Midnight Cheese

Friday a friend of ours threw a rockin’ 80’s party in which someone showed up with a fully restored DeLorean. My camera phone is terrible, but you can get the idea. I’ve seen DeLoreans here and there, but never up close to where I could actually sit in one.

Now to figure out a way to put gull-wing doors on the Jetta.

This past weekend was my first attempt at a Solo II event put on by the local SCCA chapter. A few photos have been added on to the previous set. I had a multitude of DNFs until finally being straightened out by someone who knew what they were doing.

I switched our domains setup with DreamHost over to a new provider. This was a result of the prolonged intermittent uptime, the lack of professionalism, and the fact that they just really didn’t seem to care about any of it.

Been trying to plug along further with PenceBook. Hopefully we’ll be sending out beta announcements and our ‘killer app’ so to speak, in the coming weeks.

Apple stock took a nice nosedive today. Looks like there’s quite a discrepancy in the reported 500,000-700,000 iPhone units sold that first weekend compared to the 150,000 account activations reported by AT&T in the same time period. This should be an interesting series of events in the next few days as Apple reports their numbers. Not to mention bad news about AT&T’s billing of iPhone customers.

Sunday I spectated at the Tennessee Region SCCA Solo 2 event at the Nashville Super Speedway. They featured a very wide range of participating cars, including a few Vettes, which up until then I had never seen any Corvette driver show off their power. Most Corvette owners are very reserved when you see them rolling down the interstate.

I think my brother and I will check out the next event in July. Hopefully after that I might have the nerve to run my car. It looks like some serious fun.

Here’s a link to my Flickr photo set from the event.

The VW GTI W12 650. 650hp, 0-62mph in 3.7 seconds, 12 cylinder beast of a machine packed into a tiny little GTI body. Granted it’s a concept, but still. Ridiculous.

Who needs the Falcon when you have one of THESE. The 2008 Ford Mustang Shelby Cobra GT500KR. 540 horses of State-side goodness.

It’s sad that the Ford FPV Falcon GT isn’t sold in the U.S. Instead we have to settle for the Fusion? Wired has a small write-up about Detroit muscle that’s not available to U.S. drivers. A few larger images.

Today’s xkcd got me thinking about the Murfreesboro Road/SR 840 interchange near my house. It’s weird in that if you’re traveling south on Murfreesboro, you can get on the 840 onramp, stay straight, and end up right back on Murfreesboro Road southbound. Click on the image for a more visual explanation. Here’s a Google Earth link as well.