I’m melting….

Published on May 20, 2007 in anime and bike by taro. Closed

Holy cow, I just took a shower, and I feel like I need another shower. Oni, having Okinawa flashbacks yet?

Glad we rode yesterday and not today. Thought yesterday was hot? Sheesh, today’s worse! Chuck would have been kicking my ass even more! Guess I shouldn’t laugh at golf, hasn’t hurt him any!

And you’ll have to excuse my jumping topics all over in one post, this heat & humidity is adling my brains. It also made me want to do absolutely nothing & I ended up sitting in front of the computer all day. Most of it spent editing the sub for Toki wa Kakeru Shoujo for my satisfaction. Oh yeah, I should have realized the character design is Sadamoto of Neon Genesis Evangelion fame.

Ride pictures

Published on May 18, 2007 in bike by risu. Closed

Yeah, yeah – it’s been almost a week.  I’ve been busy,  okay?!  I had the images on my USB drive all week, just didn’t have time to upload them.  The pictures from the 12th and 14th are up on the gallery – you know where…  There are some neat slow-sync flash shots from Monday’s freeride session.  Interesting colors.  and check out Root’s styling air.  There’s a long exposure shot at the concrete rest stop that looks like it should be on an album cover.  

Daylight? St. Louis F/R

Published on May 15, 2007 in bike by risu. Closed

I guess summer is upon us.  We got down most of the trail in daylight, with twilight colors and darkness setting in at the rest stop on the concrete road.  Just Ckucke, Root, JT, and me again – Chris should be back next week, since it was the last night of birthing class.  Dropped into upper dumps for a change, but there was a lot of deadfall leaning into the trail and one big, old ironwood that had to be limboed under.  Somewhere up on the side of the park access road was a dead thing – it could be smelled out into the neighborhood.  Nothing bad-smelling or dead on the trail.  At agave, climbed up to the normal out line and descended.  The original D/H trail has been recut, and there looks to be some work being done on the trail that heads out to the point (the “right” off the mainline that is the alternate choice for the “left” to the old ladder trail).  Must check some of that out next time…

Ride time of 27-min. with a distance of 3.87-miles.  Vavr was 8.5 mph.  Vmax was 18.6 mph on the trail – rather slow this time.  Too many photo-op stops… 

Denno Coil

Published on May 14, 2007 in anime by taro. Closed

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Looks like we have a winner here, I couldn’t wait for fansub & watched it raw. Having seen the teaser trailers for it, this intrigued me very much. Interesting art & designs, can’t help but be reminded of Ghibli works. The little girl (younger sister of the girl pictured in the right but not in this pic) is a ringer for Mei from Totoro, and there’s funky bizzarre creatures too. From what I know so far, the story involves a world where virtual reality is quite advanced. The kids are kind of playing a hyper real pokemon almost, they’re out looking for virtual animals. But it seems there’s some strange black thing loose in the system regarded as a virus that seems to be responsible for dissappearances of virtual pets. This is a show I’m definitely keeping my eyes on.

Chiropractic ride

Published on May 14, 2007 in bike by risu. Closed

Rode Wailuna to Royal Summit on Saturday afternoon.  Root was a little late, but since it was in the waning part of the day, it was another half-hour for the world to cool down from the noontime burn of late spring.  The climb was as heinous as ever - it seems that the more I train, the worse the climb feels.  I saw a trail off to  the left of the water tank road, possibly leading over to the terrain between Wailuna and Waimano.  It was well-used, and there was a concrete marker with 2 initials and “1928” written in relief on it.  Continuing up the road and transitioning to the dirt, my legs felt burnt too: I had to drop granny for the climb arond the back of the water tank.  I might be training “wrong” or we’re just going harder and faster now. Continue reading ‘Chiropractic ride’

Anime Quickies

Published on May 13, 2007 in anime by taro. Closed

OK, a slept the whole day away, I think yesterday’s ride & eating a complete half tub of Haagan Daaz asian girl ice cream put me out. Doesn’t help that I had/have a dang headache that this nasal congestion I’m sure has something to do with. Damn these plants & their reproductive cycles. Anyway, since I’m not doing much of anything today, guess I’ll catch up on some anime mini-reviews.

Lesse, there’s this show, El Cazador de la bruja

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Again, it’s all things we’ve seen before. Mysterious cute little girl is actually some subject of mysterious experiment that gives her powers. Tough on exterior hot shot girl bounty hunter ends up taking the girl under her protection, resulting in them becoming the object of everyone’s attention. It’s done well enough to be entertaining for now. Continue reading ‘Anime Quickies’

The Moment

Published on May 12, 2007 in car by taro. Closed

img_0587.JPGWhen will it end? Well, here’s the ECU without the glob of goo.

img_0585.JPGAnd everything in engine bay is back together! I’ve also swapped out throttle cable as the hack one was short and the cable stop mounting was also hacked to accomodate. I’m not sure why they did this.

And so, finally the moment of truth arrives:truth.avi

After this I take care of some other issues like figuring where to hook the tach, the speed sensor, check engine light. Man does this feel good!

Dokuritsu Shoujo Gurentai

Published on May 10, 2007 in jdrama and rant by risu. Closed

Just watched the DVD of the movie Dokuritsu Shoujo Gurentai (lit. Independence Girl-gang) 2004, retitled for the USDM as “Samurai Chicks” (Tokyo Shock, 2006).  I really wish US releasers wouldn’t go messing with the titles, not only because it is both f#@king unnecessary and is culturally insulting and ignorant, but because it makes it really difficult to identify the movie by the title.  When I first saw the title listing, I thought it was Samurai Gal 21 with Koike Eiko and Satou Eriko.  I was elated until I found out that this was a different movie… after which I remained elated, but for different reasons.  Viz was one of the first “insipid title” offenders by retitling the USDM release of Shimotsuma Monogatari as “Kamikaze Girls”.  WTF?! Continue reading ‘Dokuritsu Shoujo Gurentai’

Easy

Published on May 10, 2007 in bike by risu. Closed

Took it easy on the knees and quads after Monday.  It was windy, so keeping the speed up even on the flats was a bit of a challenge. 

Kept encountering the same woman in her Millenia smack dab in the middle of the road at WCC, immobile, with her brake lights and reverse lights on.  Apparently she was attempting to learn to parallel park.  Certainly she couldn’t.

10.88-miles, 50-minutes, Vavr = 12.8 mph.

So close!

Published on May 10, 2007 in car by taro. Closed

Engine harness

Thanks to Aaron who is also working on a 20v install in his MK1 MR2, I got that missing connector with perfect timing. The harness is done!

GoopyFor some reason it seems this connector is often missing from salvaged harnesses. So it was being held on with RTV gooped over it on mine.

Anyway, got the harness snaked into the engine bay & through the firewall. Started plugging things in. So close, but I’m calling it a night. Stay tuned to see if it works!

Firewall condomNot connected yet