Swedish Chef a la Robot Chicken

Swedish Chef - Hot Dogs

The Swedish Chef cooks some hot-a doogies! Bork bork bork!

Swedish Chef-Coconut

I've been looking through Google Video, because I've recently become addicted to Web Video. It all started with short stuff on youtube, like mentos & diet coke vids. I found a funny show called Hope Is Emo, produced by the same guys as Ask A Ninja. Now I just troll through the "mover & shakers" and top rated hoping for something besides meta-tag spam and clips from soccer games

Swedish Chef - Chicken in a Basket

The Swedish Chef makes a Chiky in der Basky! Bork bork bork!

Swedish Chef - Hot Spicy Pepper Sauce

Speecy Spicy Chilli Juice-a! Bork Bork Bork!

What I think of the Mac Ads

A Series of Tubes

I don't understand why they put politicians in charge of high tech things, when they don't even understand the basic fundamentals. Just like when you see quotes from law-makers about violent video games, they always just seem to call them videos. I'm not sure why.

BTW, if they guy looks familiar, it's because he is portrays a Windows Pc in those snarky Mac commercials. Funny how the scruffy Mac guy never mentions that all the cool games are released for PC.

The Widowmaker

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Originally uploaded by cfpresley.

New bike in, and now it's all shiny.

It has some problems that I need to get looked at when I get back. It seems to bog down, especially when it's cold, with just a little throttle. I have to run it with the choke wide open for a good 15-20 minutes before I can close it without the bike dieing in low gears.

Once it did warm up, I took it up some county road for about 7 miles, getting up to around 70mph. It was a thrill, and I can't wait until I get all the paperwork taken care of, so I can take it to work.

Ready to ride

Ready to ride
Originally uploaded by cfpresley.

All my safety gear came in. Now I just need Texas to send me my endorsement, and me to get some gloves, insurance, and motorcycle.

On the road again...

I found out this morning that I'll be traveling to New Jersey in two weeks on a business trip. One of the things our new boss is particular about is saving money on travel... so much so that I have to depart from Atlanta instead of Montgomery. The good thing is that for $120 round trip, I can take a shuttle from my house to the airport. I also found $100 one way tickets on "not Delta grumble no skymiles" to Newark and back, so instead of $600 round trip tickets on Delta from Montgomery and $200 in mileage reimbursement and parking fees, I spend $320 tax dollars on "not Delta" tickets and a shuttle, but no skymiles. The sacrifices I make for my country. Now if only 100 million more government employees did the same thing, it might just make up for all the money lost to war profiteering done by Bectel and their no-bid Iraq contracts.

I also ordered the Helmet and Jacket online, saving over $70. The bike might be coming down next weekend.

This is a Motorcycle

I haven't been posting much. I don't know why, but I'm just not feeling it. A quick recap. I got back from 2 weeks at Biloxi MS, which was still pretty messed up from Katrina. I got back from a 4th of July 4 day weekend at the in-laws where we celebrated Brandi's paternal grandparent's 50th Anniversary. I also found out that my father-in-law wants to sell his '96 Yamaha XJ600S SECA II sportbike. It only has 3000 miles, and is in good condition with the optional lower fairing, and all the fruity decals removed. He's offered me a good deal on it, low enough to pay cash for it, and still pay off Brandi's car with money from my re-enlistment bonus. I just have to figure out how to get it down here, and what safety gear to get. Safe and Inexpensive are the most important factors.

I tried on gear at the local Honda dealership, and found a reasonably priced armored mesh jacket, and a flip face helmet. I found some gloves that I like, but after reading a recommendation about gel, had to pass on them. I also took my cousin's fiancé (interesting fact, fiancée is feminine) advice and tried Sentry insurance. I was quoted almost half of what GEICO or Progressive wanted.