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Crackdays & Racing

Worse to Better: AFM 2010 Round 6

I didn’t do race reports for the last two rounds at Thunderhill because frankly I just wanted to forget them. Even though I put in personal best times at round 4, dropping 4 seconds from last year, I was disappointed with my results where anything but top novice in

Crackdays & Racing

AFM 2010 Round 3

Rounds 1 & 2 were a bit more difficult then I was hoping for so I was really looking forward to round 3 and a change of luck. That almost didn’t happen as I crashed on cold tires during a Keigwins track day just a week before the race.

Life

The only constant is change

I keep meaning to do a post on this, but I keep on putting it off for various reasons. But long story short, I’ve left Mu Dynamics back in February after almost 5 years with the company. Being the first non-founder in a company gave me a unique perspective

Crackdays & Racing

It's how you finish that matters

This being my very first year racing, I started this year with a simple goal- finish in the top 50% in 650 Production. I honestly didn’t know how realistic that would be- how many people would run in the class and how fast would they be? The good news

Crackdays & Racing

A dark cloud

So a couple of days ago a dark cloud started following me- literally (on twitter). Why? Well probably because my race bike’s motor just got diagnosed with TCMS (Ton of Crap in Motor Syndrome). At this stage of the game, it would normally be game over- my season finished.

Crackdays & Racing

Over before it started

I never like waking up early in the morning and going to Sears Point (Infineon) Raceway means I’m up at 4:30am on Friday. Ugh. Eric and I climbed into the truck and headed out on the road and got to the track just before 7am. We had plenty

Life

From chaos to beauty

So we’ve successfully survived our first week of the remodel. I’ve posted some pictures up on my gallery and hope to make regular weekly updates to chronicle the entire process. This isn’t the first time Wendy and I have done a remodel, but this is going to

Crackdays & Racing

Baby Steps

Another AFM round down, 3 more to go. I’m happy to report I came out relatively unscathed (a poked thumb and burnt finger due to playing unsafely with safety wire (oh the irony) and my left big toe hurts like hell from banging in my down shifts… time to

Life

Cry babies

So on monday, Apple announced the newest version of the iPhone, the 3GS. Personally, I’m pretty excited about the new iPhone and looks to be a worthy successor to my current iPhone (no 3G for me). But many current iPhone 3G owners are up in arms that AT&

Crackdays & Racing

Round 3 Race Report

Just got back from a great round 3 at Sears Point. My buddy Eric joined me again which was great since he could help me with any bike issues and he’s a great sounding board for working through my challenges out on track. After having such a difficult first

Politics

Making it up as you go along

The Rule of Law that is.

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Tweets for 2009-05-06

* Just added experimental DLT_JUNIPER_ETHER decoding support to tcprewrite: http://bit.ly/15RCwS # * claiming that waterboarding isn’t torture is #totalbs http://bit.ly/hfRIH # * On a more cheerful note, I just received my Novice competition license from the AFM. Not crashing has benefits! :) # * with all the “unsubscribe” messages

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Tweets for 2009-05-05

* Mixing C and C++ when porting from MSVC++ to gcc/g++ is evil. # Powered by Twitter Tools.

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The Jerez 250GP race was *AWES...

The Jerez 250GP race was *AWESOME*. I think even Wendy enjoyed it. :)

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@MatMladin OMFG. Why does DMG...

@MatMladin OMFG. Why does DMG hate the racers so much? Even NASCAR wouldn’t run and they have cages. Just total f**king insanity.

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Hard call: Ducks/RedWings or M...

Hard call: Ducks/RedWings or MotoGP?? Wife wants hockey so I guess the racing will have to wait. Now the harder question: who to root for?

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Wow, that was a great game! O...

Wow, that was a great game! Ok, now maybe I can get some work done on tcpreplay. :)

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Watching the Pens/Caps w/ a cu...

Watching the Pens/Caps w/ a cup of coffee and working on merging the ipv6 patches to tcpreplay; game is so good I may not get much done

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*LOL* http://tinyurl.com/c79j...

*LOL* http://tinyurl.com/c79jss

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Just watched Lessig's speech w...

Just watched Lessig’s speech which Warner Music is trying to use the DMCA to get pulled. Really powerful stuff: http://blip.tv/file/1937322

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And I thought I had a bad race...

And I thought I had a bad race weekend: http://bit.ly/R2AGD

Crackdays & Racing

Murphy Was A Motorcycle Racer

After my first ever race weekend I was hoping to write about the race experience- the adrenaline coursing through my veins just as the green flag drops, the rush as we go through turn 1 and up the hill into turn 2 on the first lap, the passes for position

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Got the bike running just in t...

Got the bike running just in time for the last practice before the race. Started 7 and placed 5 out of 10. Exhausted & happy.

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Best helmet ever... Seen today...

Best helmet ever… Seen today at Sears Point/Infineon. http://twitpic.com/3xulx

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What a disaster... Bike won't...

What a disaster… Bike won’t start/run at all right now. Hoping to have better luck tomorrow.