More pics!

Betty revealed a little more today... I was in the neighborhood so I stopped by to visit. They have finished the wet sand and buff and are essentially done. They are going to put the windows in and bumpers. I am going to spend the weekend putting the chrome on.

The color is spot on. More than I could have imagined. Woo hoo!

Polish!

Now that the car is finally painted I've kicked the chrome polishing in to high gear. Betty has a lot of bling and it looks kinda grimy right now. Plus, she has a bunch of pieces (one of them pictured below) that have a silver inlay. I've seen a lot of Skylarks with the inlay taken off for an all chrome look. Having done the inlays, I can see why. It's a pain in the ass! It looks a lot better though so I will tough it out.

I used a polishing wheel on some stuff but found a soft cloth and some Dursol (Für alle metalle as it says on the tube) did wonders. Check it out:

Paint!

Had another conjugal visit with Betty today. Paint went on this week and she is lookin good! Bob was doing a wet sand and buff today to finish things up today so these pictures don't really show how good the paint looks. The clear coat dries with an orange peel texture so they wet sand with really fine grit sand paper and then buff it to a glossy finish. The end result is spectacular. The color is exactly what I had in mind and the metallic finish looks beautiful. I can't wait to get all the chrome on.

It feels even better! I ran my hand over the fender and almost... well, you get the picture. I did say it was a conjugal visit. :-)

More brain crack! Threadless tee: Wetfloor

Hey!

I submitted a tee shirt design called Wetfloor
to Threadless.com to be voted on and hopefully printed.

If I get enough high scores the shirt will be printed and
sold from the site and I will win some prizes. Take a look
at it and if you like it, sign up and give it a score.

URL: http://www.threadless.com/submission/95236/Wetfloor

Thanks!

P.S. I'm sure Threadless would be happy if you bought a tee too! ;)


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I'm officially an Apple Software Developer!

I've been an ADC member for a while now, I've made a couple mock-ups of software for Apple, and I ALMOST went to the WWDC this year. And I guess I did make the SkylarCast widget. But now it's official.

With Hero Tracker, I am officially on the Apple web site (!). Well, it's exciting to me anyway. If you don't have it already, get it now!

Don't be a hero hater.

Skylark Update!

Went down to Superior performance today and had a conjugal visit with Betty today. She's in primer and lookin great. All the body work is done, just the finishing touches on the body. They're aligning all the surfaces and making everything super straight. Bob (owner) explained that they lay down a guide coat made up of primer and a graphite powder. Then they sand down until they only see primer and metal. This gets rid of any minor fluctuations in the metal.

Here is some video I took with the Sony W100 (I left the DV at home):



I used the new version (iLife '06) of iMovie to lay in the audio and do the nifty bumper in the beginning. Ain't that cool? Just dragged the pics in to the drop zones and added it in like you would a transition or the like. It seems like I spend a lot of time on stuff like this, but I really don't. iLife just makes it really, really easy (yes, I know I am a total Apple fanboy).

And here are some pics:

Hero Tracker II

Get the new Hero Tracker here:

http://web.mac.com/a4sline/iWeb/Site/herotracker.html

Now for Google Gadgets and Mac Dashboard Widgets!!

Hero Tracker!

Check out the latest widget! The team here at McAfee spent a couple hours creating a Google Gadget and a Dashboard Widget called Stephen Colbert's Hero Tracker. It displays an RSS feed of heroes around the world. It's a work in progress, so it may change, but check it out and tell me what you think:

Download the Hero Tracker Dashboard Widget Now!

Ignore my last entry - I have become what I hate

I got all fired up this morning because I miss read an article. I am still pissed at Jeane Moos, but the Musharraf thing was way off.

Biased Media

I don't think I have used this blog for political statements yet, but I am so outraged right now, I have to get this out.

Yesterday President Bill Clinton was making the rounds for his Global Health Initiative and he had an interview with Chris Wallace. Mr. Wallace, in my opinion, ambushed Clinton with a question about his administration's response to the Bin Laden threat. Clinton was outraged. He accused Mr. Wallace of being a Republican puppet and then preceded to explain how his administration had, in fact, done more to address the issue in 6 months than the Bush administration has done in years.

The media has taken this story and used it to lambaste Clinton. They have brought on comedians as experts to remark on the interview, they have focused solely on Clinton's anger and totally ignored the facts. Jean Moose criticized the man's socks. Slow motion video of his socks slipping down!!! She even worked in his denial of having sex with Monica Lewinski. This is a travesty.

Meanwhile, on the homepage of CNN.com, the headline reads, "Musharraf: Iraq war makes world more dangerous" WHAT??? Who the hell cares what Musharraf thinks?? How about the newly declassified documents that show that "The Iraq conflict has become the 'cause celebre' for jihadists breeding a deep resentment of U.S. involvement in the Muslim world and cultivating supporters for the global jihadist movement." and that "If this trend continues, threats to US interests at home and abroad will become more diverse, leading to increasing attacks worldwide."

This article is virtually non-existent on the CNN homepage.

Hmm... safer? Maybe we need to sit down and define what "safer" means? Maybe we can define what journalism is too.