Borat: Dating Lessons
2006/September/30 Saturday Filed in:
Humor
Leslie and Ryan recently introduced me to Borat.
Apparently he's got a movie coming out soon: Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit
Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. After watching a few of his
skits, he's now one of my favorite characters, second only to
Hard Gay.
The video below provides great dating tips, and we should all learn something from him.
The video below provides great dating tips, and we should all learn something from him.
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Katamari Damacy in San Francisco!
2006/September/28 Thursday Filed in:
Gaming
Katamari Damacy is one of those quirky games, that very few people have heard of.
Basically you start by rolling up objects that are tiny -- in game,
may you'd start with thumb tacks, dice, ants, and work your way up
to chocolate pieces, apples, telephones -- until finally you can
start grabbing cats, dogs, people, cars, and more. A creative ad
agency took the idea and turned it into a television commercial for
an insurance company. Seems like a super fast way to travel -- who
needs to take MUNI?
The Super Mario Brothers Wedding Cake
2006/September/25 Monday Filed in:
Gaming
Via Live
Journal. "The most amazing cake I've ever seen in my life. In
fact, the entire thing, except for Mario and the Princess is cake.
Even the Piranha Plants are made out of frosting! They even went so
far as to add a bouquet to the Princess made out of frosting as
well."
Dinosaurs and Booze @ The California Academy of Sciences
2006/September/22 Friday Filed in:
Partying
Third Thursdays at the Academy -- Dinosaurs, turtles, snakes, fish, what else could
you ask for? Tapas? Sure. We got some at Thirsty Bear. Unfortunately
my camera ran out of juice, otherwise there would have been more
photos.
Erin makes it onto the site, as she slyly tries to give a turtle a margarita! (O_o?)
Under the sea, Darling it's better, Down Where it's Wetter (o_O);; Under the sea..
Group photo, minus a few people who left early. Booooo. A lot of first appearances though!
Erin makes it onto the site, as she slyly tries to give a turtle a margarita! (O_o?)
Under the sea, Darling it's better, Down Where it's Wetter (o_O);; Under the sea..
Group photo, minus a few people who left early. Booooo. A lot of first appearances though!
Weird Al's Two New Songs
2006/September/20 Wednesday Filed in:
Humor
Both are pretty funny. The third
one is really really old, and I had forgotten about it, but its
just as hilarious as ever!
White and Nerdy
White and Nerdy
New Office Slang
2006/September/19 Tuesday Filed in:
Interesting
I'm a sucker for improving my
vocabulary, especially with slang. Just last month I tried to
increase the hyphyness of my speech. Today, a plethora of new for
2006 Office Slang.
Some examples:
CROP DUSTING -
Surreptitiously farting while passing thru a cube farm, then
enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust; leads to PRAIRIE
DOGGING.....
For one, I know I'm guilty of Egosurfing!
Some examples:
| 404 - Someone who is clueless. From the
Web error message, “404 Not Found,” which means the
document requested couldn’t be located. “Don’t
bother asking John. He’s 404.” |
For one, I know I'm guilty of Egosurfing!
New Office Slang
==============================
404 - Someone who is clueless. From the Web error message, “404 Not Found,” which means the document requested couldn’t be located. “Don’t bother asking John. He’s 404.”
Adminisphere - The rarified organizational layers above the rank and file that makes decisions that are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant.
Alpha Geek - The most knowledgeable, technically proficient person in an office or work group. “I dunno, ask Rick. He’s our alpha geek.”
Assmosis - The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.
Batmobiling - putting up emotional shields. Refers to the retracting armor that covers the Batmobile as in “she started talking marriage and he started batmobiling”
Beepilepsy - The brief siezure people sometimes suffer when their beepers go off, especially in vibrator mode. Characterized by physical spasms, goofy facial expressions, and stopping speech in mid-sentence.
Betamaxed - When a technology is overtaken in the market by inferior but better marketed competition as in “Microsoft betamaxed Apple right out of the market”
Blamestorming - A group discussion of why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who was responsible.
