What a bunch not knowing what the hell they are talkin' about a-holes! There are a bunch of media members that have probably never watched a race out there saying the Little E win in Daytona might have been fixed... did they even watch the race? They say he couldn't pass those cars in a restrictor plate race that easily. They are right if... those cars didn't suck! Ok let look at what happened...
1. A wreck came out in the middle of green flag racing. There were cars who were at the tail end of the lead lap and had made thier last pit stop. There were others like E who needed to make the final pit stop still and they did during that yellow, which means all the cars in front of E were realy cars that were about to go a lap down but now, due to luck or good timing, were in the front. So yea he's gonna pass those slow cars easily.
2. Did you watch the race? TStew and Benson were blocking like crazy! They certainly didn't move over and let him by!
3. E was good in the turns, you could see it all night, he could beat you in the turns every lap but then you'd draft up in the straights. On those last few laps all his passes came in the turns! You could have predicted it, as a matter of fact Benny Parsons practically said it was gonna happen during the yellow.
4. Did you even watch... there was so much fighting for position they were lucky there wasn't another wreck!
5. Lastly TStew and Bobby were both up for the million dollar bonus or least one of them was I can't remember which. Now do mean to tell me that they are gonna let that million go when they have a shot at it in the closing laps? I don't think so. Please #18 was right there bumping him from behind 'til he slipped up and let Waltrip pass him.
So put it to bed... you can't call it bad just because it's that good... unless your name is Jeff and you drive a 24!
Oh yea TStew... you got screwed ... that was a bad call on the part of NASCAR...
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I'm still pumped up about Little E winning! How cool was that! Damn! Hey way to go Elarton it's about time one of our pitchers decided to sac up and give 'em one in the ear... I'll take that anyday...
Ok you have a DVD player and now you want your home movies on DVD... try this... Life Clips, I'm thinking of getting our wedding video transfered to DVD.
Cool in a geeky kind of way! Open Cola open source so you can make your own!
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SCREW you channel 2 you got what you deserved! Did I stay up and watch the race, you bet and did it kick ass! Oh man did it ever! Little E who has not won a race this year dominated the race stem to stern almost... with only a few (12) laps left there was a wreck and a of course a restart that caught Earnhardt behind a handfull of drivers it was a double wide restart so he was really like being in 14th. Two laps later Jeffery went kablooey and they restarted single file with Earnhardt in 6th... within 2 laps he passed everyone for the lead again, but Bobby Labonte and Tony Stewart, who are teamates, were right behind him and should have been able to draft by him. Step in Michael Waltrip... yep the winner last time they were there. MW had not been at the front the whole race but there he was... and what did he do? ... Flash back to the Daytona 500 in February MW in 1st and Little E in 2nd, Big E in 3rd and running a blockade to protect 1 and 2, Little E stayed in line and protected MW and Waltrip won the race. So now here we are Earnhardt in 1st and Waltrip in Second and the Gibbs cars right behind that... MW's bumper might as well have been 3 cars wide as he blocked like the best of them and Little E took it on home... A donut or two later in the infield and E was joined by MW where they proceeded to celebrate on the tops of the cars and where the all the pit crews rushed them like a mob of soccer hooligans... Little E even body surfed the crowd! You could not have scripted a better ending, this was the best race ending I have seen this year... sure there have been closer races but with all the emotions involved... wow the legacy lives! Oh and on top of that a big screw you to channel 2 you won't get a better race this year HA!
If you want to read more about it and see some vids go to www.nascar.com.
on with life...
Well I finished painting my dining room yesterday, it came out quite good and hey I finaly finished a project that I started! I also learned how to do gold leaf. I had a little project I have been wanting to do for some time now that required it.
Hey Baytown must be hitting the big time we had a Quizno's and a good movie theater open up in the same week, all this on the heels of a new Home Depot, Pier One and Marble Slab, and right before a, drum roll please ... new SUPER Wal Mart! Anyway if we don't watch out we might lose our reputaion, whatever it is...
Let me take this time to say how cool Chrysler/Dodge is, I have been getting an intermitant check engine light in my truck(Dodge) and with a few turns of the key it will tell me what the problem is... try that in a your Ford or Chevy! HA! Not without a $150 computer or $30(min) trip to the garage! As I found out recently ... we also own a Ford Explorer.
short and sweet today... Angie, Dade and me went to Joe's Crab Shack last night and met with G,J,S and Troy, yep Troy from Cali! The kids played and we drank it was fun!
Kim finaly decided to have me over to have her computer "exorcised" so hopefully that KAK will stop !!! as a matter of fact that is where I am writing from...
Hope everyone made it back from the 4th with all their fingers!
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So this is funny. Here's an article from three months ago about this "teenage wiz-kid" who was writing some super-duper filtering software for Napster. Here's an article from yesterday about how that software isn't compatible with the version of Napster you have (forcing everyone to upgrade), how it blocks "even the most obscure, uncopyrighted works" (the legal ones), and how it essentially destroyed Napster. buh bye. In a nutshell it fingerprints each song so no matter the name you can block it! Crapster bought it and now they are forcing everyone to upgrade to the new blocking version... I agree buh bye! Who cares everyone is switching to something else like WinMX(my fav) or Limewire or iMesh.
NO I WILL NOT LET UP! Ok over at channel 2 THE guy that is preempting the NASCAR is Steve Wasserman and his email addy is swasserman@click2houston.com and the "special" email just for this is nascar@click2houston.com send an email to both and let 'em know you are boycotting the local news on channel 2. ughhh!!!! Where the hell are those rabbit ears?
Ok a few days ago I mentioned MAME ... well following in the MAME tradition I found VPinMAME, these guys are emulating all the great pinball games. Yes real steel ball gravity fed pinpall machines!
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For you guys who are scared to look at my links for fear that big brother in the office is snooping try this or here or if you want to pay here. They are basicaly proxy surfing sites, so when you go to http://www.ratemyrack.com all big brother will see is that you were at the shield site you chose! Use at your discretion I have not used any of these sites but I thought I'd at least let you know about them! Come on now I see you are heading for that pron site!
and speaking of Big Brother ... looks like the UK version which is running now is having problems with hackers voting online and skewing the votes see this for the details...
This story showed up on CNN about how the casinos track your data... they know more about you than you think! "Native American-owned Foxwoods Resort Casino can parse its 200GB customer database, match it against third-party demographic data and ...Tom likes NASCAR, Clint Holmes, thick steaks. Joyce and Ted like oceanfront views, barbershop quartets, Elvis slots...."
Happy 4th of July I just got back from Baytown's annual firework display... it was bigger than last year which was biggger than the year before and so on. Pretty good by any stretch. We attempted to paint the dining room today but after 2 c
