Tuesday,December 31,2002

New Year, New Name, New Look

It's New Year's Eve, and this blog has a new name.....RIDE. I've never liked "Moto-Blog", it was really supposed to be a temporary name anyways, and now it's consigned to the dust bin of history. I'm now using PNG's for the graphics, something Opera and Mozilla fully support, but IE still has a little bit of trouble with (mainly with transparencies). The color scheme was designed to minimize this, and you shouldn't notice any problems (fingers crossed). I would test it on IE 5.5 and 5.0, but I've got 6.0 and Windows won't let you have multiple versions of explorer, so if you guys notice any irregularities, let me know. It displays beautifully on Mozilla though, and Opera does a damn fine job too. I don't have access to a Mac, so I haven't a clue if it displays properly on that.

With the holiday madness behind me, I hope to blog on a much more regular basis, but it all depends on the ideas in my head and if they want to be transferred to words. All my entries are written on paper first, so if the creative juices aren't flowing and my muse is taking a vacation, posts will get sparse. But, dammit, I'm going to do my best to not let that happen. Happy New Year everyone, let's hope it's a good one.

MR2 @   11:53:41 AM 

 

Well Hell!!!

I don't know how I did it, but somehow I messed up my stylesheet and Internet Explorer is not happy. This site looks like crap in IE 6.0, but Opera and Mozilla still display it correctly. The only use I have for IE is to test out my designs and access those pages that only work on Explorer (GRRRRRR!!!! It's the web, dammit, it shouldn't matter what browser I'm using). So, sorry to everyone, I didn't notice even though Adam at High Mileage has repeatedly tried to get my attention on this. The Christmas rush at WallyWorld is finally over, so a fix is finally on the way. Actually, a total redesign and new name for the site, so look for it soon.

MR2 @   04:16:20 AM 

 

Tuesday,December 24,2002

Error

You know, if you don't pay attention to what you are doing, sometimes you travel through time. Really, just look at the date for the last three posts. Doh! Check below for newer posts, even though they won't be dated that way.

MR2 @   02:51:16 PM 

 

Square Plug In A Round Hole, Part 2

My roommate drives a '92 Olds EightyEight. It's a good family car that Mike has actually drifted around corners (scary but fun), but it shares an oddity with many GM cars. It's the damn keys. There's two of them, one with a square head and one with a round head. Now, if you know nothing about GM's except that one key does the ignition and the other opens the doors and trunk, which key does what? The ignition is round, and so is the steering wheel it's attached to, while the doors and trunk are basically square, so let's try the square key in the door. Nope, it's the round key that opens that. Well, that must mean the square key turns the ignition. Does this make any sense? Am I the only one that is bothered by this?

MR2 @   02:42:53 PM 

 

Square Plug In A Round Hole

I'm looking at a Chevy Malibu right now, a nicely styled car with plenty of curves, but something is not quite right. It's the wheelwells. They're not round, more like a rounded off square. The same with all the GM vehicles I see, even Saturns. Everyone else has round wells, but GM is still sticking to their square ones, and it ruins the styling for me. It sticks out like a sore thumb.

MR2 @   07:18:42 AM 

 

Tuesday,December 17,2002

If You Got It, Use It

It's a rare thing in Tennessee to have a house with a garage. You're lucky to have a carport, although even they are uncommon. Of those few who do actually have a garage, many use it simply as extra storage space instead of a home for their vehicles, and this infuriates me.

The next door neighbor of my mother, Carl, dose this. He even has an old British roadster that used to reside in the garage (covered with boxes) that now sits outside exposed to the cruel elements. Sacrilege!

The benefits a garage provides seems obvious to me, so this is strange behavior indeed. Your car is not nearly as cold inside a garage on those blustery winter mornings, and in the summer the interior does not resemble an oven in climate. Bird droppings marring your paint becomes something that happens to those less fortunate than yourself, and if your vehicle is leaking any fluid you usually know about it within twenty four hours, before it can cause serious harm. Why anyone would choose not to take advantage of their garage for it's intended purpose is beyond me. These people need serious help.

MR2 @   04:43:59 AM 

 

Friday,December 13,2002

Winter Tradition

Now that I work at Wally World, everything's about being "big". Five hundred associates requires it, but that doesn't mean I have to like it. There are just too many people for us to do cool things like have a company picnic or Christmas party, so they do things in the store, major suckitude that. There's another thing I miss about working for a small company that relates to cars (I knew you were waiting for it).

We had a little wintertime tradition at the MickeyD;s I worked at in Ohio. After the store had closed and we were close to finishing the cleaning, one of us would go out and start everyone's cars and scrape the snow off the windshields. Most of the time I would be the one outside, but that was ok. I was the closing manager and it was a nice way of saying thank you to my crew. It's just great to have your car ready for you when you leave work on those frigid winter evenings. It's a small thing, but I think about it when I leave work now, and I miss it dearly.

MR2 @   12:42:29 AM 

 

Sunday,December 08,2002

One Thousand Words In A Nutshell

MR2 @   12:52:31 PM 

 

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