Nugland

As some of you may already know, I’m a huge fan of the BBC show Top Gear. You may also know that I’m a fan of the site Jalopnik.com.

That all comes together in a video they linked that features Jeremy (’Jizza’) Clarkson clips mixed into an electronica video.

If you’re into that kind of thing, I conveniently (for you) ripped an MP3 of it for your clicking pleasure. Enjoy.

We made it back to the Centennial last weekend. We got the leeboards off and set up on sawhorses in anticipation of the soda-blasting happening on Tuesday. Thursday looks more likely now, what with rain forecast until then.

The four new sawhorses are from Harbor Freight. They seem very sturdy, and were only $15 each, but each one had 26 bolts, 26 nuts, and 8 wood screws that had to dealt with. That got old fast.

The leeboards weren’t that bad to deal with. They are pretty heavy, and the hardware was a little balky. That said, leeboards have to be tons less of a hassle than a centerboard.

All the paint, topsides and bottom, is now in hand or on the way. Things should get underway Saturday morning, sharpish. Anyone who wants to help with the painting can contact me or leave a message here.

LeBron James makes playing professional basketball look like fun. I haven’t seen that in like, forever.

Addenda: “Chuck just pulled your hamstring”

I fueled up the Primus No.523 and gave it a go. And it worked great with no fancy repair work. The pressure pump could probably use an overhaul, but it did the business. I’m quite pleased.

I wasn’t organized enough to do a BTU test last night, but I’ll get to it. It seemed to be putting out quite a bit of heat, though.

This beauty arrived from Australia today. I think it might be pre-war, but there isn’t much info to go on. I got it on eBay from Australia (at a pretty reasonable price, too).

AP story here.

This makes me very happy (and not just because Krugman is the only Nobel winner I’ve actually read before he won).

Now he’ll have to be introduced on the TeeVee as “Nobel Prize winner Paul Krugman,” which has a much nicer ring than “shrill lefty economist and blogger Paul Krugman” (or words to that effect).

His not-at-all shrill (and more ‘reasonable liberal’ than ‘lefty’) blog can be found here, and his Monday and Friday New York Times columns can be found here (you may have to register, but there’s no charge now like there used to be. A charge I paid happily, BTW).

Periscope, an app from Freeverse, can upload timed iSight pics to my .Mac site. Check it out.

I got new x-rays on Tuesday, and the doc said I was done with the boot. No running or jumping for another six weeks? No problem there.

I wore an Aircast™ plastic cast for almost six weeks, and I guess it was OK. It squeezed my toes, so I couldn’t wear it as tight as I thought I was supposed to, but the doc said that it didn’t need to be very tight (pretty much just wearing it does the thing). Another note the techs didn’t share with me (but that I learned on wikipedia): your feet swell when you sleep, so don’t pump up the air part of the Aircast™ too tight before going to bed.

The crutches (pictured in the previous post) were awful, so I bought myself a pair of these forearm-style crutches. Totally worth it.

I broke the fifth meta-tarsal of my right foot while trying to fly a kite (!) on Friday night. This is the temporary splint; I going back in sometime next week for the real one. (And I was supposed to fly to Aiken, SC, today.)

Eric Alterman’s blog used one of my contributions for today’s Slacker Friday post. (Scroll to the end.)

(There’s been a part-of-speech thing concerning a certain word going on there for the last few days.)

Jason Schwartzman was asked by Terri Gross if Bill Murray ever gave him any advice about acting.

He claimed it was odd advice, but that it was good advice, and that he took it. It, roughly, follows:

Jason asked Bill if he could tell when he was in character. Bill asked Jason how much he weighed. Jason said he weighed 140 pounds. Bill asked if Jason could feel it (the weight) in his feet.

That is all.

I know that I’ve probably said this to every single person who might ever read this post, but, just in case there’s a budding film-maker that might stumble across this:

Seriously, every time you think you have a spot for a music cue in whatever movie you’re making, remove it.

If your imagined movie relies on music cues, it will not only fail, it probably sucks.

This is a picture of the building Matt Damon lives in with his wife and his daughter.

That must be odd to come home to.

From The Smoking Gun via Fark.

According to this review, I can continue to go back to what is now the Bourne trilogy for that calm space I need. I haven’t seen the film yet, but the reviewer (and the people Todd works for) are people that I trust.

This is my parent’s cat Molly getting some exercise.

Available here is a quickie remix of the Beastie Boys “That’s it” that I helped DJ Projet (AKA Patrick Walters) do using Apple’s SoundTrack Pro. Henjoy.

My observation:

He could play Gary Busey in the (I’m sure to be up-coming) Gary Busey story.

Fer serious.

I added an SPF record to aaronx.org just this morning. Mail not from me should no longer mess up your inboxes.

Sorry about that, but GoDaddy leaves SPF off by default.

According to IsParisInJailRightNow.com, western civilization is once again safe.