...cuz we will always cater to the lowest common denominator.

Kimi's son Matt died Wednesday.  I have no details whatsoever but I am just shell-shocked.  He was so young...

Motorcycling Truth

There is cold, and there is cold on a motorcycle. Cold on a motorcycle is like being beaten with cold hammers while being kicked with cold boots, a bone bruising cold. The wind's big hands squeeze the heat out of my body and whisk it away; caught in a cold October rain, the drops don't even feel like water. They feel like shards ( Read more... )

My original estimate of damages were incorrect.  It seems the gas tank is just fine - it's the trunk floor that's smashed.  So, they have to cut it apart, stretch the frame slowly and replace the trunk pan.  They will also be replacing both bumpers and fixing the exhaust.  Total estimate is in the neighborhood of $4500.  Fortunately, that doesn't ( Read more... )

By this time, you'd think that nothing this EC did would surprise me.  Well, they have.  Words are just not adequate to describe my disappointment in our leadership.

It's a damn shame, really, and just goes to prove that vendetta is in full effect. 

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This was forwarded to me from the Sanitized List (tm).  It is a quote from Joe Fuller, the VRC of Region 5, in reference to the recently passed AB resolution on cheating in the Academy ( Read more... )

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Someone forwarded me Jon Lane's "What the CS is doing when he's not working" email.  It actually described a fairly light weekend... I didn't have too many weekends like that when I was in office.  I know allyson13, mhaithaca and jccohen, excaliburca, gregtrotter, chunone, lesr, mikesmith0706 and gibbie69  among others remember the weekends when it was non-stop (preparing for IC, anyone?).  As I was chuckling away at the " ( Read more... )

Back in May of this year, Mike Stein confirmed that Pat Spillars was signing Fleet's checks - a constitutionally-mandated responsibility of the Chief Financial Officer.  He also said, last May, that he would start signing them himself ( Read more... )