tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-187770912009-06-29T14:15:14.233-07:007800 RPM Redline. Black stuff. Gadgets. Computers. Software. Leather furniture. NASCAR, F1, WRC. Referring to a car by its manufacturer chassis designation. These are a few of my favorite things.Stephen Hughes-Jelenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12183035997872526690BlackE30M3@gmail.comBlogger130125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18777091.post-80004270819376144572009-06-29T14:11:00.001-07:002009-06-29T14:11:20.002-07:00

I’m trying out a cool little Windows Mobile Twitter client called Twikini right now. Pretty nice, simple interface, seems to work well in the 5-10 minutes I’ve been using it so far. It has some nice features that were missing from another client I was using before. The ability to get to a URL in a tweet without using the menus is nice, and it seems to work better for one-handed operation as well.

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Yesterday while Wendy worked for a couple of hours I wandered down Greenwood Ave. outside her office, where they had closed the street to traffic from 72nd to 88th except for a couple major cross streets. This was for the 17th Annual Greenwood Car Show in Seattle. Quite the collection of classics and a few modern miracles as well. Right outside the office was a jet turbine powered dragster, and a

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The two Gillette SuperSpeed razors I collected on a recent trip have cleaned up quite nicely. I even used one of them for a nice close shave this morning. Here’s the pictures, along with the 30’s vintage Gillette New Style razor. I’m actually looking forward to trying out that old 3-piece razor, it looks like it might actually provide a decent shave…  

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This past weekend Wendy and I went to visit my sis down in Sisters OR. We took a few pictures on the way down and a coupe on the way back, so I wanted to share. A wind farm just south of the OR/WA border – lots of generators out there on Hwy 97. Pretty cool. One of the mountains in view. And another… Neat old building in the middle of a field. The Three Sisters – part

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This weekend we went to Oregon to visit my sister Kimry, and we stopped at the Antique mall and Fruit Stand at Thorpe… and I entered stage 2 of Razor Acquisition Disorder. There were a few razors there, and a couple more at an antique store in Sisters. So, here’s my collection so far: From Top to bottom: My first razor, a Weishi from RetroRazor Next I collected a 1948-50 Gillette

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Wendy bought this shaving brush for me many years ago, and I’m interested in determining what brush it actually is. If anyone has any clues, I’d appreciate it if you could let me know. What I know: I’ve had it for probably 8 years now. I’m pretty sure it’s a Super Badger, but it may be Best Badger. It was purchased from Excalibur Cutlery & Gifts. That’s about  all I’ve got. Here are a few

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Hi everyone, This year, on my birthday, I thought I’d do something a little different. After a little research, I decided to put together a short list of historical facts that, when I read them, had some sort of positive emotional reaction within me. So here’s my look back, on this day, June 18th, through history: On this day: 1155 - Frederick I Barbarossa was crowned emperor of Rome. 1778 -

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A few months ago I went to the Seattle Green Festival with Wendy, where I met Chadd from RetroRazor.com. Up until this point I’d tried a couple of different electric razors, and multi-bladed razors. I was shaving with a really snazzy Schick Quatro Ti at that time, replacing heads every few weeks (shaving just my cheeks and throat – had a little more beard at the time). In talking with him and

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This past month we have been seeing lots and lots of Goldfinches here in Seattle. They first emptied all of the black oil sunflower seeds out of out feeder al over the deck. We have now put up a feeder full of Niger seeds, and they seem to be much happier. Shot this morning. We’ve also been getting nearly over-run with hummingbirds. We heard from a neighbor who also set up a feeder that there

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Tonight I'm here at the Tibbetts church in West Seattle to listen to the Bells of the Sound play some interesting pieces on a huge bell choir... I can't remember how many octaves this bell choir is, but it's more than average. Anyway, playing with Wendy's netbook, trying to connect via the churches wifi, but having trouble making the connection so far. Kind of fun to be able to sit here and type

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I've been listening to Imogen Heap quite a bit lately, and just found out that while she was on vacation in Hawaii, she recorded some jazzy, free roving piano work. It's very nice, and I look forward to hearing more in the future! Enjoy!

