Current Reading List – Feb 2012

It has been a good many years since I have posted about my current reading list, so I thought it was about time to fire off another one. These are the books started, completed, being read or on my short-list to start (or in one case re-read) in the month of February.

The 4-Hour Workweek [...]

Amazing VW ‘Glass Factory’

Thanks to the mail list I’m on, this video appeared in my mailbox today. It’s a 6 1/2 minute (you won’t believe it how quickly you find it’s over) tour of a new VW factory in Dresden Germany.

Give it a watch. Although I’ve only had one VW, this same ‘passion’ (can that be used [...]

530i Options Sheet

While at the dealer on Monday, I was able to get a printout of the factory options on the car. It’s good to know that the extra ///M parts on the car are as-shipped from BMW, not some post-delivery badge engineering activity.

The highlights, for me, are:

///M Sport Suspension ///M Leather Steering Wheel [...]

Changing of the Guard. ML430 says goodbye.

Times change, needs change, and thus, my mind changes too. So, with some regret, because it was a good solid vehicle, I have bid goodbye to the 2000 ML430 SUV that has taken me to CA several times, hauled furniture, electronics and been a nice comfy way to get to work. But, it was also [...]

SMS messages you don’t want to read

Text message I received yesterday

I received that text message while en-route to picking up the kids yesterday. Reading that first sentence can really give one’s heart a stop. That strange part was that I’d had a dream last night about them being in an accident, but just dismissed it as random dream time [...]

Northern Lights Photography Mission – failure to success

Tonight, the Northern Lights were visible at latitudes low enough, to be seen in the Puget Sound.

Armed with my trusty Bogen carbon fiber tripod, my 17mm F/2.8 lens and a heart full of hope, I headed out to part of the county with a Northern facing beach. A few others were there to try [...]

Two of my favorite Porsche ads, ever.

The first one was basically me. On the wall of my bedroom, I have a pencil drawing of a 911 I did in high school.

My Porsche drawing from 1981

VIDEO: → Porsche – The Boy

The second is the introduction video for the 993 (that last one I owned, so far). The cool [...]

More fun with Time Lapse video

More fun with Time Lapse video!! This time it’s my exciting commute!

Included in this video are these exciting events.

crossing bridges paying tolls seeing Washington State Patrol seeing Bremerton PD write a ticket avoiding I-5 traffic jam dealing with the horrible Nally Valley Viaduct rain

Enjoy the video, and the calming music:

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Old photos – some pics from my Autocrossing days

While reading FaceBook tonight, someone posted a funny picture of an MR2 towing a small boat. That reminded me of a picture I had of me towing my Ducati 998 with the Miata! So, I went looking for that photo.

It took a few minutes to locate it, but I did.

While [...]

Neat DIY ‘remote’ photo rig for auto photography

A friend of mine of a private autosports mailing list, sent this over last night.

Auto Portraits in Motion:

Very neat idea and I like the concept. It’s also good that the poster describes some of the challenges working with this technique. I might try to construct something this this myself, but for a [...]