Random Drivel

Went for a motorcycle ride with a few coworkers and the motorcycle club. Rode about 120 miles, out to Caliente and around the loop. Stopped at a little burger joint out in the literal middle of nowhere! The further you ride, the better the burger.

Irony (ī‘rə-nē, ī‘ər-) n., pl. -nies.

1) Watching the South Park episode, “Guitar Queer-O” (which parodies the video game Guitar Hero by implying it sucks), and seeing a commercial promoting the new Guitar Hero: Aerosmith game.

I’m sleeping on the couch this week while my parents are visiting California. Thus, in keeping with a tradition that is now 15 years running, I did not wake up on the morning of my birthday in my own bed!

I Just got done rewatching John Carpenter’s: Escape from New York on UniHD. I hadn’t seen it for some time, and it reminded me that I haven’t seen Escape from LA in quite some time, either.

I think they should make a sequel: Escape from Chicago. And if that one is a success, I feel Escape from Houston would be a massively popular follow-up. Both of those are coastal cities, so they could just reuse the plot from the first two movies again.

Escape from Phoenix would probably suck.

Is it just me, or is it starting to get harder to find what you want on Google now? Maybe I’m just accustomed to finding what I want on Google in seconds, but lately I’ve had to wade through pages of crap to find what I’m looking for.

Some sites are starting to design their pages specifically to get high Google ranks… those cheaters.

I’ve got 1083 miles on the VTX now. Awesome! The major miles were put on driving out to the Antelope Valley (200 round trip), Morro Bay (300 round trip), and joyriding around town as a weekend warrior. Lots of the miles were also driving to work, which is getting easier now that its no longer 30 degrees in the mornings. Here’s to the next 1000 miles, and a few more mods to the bike!

Wow, Facebook. Maybe you should try to chill out a little bit…

Here’s a screenshot of the application requests (38 at latest count) I have right now on facebook, or at least the ones that I haven’t deleted yet. I wonder if I can make it to 100?

She doesn’t exist until she’s been photographed!

Picked her up today, and rode her out to the freeway and back. Clocked 53 miles already today. I’ll hit that 600 mile service before you know it! Photographic evidence:

I bought a new motorcycle today. A 2007 Honda VTX1300c. I went down to the local dealership, negotiated a good price on it, and put a down payment. They’ve gotta dealer-prep it, so I wont get it until tomorrow. When I get it, I’ll put pictures up. I’m excited!

I’ve been paying attention to the Presidential debates, and the most recent set of Democrat and Republican debates on CNN exhibited a noticable amount of disparity among the candidates speaking time. After a bit of searching to find if anyone logged their times, I discovered that the team for Chriss Dodd (D) catalouged time for not only the Dems, but also the GOP! If that’s not unbiased, I don’t know what is. Thank you, Dodd. Here are the GOP results:

http://www.chrisdodd.com/node/1382

My candidate for the 2008 elections is GOP candidate Ron Paul. Dr. Ron Paul ran for the Libertarian party in 1988, but has been a 10 term congressman for the state of Texas. The self-described “Champion of the Constitution”, he believes strongly in individual rights. He is the only candidate who opposed the Iraq War, and favors an immediate withdraw. He is against Income Tax, the PATRIOT Act, and is in favor of reduction of Government.

According to the graph above, it appears as if moderator Wolf Blitzer is leading the pack of GOP candidates, despite not even running for office. Closely following him are the Media annointed chosen candidates of Giuliani, McCain, and Romney. Ron Paul and the rest of the so-called “2nd tier” candidates trailed by halfway or more. Despite this, Ron Paul consistently gains ground in online opinion polls, with popular vote claiming he won all three debates. It remains to be seen if, when the time comes, his online popularity will translate to the ballot box as the GOP Primaries begin.