February 26, 2008

Vonage

First of all if your home phone is still tied to the local phone company and your phone bill is over $20.00 a month you need to take a look at digital phone service! Since both of our parents live out of state we have a lot of long distance calls. Another issue and the one that helped to motivate my wanting to change is the insane way the local phone companies hose you on local service. So here's my...

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February 6, 2008

Apple OSX vs Microsoft Windows Vista

Thank god the world, especially the computer software development world has Linus Torvalds the man who single handily gave us the Linux kernel. This is a guy who sees an operating system for what it should be! He has made some comments on the new Apple OS OS X Leopard and Windows Vista and I think he says it all when he laments on how these OSes are designed with one thing in mind, and that is to force consumers...

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January 26, 2008

The furnace dilemma

I thought I'd share a story about my furnace with you. Something I'm sure others have had happen to them, and that is that when it fails, it always fails at the worst time. So it is January and it was -5 degrees and our furnace which had been acting up finally quit during the night. We woke up to fifty degrees and getting out of bed was not pleasant. Of course you can't get around your daily life and...

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December 1, 2007

Ricky Carmichael

Ricky Carmichael did the one thing few racers at his level have done and that is to forgo or rather he had a very subdued farewell tour. To many racers follow the ritual of milking their careers to the bitter end. Most are over the hill racers who haven't won in years who continue to find a way of pocketing that last ounce of cash from the fans. That is not Ricky Carmichael, who went out as a champion...

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November 6, 2007

Mom

Thought I'd take a minute to write about my mom who I find to be such an incredible person. Maybe you to have a mom who has been there for you, has endured pain, who has stepped up and who has loved you through all of your trials and tribulations. Mine certainly has. My mother is a combination of everything you'd ever want in a mom. First and foremost she is just a really good person as all of my...

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September 3, 2007

Doug Henry

Of the many professional motocross riders who have won championships since I got involved in the sport (around 1966) You have to put AMA Motocross Champion Doug Henry near or at the top of the list in regards to greatness. Doug is the man who developed the current generation 4 stroke motocross bikes. He was the guy who made them work. He was the guy who Yamaha laid their future in dirtbikes with. Doug’s resume includes winning the 1993 AMA...

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Lasik Eye Surgery and Sedation dentistry

This is the "If you ever wondered what these procedures can do for your life" part of my blog. So I thought I’d throw out my thoughts on a couple of medical procedures I've gone through in the past few years. Lasik Eye Surgery: Awesome. I had the surgery in mid 2002 and it has changed my life. I wore glasses most of my life and now that I no longer have to deal with that, I have to consider...

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IRL vs Cart Auto Racing

So Karoline landed a set of nice passes for the IRL (Indy Racing League) Detroit Grand Prix yesterday and I had a few thoughts on the whole deal. Belle Isle and the IRL offered a very nice layout for those who had suite passes. They included a place out of the sun in the suite area, catered food and drinks and something I have never seen before, air conditioned first class porta pottys (5 star bathrooms). But what I...

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Pro Motocross + Toyota's support for Privateers

Give it up for Toyota and their creative sponsorship of the AMA National Motocross Series! What they have done is unprecedented in motorsports. They have designed a rolling facility that travels to all of the AMA National Motocross races and gives AMA professional privateers a home away from home and it is about time that some of the kids get a reasonable shot at top level racing. I'll be the first to admit that many will not make it to...

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June 9, 2007

Amateur Road Racing

After spending a few years running an amateur road racing team I thought I would throw out a few of my thoughts on the riders I have worked with, sponsors and the current state of amateur road racing. First off I'll talk about the riders. From 2003 through 2006 we worked with Bojan Miljovic, Nathan Dressman, Randy Sherman, Rick Knuckles, Jonas McCluskey, Dave Theil and Allan Pett in both AMA, WERA regional and national competition. The first rider we worked...

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