5/17/07

I wasted the whole day on the internot yesterday. It was so slow around here that I left my desk twice the entire day. “Then why didn’t you have a rant entry?” I hear you asking. I just didn’t, so there. Some things have arrived which I suppose I could mention. I bought a car cover for the Seven but haven’t taken it to the shop to try out. I think it’ll be fine. I bought another BOV as well. It was advertised as a “Type-S” blow off valve. This, along with the picture of a purple top BOV made me assume it was a GReddy Type-S. Well, it is a knock off. No wonder it was half the price of the real deal. Now don’t get me wrong, I'm not complaining, I'm still going to use it, but… well, I don’t know what I’m saying. Anyhoo, that arrived yesterday as well. I'm still waiting on the brake lines and an oil filler cap. Oh man, I almost forgot about the oil filler cap! I'm not going to tell y'all about it until it arrives and John has had a chance to grok it. Suffices to say, I think it is amoosing. Not that that is a hint or anything. Or is it? No, it isn’t. But how will you know? No seriously, it isn’t. Anyhoo, so I'm still waiting for those items to arrive, that’s all I'm saying. I had a look at some things on my computer, just sort of snooping around you know. I found something that had some Windows operational setup parameters or something and changed it from “optimized for appearance” to “optimized for performance” or something like that. Now everything looks a little more “old school” computery than it did before. For instance, the font on this document had a pixilated look to it now. The icons on the desktop look more flat and there isn’t a shadow behind the pointer. Now, I'll be honest, I've never noticed a shadow behind the pointer. In fact, it looks just the same to me. The icons are different though. I'd like to finger out how to change the color of the background under the titles of the icons. I tried what I thought it was but wound up losing the picture of Matilda as my desktop background. Gotta have my car staring at me! I fixed that though so no worries there. Oh, speaking of phrases like “no worries,” that got me thinking about Australia. Australia got me thinking of the Pacific Rim. The Pacific Rim got me thinking about Japan. Yeah, one pair of words sent my “train wreck of thought” off on that tangent that quickly. Anyhoo, Japan got me thinking about this show I sometimes catch on G4 TV. It is a show called “Ninja Warrior.” It differs from the usual Americanized Japanese “see how much someone is willing to subject themselves to” game show in that… well, I don’t know, it is different. It is more like a “legitimate” sporting event show than a game show I guess. Anyhoo, the “contestants” basically run an obstacle course of things I know I could never do. They hang from what look like light bulbs to cross a pit of water. They shimmy across a hanging curtain over a pit of water. They have to run across a bridge thingy that can rotate and flip over tossing them into, you guessed it, a pit of water. There is a thing called “fly walk” or something where they have to press hands and feet against opposite walls and climb up and over boiling acid. Not really, it’s a pit of water. The point is… well I don’t know what the point is. Anyhoo, I've been watching this show for a bit but now they have a new thing, “Women of Ninja Warrior!” Now, I'm not one to usually go for the Asian type, but these women are HOT! Even the ugly ones are hot somehow. I mean seriously, the chick who won the last episode I saw had pink hair and the stereotypical big buck teeth from a WWII propaganda poster. All she lacked were the Coke-bottle glasses and a uniform! But as she ran the course, damn! Ok, I need to go take a projector to someone right quick. I may be back to talk some more in a bit. Wow, that took almost three hours! I was going to tell y'all what happened but crossed the arbitrary page break almost immediately. So I think I'm going to just shut up and go do other stuff for the next two hours or so. Have a day.