So, after years of deliberation and planning, I finally got my car.
Picked it up this weekend from Honda of Pasadena yesterday for what I think was a pretty good price. I had really wanted an Audi A5 for a while now (can’t say I still don’t), but decided this was a much better decision financially, since everything (the car, gas, insurance) would be about twice the price and that would leave money open for Operation Eden and eventually the Aston Martin ;)
Anyways, after a lot of thinking last night I decided on the name The Heart of Gold. (I know, I know: *gasp* it’s not a flower or even a plant) The name comes from a spaceship in The Hitchhiker’s guide to the Galaxy, which I am currently reading (and is a good, silly book). Also HOG for short.
She’s a 2008 Honda Civic Coupe, in white with a tan interior. I’ve had it for about a day, drove around a bit last night and today back and forth from school so I’ve clocked about 70 miles so far. It was at 4 when I first got it. I hear the burn in period is about 600 miles so I’m taking it easy till then, just letting the engine and breaks prime.
I love how it looks at night in the dark, when you unlock it and all of the inside lights up, like it’s saying “Come inside! Drive me!” The sound system is also pretty good. Not as good as what I have in my room, but it still sounds pretty good and having volume/track controls in the steering wheel is a really handy feature.
Here’s my first exhibition — titled Nature I. Some of these, like the macaw you’ve probably seen before. But there are quite a few fresh ones as well. Hopefully this’ll be successful and there will be a lot more to come.
This is basically just a collection of all my (recent) nature photos that I thought […]
Many of you may know Mike — Michael Prasad from mediaStorm LA — who I mention once in a while and work with a lot. His father recently passed away and I had the unfortunate but rewarding experience of photographing and capturing the funeral.
I didn’t know his dad that well, but we talked every […]
Yesterday, after returning from UCLA (long story, future post), Narek and I went to go see the new Simpsons Movie (no work on weekends).
It was pretty decent. Many good laughs, though of course the plot and storyline were pretty silly. I’d say it was like a slightly better version of the cartoon. The graphics, while […]
Saw it this weekend, for the genre it was quite good. Rotten Tomatoes has it at 85% and Yahoo Movies a B+. I’d say it’s a B+ or possibly an A- if you’re in a good mood. The ending, unlike most movies of this sort, wasn’t that cheesy or predictable.
Happy birthday to me!
Yay.
Sorry folks, April 2ero is not anywhere near ready. You can blame Girl Gamer for that.
Iron Man was easily one of the best movies I’ve seen. I might be a little biased since it is also my favorite comic and I really love the character, but it was definitely the best movie Marvel has ever made and one of my all time favorites. No Comments »
This video is amazing—an engineer’s guide to cats. No Comments »
After somehow losing all my 5 pairs of Sony EX-51’s (my and whaleaslad’s headphones of choice for the last 5 years) over the last few months, I reordered 2 last week. I’d previously complained (a lot) about how the iPhone and it’s horribly designed headphone port don’t work with most headphones (particularly the EX-51’s) and force you to get the (extremely crappy) Apple ones or something similar. Or take an exacto knife to it and cut off the extra molding, or get a bulky and annoying adapter, both of which I had done. Having received and opened my package today, I was delighted to see that the plug looked a little different. It had been reshaped and now fit the iPhone perfectly. +1 to Sony. No Comments »
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Well, Dragon Interactive just placed in the Student category. Interestingly, the other 4 sites are flash based. More interestingly, most of the sites in the CSS category use flash, which I found hilarious. No Comments »