Blowing Your Buffer - Losing one’s train of thought. Occurs when the person you are speaking with won’t let you get a word in edgewise or has just said something so astonishing that your train gets derailed. “Damn, I just blew my buffer!” ( Synonym: “Head Crash” )
Body Nazis - Hard-core exercise and weight-lifting fanatics who look down on anyone who doesn’t work out obsessively.
Bookmark - To take note of a person for future reference. “After seeing his cool demo at Siggraph, I bookmarked him.”
Brain Fart - A byproduct of a bloated mind producing information effortlessly; a burst of useful information. “I know you’re busy on the Microsoft story, but can you give us a brain fart on the Mitnik bust?” Variation of old hacker slang that had more negative connotations.
CGI Joe - A hard-core CGI script programmer with all the social skills and charisma of a plastic action figure.
Chainsaw Consultant - An outside expert brought in to reduce the employee head count, leaving the top brass with clean hands.
Chip Jewelry - Old computers destined to be scrapped or turned into decoration. “I paid three grand for that Mac and now it’s nothing but chip jewelry.”
Chips and Salsa - Chips = hardware, salsa = software. “First we gotta figure out if the problem’s in your chips or your salsa.”
CLM (Career Limiting Move)- Used by microserfs to describe an ill-advised activity. “Trashing your boss while he or she is within earshot is a serious CLM.”
Cobweb - A WWW site that never changes.
Crapplet - A badly written or profoundly useless Java applet. “I just wasted 30 minutes downloading that crapplet!”
CROP DUSTING - Surreptitiously farting while passing thru a cube farm, then enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust; leads to PRAIRIE DOGGING.....
Cube Farm - An office filled with cubicles.
Dead Tree Edition - The paper version of a publication available in both paper and electronic forms.
Dilberted - To be exploited and oppressed by your boss, as is Dilbert, the comic strip character. “Damn, I’ve been dilberted again! The old man revised the specs for the fourth time this week.”
Dorito Syndrome - The feeling of emptiness and dissatisfaction triggered by addictive substances that lack nutritional content. “I just spent six hours surfing the Web, and now I’ve got a bad case of Dorito Syndrome.”
Egosurfing - Scanning the Net, databases, etc., for one’s own name.
Elvis Year - The peak year of popularity as in “1993 was Barney the dinosaur’s Elvis year”
Flight Risk - Used to describe employees who are suspected of planning to leave a company or department soon.
Generica - Fast food joints, strip malls, sub-divisions as in “we were so lost in generica that I couldn’t remember what city it was”
Glazing - Corporate-speak for sleeping with your eyes open; a popular pastime at conferences and early-morning meetings. “Didn’t he notice that by the second session half the room was glazing?”
Going Postal - Totally stressed out and losing it like postal employees who went on shooting rampages
GOOD job - A "Get-Out-Of-Debt" job. A well-paying job people take in order to pay off their debts, one that they will quit as soon as they are solvent again.
Gray Matter - Older, experienced business people hired by young entrepreneurial firms trying to appear more professional and established.
Graybar Land - The place you go while you’re staring at a computer that’s processing something very slowly (while you watch the gray bar creep across the screen). “That CAD rendering put me in graybar land for like an hour.”
High Dome - Egghead, scientist, PhD
Idea Hamsters - People whose idea generators are always running.
Irritainment - Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying, but you find yourself unable to stop watching them. The O.J. trials were a prime example.
It’s a Feature - From the old adage, “It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.” Used sarcastically to describe an unpleasant problem you wish to gloss over.
Keyboard Plaque - The disgusting buildup of dirt and crud found on some people’s computer keyboards.
Link Rot - The process by which web page’s links become obsolete as the sites they’re connected to change or die.
Meatspace - The physical world (as opposed to the virtual) also “carbon community” “facetime” “F2F” “RL”
Mouse Potato - The online generation’s answer to the couch potato.
Ohnosecond - That minuscule fraction of time during which you realize you’ve just made a terrible error.
Open-Collar Workers - People who work at home or telecommute.
Percussive Maintenance - The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
Perot - To quit unexpectedly. “My cellular phone just perot’ed.”
Plug-and-Play - A new hire who doesn’t require training. “That new guy is totally plug-and-play.”
Prairie Dogging - When something loud happens in a cube farm, causing heads to pop up over the walls trying to see what’s going on.
