Archive for April, 2008

 

Robot of the Month - ASIMO, the Honda robot - thanks Ankur!

Apr 23, 2008 in ROBOTS!, The Interwebs and PCs

Okay, Ankur FINALLLYYYYY sent me another robot to post, haha.

Introducing, ASIMO - the walking, running, jumping, orchestra conducting humanoid - no vTec, but I heard he gets great mpg’s.

Ankur's ASIMO picture - conducting orchestra, vtec style

My question is, “Are you, by chance, the pleasure model?” Quick, quick, where’s that quote from?

The complete article is available here: ASIMO Honda robot to conduct Detroit Orchestra

That concludes this month’s Robot of the Day/Week/Month/Year… ;)

“Dig / Digg Me, Sir!” - Ankur

Apr 21, 2008 in Cars Cars Cars, The Interwebs and PCs

Ankur loves to make me digg his articles. Sometimes they are lame, sometimes they are cool. I only dig cool ones, or ones that are odd, or ones that have orange cars, haha. Each time he wants me to, he messages me on gmail/gchat & asks, or rather just yells, “dig me sir!”.

His latest one is kind of neat - mostly because I saw a similar smart car (this most likely wasn’t the China copy cat in the article) in Irvine during lunch:

Seeing Double: China's Automotive Copycats - Ankur says Please Dig me Sir!Seeing Double: China’s Automotive Copycats

Rite Way Auto Paint and Body Review in Fountain Valley, CA - AWESOME GUYS!

Apr 15, 2008 in Cars Cars Cars, Rite Way Experience

As some of you may know, I’ve been waiting approximately 4 weeks for Candy, my Nissan 240sx Convertible, to come back from Rite Way Auto Paint and Body in Fountain Valley so that I can track her & drive her around town again (it’s CONVERTIBLE WEATHER!).

My friend Donny @ FRSport recommended me to this body shop since he had his sileighty done here, as well as the rest of his family’s cars. They did an excellent job on Donny’s car, so I knew they’d take good care of me as well.

Original estimate was 1.5-2 weeks. Of course, from the get go, I knew there would be no way they could get my car & all the special requests I had done in that amount of time (lots of special requests - the entire car was basically being restored, body wise). Max & Jesse over at Rite Way body shop took care of me during this time. They were extremely patient and helpful. They even picked out a really nice orange for me - I had given them a picture of the approximate orange I wanted, and they got really close.

I felt bad for dropping in and “checking up” on the car every few days. I felt almost like I was harassing them (I really just wanted to snap progress pictures for my blog & review), but both Jesse & Max were nice and understanding. I even interrupted them during a lunch period one time, since that was the only time I was available that week to check on the S13. Jesse took time off his lunch to walk me through what they’ve done with the car so far and where everything was currently standing.

Reassembly - Candy 05

There were a couple small bumps along the way, as I posted earlier, due to some miscommunication on my part and not clarifying more - i.e. hood was painted black & stock bumpers were not fully prepped. However, a quick 5 minute conversation, and we were back on track.

I came in today to check on her progress; the 1 month wait was TOTALLY worth it. My baby is looking GORGEOUSSSSSS.

Reassembly - Candy 01

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Crouching Ankur, Hidden Penis? A Real Man’s Car.

Apr 14, 2008 in Cars Cars Cars, ROBOTS!, The Interwebs and PCs

In an effort to get Ankur’s name associated with random things we talk about, someone on the solo2.com message board posted this video.

Really genius stuff, hahaha. “Look man, I just don’t hold to this chicks who say a guy’s wheels are an extension of his penis.” hahaha - mostly safe for work, hahaha.

Video can be found @ Funieststuff.net

Flip a Bitch - Drifting gives way to Politically Incorrect COOLNESS!!! Thanks Ankur. :P

Apr 10, 2008 in Undecided

More of Ankur’s useless but fun linkage.

Drifting is out, “Flipping a bitch” is in! Go GTChannel!!!

Basics on how to “Flip a bitch”:
- Drive down the road
- See sweet ass parking spot on the opposite end of the road
- Scream “OH NOES!”
- Turn steering wheel
- Brake / pull e-brake
- Stop perfectly in spot you found
- VIP parking FTW!

How GTChannel.com does it:

There is a family surname of Bews! Quoc-Viet Bews? lol.

Apr 08, 2008 in The Interwebs and PCs

I was looking for random stuff today, which you may have been hinted by the title, and I found out that there are actually people with the last name Bews!!!

“Hellos Mr./Mrs. Bews!”

Here is the link I found: Bews Family History

Best family name, ever… well, maybe not as cool as my last name, :P

Update on Candy - Primered & Almost Ready!!!

Apr 03, 2008 in Cars Cars Cars, Rite Way Experience

I dropped by Riteway in Fountain Valley, CA to talk with Jesse about the 240sx convertible today during my lunch period. She’s got primered & basically just waiting on the super special secret paint to come in (new ‘08 color) to be mixed & sprayed.

Good thing I rolled by because there was a bit of miscommunication between us when I was going over the parts I want painted. I had given Jesse a sheet with a picture of a 240sx hatchback, which was orange w/ a black hood. They had thought I wanted my hood black, so painted it that color. OH NOES!

Primered - Candy 03

Also, they didn’t prep the bumpers as much since they figured I was going to use the aftermarket body kit I brought in for paint as well. I had to explain that I was going to be using both (stock bumpers being backups or vice versa).

However, Jesse & Max were both extremely understanding and patient; they will be making sure the hood gets redone & the bumpers reprepped. I feel kind of bad since they did a really nice job on the hood - looks very smooth and nicely done.
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No Robots this Week… but I have Ankur’s Balls, :-O

Apr 02, 2008 in Foodies!

So Ankur didn’t find a robot of the day/week/month this time, but he found something better!!!

So, here are Ankur’s Balls, eerrr, I mean Uncle Jimmy’s Hanging Balls (actual balls after the jump), haha: