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Oh baby.

Finally got my spoiler installed. Can you believe it? Wild or what? Personal fanx to yoyo882 for finding me a wicked deal on the spoiler. Yes, I know it doesn't enhance performance, but heck, it's a great sun shade.





That's it, starting to get into the Christmas groove too!

...t'is the season to be jolly. posted by losir at 11:39 AM

The Company is taking us out to see Lord of the Rings tomorrow. Woohoo. I've been waiting forever to watch this movie, since I read the whole series of books in Grade 6.

However, let me go on record quickly here to say that I predict the movie to suck. Why you ask? Simple. Booger Thing is doing the "toy" promotion for this flick.

McDogs is by far bigger than BT, in every country I know where both exists. Haven't you noticed that in the last while, every BT movie themed merchandise just sucked? I can't think or remember the flicks I'm talking about, but I noticed this trend a while back; and it totally makes sense.

McDs are so big, they can outbid any other fast food conglomerate. Think about the Taco Smell subsidy in Demolition Man. Did the movie not just bit the bag? Yes it did. Even most diehard action fans thought the movie pretty much stank. Did you see McDogs bidding to be the ONLY fast food joint left in the future? Of course not. Why? Because it sucked, and the marketing guys knew it, so why waste money and tarnish their image/standards? Another good example is Star Wars: Episode 1. Again, "outbid" by Taco Smell, and that too tanked in terms of a quality movie. Rats, I wish I had some good examples of Booger Thing's toys, but I can't recall.

So when I saw that BT was advertising movie mugs, I knew it was going to be a stinker. Come on, it's Booger Thing for crying out loud. Disgusting!

....Here's to hoping I'm wrong. posted by losir at 3:09 PM

The problem with people reading my blog is that when I hang out with them, I have no stories to tell. Truth be told, I don't have a very interesting life, so like, every little anecdote about my existence is probably already reflected onto here.

For example, I was hanging out with hydrabenzine when I started telling him about how I saw Ocean's Eleven. His first reply was: "Yeah, I read it on your blog already."

....Sigh. I need some excitement in my life, and not just blab about work all day long. Joy. posted by losir at 2:42 PM

Picture time kids.

Here's pix of my GTI frolicking in the snow. Dang, that looks cold!


I also bought a steering damper for my bike. A steering damper is like a shock absorber for your handlebars. Under moderate acceleration on the bike, the front end gets light. When this occurs, the front tire can (and does) bounce slightly off the road. If one of these bounces hit a dip in the road (or go over rough surfaces), it can start to twist the handlebars left and right. If this occurs violently enough, then you get into a tankslap. A tank slap is when your handlebar go from extreme left to extreme right, switching from one extreme lock to the other. You will crash from this.

The steering damper will dampen the oscillation that occurs in these situation, thereby preventing a tankslap. Tankslaps aren't funny, they are serious and can cause a LOT of injury the the biker. This is not a "speed wobble", as it doesn't necessarily require high speeds (or all out acceleration) for this to occur. Consider this a safety mod. It is worth every dollar. I've had some BAD headshake on the road and on the track, and I wasn't even going all that fast..... okay, the worst headshake on public roads was when I whacked it open at 183km/h. That really calmed me down for the rest of the night though.



I also riced out my mini-subwoofer. So now, it's got a Scotts Steering damper sticker on it. It will preven my sub from tankslapping!! hahaha.



...that is all. The snow isn't very heavy now, but it's still depressing. posted by losir at 2:22 PM

Hehe, what fun.

Here's my Christmas gift to you all!

Take a quiz about Moi. It was just done for fun, so like no big deal okay?? Here's the LINK

Have fun with that.

....like you really cared. posted by losir at 3:04 PM

Hehe, a rare post for Sunday. My gawd! It's 5:51am here, and I'm not tired. Insomnia is creeping back.

I just saw Ocean's Eleven. A decent flick, if not just a little too overhyped. While the plot was actually intriguing, the acting was decent, and the action was suspensful, the movie as a whole just didn't seem to congeal into one meaningful Sat. night out.

I really wanted to like it, I did. I tried hard to abstain from any of the trailers or teasers. Heck, I was even willing to watch it knowing each actor would play their favorite typecasts.

- Julia Roberts as the beautiful, intelligent, independent soul. (Pretty Woman ten years later)
- George Clooney as the devilishly charming bad guy with a good heart. (Coming out of jail after Out of Sight)
- Brad Pitt's aged wisdom betraying his boyish street smarts. (Doesn't he just need to be Brad Pitt?!)
- Matt Damon as the mouthy child prodigy. (Like every movie he's made, especially Rounders....)
- Andy Garcia, reprising the rich-mobster-type. Dangerous, charming, and evil. (Hoodlum character without the glass eye)

Two black guys this time!!
- Bernie Mack as "Yessa Massa" (Original Kings of Comedy with no punch lines or profanity)
- Don Cheadle, a "character actor". (Family man's angel & with a really poor English accent)
- Scott Caan and Casey Affleck (Who are they? Who cares)

There's a character named Saul Bloom, who's listed to have been played by two actors. Carl Reiner and Alan Arkin. Didn't realize they were 2 different people. Go figure. Don't know the story behind that. Oh well.

Lastly, there was a Jet Li type Chinese character, but since they couldn't afford to hire him, they found themselves a look-alike, with one of the most stereotypical chinamen performance given this side of Charlie Chan.

So in a nutshell: everyone gets together and robs a casino, and has a great time doing it. Afterall, professional thieves are just like the rest of us.... they get along with everyone they work with, while cracking one liners and looking out for each other the whole way through. Just like the cliche war movie, no one gets left behind!

Again, it wasn't a bad movie, just not very good.

....Save yourself $12 and download the camera movies off the net.


posted by losir at 7:02 AM