The Perils of Buying a Used Car (Or, Why Beggars Who Are Choosers Die Young)

So I got rear-ended by a 40+ year old learning driver with a bunch of previous accidents last month. Not including pics of the damage, because honestly the exterior damage was superficial – it was all under the skin, so to say, so you’ll just wonder wtf I’m talking about. Insurance is fixing it, yes, but: A) I was actually [Read more...]

Nov 202011
Why Am I Writing?

The more I write, the more respect I have for those authors I’ve always loved. I could never tell you why, but I’m going to try. I think my respect stems from the amount of brainwork it takes to invent not just an entire universe, but one that is full, realistic, and captivating. A place where people live, where events [Read more...]

I made a video of a car crash.

This is made from footage over a year old. Yes, it’s from Forza 3. I just had no software to edit it with, or motivation to do so until recently. I was racing in that black, white, and wine-coloured RX-7 when I lost grip and went into the wall. It bounced me back into that Corvette (which righted me), and [Read more...]

Subaru BRZ (concept?) Outted in Subaru Canada Commercial?

If you take a look at this ad that Autoblog posted a few days ago, you’ll notice something in the opening shot of Dancing Pencil Man:   See the blue car up in the upper right corner of that central collage of concept art?   Yeah, I ‘enhanced’ it and upsized it a bit so you could see more detail. [Read more...]

Some quick SSD benchmarks

Too wordy to put into Twitter. Basically I just installed a 160GB Intel SSD 320 into my 2008 Mac Pro. Performance…  I really couldn’t tell how it was after enabling TRIM, but I felt like something was off after doing so. By the way, for those of you with TRIM-supporting SSDs, you can bypass Apple’s arbitrary restriction on OS TRIM [Read more...]

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