Ribs ‘N’ Dick - A budget with no fat as in “we’ve got ribs ‘n’ dick and we’re supposed to find 20K for memory upgrades”
Salmon Day - The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed in the end. “God, today was a total salmon day!”
Seagull Manager - A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, shits over everything and then leaves.
Siliwood - The coming convergence of movies, interactive TV and computers; also “Hollywired”
SITCOMs - What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids. “Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage”
Square-Headed Spouse - Computer
Squirt the Bird - To transmit a signal up to a satellite. “Crew and talent are ready...what time do we squirt the bird?”
Starter Marriage - A short-lived first marriage that ends in divorce with no kids, no property and no regrets.
Stress Puppy - A person who thrives on being stressed-out and whiny.
Swiped Out - An ATM or credit card that has been used so much its magnetic strip is worn away.
Tourists - Those who take training classes just to take a vacation from their jobs. “There were only three serious students in the class; the rest were just tourists.”
Treeware - Hacker slang for documentation or other printed material.
Umfriend - One with whom one has a sexual relationship; as in, “this is Dale, my...um...friend.”
Under Mouse Arrest - Getting busted for violating an online service’s rule of conduct. “Sorry I couldn’t get back to you. AOL put me under mouse arrest.”
Uninstalled - Euphemism for being fired. Also: decruitment.
Vulcan Nerve Pinch - The taxing hand position required to reach all the appropriate keys for certain commands. For instance, the warm re-boot for a Mac II computer involves simultaneously pressing the Control key, the Command key, the Return key and the Power On key.
WOOFYS - Well Off Older Folks.
World Wide Wait - The real meaning of WWW.
Xerox Subsidy - Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one’s workplace.
Yuppie Food Coupons - Twenty dollar bills from an ATM.
==============================
404 - Someone who is clueless. From the Web error message, “404 Not Found,” which means the document requested couldn’t be located. “Don’t bother asking John. He’s 404.”
Adminisphere - The rarified organizational layers above the rank and file that makes decisions that are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant.
Alpha Geek - The most knowledgeable, technically proficient person in an office or work group. “I dunno, ask Rick. He’s our alpha geek.”
Assmosis - The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard.
Batmobiling - putting up emotional shields. Refers to the retracting armor that covers the Batmobile as in “she started talking marriage and he started batmobiling”
Beepilepsy - The brief siezure people sometimes suffer when their beepers go off, especially in vibrator mode. Characterized by physical spasms, goofy facial expressions, and stopping speech in mid-sentence.
Betamaxed - When a technology is overtaken in the market by inferior but better marketed competition as in “Microsoft betamaxed Apple right out of the market”
Blamestorming - A group discussion of why a deadline was missed or a project failed and who was responsible.
Blowing Your Buffer - Losing one’s train of thought. Occurs when the person you are speaking with won’t let you get a word in edgewise or has just said something so astonishing that your train gets derailed. “Damn, I just blew my buffer!” ( Synonym: “Head Crash” )
Body Nazis - Hard-core exercise and weight-lifting fanatics who look down on anyone who doesn’t work out obsessively.
Bookmark - To take note of a person for future reference. “After seeing his cool demo at Siggraph, I bookmarked him.”
Brain Fart - A byproduct of a bloated mind producing information effortlessly; a burst of useful information. “I know you’re busy on the Microsoft story, but can you give us a brain fart on the Mitnik bust?” Variation of old hacker slang that had more negative connotations.
CGI Joe - A hard-core CGI script programmer with all the social skills and charisma of a plastic action figure.
Chainsaw Consultant - An outside expert brought in to reduce the employee head count, leaving the top brass with clean hands.
Chip Jewelry - Old computers destined to be scrapped or turned into decoration. “I paid three grand for that Mac and now it’s nothing but chip jewelry.”
Chips and Salsa - Chips = hardware, salsa = software. “First we gotta figure out if the problem’s in your chips or your salsa.”
CLM (Career Limiting Move)- Used by microserfs to describe an ill-advised activity. “Trashing your boss while he or she is within earshot is a serious CLM.”
Cobweb - A WWW site that never changes.
