a place out by the sun

More Camaro spy shots this morning, notably at the Nurburgring sporting red Brembo brake calipers - presumably the SS is undergoing some hardcore track testing. Apparently the Genesis coupe will also have Brembo brakes, but they are so big they will only fit on the 19" wheels and not the standard 18".

In other car news, there is a new BMW M3 ad out showing a combustion cycle with no CGI - it's pretty cool in itself, but I also really like the music. Unfortunately I think the ad is brand new so nobody has music info - if it isn't custom. The Genesis coupe's website also has music I really like but can't find.

every color goes where you do

My DOA motherboard just made it to Newegg on Friday, so I probably won't see a new one until next weekend.

I saw a new XJR convertible today. That's the first interesting thing I've spotted in a while, although I did see a Delorean at the grocery store a while ago. I would upload the picture I took, but it's on my unhacked Razr so I am still under Verizon's tyranny.

I was hoping to burn some new MP3 CDs for the Malibu today, but I never got around to it. I don't know how to fix my playlists so I always just stick with the same ones.

you're breaking my flow

I hate April Fool's Day. Just because we've arrived at an arbitrary point in our orbital cycle people take this as license to be a jackass, exploit the trust of others, tell fantastic lies and extract amusement from the suffering of others. I can't trust a damned thing that happens today. Fortunately two guys at work got fired recently for screwing around so nobody was going to cross that line, but my webcomics thought they were being clever by rerouting their links to each other (apparently xkcd's idea), and everything in the car news I read has to be taken with a grain of salt. Which is unfortunate because I want to believe there is a 50/50 chance of a G8 GXP coupe getting built. Or that Audi has finally cracked the twin-turbo V10 for the R8.

i've got to stop it somehow

I spent my weekend playing my new game on the old computer and trying to fix the new computer, which is the opposite of what I wanted to happen. I can't turn my pile of computer parts into a computer. I think it is the motherboard, or maybe I just want it to be the motherboard. I am going to RMA it to Newegg which means at least a week of delay.

she sang a short tune

More Camaro spy shots this morning, although the most entertaining thing was a burn in the comments:

"White Camaro has 1.8 liter four cylinder with no turbo (RS model), and the black one has a turbo charged 2.0 EcoTech (known as the SS "Maximum Bob special edition"). Neither can put over 200 hp on a chassis dyno."

However, the new pics do show pillarless windows. That's something. It looks like they also fixed the ugly tail light chrome on the black model.

Also seems like Newegg has already sold out of Q9450. I'm going to have to keep my eyes peeled for when the Q9550 hits.

when you walk away

The case I wanted for the new computer is apparently out of production, so finding it was kind of tricky. I tried Buy.com, but they spent two days sitting on their asses before coming back and telling me they didn't actually have it. I tried the Fry's website and actually found it for cheaper, although I'm going to two day it so it will get here with the rest of my components.

Seems like Newegg FINALLY added one of the processors I am considering for the primary.

In other news, the shuffle feature on the new iPod sucks, as it constantly keeps picking songs from the same album instead of actually shuffling. I am also still in the phase where I am removing hundreds of songs out of shuffle altogether.

yorkfield

I am tired of waiting and waiting for Intel to get its act together about the new processors, so I went to Newegg and bought everything else I need. It's some fairly serious firepower, with the exception of the $85 stand-in CPU.

metox

I bought a radar detector this weekend. This is not so much out of expectation of immediate benefits so much as learning the capabilities and idiosyncracies of the device for my next car, which will surely be a much better target for those who may not appreciate my exuberant driving style.

The CPU I want for my new PC is allegedly released, although I still don't see it anywhere. It also seems the case I was looking at is going out of production. I will probably have to throw out all my research and look at the newest parts and that sounds like way more of a pain than I want to get into right now.

My automotive dark horse has surfaced again - it is apparently being officially revealed in New York this week.

the walls suffocate

I've overslept my alarm the past two days. Fortunately nobody at work notices if I am ten minutes late. However, the time has come to resolve this annoyance. The problem is not that I forgot to set my alarm clock forward, but that it has picked preciously this time to have the snooze malfunction. This may be due to a low battery, but since I can't be sure I need to set an emergency backup clock. The emergency backup clock is atomic, or rather 'atomic'. One would imagine using an 'atomic' clock would be simple:

Step 1 - IT SETS ITSELF.

Unfortunately the reality is more annoying. My 'atomic' clock had apparently most recently decided daylight savings does not exist, and since "it sets itself" I have no manual override to set it ahead one hour. Instead, I have to remove the batteries and put them back in to trigger the autoset. This autoset receives information via radio waves, and as I've covered in previous rants EM waves are unable to penetrate Lake Oswego. In the meantime it thinks it is midnight on January 1st. I have been successful in the past by putting it in the window, but tonight I have it fully outside and it receives absolutely nothing.

in the sodium light

The weather perked up a little this weekend. Today it was 63 and sunny. I've perked up as well, as my cold has faded away. I went in to Portland today to find the OSU bookstore. It was in the one chunk of town I can barely navigate. Unfortunately the store didn't have a heck of a lot, so I went down to the riverfront and explored a bit there.