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Racingnews.com – another good blog

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Okay, I will admit it, I am a racing fan.  Actually, I use to race a little bit (I have a couple of trophies) and I enjoy racing no end.  Pretty much anything from formula 1 to lawn mowers.  Racing is kewl.  Anyway, I have owned this domains for a couple of years, and I didn’t really do anything with it, so I decided to step up and make it happen.  So, check out racing news and let me know what you think about it.  I will update it pretty much any time I find something interesting going on, it won’t be like a definitive news source, but I am a fan, and fans find kewl shit all over the place 🙂

Little update, Racing News was closed out (way too much time to get everything up to date all the time) but I do have Motorsports on Stuffchannel here.

V for Vendetta

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Okay, I went last night with a couple of friends to catch the midnight showing of V for Vendetta.  I had heard many good things in pre-release reviews, and a few bad things.  After seeing the movie, I can only say one thing:

If you are intelligent, can handle not only action but actual dialog and concepts that need understanding, then go and see this movie.  If you thought that XXX or Fast and the Furious was deep and meaningful, stay away.   V for Vendetta requires that your bring your mind with you, open and willing to explore ideas that are not spoon fed to you like sugar bites.

I won’t reveal the movie or it’s ending here, I always think that is unfair.  I will say that the acting job of a man in a fixed mask and wig is truly amazing, as physical actions and the powerful words come together to give this character more depth and expression than can be imagined.  The twists and resposition of people from “good guy” to “bad guy” back to “good guy” and “not so sure” is wonderful.  There are many, many main characters in this movie, a pleasure in itself to see a movie that isn’t just a formulatic “guy and girl” film (although there is a nice undertone of the intimate relationships between many of the characters invovled).

I said to my friends when we left:  20 years from now this movie will be looked back on as a real look inside what was happening in the 2000-2008 period (the Bush years).  There is incredible social and moral issues being put on the table and dissected  with the accuracy of a V knife, sliced and held up to the light not to show the good and clean side, but to show the guts and the gore that comes with making difficult personal and moral decisions.   There is a discussion of power, and how power corrupts… and how absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Deep and meaningful, maybe for me one of the few movies since Trainspotting where I left the end of the movie feeling enlightened, entertained, depressed, and full of thought.  For me, a movie that will go down as a classic look at good and evil, right and wrong… and how that right and wrong all depends on where you are sitting

Party Poker, two versions later

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Well, I went to check out Party Poker again to see what was going on.  First off I got ANOTHER new version of the software, which is always a good thing.  However, there are still some pretty major fuckups (I will get to that in a sec) and there is still some issues with the placement of things on the screen that bother me.

Then their network crached like a fucking rock for most of the overnight period.  Once that sucker crashes, it is almost impossible to get things back going right.

Anyway, the next night I wandered back to play a game or two.   I am getting use to this higher chip count thing, although I could see a ton of players who don’t have a clue throwing way too many chips at really poor hands, thinking that 2000 chips somehow makes them richer than 800 chip for the same price did before.  Little do they realize that the ratios of chips to blinds is different at the earlier levels, so in fact you are somewhat poorer in the end to start with.  Anyway, these clowns are either rich with chips or flat as broke after a few hands.

While everyone I know says that the card selector / shuffling thing has not changed I will say that I have seen less and less major dog hands winning, and things  seem to be back to a more normal level.  It may be that the morons are still morons and the smarter players are not getting conned into staying in bad hands, but things just seem to be better.    Yes, I have won some tables and taken some tournament money in the last few days.

Anyway, I am keeping my eye on it all… we will see 🙂

Updates and New Stuff

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First off, a nice new link site I am working on:  click here porn has great listings, plus links to TGPs and Link sites… I’m working on it 🙂

Updated some of the blogs today as well.   I have a very hot gallery of Cory Everson over at DDcup big booby blog.  She has really nice big natural tits.   I also updated Teen Spread Pussy with links to a nice gallery for Brooke Skye.  This teen babe has a hot body and great curves… and she loves to show the pink!
I am continuing to work today on my new movie oriented link site.  Most of the code and support stuff is new, so it is taking some time to get it done.  I will probably be accepting submissions in the next few days for it, and I will open it up maybe a few days after that.   There will be a ton of great features and even a members only area with live sex shows and chat rooms.  Stay tuned, it will be hot!

I was right… NASCAR ratings slipped again

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Overnight ratings are in for Vegas, and they are off 7% from last year, a very similar number to the amount that the California race was off 2 weeks ago.

Why?  Two of the dullest races, back to back with a week off in between.  It is hard to maintain interest when you have a week off so early in the season, and the two races themselves were total snoozefest that not even the most dedicated fan could find much fun in.  You could have watched the first 10 laps and the last 10 laps of Vegas and gotten about 99% of the excitement and joy that came in about 3.5 hours of broadcasting.

