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Monday, July 14th, 2008
Update on Planted Tanks
Progress
3 Gallon Pico
Overall the tank is doing great, it currently looks great, and that’s the point, right? There are a few things that have happened that I thought I would detail.
Filterless to Filter - The tank was getting messy, no amount of water changes could keep it clean. I ended up giving up and getting [...]
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Tuesday, July 8th, 2008
Maserati GrandTourismo
The first thing you need to know about the new Maserati is that I haven’t driven this car. I felt compelled to write this after seeing a few on the road, and looking over the details. This is one of the first supercars that got the recipe right.
Think about how many 100k+ sports cars [...]
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
Some neat pictures at Disneyland
June.24.2008A few photos that I took over the last few days at Disneyland with Giselle and Tina.Disneyland, CA18 photos
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
John McCain offers $300m prize for advanced battery development
John McCain, after facing defeat on a number of new bills related to CAFE and the US auto industry did something a little radical. He is now pushing through legislation that would award a $300 million prize for the development of battery packs that make a revolutionary improvement over todays designs. Those of you who [...]
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
The lovely sound of V10 engines
There is something about the howl of V10 engines that just make me crazy. It is such an exotic screaming sound. Here are some great examples:
2010 Honda NSX replacement at the Nürburgring Nordschleife from MrBTG on Vimeo.
Carrera GT
Gallardo
BMW M5:
Life is good with these as
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Thursday, June 19th, 2008
New Clams, more shrimp, splitting BTA, and some chromis
Lately, my tank has gone untouched. Due to work being hectic I have largely neglected it, and I have let the glass algae build up longer than I should have. I scape it off about once a a week now, it makes it look all that much better when its clean.
A few weeks ago I [...]
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
Lexus IS F track day
A few months ago I received notices via my various RSS Automotive feeders that Lexus was selling track days with the IS F for a mere. After reading a big about it a bit I decided to purchase the 4-hour track day for $295.
When I arrived I was greeted by friendly staff and the usual [...]
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
Rhythm within chaos
A few years ago my brother picked up drumming. He is pretty good, as a result of him getting into the ‘music scene’ I have inadvertently started to pay more attention to music. One of the bands I really learned to love in the past few years is Led Zepplin - especially the drums. This [...]
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Geeking out
I hired some new people a few weeks ago, and I am pretty excited to have a great new crew on board. Samy is also actively recruiting this perl developer from Flint, MI and had him in town for the weekend to see if he was interested in moving to LA. Samy, Giselle, Matt, David [...]
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Hot hot heat - Hand-me-downs
After having my halides in for a few months, all of the corals I have had have been doing very well. The LPS’s have been doing great with the exception of the Candy-Cane that kept getting buried by the gobies, I relocated him up onto the rocks but he lost a few heads.
We had a [...]