posts mostly about/containing pictures I have taken.
Mar 9 2006
After a one year hiatus, I will be returning to the Daytona Supercross tomorrow night!! I am fairly excited, especially after missing it last year, but this will be James Stewart’s first Daytona SX in the premier class, and that’s something I’m sure to cherish.
Here are some pictures from 2003 (when just Kim and I went and pretty much hung out n the pits all day) and 2004 (when Kim, Brandon and I went, and my camera was not working so well).
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Mar 4 2006
zOMGz this is so amazing!!
As you may or may not know, Blink 182 is one of my favorite bands. I had it really bad for them in 2001, when I saw them 8 times, in 4 different states (Florida, New York, Washington and Oklahoma)! According to my last.fm account, they are my top artist by a mile. I’m sure you get my point.
Well, last night I was half asleep and trying to find some episodes of Miami Ink to download for Chad. I think I did a search for “Miami Ink” at mininova.org and I found this little gem. I grabbed the torrent without paying too much attention to it, assuming it was audio and it would sound pretty crappy, as most bootleg live recordings sound. Then tonight I was trying to find the episodes of Miami Ink I had downloaded, and I realized that the Blink show was actually video!
How cool is it to find video of a concert you went to nearly 6 years ago, on the innernets!? Hey, that was the night I got my lip pierced too!
I’m gonna go watch it now. I hope I see myself! I remember me and Adam didn’t have tickets/passes to get on the floor, but we snuck in anyways. Adam lost his shoe in the pit somewhere. It was such an awesome night!
Feb 27 2006
I can’t be sure, but if I remember correctly, this was Kim’s reaction to seeing my junk!
Again, I can’t be sure, but I think this was Marina’s reaction when Kim told her about my junk.
Feb 17 2006
Feb 10 2006
In observation of Photo Friday, I present to you my all time favorite picture I have taken!
Travis Pastrana – 2004 Daytona Supercross – 1/6 sec – f/2.8 – ISO 100
Feb 9 2006
+100 ePoints if you can remember where I was 2 months ago today (well, yesterday, I guess. I mean the 8th!). Here is a pretty good hint!
This picture was taken at about 6:30 this morning.
+1000 ePoints if you can name the guy on the left! (hint: That’s a real Disco jersey!!)
+5000 ePoints if you know who the guy in the middle is! (hint: he sent me the picture)
+10,000 ePoints if you can name the guy on the right. (even I don’t know who he is)
Tonight I had dinner at Big Pink (zOMG twice in 10 or something days!!) with 5 girls! I missed South Beach, but I got it on tivo. I think I’ll go watch it right now.
Feb 8 2006
I went to the Monster Jam on Saturday night. I guess Sharon got a flat tire or something, so I got picked up a little later than planned. All was well because we had the GPS in full effect and it said we would be arriving one minute before the show was slated to start.
I don’t think the GPS accounted for all of the traffic we encountered!
While we were waiting on the Turnpike the clock struck 7:30 and the show started without us. I could see fireworks shooting out from within the stadium.
I took this picture just after the fireworks were over. We were so close, yet so far away!
I couldn’t believe how many people were going to this thing… It had been rainy and (relatively) cold all weekend and I was thinking about staying home. Not only were there this many people, but they were all late just like us!
We parked near gate D, and we walked towards gate C, looking for the will-call window. We asked a security guard where it was, and they said gate G and pointed to the left. I figured that meant that it was quicker to go past gates B and A to get to G, instead of going in sequential order. When we got go gate A I was told that no backpacks could go in, so that had to go back to the truck. Also, we could not get to gate G that way because everything past A was fenced off. We had to walk all the way back around the stadium! I found will-call and got the tickets, but when I tried to enter the stadium, one of the security people stopped me and told me that my camera couldn’t go in because it was a “pro†camera and they’re not allowed. I just walked around the corner to a different gate and walked right in. I would have been severely pissed if I had actually taken my camera back to the truck because the guy sitting right behind me also had a Digital Rebel!
By the time we got to our seats most of the first set of races were over. I had initially thought that was going to be it and I was kind of pissed because I only got to see 3 head to head races, and the races were lame because they had changed the format because the track was so muddy. Instead of doing a lap or whatever they usually do, they were just doing drag races, except instead of being side by side, they were facing each other, which seemed to make it pretty hard to tell who won. And the races were all of about 4 seconds long. I mean, the drivers would go from a dead stop, stand on the gas long enough to launch OVER the 5 cars in front of them, and then get on the binders and skid to a stop at the other end of the stadium. The are also displayed metal carports for sale inside the arena that night and we managed to buy some.
