tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84657662011-04-21T14:25:53.366-04:00A blog about space exploration, automobiles, gadgets, technology, and everyday life.ZipperSevenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09339013302633920393noreply@blogger.comBlogger491100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465766.post-1134504818003315472005-12-13T14:50:00.000-05:002005-12-13T15:15:41.083-05:00

Rather big news out there today. A while back, Audi announced that they'd been developing a successor to their uberracer R8. Today, they unveiled the prototype (although technically because it's in the Prototype class in the LeMans series, it's always called a prototype) of the all new R10. The most impressive thing? It's powered by a 5.5L, twin turbo V12 TDI motor. That's right, it's diesel.

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This is a bit outside my normal realm of blogposts (and it has been a while since I blogged) but this was too good to pass up. Raven sent me this article about a man at a cafe who posted a sign, "Children of all ages have to behave and use their indoor voices." It started what amounts to a whole shitstorm, but he says so far there's been a lot of positive feedback. Personally, I'm all for

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Old news for those of you that are hardcore car (and/or Evo lovers), but I've just come across this. I've noticed that I'm getting a lot of referrals for people looking for Evo X information, so at least some of you will find this to be a helpful pointer.[Via EvolutionM.net]

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esquivalience—n. the willful avoidance of one’s official responsibilities . . . late 19th cent.: perhaps from French esquiver, “dodge, slink away.”That's my new word of the day.Even though it isn't a real word.I came across an article at the New Yorker (don't laugh, I wouldn't have picked one up or read it online had I known that's where it was from before I read the article) and it's pretty

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Just wanted to let all our readers know that my pal JW down in West Palm Beach is ok. As most of you know, Hurricane Wilma hit Florida stronger than expected at Category 3. It was also a big surprise that the west eyewall (typically regarded as the weaker side) was acutally much stronger than the initial, eastern one. He also commented that the 'freakishly large eye' was indeed rather spooky to

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For those of you who haven't been paying attention, the GT-R Proto is one of the cars that has been attracting attention at the Tokyo Motor Show (along with the Evo X concept, see previous post.) GT-R for those of you who don't know, is the Americanized name for the Japanese market Skyline GT-R, a truly legendary car. Skylines, of course, aren't sold in the US: you could only get previous

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Those of you who are really interested in cars, or rally cars in particular, have probably already seen the Evo X (read Evo 10) concept. Sketches of the styling cues have been around for a couple of months, and 'official' pictures of the car have been online for a few weeks.Regardless, the Evo X concept was shown at the Tokyo Motor Show, which started last week and runs to November 6th. This is

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No not mine!But just in case you were wondering what such an event looked like, the folks over at F-Secure decided to tape the process and posted it on their blog. They walked through what 'good' code looks like, and then what the trojan does."Your PSP is now as useful, and entertaining, as a brick."[Via Engadget]

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The guys over at VWVortex managed to get their hands on a Euro version of the brand spanking new Mark V R32. Personally, I'm more partial to the Mark IV design myself, I'm not a big fan of the new VW 'brand' styling (although it looks rather fetching in VW's cousin Audi trim, go figure.) The biggest thing that I am excited about right now is the DSG transmission, here's hoping that it comes over

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Took a pic of the office this weekend and tagged it up with Flickr. Pretty snazzy if you've never tried it.

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Just a quick post to illustrate the Grippy mod on my PSP:It's a quick application of eGrips (the little squares from the 'Universal Set'.) We bought an extra sheet (in black) for a friend with a Nextel phone, and the parts he didnt use ended up in my junk drawer for about a year. Both Raven and I have SE T616's with the aluminum backs, so black wasn't really usable, and it was a particularly easy

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What with all the strongly worded warnings like this one at Secunia, this one at Symantec, or this one at ZDNet, you'd think that the PSP was a very vulnerable device.I don't think so.After all, only the 2.0 and up firmware's have a built in web-browser (before that you had to use the Wipeout: Pure internal in game browser with some hacks), it doesn't run a common OS (like Windows), can't

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Tim Buckley, who writes and draws one of my daily reads, Ctrl-Alt-Del, has an open letter about gamers and violent games. While specifically written to Jack Thompson, anyone who continues to march on with their drivel about banning games (the Nazi's banned things they deemed 'unsuitable' too, remember?) should read this comic.

