01/31/2008
01/21/2008
Ma first crit race
So I let myself get talked into trying this early bird crit race in Freamont. I wasn't exactly sure I wanted to turn to the dark side... but I have to say it got under my skin, literally.
Drove all over Fremont looking for this place and when we found it I was already missing the mentoring thing before the race.
Learned how to take a few hard turns while goin single file and then by two's,...three's, and just switching.
That part alone helped allot, eased the worries I had about goin into a tight corner while in the pack.
All was tons'o'fun until the third guy from the front flatted, I was the 10th from the top and just couldn't do anything to avoid it. Oh well I should be thankful I just had a scratch.
Now I just need to spend even more munies to get my bike back up to working order.....iguess this is one of the perk of working in the industry?
i guess in the end its all the same. if you don't make muney ya can't spend muney =o(
On a life note I love my job but not who I work for, its the kind of place where everyone is far too racist and only concerned about keeping certain ppl out of their little inner circle. I don't ass kiss (because i don't like walking around with brown on my nose) and because of this am unable to progress much further in the company. Keep acquiring more reasponsabilitys with promise of a job upgrade but never comes. I've documented all this and sent e-mails upper management and nothing comes of it....=o(
I'm starting to look for a new job, but wish I could stay in here a bit longer to grow my experience more.
10/19/2007
My first Case Mod!
This is my first build, the shots were taken late at night and are fairly crappy.
There is still alot missing from this case mod that I didn't show, like the under body glow or the cut out for the LCD mounted inside the case on the top part, turned on, in all its glory. Nor have I shown the hand built PCI slot which splits the video and audio signals to go to the LCD and splice into the input on my sound card.
All in all this is a great case with crappy 2001 PC hardware (so try not to giggle it will be all gutted out for a moderate SLI system) the cooling is really maxed out with a 120 mm in the front sucking air in and the 500watt power supply has been fitted with lighted 120mm pulling air out thru a 80 mm rear fan.
The CPU fan and heat sink has been swapped out with an Antec copper core set up.
There is a custom cut 80mm hole in the plexi-glass right in front of the CPU pulling air out away from the CPU.
This was in a Sony Vaio mini tower with some pretty hot running temps, after the mods and lighted fans i was able to bring the CPU tem down 15 degrees cooler and the overall tem 30 deg cooler. i still intend to add a dimmer switch for the red leds and perhaps tie in a remote controll for controlling the monitor and the light dimmers i intened to install, mabey even attatch them to my x-10 crap and tie it into the interschnitzel , so i can play with it from anywherei go!
There is still alot missing from this case mod that I didn't show, like the under body glow or the cut out for the LCD mounted inside the case on the top part, turned on, in all its glory. Nor have I shown the hand built PCI slot which splits the video and audio signals to go to the LCD and splice into the input on my sound card.
All in all this is a great case with crappy 2001 PC hardware (so try not to giggle it will be all gutted out for a moderate SLI system) the cooling is really maxed out with a 120 mm in the front sucking air in and the 500watt power supply has been fitted with lighted 120mm pulling air out thru a 80 mm rear fan.
The CPU fan and heat sink has been swapped out with an Antec copper core set up.
There is a custom cut 80mm hole in the plexi-glass right in front of the CPU pulling air out away from the CPU.
This was in a Sony Vaio mini tower with some pretty hot running temps, after the mods and lighted fans i was able to bring the CPU tem down 15 degrees cooler and the overall tem 30 deg cooler. i still intend to add a dimmer switch for the red leds and perhaps tie in a remote controll for controlling the monitor and the light dimmers i intened to install, mabey even attatch them to my x-10 crap and tie it into the interschnitzel , so i can play with it from anywherei go!
03/14/2007
Looking for opinions
Looking for advice on color schemes, i feel like the red Keo's make it look like a man in high heals.
The Flat black Keo's go with the theme, but perhaps keep the bike too quiet?
Food for thought, if red pedals are installed should I slap on more red?
Red tires, red saddle, red bar tape, or some combination like that?
03/08/2007
02/20/2007
Armenian Bento
Armenian Bento,
Very tasty Armenian pizza, think two flour tortillas with really potent red meat sauce in da middo.
Bottom tier, rice wrapped with grape leaves. Next to it is left over rice n veggies. Got Starch?
Brought along a Kinder Egg for my co-worker.
02/19/2007
Super 7
There was tons of stuff I wanted to buy in SF yesterday, but apparently I cant buy shit when I only make enough to pay the bills..... that said, I decided to take pictures of everything I can't buy, instead...
=o( sad sad sad
This was really neat store "Super 7". on Lake St. in Japan town.
So much to look at here.
I did manage to score pillow covers for 4 bucks at the Japanese dollar store.
Made it so i was finally able to get rid of the crappy pillows I had on my couch.
Cut open the old pillows and swapped out the stuffing inside to these new very nice plow covers, really cheap way to spruce up my pad I think!
Curry Bento
Curry Bento,
Picked up some curry (among other things) from an SF
Japanese supermarket yesterday,
Went up to see the Time Trials for the tour of California, saw Hincappy and Levi. It was nice to see a number of riders on ritchey stuff!
Tested using my rice mold as an egg mold, the first one exploded. second one was a success, only the face imprint didn't imprint =o(
First tier is mild curry with veggies, and boiled russian oushka's (sp?) with my two failed bear egg molds. Bottom tier is just rice with furikake.
Oh and the second beto box is just sweets. For a few day's i hope, otherwise I may be bouncing off walls the rest of the day.
02/06/2007
Rushed bento
Rush hour bento,
Slapped this one together in about ten minutes. Just tossed in banana slices with little chocolate shrooms, peanuts (dry roasted and unsalted cause god knows I don't need a heart attack), and some Chinese salty cracker mix (doh), with a few packaged candies.
Bottom Tier, just a PB&J and ham n cheeeez.
These other pics are from my trip down to LBC, my train station, and something I want to build. A solar pwrd bike cyclist.
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