The week off thing really confuses me as well.  Drivers bitch and moan and complain about no time off after July… but there we are, 3rd week of the season, already taking a break.  Most of the off weekends are piled up in the first half of the season, and that really hurts.  Changing the schedule to have two western races with a week off in between really takes away from the whole deal as well.  On top of which, the weather in Vegas was really quite poor this year, and it often is questionable in the winter / early spring period.

I know there are only a few tracks on the circuit that could handle a race after Daytona, but that is more an issue of economics than anything.  Rockingham use to be the traditional “after daytona” race.  It is a smaller and more entertaining track, but had suffered occassional issues because of bad weather.  I looked at the 2000 and 2001 schedules, and it was bang bang bang sex races in a row to start the season, on a variety of tracks (Daytona, The Rock, Vegas, and Atlanta… then Darlington and Bristol).   Now the first four races are all on tracks 1.5 mile or greater, and it isn’t until race #5 that we get something other than aero and drafting.

At the end od the day, I don’t know the answer, I don’t have a clear idea how to fix it.  With so many cookie cutter tracks on the schedule, it is pretty much impossible to make it as interesting as it once was.  Trading out race dates at places like Winston-Salem, North Wilkesboro, Rockingham, and such, and replacing them with 1.5mile D shaped ovals sprinkled all over the US has taken away much of the character and nature of the series, and replaced it with a sort of generic “race of the week” look that to me just looks like the same track with a different name painted on the wall and a different background on the wide shots.  Otherwise, it is the same old same old, playing into the hands of the teams with the most money for development of downforce and plate race cars, and less reward for the good drivers that tend to flourish on the slightly tighter or more skill oriented tracks.

A 7% haircut on viewership isn’t going to be enough to make things change, but I think that NASCAR will see as the season goes on that certain races (like, say Bristol) will bring in the crowd AND the viewers, and snoozefest 1.5 mile tracks will continue to sell decent tickets (as the only NASCAR race in a region for a whole year) but the fans will turn the noses and remotes up at this somonex on wheels, and they will find better things to do.

Wake up NASCAR… The “new” fans out west are not turning up like you wanted (California race wasn’t even near a sell out again), meanwhile Interesting, fun, and challenging tracks from the history of the sport sit idle, spoiling in the sun.

Free North Wilkesboro 🙂

Monday monday….

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Well, it isn’t much more than 24 hours after the race, and already at least one of the F1 teams is bitching that Ferrari is cheating… but not bitching enough to do anything about.   Basically, they are claiming that part of the wings is flexible in a manner that, during high speed running, drag is reduced.  They are basing this on Massa having the fastest trap times of the day.  Considering he only did so-so in his first race for the red team, is it possible that he just ran a little less wing than the other cars, which gave him the higher speeds but didn’t make the cornering work out?  Hmm?

Always a conspiracy theory somewhere, I guess.

Jimmie Johnston won the NASCAR race in Vegas.  I am so fucking happy they are going to rip that track up and redo it, the racing there is duller than white toast no butter.  When will NASCAR figure out that the 1.5 mile D shaped ovals are the most boring fucking tracks in the universe?  Double so for the ones that don’t have much banking, as the cars run single file and that is that.  Vegas with a little narrower surface and somewhat progressive banking should create two or three grooves and two or three possible good lines / setup combinations, so the racing should be better in the future.

The race in California wasn’t a sellout, and it was so fucking dull I am sure they had to put no-doze tablets into the beer.  The TV ratings and attendance is only middling for that western stop, and already there is talk about pushing it off the schedule for some other event.  Two trips to this snoozefest track isn’t doing it for anyone.

Bring on Bristol… Bring on Dover… Bring on, well, anything that isn’t a D shaped 1.5 mile oval downforce track.  NASCAR, you should be ashamed for making racing secondary to “going to new markets”.

What else… hmm, I added some new galleries and links over at Lust Galleries and Thumbs Kingdom.  In fact, all of the “back office” for lust galleries got redone, and all of the galleries on there are up to date and renewed.   I will likely be adding overflow pages over there too… I added a nice tit fuck gallery over at DDCUP big titty blog, a nice gallery of hotty Jassie over at littletitsite.com, and stunning asian Cookie Wanwalee showing the pink at teen spread pussy.

Not bad, and the day is only half over… more news later 🙂

The F1 seasons starts out strong

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I am watching the repeat on Speed right now (yes, I was up at 6:30AM to watch it live) and I have to say that the F1 seasons is looking strong indeed.

During this race, there was plenty of side by side running (Rosberg and Coulthard, example) and many many cars that had a shot at points and positions.  A very solid result for the new engines and new teams.