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China launched their second ever mission in space successfully today, the two rookie astronauts plan on spending 5 days in space, trumping the first mission in which one astronaut spend only 21 hours in space. [Via the Register]

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I've mentioned NASA's ESAS plan in the past, those of you who are interested in space exploration may have heard about the plan in the media as the 'Return to the Moon', or seen it called 'Super Apollo' or 'Apollo II'. To be honest, this program really excites me, it's about time that we (as a nation) made a strong committment to return to exploring space, and not just the tiny fraction that we

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For those of you who don't know by now (our non-Tallahassee readers like my friends in Pensacola and West Palm Beach) my gadget collection grew by one member last week, I finally got my PSP.We were actually pretty lucky. When I got it, I wanted to get at least one game. I got Burnout 3 for the PS2 about two months back and was really surprised, and when I heard they were going to make a PSP

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So what does that mean?Fuji Heavy Industries is the parent company of Subaru, a company which makes several cars I'd love to have.GM owned a 20 percent stake of Fuji, and much of Subaru's technology made it's way into GM cars (the Saab 9-2x, sometimes called the Saabaru, is an Impreza wagon re-badged as a Saab.) GM is selling 8.7 percent of the stock to Toyota, giving them access to underutilized

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My Five Cents:So we get a new nickel next year, I like that they are finally being creative with the designs and finally getting away from the same stodgy profiles that we've seen for years. I think that the state quarters are a great idea, and think that the most recent redesign of the 20 dollar bill is a step in the right direction, though still not as creative as our counterparts across the

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JW over at his blog talks about his recent experiences in Ft. Lauderdale, partying at the casino, waking up in bed with a beautiful naked woman, etc (all true except the last one evidently.)He also accuses writers of blogs in general having "random crap in it which spoke little of the author except some random hobbies and an air of staleness." Just to assure readers that Caffeinated Raptor is

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....and other updates. 1. Saleen S7 Twin Turbo — $670,384 (Europe) 2. Pagani Zonda C12S 7.3 Convertible — $598,025 (Global) 3. Koenigsegg CCR — $562,659 (Global) 4. Koenigsegg CC8S — $522,120 (Global) 5. Porsche Carrera GT — $484,151 (Europe) 6. Maybach 62 — $457,991 (Europe) 7. Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren — $456,526 (Europe) 8. Maybach 57 — $389,226 (Europe) 9.

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"NASA's plan to send astronauts back to the moon and eventually to Mars is not just exciting and visionary. It's a smart investment that would maintain U.S. leadership in space exploration while returning significant scientific and technological benefits." "In the short term, the plan could provide a much-needed economic boost to the hurricane-ravaged Gulf Coast. NASA has facilities in the

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So even with the news going back and forth, rumours that STS-121 would be delayed to at least June 2006 after the foam issue on Discovery's external tank during STS-114, all of those can be at least pushed aside for a little while. During an interview with the Washington Post, Dr. Mike Griffin says the agency is looking to a May 2006 launch date, and notes that without the heroic efforts of the

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Couldn't have said it better myself, brother.

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A few things changed this week, mostly in the structure of the blog itself. If you are an avid reader, (all 2 of you out there) you'll see that the style has changed to the 'back in black' Blogger template. I'm not totally happy with it, and I'm planning on it being temporary, as both Raven and I are shopping for new blog templates. With luck you should see this within the next few days.I've also

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For those of you interested in the whole new car saga (if you missed it, see this post) my pal JW finally made up his mind. A brand new '05 Honda Civic LX Special Edition.And dude, if you are reading, I'm seriously hurt you didn't take my suggestions. (Just kidding!)I talked to him the day after he bought his new car and said that in a way I'd called it exactly what he was going to get.I remember

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Seems that they just can't get a break. Mere weeks after Katrina rolled in and flooded New Orleans and damaged NASA's facilities at Michoud (where Lock-Mart makes the external tanks) and Stennis, (which deals mainly with propulsion technologies) Rita is now threatening the entire Gulf region again. Plans are already underway to close Johnson Space Center, where the famed Mission Control Center is

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Rumours abound. I read a snippet over at Nasawatch about how the Office of Management and Budget is looking at cost issues to cancel the shuttle program. Keith usually has pretty good sources, too.

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Keith at Nasawatch posts that NASA is getting back to work, expecting to have External Tank work continue at Michoud by October 5th.A few of the sources I've seen now say the STS-121 mission has been pushed from March (as expected) to June now.Edit: Oh yeah, I really want to see this.

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Associated Press wire reports that Mike Brown has resigned from the post of Director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency in the "in the best interest of the agency and best interest of the president."Edit: Linked.

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Stealing only a *little* bit of my thunder, Raven over at Something Cheeky blogs about Katrina messing with Michoud and Stennis and delaying the next shuttle launch.

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Toyota Camry:The big brother of the Corolla, this car features the Toyota 'brand' design, although it hasn't been changed much since this generation was introduced in 2001. The current model is larger than previous models, as Toyta pushed this car to meet American tastes as it moved the model away from the Japanese market. The 2006 Camry is available in 4 different trim models with a variety of

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My pal J. Weston in West Palm is finally talking about looking for a new car.It's about time.Currently his ride of choice is an 88(-ish) Toyota pickup, mostly steel gray (except for the darker gray fender that was replaced after an accident.) It's got a white bed capper that's probably as old as the vehicle itself, with clear silicone caulk sealing all the windows. The pneumatic shocks on the

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New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin at least knows how to get some ass-kicking in:"I don’t want to see anybody do anymore goddamn press conferences. Put a moratorium on press conferences. Don’t do another press conference until the resources are in this city. And then come down to this city and stand with us when there are military trucks and troops that we can’t even count.""Don’t tell me 40,000 people

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This is a Coast Guard helicopter:This is not: (in fact, it's Army.)I hope you can quite obviously see the difference. You would think, especially with a war on, that even you talking heads could tell the difference. That is all.

