Archive for February, 2009

Terry’s pics are posted

Terry in cast
I started to post more pics. The ones that you can’t see right now are the good ones. I am marking them as private until I have them all posted and organized. I updated the photos section on my page so you can post comments on the images and not need to click over to flickr. You can even use your facebook account to post comments.

Watched Mr. & Mrs. Smith again today in 1080p on the PS3. Love streaming blu-ray.

Played some tennis today with Dan. Little early for spring but it was decent weather. Its almost all melted, and we are going to get 6-10 inches of snow again on monday. Great. We’ll just have to hit up the mountains again.

Stephon Marbury Joins the Celtics

Marbury looks good for the team. He’s a seasoned pro who will provide instant offense off the bench. He knows his role coming to the Celtics. I think this is a good move for the celts and is a great backup for Rondo.

His first game back having been out for a year, he finished the night with 8 points and 2 assists.

Boston gave him a warm welcome with a standing O. I’m looking forward to see more.

Recovering all my old photos

LMP 2005

Here is one of many I found on my backup external HD. It’s fun going through the old stuff I had.

I am thinking about going with the Flickr 24.99 a year pro account, which will allow me to backup all my photos to flickr so I will most likely never lose them and have access to them from anywhere.

I was looking into the Google picasa webalbum as well. Seems pretty good for free you get 1 gig of space. Flickr integrates better with my website now though.

You know what I think I might do… Get Flickr’s account for 1 year upload all my photos, then switch back to the free version. In 1 year the free version might even be better than it is now. I will enjoy having the ability to make more than 3 sets. 3 sets is so limited right now.

I will post all my pics this weekend somewhere I promise. Come back and see.

I’m a little behind. Just started watching Rob and Big

I downloaded Rob and Big seasons 1, 2 and 3. I have started with season 1 obvi, and I’ve been loving them. Helps that I skateboard, and they have a fair amount of skateboarding in them. I will probably blow threw these show in a few days this weekend. They are really short with out having to see commercials.

Funny4me.com update: I am going to change the site so that its all automatic. I am going to RSS feed content from other sites, and be the middle man. It’s like work to sit on the net and search for videos, then post them. Even though I have a friend that helps with content. Still hard to keep motivated to do that. We’ll see how it goes.

Looking at mortgage rates…

I have new website ideas everyday

For a few years now I’ve been coming up with different ideas for websites. Im getting the feeling that I am just a step behind. Some of the sites I have implemented and some I haven’t wet through with the idea.

I’ve spent countless hours on a couple of them and they are ok. Nothing to brag about. I think I just have a lack of motivation to actually follow through with it. I get into working on a site for a little while then I lose interest or switch my interest to something else, like my car. wha wha

My friend and I have been thinking of ideas recently. We know we want to do something web based and easy for us to keep up to date.

My first website project was funny4me.com. It is currently on its second version and has been doing well so far. It gets a decent amount of hits. My co-workers are now visiting the site without my telling them. Thats a good sign. The website is a place to post funny videos and funny pictures found on the net. These types of sites are a dime a dozen. Yet the successful ones are big money making sites. I need to be able to get there.

The second site I made was much more successful and has far less visitors so far. Moneyanswertree.com is a financial advice Q&A website I made because I became very interested in personal finance. I made the site for as a place for young professionals like me to post their questions and get feedback from other readers in the same boat. Getting people to go to the site and ask questions is the hard part. When anyone emails me or posts questions we get back to them in less than 24 hours(usually). Still needs a lot of work before the site is easy to manage and starts paying dividends.

I’ll stop there because I feel like this is a long post which provides no useful information :)

I kinda want an R32…

I have been recently been looking at new cars. Probably because I’m bored or something. I’ve been thinking about getting a winter beater car while I build a race car haha. My Audi S4 is doing fine and I love it. I think I will probably keep it for as long as I can. I don’t have any plans to sell the car, I plan to keep modding it, which will eventually be a racecar hehe. So im looking to save miles or get another car to mess around with in the winter.

I’ve been looking into Jeep Wranglers, a second 2001 Audi S4, Subaru WRX/STI, or a 2004 VW R32. As you can see it must be AWD.

I thought about getting the Wrangler so I could plow in the winter. I think it would be cool to make some extra cash, and I like to drive in the snow. Audi S4, WRX, or R32 would be sick to just have and mess around with. I probably won’t get a new car but its fun to think of it. I really need to be saving for a new 2010 S4 or a 2011 RS4. We’ll see.

Here is a video of some R32’s in the snow. Good video by Smash:

Tornado (Red) / Blizzard = Snow Bath². from Ben Guild on Vimeo.

My attempt at 2 super steaks

I was pretty close to finishing the second super steak. I was about 3 good bites away.

Went out to lunch to anna’s with work people. It was a success.

Next time I will have to train harder. Eat a lot more the night before, and lots of water. By the way, I am 135 5′8″.

This is the future of my car

This is on a JHM tuning on plane k04 turbos. I would think that this is on the “pure race” setting on 100+ oct. The goal of my car is to be very fast on 93 to be “pure street” fastest. I plan to get my turbo kit from JHM, and their FMIC kit as well. I will also be getting the Vast stage 2 clutch they sell, and True dual 2.5 inch exhaust.

I am thinking I should have JHM do my tuning as well. I have the APR chip now, which has stock, 93, 104, and vallet, but I never switch it. So there is no point. I would need only 1 setting for “pure street.”

Shooting for fastest, full interior, full weight, street B5 S4 on 93. :) haha we’ll see.