Crapplet - A badly written or profoundly useless Java applet. “I just wasted 30 minutes downloading that crapplet!”
CROP DUSTING - Surreptitiously farting while passing thru a cube farm, then enjoying the sounds of dismay and disgust; leads to PRAIRIE DOGGING.....
Cube Farm - An office filled with cubicles.
Dead Tree Edition - The paper version of a publication available in both paper and electronic forms.
Dilberted - To be exploited and oppressed by your boss, as is Dilbert, the comic strip character. “Damn, I’ve been dilberted again! The old man revised the specs for the fourth time this week.”
Dorito Syndrome - The feeling of emptiness and dissatisfaction triggered by addictive substances that lack nutritional content. “I just spent six hours surfing the Web, and now I’ve got a bad case of Dorito Syndrome.”
Egosurfing - Scanning the Net, databases, etc., for one’s own name.
Elvis Year - The peak year of popularity as in “1993 was Barney the dinosaur’s Elvis year”
Flight Risk - Used to describe employees who are suspected of planning to leave a company or department soon.
Generica - Fast food joints, strip malls, sub-divisions as in “we were so lost in generica that I couldn’t remember what city it was”
Glazing - Corporate-speak for sleeping with your eyes open; a popular pastime at conferences and early-morning meetings. “Didn’t he notice that by the second session half the room was glazing?”
Going Postal - Totally stressed out and losing it like postal employees who went on shooting rampages
GOOD job - A "Get-Out-Of-Debt" job. A well-paying job people take in order to pay off their debts, one that they will quit as soon as they are solvent again.
Gray Matter - Older, experienced business people hired by young entrepreneurial firms trying to appear more professional and established.
Graybar Land - The place you go while you’re staring at a computer that’s processing something very slowly (while you watch the gray bar creep across the screen). “That CAD rendering put me in graybar land for like an hour.”
High Dome - Egghead, scientist, PhD
Idea Hamsters - People whose idea generators are always running.
Irritainment - Entertainment and media spectacles that are annoying, but you find yourself unable to stop watching them. The O.J. trials were a prime example.
It’s a Feature - From the old adage, “It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.” Used sarcastically to describe an unpleasant problem you wish to gloss over.
Keyboard Plaque - The disgusting buildup of dirt and crud found on some people’s computer keyboards.
Link Rot - The process by which web page’s links become obsolete as the sites they’re connected to change or die.
Meatspace - The physical world (as opposed to the virtual) also “carbon community” “facetime” “F2F” “RL”
Mouse Potato - The online generation’s answer to the couch potato.
Ohnosecond - That minuscule fraction of time during which you realize you’ve just made a terrible error.
Open-Collar Workers - People who work at home or telecommute.
Percussive Maintenance - The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.
Perot - To quit unexpectedly. “My cellular phone just perot’ed.”
Plug-and-Play - A new hire who doesn’t require training. “That new guy is totally plug-and-play.”
Prairie Dogging - When something loud happens in a cube farm, causing heads to pop up over the walls trying to see what’s going on.
Ribs ‘N’ Dick - A budget with no fat as in “we’ve got ribs ‘n’ dick and we’re supposed to find 20K for memory upgrades”
Salmon Day - The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed in the end. “God, today was a total salmon day!”
Seagull Manager - A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, shits over everything and then leaves.
Siliwood - The coming convergence of movies, interactive TV and computers; also “Hollywired”
SITCOMs - What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids. “Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage”
Square-Headed Spouse - Computer
Squirt the Bird - To transmit a signal up to a satellite. “Crew and talent are ready...what time do we squirt the bird?”
Starter Marriage - A short-lived first marriage that ends in divorce with no kids, no property and no regrets.
Stress Puppy - A person who thrives on being stressed-out and whiny.
Swiped Out - An ATM or credit card that has been used so much its magnetic strip is worn away.
Tourists - Those who take training classes just to take a vacation from their jobs. “There were only three serious students in the class; the rest were just tourists.”
Treeware - Hacker slang for documentation or other printed material.
Umfriend - One with whom one has a sexual relationship; as in, “this is Dale, my...um...friend.”
