Oh the days doth pass slowly...

My lovely other half is back in Exeter studying away for the next 10 weeks. She's only been there a couple of days and I'm already missing sleep. Silly really.
Luckily I'll see her on Friday - a bit like a "fix". I kinda need her company now.

See how I'm trying to be a bloke about it? Not really working - she's my whole world. I should tell her that more often.

Amazing how another human being can change your outlook on life, your personal priorities and general attitude to things. I feel a much better person - more alive around her.

2 days to go! :oD

Tis a dilema of charged preportions...

So I have, in my garage, a 1995 Vauxhall Calibra Turbo running around 300bhp. It's quick and fun to drive. Right now it's not doing much but waiting on a new spoiler and a rotor arm/cap. I had/have plans to change.. well everything to make it circa 400/450bhp. Quite a tall order you might ask - and you'd be right.

However, this morning I found out that for about the same investment money wise (and a whole less amount of time) is a "bolt on" Supercharger for my 911. Yep. Bolt on.
So I could easily have around 390-odd-bhp in the 911. AND if I wanted to sell the car it could be returned to stock easily and cheaply.

Damn these decisions!

Here's the link to the older version of the supercharger (the new one is better but not available here yet)

Personally I'm now more tempted on the Kompressor... who wouldn't be? RWD fun... with 400bhp! That's just silly... hehe.

BOFH and friends

If you're in IT you'll know BOFH personally... if not then it's time to get acquainted - and when you're done get over to The Register for BOFH2K and more hijinks... It's funny because it's true.

It's funny... so laugh!

My very own style ;o)

Neocron news!

Looks like DOY is finally on it's way (yes I know.. but still, worth getting excited about anyway!)

Click!

Next-gen consoles

Over on the very lovely Gamespy is an article on facts/rumours on the upcoming next generation consoles from Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft - it's worth the read!

Click!

Diesel Sweeties

Yeah you heard me right!

A cartoon/comic that harks, graphically, back to the good old days of the pixel (yeah yeah I know)

Here!

Also can be quite surreal in it's comedy. I love it!

Could be interesting...

How about upping an RPM limit from 7000rpm to 14000rpm by changing the head/cam to rotary? Hmm? Yes please?

Click here

Hmmm... problems problems

Well the picture won't display below... I think the Blog is nay working properly.

Screw it, I'll try again tomorrow....

Just saw this and thought... "Hum-in-ah"

It's a 1969 Chevy Camaro SS... doesn't look standard to me but I don't care - I think it's lovely. So nerrr.

It's "torrent"ial!

I'm on the BitTorrent (it's a P2P file sharing system like Kazaa etc) band wagon so here's some useful links if you've not tried it:

Torrentlinks - pretty much what it says. Various links for the Torrent community including sites to get the BitTorrent clients themselves.

Degreez - The client I'm using. Works very well so far... give it a go.

N4P - A search engine for finding .bit files (to download the final large files) - very useful but only one of many...

Link-age B-uddy

First off is:

Stupid Videos - well the title speaks for itself really.

Second, get over to Apple trailers as there are some great clips there right now includng:

Spider man 2 - I know I've posted a trailer before but this one is bigger.. and having watched Spider man this morning I can heartily recommend it ;o)

Riddick Chronicles - Now called "The Chronicles of Riddick" - it's looking pretty good. Not quite what I was expecting but then, the first film (Pitch Black) didn't exactly go in to much detail.

Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow - Weeeiiiirrrrd. Angelina Jolie, Jude Law et al in a very odd picture. Feels very much like the "The Iron Giant" and similar films. Could be cool.

That should be enough for you for now... back to the "surfing"! :oD

EDIT:

Eurotrip - By the makers of "Old School" and "Road Trip". Looks good.. and Michelle Trachtenberg... dayam! Buffy's younger sister is lookin' good.

Christmas

Well it's over for another year (technically or not).

I didn't get much to write home about (coolest ever NYC print!) but I'm not that bothered about it anymore anyways.

And. As. Usual. It's. Raining. Just makes you feel all festive doesn't it?

365 days to go (leap year baby!)




Oh, I did get to spend it with my Gemma so it actually turned out to be the best Christmas ever. :o)

Turns out I saw...

.. an XR4i. Just had a nose here and the '81 model was RWD and had the Cologne 2.8 V6. The 4x4 was released in 1985.

Interesting! Still think they rock (and I'm not a Ford man at all!)

I just saw...

...a 1983 Ford Sierra XR4x4 in mint condition driving along the A3. You never see em. I had a model for many years with the split rear/quarter windows in black - fantastic looking car. I think that would be the 2.8 V6 (not sure if it'd be Essex or the later model) with probably no horseys... but still, a great looking car.

Wish I had a camera actually!

Ho hum...

Blah blah blah

Nearly Chrimbo... nearly.

Not that I'm doing anything. Here at work, playing Golf!

hahahahahahaa.... man I kill me.

OMG!!

Click here for a video. About 6mb.

Just watch it.

So cool.

Drivetoish

Hope the owner doesn't mind... but I've added a link to Drivetoish in the .gen links section.
A collection of car vids... very very nice! ;o)

The white stuff

Snow. I meant snow. Geez... ;o)

Well the possibility is strong for Scotland and the East coast over the weekend. Not here though. Never here.
I live in a well-protected area (weather wise at least) and the worst I'll see is driving rain or frost.

Not that I want snow. It's cold, mucky and means the roads will be covered in car-eating salt. How much fun can that be?

DOOM on film... or is it?

After mentioning the DOOM film a friend on CC mentioned that it had already been made and was awful (went straight to video - thanks nicholasp!) - a quick Google brings up these sites: here and here
I'll see if I can find the offending film and post a link to it - the above links show the film is still in pre-production and will be based on DOOM 3... hmm, interesting!