will hope to someday pass down to future generations of my family...
hot sauce review 2
ok its that time again.... time for another hot sauce review since i have some excellent new additions to the collection...first are probably two of the most well known and definately my top two favorites at the moment...
on the left we have daves insanity sauce.... this was the first sauce to incorporate the extracts of hot peppers for that extra kick and when it first came out, he was kicked out of a sauce awards show for it being too hot.... well, compared to the insane extract based stuff thats out on the market now, this stuff is pretty mild but will still make you NEED a glass of milk... it has a reaaaallly good flavor too and makes an excellent addition to chip dips, salsas and chicken.Second in the picture is Blairs Jersey Death. two words: FUCKING CHRIST! this stuff is double the heat of the last hot sauces review hottest sauce.... this stuff is 750 times hotter then a jalapeno pepper and you can just see the wickedness in the bottle... there is sort of a resin that forms on the side of the bottle in this really dark red syrup. It doesnt really pour out of teh bottle, it just kind of runs out really slowly the way that really thick honey would. i tried a couple dabs on a toothpick and for the first ten seconds i couldnt feel the back of my throat and i think i stopped breathing until i could handle the pain enough to muster up a cough.... this is pretty much the hottest stuff that you can get in a bottle for under ten dollars... Blair currently makes stuff that is 16 times hotter then this but you have to shell out a pretty penny for the bottles because they are quite rare and collectible and really arent even supposed to be consumed. There are warnings on the Jersey Death that tell you that this shouldnt be consumed without diluting it first. amazing stuff. i cant wait to try it on some ramen later today!second, this is the rest of the Blairs line that I have obtained...
i think im only missing one or two pretty rare ones in the "death sauces" line that he makes.... all of these are pretty much the same with a few differences in flavor and each one is progressively hotter then the next by leaps and bounds.... the "possible side effects" is arguably the tastiest sauce in the line and has a lot more ingredients then just peppers and vinegar. I would reccomend this as a good starter sauce in getting into the world of insane killer sauces. the other two are really hot and i havent had much time with them to taste the difference in flavor but i do know that there are a few different ingredients in them so they should be interesting once the burn resides and you can actually taste what is in it!
on the left we have daves insanity sauce.... this was the first sauce to incorporate the extracts of hot peppers for that extra kick and when it first came out, he was kicked out of a sauce awards show for it being too hot.... well, compared to the insane extract based stuff thats out on the market now, this stuff is pretty mild but will still make you NEED a glass of milk... it has a reaaaallly good flavor too and makes an excellent addition to chip dips, salsas and chicken.Second in the picture is Blairs Jersey Death. two words: FUCKING CHRIST! this stuff is double the heat of the last hot sauces review hottest sauce.... this stuff is 750 times hotter then a jalapeno pepper and you can just see the wickedness in the bottle... there is sort of a resin that forms on the side of the bottle in this really dark red syrup. It doesnt really pour out of teh bottle, it just kind of runs out really slowly the way that really thick honey would. i tried a couple dabs on a toothpick and for the first ten seconds i couldnt feel the back of my throat and i think i stopped breathing until i could handle the pain enough to muster up a cough.... this is pretty much the hottest stuff that you can get in a bottle for under ten dollars... Blair currently makes stuff that is 16 times hotter then this but you have to shell out a pretty penny for the bottles because they are quite rare and collectible and really arent even supposed to be consumed. There are warnings on the Jersey Death that tell you that this shouldnt be consumed without diluting it first. amazing stuff. i cant wait to try it on some ramen later today!second, this is the rest of the Blairs line that I have obtained...
i think im only missing one or two pretty rare ones in the "death sauces" line that he makes.... all of these are pretty much the same with a few differences in flavor and each one is progressively hotter then the next by leaps and bounds.... the "possible side effects" is arguably the tastiest sauce in the line and has a lot more ingredients then just peppers and vinegar. I would reccomend this as a good starter sauce in getting into the world of insane killer sauces. the other two are really hot and i havent had much time with them to taste the difference in flavor but i do know that there are a few different ingredients in them so they should be interesting once the burn resides and you can actually taste what is in it!
construction
ok so there was a post last summer about some high rise buildings going in near southdale at the end of teh galleria... well, i was mistaken in thinking that the structure that they were working on was the building itself... that structure is now completed and it turns out that it was the parking ramp for the building that they are just starting on now... they have finally dug the giant hole and put the cranes up... this should be a pretty cool building and make all the other buildings in the area jealous...here is a nice darkened contrast photo of the colossal cranes getting ready for some serious building making
Friday, February 23, 2007
omega
This is the Omega Seamaster Aqua Terra. This watch is not mine yet, but it will be on my birthday (June). I know its not a Rolex but its along the same lines (if not better). Hell, Omega was the first watch on the moon and is the choice of the current James Bond (Pierce Brosnan and now Daniel Craig and all future Bonds). This watch retails for a little over a grand and a half, so its more affordable than a Rolex, and it will be my first experience now that I am getting into the world of fine timepieces and luxury toys!
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