Under Mouse Arrest - Getting busted for violating an online service’s rule of conduct. “Sorry I couldn’t get back to you. AOL put me under mouse arrest.”
Uninstalled - Euphemism for being fired. Also: decruitment.
Vulcan Nerve Pinch - The taxing hand position required to reach all the appropriate keys for certain commands. For instance, the warm re-boot for a Mac II computer involves simultaneously pressing the Control key, the Command key, the Return key and the Power On key.
WOOFYS - Well Off Older Folks.
World Wide Wait - The real meaning of WWW.
Xerox Subsidy - Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one’s workplace.
Yuppie Food Coupons - Twenty dollar bills from an ATM.
Ronald McDonald is my Homeboy
2006/September/18 Monday Filed in:
Life
I'm trying to flash a M gang sign but
I'm not doing a very good job. Don't ask me what happened to
Ronald's feet. Someone must have been really pissed off and chopped
them off, maybe it was Jack or Carl. I guess it could have been
Wendy...
Marilyn finally makes her way onto the site. Too bad she didn't represent! McDee's 4lyfe y0!
Marilyn finally makes her way onto the site. Too bad she didn't represent! McDee's 4lyfe y0!
Trencherman Thursdays @ Korean BBQ Buffet
2006/September/08 Friday Filed in:
Partying
A Trencherman is one devoted to eating and drinking,
often to excess. A secondary use, generally archaic, is one who
frequents another's table, in essence a pilferer of another's
food.
That certainly is an apt description for yesterday's Korean BBQ feast at Korean Bar-B-Que in San Bruno. No kidding, that's the name of the restaurant. Don't worry, the lack of creativity in naming the joint has had no impact on the quality of their delicious food. Oddly, their review on yelp is not so good. Click here for the gallery.
Matty and Eldo before and after:
Cute! Like a (=^_^=) with a <*)) ==<<
Group picture, everyone stuffed as usual on Thursday nights.
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That certainly is an apt description for yesterday's Korean BBQ feast at Korean Bar-B-Que in San Bruno. No kidding, that's the name of the restaurant. Don't worry, the lack of creativity in naming the joint has had no impact on the quality of their delicious food. Oddly, their review on yelp is not so good. Click here for the gallery.
Matty and Eldo before and after:
Cute! Like a (=^_^=) with a <*)) ==<<
Group picture, everyone stuffed as usual on Thursday nights.
'Hermis
the Crab Died Yesterday 
2006/September/04 Monday Filed in:
Life
More anonymous conversations!
2006/September/03 Sunday Filed in:
Life
anonymous: i dont think it really matters
that my standards are high though, because i dont get a lot of
girls liking me anyways
anonymous: only mlfs
me: go for it
anonymous: milfs?
anonymous: i feel a little dirty thinking about milfs
anonymous: my teacher showed me her fake tits, they are fantastic
me: well if want to, go for it.
anonymous: haha..no way, she's like late 40s and has ton of plastic surgery....
me: see, standards too high
anonymous: yeah right, that's hella disgusting
anonymous: it's one thing just looking at her boobies
anonymous: it's another thing to date her
me: I dunno, I thought it was your idea, you mentioned milfs.
anonymous: i mean sometimes there are some hot milfs that i come in contact with, but i would feel weird dating someone with a kid
me: doesnt have to be that one
anonymous: i like girls that are driven, there aren't enough of them out there
me: that's rare.
me: and when they are, they don't need you.
anonymous: lol
me: or don't have time for you.
anonymous: yeah but that's the type of girl i like: hot, driven, and intelligent
me: who doesn't?
anonymous: i think some guys like their girls dumb and unambitious
me: that's probably true.
anonymous: ****** wants his to be a robot
me: that's not a surprise.
anonymous: only ambitious enough to cook, clean and have sex
me: did he find another mail order bride yet?
me: or is he still working on the same one?
anonymous: the first one ripped him off so he is in the middle of trying for another one
anonymous: last time i talked to him he said he was heading back to china
me: you think if the same thing happens again, he'll learn?
anonymous: i'm not sure
anonymous: but i think he should have learend much faster the first time
anonymous: i couldn't possibly imagine blowing that much money and not realizing
anonymous: i'd realize after $1k not however much he blew
anonymous: i think i gave him some sound advice going into his second trip
anonymous: i told him not to buy her anything that's valuable because then there would be no way for him to tell if he has a gold digger or someone that loves him
me: that should be obvious.