Sad to see JV have an engine failure, but he was on the edge of the points up until that point, which is an improvement over what Sauber had been doing most of last year.  BMW seems to build powerful engines that don’t seem to work out all that well.  Williams, on the other hand seems to have done really quite well with the new Cosworth engine, and Rosberg set the fastest lap of the race on his way to recover from a pretty major pit lane fuckup that actually had him in the garage at one point… all the way back to 7th.

It’s all good… Here’s to a great 2006 F1 world championship!

A fuck of a week so far

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Well, this week has been a little bit fucked up and weird. Some weeks you get into the pace and beat and shit and stuff happens. This week I have been all over the road like a drunk driver just after closing time. It truly has been weird.

First off, I have been driving a rental car for the last 2 weeks while my car got fixed. Yeah, some dumbass snow removal guy decided that reversing without looking was a really good way to save himself some time on the job. instead, it got him writing reports and arguing with insurance companies, who found him to be responsble and me to be fine and clear. Anyway, I got the car back today but there are a couple of things still to do to make it all right again, so I will be going back and forth on the issue I guess.

The weather has been fucking mental as well, it was freezing cold last weekend, and today it is raining and they are talking about 11C by Sunday. Spring usually rolls in slowly, but this time it looks like a freaking freight train coming to run us over. I am not really ready for it.

I have also been working on my least favorite thing, accounting. I hate the work, I hate checking it, and I hate that in the end it just means that I have to send the government money. Nothing fucking good there!

Worst part? The last episode of The Deadliest Catch ran this week, so I am way fucking bummed out about it all. First because it was an interesting show filled with real, decent, hardworking people that I can truly identify with, and second because I didn’t know when it started that this was also a documentary of the last year of this style of crabbing. Basically, for pretty much all times, they used a derby style system – total catch permitted was X tons of crab, and everyone starts on the same day and they go until the X tons has been caught. If you catch more you make more, if you catch less you make less. Pretty simple, right?

The Deadliest Catch was exactly about the competition and spirit of “try harder, work harder” that made these guys special. They would work for days at a time non-stop in order to get the most crab before the limit was reached. Sort of a combination business and sport. You could see the intelligence, the knowledge, the experience, and the skill that these people use to win the game. No fucking basketball hoop or other false prize – this was all about money and pride. Amazing.

It saddens me no end to know that many of the people who were on the show have since lost their jobs in the crab fishery because the quotas were only granted to some boats, and others were purchased by the state and put out of service forever. Approximately 250 boats fished for Opilio crab in 2005, and in 2006 I have seen numbers under 100 boats total. Truly fucking amazing how the government can take something noble, prideful, and all american like this and turn it into a red tape clusterfuck beyond all understanding.

Anyway, losing one of the few TV shows I truly enjoy sort of sucks.

Besides that, I have had a little problem this week getting traction on an idea I have been working on. Nothing like having a really great idea but not being able to exactly put it down on paper or share with others. I sort of shared part of it with one person, but I didn’t get any feedback yet which is sort of driving me around the bend a bit wondering. That is just one of those things, I guess.

I am also looking to sell my house this real estate season, 2 other similar houses have sold in the last couple of months on my street and I feel pretty good. But to do that, I have to get the house into salable condition and make sure all the odds and ends are taken care of, which is a bitch. Worse, as I go along, I find more shit that needs to be taken care of, so I am actually sort of going backwards instead of forwards. Fuck.

Finally, spring break season is on, which is usually a quiet time in the online busines as students go away, and families often take trips etc. So as a result, pretty much everyone I know is saying “quiet this week”… Things should pick back up in a little bit, but for now, it just sucks.

Anyway, back to work I go, I guess… enough bitching for one day 🙂

Did I mention?

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I really hate mondays.  Even though I really work pretty much every day of the week, I really have a hatred for Mondays as they are the theoretical start of a new week, and I can cry quietly for all the things that I didn’t get done last week.  There is an insane personal pressure to do better and complete things on time, and the ticking on Mondays is truly a maddening thing.

There has been a whole pile of new porn sites up in the last couple of weeks.  There is a huge move right now towards “HD” movies, although the reality is that these are not HD in the TV sense, but they are pretty darn good quality videos.  I will have a listing of a bunch of new sites over at findpics porn links soon, as this is really becoming a trend.  The best part for anyone looking for porn is that generally the quality of membership sites is increasing pretty quickly right now as everyone is elbowing to get into position on this one, so good things are in store 🙂

My favorite new site just from the name is Mommy Got Boobs… in a way it is a tribute to the durability of implants and such, but there are some really good naturals in here too.  It sort of plays to a fear I have that I will be in a retirement home in 40 years, and all the old ladies around me will be using walkers and canes, but HOT DAMN ARE THEY GOING TO HAVE NICE TITS!   I guess I have something to look forward to in my old age.

Anyway, other than that I have a ton of things to do today, so I will be back to post later with some more interesting links and things for you.