Racing/Cars
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Years ago (ok decades ago) I used to sail a Force 5 sailboat made by AMF around the Savannah. GA area.
For the past many years I have been racing and instructing high performance driving but have always harbored the idea of getting a sailboat. Since the wife gets motion sick (even gets queasy in elevators) it does not make much sense to get a big boat so I have been casting about for a Force 5. I’ve looked at a few but they were either too beat up or the price was too much.
Finally found one that ended up being less then 4 miles from my house.
A Force 5 is the same size as a Laser (boat used in Olympic competition) but whereas the Laser only carries 76 sq. ft of sail a Force 5 carries 91 sq. ft. Quite a bit more sail and therefore more speed.
Cool videos of Force 5’s underway
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veORmMWDSl8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8RMh9d1zdA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iucJpDnG2Qw
Cool video of Laser’s at speed
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RvysZNWUY5A
Dave @ June 23, 2008
Asides
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Goliath is one of their “Max” rides. We rode it after Colussus (the old Wood rollercoaster). Andi got a little psyched out for Goliath because the kid riding in the car with me kept saying how scary Goliath was. It has a near vertical 61-degree 255 foot main drop (26 stories @ 85 mph) that exists through a 120-foot long tunnel. The ride lasts 3 minutes.
Check out the look on Andi’s face during the drop. Allie missed the whole drop trying to keep her little sister alive. As you can see from my face I’m having a blast in the car in front of them.
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Andi and Allie on the Sidewinder at Knotts Berry Farm. Think of Disney’s Tea Cups on a Roller Coaster. The cars rotate freely during the ride.
Scott and Tyler on the new ride X2 at Magic Mountain
Dave @ June 8, 2008
Just Rants
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Wonder if Disney sees the irony in their press release?
WALL-E is the story of the last little robot on Earth. He is a robot and his programming was to help clean up. You see, it’s set way in the future. Through consumerism, rampant, unchecked consumerism, the Earth was covered with trash. And to clean up, everyone had to leave Earth and set in place millions of these little robots that went around to clean up the trash and make Earth habitable again.
Think maybe some of that rampant and unchecked consumerism will be seen in tons of Wall-E toys and other crap in Kid’s meals at the local fast food chain?
Well Duh…
Dave @ May 27, 2008
Published Pieces
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Written by my Cousin Bill.
Vote on it at Poetry.com
The Grand Enigma
In the days of eloquence portrayed, when the Grand Enigma’s yarns parlayed
and held my fascination then; as much as now… and then again.
Whether tales of wars, thoughts and creeds, or those of tight knit families;
my ears would open, my mind absorb the special impact of his lore.
To hear it told was magic then; now the silence starves me deep within.
‘Twere also times conjointly spent building retrospections that can’t be lent
to help you understand The Man. So many queries have I on hand.
The Originator of The Man had left no footsteps; the void within.
The Grand Enigma’s knowledge of the consanguine – our great unknown.
The ache perceived within his heart, though surely great, he’ll not impart.
In his vesper years of evensong, his tales have ceased – now passed along
this fervent reflex thus assumed. The torch bequeathed… epoch anew.
Dave @ May 14, 2008
Political Rants
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The interesting thing that struck me with this AP story was the fourth paragraph.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,346049,00.html
“Humans are widely believed to have arrived in North America from Asia over a land-bridge between Alaska and Siberia during a warmer period. A variety of dates has been proposed and some are in dispute.”
This poop is only 14,000 years old which is a mere blip in the geologic record of the Earth.
Therefore I would love to hear the global warming alarmist address a couple points.
It is believed this poop was deposited in that Oregon cave by a Human that crossed a land bridge between Asia and North America and that this land bridge existed during a “warmer period”
That leads me to wonder did Humans 14,000 years ago have SUVs, Factories or huge herds of cow’s farting to create the “greenhouse” gasses to cause this warming and if it was a “warmer period” shouldn’t the polar ice melt have caused the sea levels to rise so that a land bridge would not have existed?
Dave @ April 3, 2008
Political Rants
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Jon Stewart may find that his invitations to Hollywood parties are going to dry up if he keeps poking this kind of fun at Code Pink.
Dave @ March 12, 2008
