Archive for August, 2006

Congratulations, Boys

Monday, August 28th, 2006

Congratulations to the Columbus, Ga team for winning the Little League World Series.
You make us all proud.

Very Cool Engine

Monday, August 28th, 2006

Via Wired News, this is a very cool engine. I find the concept of this engine highly intriguing and can’t wait to see what becomes of the prototypes due out next year. This could be the wave of the future. I hope some day to work on one of these.
I wonder if [...]

I Win

Thursday, August 24th, 2006

Listen to this:

Indeed, that is the old F100 firing up. I ended up cheating and turning it back into a carbureated engine rather than fuel-injected. But I had to do what I had to do. There is still a bunch of work that it needs, I am steadily progressing towards full [...]

How To Shut A Doctor Up

Sunday, August 20th, 2006

This is a story via Emily Slusher.
Emily had a doctor’s visit yesterday. As part of the visit the doctor began asking her a series of questions to help determine her mental development. Here is that conversation as it was told to me:

Doctor: So how old are you?
Emily: 4!
Doctor: Can you count to 5?
Emily: [...]

F100 Noise

Tuesday, August 15th, 2006

I madethe F100 make noise for the first time in well over a year today. It is getting gas and it has spark but it hasn’t actually started up yet. The noise it was making was actually the cranking noise, but that is still better than the paperweight noise it had been making.
So [...]

How To Tell You Are Working Too Much

Saturday, August 5th, 2006

If you are like me and have to wear a uniform to work, there is a quick way to tell if you are working too much overtime. When you gather up your clothes to do a load of laundry from the past week and realize that only one shirt was not a part of [...]

Tourney Win

Tuesday, August 1st, 2006

Tourney Win

Originally uploaded by jaslusher.

As you all may or may not know, I’ve progressed into real money tournaments. Yesterday I came in 2nd in a 45 player/$5 buy-in tourney that netted me a hair over $50.
Today, as you can see by the [...]