The Flip Medley

Inane rambling, periodic rants, and a whole lot of laughs…

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Entries from May 2006

And here I thought I had a pimptastic home theater…

May 31st, 2006 · No Comments

….until I read this post on a site for folks who use HandBrake to convert their DVDs into compressed movie files. Obviously, this isn’t about stealing movies (as the MPAA would have folks believe — it’s about allowing folks to watch their movie collections without having to break out their DVDs. It’s no [...]

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Tags: Home · Movies · Technology

Speed

May 27th, 2006 · No Comments

Click the video to play a video of a 2006 Corvette Z06 (the one with the 7.0 liter engine and 505 horsepower) accelerating to almost 200 miles per hour. Wow.

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Tags: Automotive · Corvette

Love Your ‘Vette

May 25th, 2006 · 3 Comments

Over lunch, I was browsing the Corvette Forum website and found this posting from a guy about cleaning his car with a new product. However, the moment I saw this photo:

Yes, I know what it looks like. And even the guy who posted the article admitted he knew what folks were going to [...]

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Tags: Corvette · Humor

The Fat Tracker: 212.8

May 25th, 2006 · No Comments

Okay, just because the experiment appears to be working, I figured I’d publicly track my weight. Yes, yes, yes, I know… I’m not fat. Those of you who are kind enough to say that get kudos for saying that. That said, prior to last year, I’d never gone above 206, and [...]

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Tags: Fitness · Uncategorized

The Blues

May 21st, 2006 · 1 Comment

I’ve been on a quest to find a track by Joe Williams that was in my mother’s CD collection that I once mixed with Mary J. Blige’s “Real Love” way back in the day.
Way back in the day refers to any point in time when I had a mullet
Along the way, I decided to hunt [...]

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Tags: Music · The Web