anonymous: i dont think it was obvious for him, i mean he was already flying over there
anonymous: so even though he would be paying for things like food, i didn't want to see him buy some girl some shit like a digital camera like last time
anonymous: or a wedding ring
me: well, up to him, I guess he has to learn somehow.
anonymous: so where is your hot girl?
me: If I knew that, I wouldn't be online chatting with you.
anonymous: what about ******
anonymous: she seems smart and pretty
anonymous: i'm not sure if she's a nice girl
me: she's nice.
anonymous: and she seems driven
me: she doesn't have time for me, like everyone else -- always busy or already taken.
anonymous:
anonymous: my life is retarded
anonymous: at least my myspace site is 10x better than most of them out there
anonymous: i got pacman on mine
anonymous: !!!
me: uh okay, I wouldn't be proud about a myspace page
anonymous: only mlfs
me: go for it
anonymous: milfs?
anonymous: i feel a little dirty thinking about milfs
anonymous: my teacher showed me her fake tits, they are fantastic
me: well if want to, go for it.
anonymous: haha..no way, she's like late 40s and has ton of plastic surgery....
me: see, standards too high
anonymous: yeah right, that's hella disgusting
anonymous: it's one thing just looking at her boobies
anonymous: it's another thing to date her
me: I dunno, I thought it was your idea, you mentioned milfs.
anonymous: i mean sometimes there are some hot milfs that i come in contact with, but i would feel weird dating someone with a kid
me: doesnt have to be that one
anonymous: i like girls that are driven, there aren't enough of them out there
me: that's rare.
me: and when they are, they don't need you.
anonymous: lol
me: or don't have time for you.
anonymous: yeah but that's the type of girl i like: hot, driven, and intelligent
me: who doesn't?
anonymous: i think some guys like their girls dumb and unambitious
me: that's probably true.
anonymous: ****** wants his to be a robot
me: that's not a surprise.
anonymous: only ambitious enough to cook, clean and have sex
me: did he find another mail order bride yet?
me: or is he still working on the same one?
anonymous: the first one ripped him off so he is in the middle of trying for another one
anonymous: last time i talked to him he said he was heading back to china
me: you think if the same thing happens again, he'll learn?
anonymous: i'm not sure
anonymous: but i think he should have learend much faster the first time
anonymous: i couldn't possibly imagine blowing that much money and not realizing
anonymous: i'd realize after $1k not however much he blew
anonymous: i think i gave him some sound advice going into his second trip
anonymous: i told him not to buy her anything that's valuable because then there would be no way for him to tell if he has a gold digger or someone that loves him
me: that should be obvious.
anonymous: i dont think it was obvious for him, i mean he was already flying over there
anonymous: so even though he would be paying for things like food, i didn't want to see him buy some girl some shit like a digital camera like last time
anonymous: or a wedding ring
me: well, up to him, I guess he has to learn somehow.
anonymous: so where is your hot girl?
me: If I knew that, I wouldn't be online chatting with you.
anonymous: what about ******
anonymous: she seems smart and pretty
anonymous: i'm not sure if she's a nice girl
me: she's nice.
anonymous: and she seems driven
me: she doesn't have time for me, like everyone else -- always busy or already taken.
anonymous:
anonymous: my life is retarded
anonymous: at least my myspace site is 10x better than most of them out there
anonymous: i got pacman on mine
anonymous: !!!
me: uh okay, I wouldn't be proud about a myspace page
The Fast and the Curious (-_-)
2006/September/02 Saturday Filed in:
Automotive
I always knew the Fast and the Furious
was a gay series. Here's proof. Thanks to Stan for sending this in.
RX-7 Styling Update! (^_^)
2006/September/01 Friday Filed in:
Automotive
My 1995 FD3S Mazda RX-7 is finally shaping up. It's almost done
- here's a teaser. I'm glad it's almost done -- I wouldn't want to
spending oodles on it when I finally purchase a house! Let me know
what you think.. not *too* ricey right? right?
