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Maybe I should stop hanging out with Corvette owners.


2008
11.10

I saw this




He goes on and on about stuff like this:

If we had WET

(White Entertainment Television)

…..We’d be racists

If we had a White Pride Day

…..You would call us racists

If we had White History Month

…..We’d be racists

If we had any organization for

only whites to ‘advance’

OUR lives, …..You better

believe that we’d be racists

We have a Hispanic

Chamber of Commerce,

a Black Chamber of Commerce,

and then we just have the plain

Chamber of Commerce

Wonder who pays for that?

…and I couldn’t help but think that he probably suffers from a bad case of RH (Revisionist History), because while he’s bitching and moaning about all the “reverse racism” that exists today, he doesn’t think about people like my father who were passed over for jobs they were qualified for not once or twice, but repeatedly for over a decade.

This, of course, created a cascading effect — Dad brings less money home, so as a result it affected everything for the next generation: where we lived, what schools he could afford to send us to, and so on. It’s not like we can just take a snapshot of our society today and say, “Look! The playing field is level! Why are you people complaining!?!!!” as if all of the sins of yesteryear will just vanish because institutionalized racism is no longer sanctioned by the government.

So yeah, this guy is bitching and moaning, but my response would be that his parents had every opportunity this country could make available to them and all they raised was a whiner. My parents lived through Jim Crow and segregation, where they couldn’t even eat in the presence of a white person, and now I enjoy working (and playing :-) ) alongside people of all races, creeds, and colors.

And my car is cooler than his car anyways**.

** Okay, but I just wanted to put that jab in there, people! :-)

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Is it possible to steal your own car?


2008
07.10


I stole this car the moment I saw it in Grand Theft Auto IV.

Even in videogames, the cops are checking me out… just like they do in the BARC! :-)

Kneeling down next to my “Coquette“…

The answer? Thanks to the magic of videogames, yes it is possible to steal your own car!

Before Sunset


2008
07.05


Beautiful sunset

I took this photo back in June, while enjoying a leisurely drive home from a customer site through the Beltsville Agricultural Research Center.

My favorite story about the BARC is from a few years ago.

Barry & I were hanging out after a workout at the gym, and we jumped in to the ‘vette, dropped the top on the car, and hit the road. I decided to drive through the BARC, and given my mellow mood, I was driving barely above the speed limit.

As we were cruising along, a park police SUV drove past us heading the opposite direction. He then did a complete 180 and then flipped his lights on and pulled us over.

The officer then stood behind his door, and told us to “Keep your hands up!”

He then asked me to get out of the car. Of course, I’m wearing my seatbelt. So I said, “I have my seatbelt on!”

To which he replied, “KEEP YOUR HANDS UP AND GET OUT OF THE CAR!

At this point, I’m thinking, “Oh my God, I’m going to die because I’m wearing my seatbelt! Shit!”

I wound up saying something to the effect that I was reaching down to unbuckle my belt, and then he told me to walk over, put my hands on the hood, and then he ran my license & registration.

At this point, I asked him what we were pulled over for. He said, “You looked like you were going fast.”

I decided not to argue the point, and since he never actually clocked me, he gave me a “verbal warning” and told me to be careful driving fast because “…Maybe you don’t care about yourself, but what if your friend gets hurt?”

Some points are not worth arguing over… especially with a guy with a badge & a gun!

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Perhaps this is a challenge for an emo band?


2008
07.03

They don\'t write songs about Volvos


It’s true. No one writes songs about Volvos!

(The image is from the National Corvette Museum’s desktop wallpaper collection)

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The Fun Tax


2008
05.28


The Fun Tax:  $64.42

When I bought my car, folks kept asking me if the price of gas somehow diluted the fun of owning it. What many of them didn’t realize is that when I did my budget for it back in 2001, I realized that unless gas hit $8/gallon, I’d be able to happily flog the crap out of my car. 110,000 miles later, I’ve probably burnt through about 5,700 gallons of gas (assuming I’m getting 19 mpg — though I find I vary from 16 mpg to 22 mpg when commuting) over the past six (almost seven!) years I’ve owned my favorite toy. :-)