It's all in my head

I came across this website while listening to podcast by the 404. It's basically a social experiment where these guys put a cell phone with a camera that automatically takes pictures when people (women) smile on a dogs collar. They basically want to find which breed has the most "puppy pulling power" to help "Pete" get a girlfriend. It's one of the best uses of a cell phone camera I've seen so far.

The day started with me almost missing the 12:30 showing of Star Trek. I miss calculated the time it would take me take me for me to get there. I did leave until almost noon to what would normally be 30-40 min drive. I popped the car into "S-mode" and got there in about 20 min. I rode the car pretty hard and it was either because of that or when my car put on the dyno that I noticed that my rear diffuser of my driver side exhaust pipe had melted! Then on the way home, a clamp from my upper intercooler pipe became loose and I lost all boost. Had to fix that when I got home. I guess you have pay to play right?

I got to Mach V pretty late. Most of the cars had left by then and the only people that were left were the ones waiting to go on the dyno. The car ended up doing 259HP 7 262TQ, which I don't think is that bad considering I only have a catback exhaust. I'll throw some pics from the dyno in the gallery and you can watch my pull below. By the way, Star Trek is a movie definitely worth seeing!!!

Update on May 11, 2009 at 10:47 PM by Dexter

Here's a follow video of the Mac V dyno meet.

So a few weeks ago, a few friends and I were shopping at the Pentagon City Mall when we came across a "Smoking Anywhere" kiosk where we saw some guy smoking a cigarette. When we got closer, we realized that it wasn't a real cigarette at all. For a while I thought it was some novelty gag that you would play on your friends while at the bar. When the sales accociate explained what it was, I was surprised that you could actually get your nicotine fix! I can't tell you how many times I tried to quit smoking so I thought I would give this a try. If I couldn't get over the nicotine addiction, at least I wouldn't be killing my lungs with all tar and other crap normally found in cigarettes. Anyway, the video below explains how it works.

This is a great film staring T.J. Thyne from Foxes series "Bones". The film is a little long, especially for the internet age, but it's definitely a perfect way to start your day!