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Do you want assistance after Hurricane Katrina? Yes?THEN STOP SHOOTING AT THE HELICOPTERS!!Thursday, September 01, 2005 - 9:40:55 AM Superdome Evacuation Halted after Shots Fired at Helicopter NEW ORLEANS (AP) - An ambulance official says the evacuation of the Superdome in New Orleans has been suspended because it's too dangerous.The head of Acadian Ambulance, which is evacuating the

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Last year, Hurricane Frances came through the southern Florida peninsula, damaging NASA facilities at the Cape, most notably the huge Vehicle Assembly Building. Looking at footage and pics from Discovery's Return to Flight, it looks like most of the damage hadn't been repaired yet.More bad news though, both the Stennis Space Center, and the NASA External Tank Facility at Michoud (operated now by

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"Some houses in Chalmette have water past the second floor. The Dept. of Wildlife and Fisheries ahs approx. 60 boats ready to go out to rescue people from rooftops where necessary in St. Bernard Parish (and 200 throught SE Louisiana. Some people were reportedly trapped in attics. You'd think everyone would know by now, BRING AN AX TO THE ATTIC. I don't care if you're in Nebraska. If you go into

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The 11th, to be precise. As of the writing of this post, the National Hurricane Center was still calling Katrina a Tropical Storm. Really, I think she's already a hurricane and they just haven't updated it. Compare this with last year, we were making a trip down to Orlando, less than 12 hours after Charley had ripped through there. That was a year and two weeks ago. This year we're headed down

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This has been rumoured for about a week now, that the next shuttle launch wouldn't occur during the upcoming September and November windows. I think the most surprising news here is that NASA is mulling whether or not to fly Discovery (again) for STS-121, then fly Atlantis for STS-115. Atlantis was originally supposed to fly 121. Souces say that they are going to fly Discovery again so that

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OK so those of you who know me know that I'm kind of a kitschy car guy. I like a lot of cars that most people look at and say, why would you want something like that? Eventually I'd like to do a chopped and dropped Astro van, an old wood-side station wagon with an LT1, or a trick flat black lead sled.Anyway, those are all future project cars. There are some I'd like to buy new.One of the top 10

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Today's 2 part automotively-themed post:1.) Raven rants about the proliferation of red-light runners.[Via Something Cheeky]2.) Check out Top Gear. Yes it's acutally British, but it's far better than almost everycar show I've seen in the US.

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Raven posted on her blog the top 10 list of things she's been listening to recently. Last friday I accidentally came across a mashup site. Before this I hadn't really been interested, most of the time they were being done by some moron that wanted to combine like Christina Aguilera with the Macarena or something. Pure crap. Anyway, ran across this site and was listening to a few of them...there

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Gene Krantz wrote an interesting op-ed piece which the New York Times has up today on their web site. Among the best is this quote:"Does the "quit now" crowd really believe that abandoning the shuttle and International Space Station is the way to keep America the pre-eminent space-faring nation?"I totally agree with his point. How are we to explore space if we aren't willing to take a few risks.

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Water Blogged: I wish space shuttles had names like monster trucks...

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Check out the newest shuttle flap...W's viewing of the launch on an old-school 13" [via Something Cheeky]

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Words as significant now as they were 44 years ago. Al Shepard said these words, tired after more than 3 hours of holding inside his tiny Mercury capsule on the pad at Cape Canaveral. His launch had been delayed by several weeks initially, so much so that we missed sending up the first person into space because of administrative delays. It would take us years to catch up with the Soviets in the

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So if any of you keep an eye on this blog you will see that I started it, intially, and then failed to post. For almost a year. Well...a lot has been going on and I think I am determined, at least, to post small updates here as I see fit now. The whole blog thing sometimes seems overrated, but when one of the people I thought would be the last person on earth turns out to have a blog, I guess

ZipperSevenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09339013302633920393noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465766.post-1096175732724033082004-09-26T01:01:00.000-04:002004-09-26T01:15:32.726-04:00

And I don't mean the football team. For the first time since 1886 there are four hurricanes striking the same state in the same season. And of course I have to live there. I have been lucky enough so far not to get in to too much trouble with hurricanes. My planned trip to Orlando for my birthday lay just the next day after Charley ripped Florida a new asshole from Punta Gorda to

ZipperSevenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09339013302633920393noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8465766.post-1096092385116939562004-09-25T05:06:00.000-04:002004-09-25T02:06:25.116-04:00

So everyone has been bitching and moaning about how I don't have a flippin blog. OK..here ya go then. I seem to offend people with my incessant moaning about things...I'll spend hours on end ranting on the phone with various people but somehow reading it on a blog makes it different. Oh well, that's life. Some things about me...I work in a copy shop in a retail chain which will remain

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