2005
08.24
08.24
Now at 2.0
Not a single problem… not sure what I think about the web browser yet… seems to work but the keyboard interface is a bit lame.
Standing On Boxes
Just over there
2005
08.24
08.24
A new show on the DISCOVERY cable channel – “Top Gear” – a British show about cars…
Between segments they have a studio audience… strange…
Today’s (first) episode…
Host No. 1 takes a Ford GT (A modern version of a late 60′s Ford GT 40) out for a spin (Top speed 212mph – $200,00+). He apparently was waiting for his (one of 28 available in Britain this year) to show up.
Host No. 2 – takes us through his adventure in buying a Dodge Charger (the real thing from the 60′s)
Sister Wendy… she always wanted to drive a Monster Truck… so they let her take one out for a spin.
Host No. 1 – Let’s take a huge Land Rover Discovery up a mountain in Scotland (that no one has ever driven up) to see if it is really off-road. Up-hill? No problem? Back down the mountain… he got stuck in some soft ground (no place/tree to hook his winch to to pull him out) and had to call for help. And again…
Not a bad looking vehicle…in a color other than silver… but the Land Rover Defender is
the one that looks like a “classic” Land Rover… I wonder if they are available in the US?
(Does it come in yellow? I have my reasons
)
Classic movie stunt… for real — parachute out of a small plane (a Cessna) into a Mercedes convertible (SLK?) while it is actually moving. I’m not sure how many times they tried to get it right but it took a while…
Granny donut school – several older women ( in their 70′s/80′s) out for a spin in a small (yellow) Acura (or is that a Honda?) convertible. I can’t believe they encourage that kind of behavior…
These are all right-hand-drive cars/trucks…
I don’t think this was from a single show… I think whomever packaged it up for DISCOVERY cherry-picked segments from a whole bunch of original episodes. But it looks cool anyway…
the one that looks like a “classic” Land Rover… I wonder if they are available in the US?
(Does it come in yellow? I have my reasons
)
2005
08.24
08.24
Not getting anywhere with any of my fics… so I thought I would write a random ficlet that occurred to me yesterday… just to get the brain cells moving again… a Buffy meets Luna Lovegood story – “The Bandersnatch”. It shouldn’t be very long. Totally unrelated to any other story I’m writing… just for fun.
The goal is partially to “find” Luna’s voice for a part of one of my other stories she’ll appear in… She really isn’t a fleshed out character until HP books 5 and 6… I’m going to have to go back and re-read the sections she is in… maybe. I don ‘t expect this story to really pin her down…