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I was at the Sustainable West Seattle Festival today, and saw something I thought was totally cool. Besides the hybrid Honda ZipCar display, and scooters, and bikes, there was a 1985 Toyota MR2 that had been converted to electric. This thing was really cool. It’s based on a 1985 Toyota MR2, filled to the gills with 6v golf cart batteries, and can go about 50 miles in the best conditions. Brian

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I recently acquired a replacement for my aging Dell 5160 laptop, and have spent this last weekend getting it up and running, and all of my old data transferred over. It’s been kind of a long boring task, but towards the end of the week, I got to kind of test out the machine and see what it can really do. Needless to say, there have been some changes in the capabilities of mobile computers of the

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Seattleites: Check out this Poet Populist Seattle page, and write your own piece of poetry. here are the details: Seattle Writes 2009 Poet Populist Mike Hickey has conceived of the “Seattle Writes” program, which invites every citizen young and old to write a poem on the theme of NEIGHBORS. Poets must be residents of King County, Washington State. You can read from the submitted poems,

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#2.Sex Offender RegistriesThe Idea:In theory, these registries are comprehensive lists of every sex offender in your state, updated regularly with the offender's home location and other...View >>

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OK, so Wendy and I have been watching a few seasons of Dancing with the Stars now, and I seem to have been pretty good at picking the candidates early on for who makes it to the finals. (Yes, we watch DWTS. Beautiful girls in skimpy costumes. C'mon.) So, here's my writeup before the first dance off, and who I think has the best chances so far... Top 4 (Finals) Based on Talent: Gilles Marini,

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Using the pause button always seems to catch someone in a really strange expression... Why is that? I just don't quite get that. However... That does result in some funny expressions.

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You guessed it, it's snowing again here in Seattle. We woke up this morning to a light coat of fluffy white snow, with big fluffy flakes falling, just about like last weekend down in Auburn at what was supposed to be the 6 hour enduro race. (Called on account of snow after 2 hours.) I drove Wendy to the church for her bell choir, and am now at a little coffee shop waiting for the Farmers Market

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This morning I caught Imp sitting in the morning sun, watching the shadows of the birds on the wall. (Watching the birds themselves, also, but more the shadows. She thinks she can at least play with the shadows.)

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Last week, I rolled 150,000 miles on my little red Bimmer.

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I first learned how to write Haiku in grade school before my family moved cross-town and I changed school districts. It's about the last thing I remember about classes from then, other than having a crush on the teachers assistant we had then... another story for some other non-existent time, as I don't remember anything more than just having the crush. No name, red hair I think, that's about it.

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For those of you that might follow (or would be interested in learning more about) the NASA Space Shuttle program, Space Shuttle Discovery is scheduled to launch at 9 PM Eastern on Wednesday, March 11th. There's a countdown clock on the page that will keep you up to date, and lots of other info on this particular mission. I've been a space buff all my life, and have high hopes that space

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Soon after the last pictures were taken (that Saturday, as a matter of fact), I went on an outing to take a look at some local motor sport garages with the BMW Club. As luck is what it is, I didn't have any that day, and put a small wrinkle in the nose of my car. Very sad, very sad indeed. But, I shall have it fixed, and everything shall be hunky-dory. Enough about the car troubles, though.

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The West Seattle Blog was reporting that there might be a pod of Orcas off of Alki Point while I was getting ready to head downstairs and fix a quick bite for lunch today, so I decided to go for a quick cruise on down there. I didn't see any Orcas, but did manage a couple of other pictures. There was a group of what I think were Cormorant sunning themselves on some rocks around the south tip of

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Well, it really wasn't much of a stir really. I was just 4 years worth of posts on the line, no big deal, it just had me a little worried for a while. Saturday I tried to make a few revisions to the sidebar layout of this blog, now that I'm on Twitter. When I went to update the template, all heck broke loose, and in the process, my page up and vanished. Still not quite sure what was going on,

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