I was pretty relieved to find out that there was more than the head to head racing that night. After the preliminary races and before the final head to head race they had “Quad Warsâ€. I guess the muddy conditions messed that up too because they had a pretty lame relay race between “Team Georgia†and “Team Floridaâ€. Naturally, Team Florida won, but it was a pretty close race.
After the Quad Wars they had the head to head final, which was won by Gun Slinger. (I should have made this sequence go in clockwise direction instead of left to right.)
After a brief intermission, 4 guys came out and had a freestyle motocross competition.
This guy’s sweet backflip skills gave him the win!
…and then it was time for freestyle monster truck action!
Reptile busts big and some kid makes a huge mess with his cotton candy!
Blue Thunder destroyed the boat they parked in front of us!
Grave Digger busts big!
This is how far we were from the action. I think my zoom lens does a pretty good job. I just wish I had a 300 or 400mm lens too!
…and the the crown favorite, El Toro Loco came out and dod a huge wheelstand on the far side! (I probably shouldn’t have tried to combine these 2 pics.)
El Toro Loco pretty much did a back flip, but it wasn’t enough to take the win away from Blue Thunder! (at least I think Blue Thunder won.)
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Oh, P.S.: Here are 312 pictures from the event!
Jan 30 2006
I stayed up Saturday night because I knew I wouldn’t be able to wake up in time to cheer Jean on as she ran by in the ING Miami half-marathon Sunday morning. When I actually hit Ocean Drive there were zillions of people already there and it would have been the ultimate game of Frogger to get across the street to the place where I said I would be. So, I sat on the curb on the corner of 11th and Ocean and took some pictures of strangers. I never even saw Jean.
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Jan 24 2006
Is it ok for me to call homeless people “bums”? Because I’m working on something that I think will be marginally neat, but I don’t want it to be offensive, and I would lose all interest in it if I can’t call them bums.
I took these pictures yesterday from my desk at work.
Jan 21 2006
I woke up this morning and I was instantly bored. I checked the innernets, but it was too early for fresh content, and I had stayed up too late reading everything I had missed during the week. I thought about walking over to the beach, but it wasn’t enticing enough for me to leave my abode. Everyone with snow and ice on the ground is like OMG I would kill to be on the beach right now!!!, but not me.
I think the beach is pretty boring. I suppose it’s ok if you go with friends, but to go alone is just too mellow for me. And when you’re a local, especially an expatriate from Central Washington State, there are certain perils that come with visiting South Beach that a person might not think of. Allow me to indulge…
People tend to show a lot of skin on South Beach and that’s one of the properties that makes it so great. If you feel like seeing bare boobies, you walk over to the beach, and there you go. But this is where problems can arise. Say you’re walking along the beach, minding your own business, not even trying to look at boobs, and all of a sudden you hear “Christian! CHRISTIAN!!!” and you’re like, “What? Is someone calling me??” and you look around to see one of your friends jogging over to meet you at the water’s edge. You talk with your friend for a minute or two and they invite you back to their spot on the beach to hang out for a bit. You oblige, being that you have nothing better to do, and then you’re introduced to your friend’s new girlfriend. And that’s when you realize that she’s topless and you’re very thankful you spent the extra $10 for mirrored lenses on your sunglasses!
OR WORSE…! Imagine bumping into your boss/doctor/mail man/banker/professor/member of the clergy/whoever and they’re topless or wearing a Speedo! TALK ABOUT AWKWARD!!
Now, I’m sure that my upbringing has something to do with my prudeness and such, but I’m sure I’m not the only person who finds it hard to keep the same level of respect for a person once you’ve seen them in such a state of undress.
Anyways, I didn’t go to the beach this morning, so here are 3 pictures I took on the beach on January 1st.
Mar 12 2006
Where’s Waldo?
Kim, Brandon and I were on TV during the coverage of the Daytona Supercross Friday night on the Speed channel. Here’s a screenshot… Can you find us??
P.S.: If you missed the Daytona SX and you want to watch it, a torrent of the race can be found here.
By FANLESS • Uncategorized • 2 • Tags: IRL, Pictures, Supercross, TV