Seems awfully dangerous to me, but more power to this Dell employee down in Texas who commutes to work every day back and forth on a tollway. I’m slightly jealous – not of the danger he faces, but the fact that he is able to commute, and has for his whole working life. I can’t imagine taking I-40 or even 70 to work everyday on a bike. Plus, I think it’s illegal (and unwise) to do so here in the state of North Carolina.

Man Braves Cars, Bureaucrats to Bike on Tollways

Holy crap, that’s a ton of money for $500 worth of parts. It’s one help of a replica though – complete with ‘71 quarter, cigarette burns, etc. But, anyone who buys this is putting it in a display case somewhere. I would never expect to see someone playing one of these onstage or even in your garage. If you wanted to do either of those things, you’ve probably already built your own replica for a lot cheaper than the $50,000 price tag on these bad boys.

I’m a huge Van Halen fan, but even so, I can’t imagine spending that kind of dough. It’s a cool [replica] piece of history for sure, but $50,000? Damn!

They’re only making 300 of these, and it’s amazing they haven’t already sold out.

Ah.. ‘98 was a good year for me.. I was in my sophomore year of college and ended up driving to San Antonio with two friends to cheer on the Tar Heels in the Final Four. Unfortunately, we lost that first game to Utah, but Final Four is an amazing accomplishment in Division I basketball.

Fellow Word Press blogger Tar Heel Fan (whose RSS feed I just subscribed to) has a good write-up comparing 2008 to 1998’s season (which by the way.. the Final Four is back in San Antonio again). He makes some good points. One can only hope the Heels make the final outcome more like 2005.

This Season Is Beginning To Look A Lot Like 1998

There are some great tips in this substantial list of ways to maintain your car. Some are damn obvious, such as changing your oil regularly, following the break-in period guidelines. Other suggestions though, aren’t as obvious.

I tried the one tip about putting your car in neutral while at traffic lights. I wonder though if all that shifting from drive to neutral and back trades wear and tear in one place for wear and tear in another, though the shift may be an easier or cheaper repair.

75 Tips to Keep Your Car in Top-Notch Condition

Here’s a great collection of some of the recent best on Flickr. I love a lot of these shots, and am slightly jealous of the photographers’ collective talent.

Flickr Interestingness

I woke up this morning with ten hours of sleep behind me, fully rested. But I’m tired.

I’m tired of people being difficult and mean to each other. I’m tired of seeing good people being treated poorly. I’m tired of disorganization and having to do things multiple times because of the disorganization and the lack of the planning. I’m tired of the thought, “a lack of planning on your part, does not constitute and emergency on my part” popping into my head. But most of all, I’m just tired of people failing to recognize that they’re part of the problem.

Yeah, this is complete bullshit! Amanda told me about this last week. It was obvious that the throat cam thing was a complete sight gag, using a pre-rendered/recorded video loop. We were watching a Blue Man Group video from HDNet just this weekend and it’s obvious by the size of this camera that there would be no way the camera could even remotely be put down someone’s throat. This guy is just trying to get free cash, and it’s messed up as the Blue Man Group outfit puts on good and entertaining shows.

This isn’t a publicity stunt by the Blue Man Group is it? You can’t ask for advertising and/or drumming up talk about your show like this!

Man Claims Blue Man Group Forced a Camera Down His Throat

You definitely can see tumbleweeds floating across our TiVos, majorly due to the writers’ strike. Typically, we’d be knee-deep in new primetime shows to watch in the evenings – “Prison Break”, “24,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Private Practice,” “Smallville,” etc. to name a few. Instead, we’re scrounging for things to watch most nights.

We have started watching “Holmes on Homes” (no it’s not a porn!) and “It Takes a Thief”, but they get old, and it looks like “It Takes a Thief” is defunct now too. I don’t mind more Xbox 360 time, but Amanda does.

Weathering The Writers Strike, Take Six