Archive for March, 2006
Tiff Takes On PS2 Champ, from The Sunday Times
Very interesting article pitting Tiff Needell against the reigning UK Gran Turismo 4 champ. The results are surprising, although Tiff dropped a couple seconds handily with the TC turned off.
I’m curious what a similar comparison using a modern PC sim (i.e. rFactor, GT Legends, Live For Speed) [...]
Cincinnati Business Courier Article
Saw some discussion on this a couple weeks ago over at GARRA-Fans. Looks like it will be about 20 minutes away.
I got a copy of the linked article today at work. Lo and behold, the impetus behind it is the brother-in-law and nephew of my former boss.
Sounds like an interesting [...]
Article from the Cincinnati Enquirer
In what seems to be a nearly annual tradition in the Queen City, the future of the city’s completed, but never used, subway tunnels is pondered. While the proposed light rail was never completed in the late ’20’s, the right-of-ways did serve future use for I-75 (the tunnels’ western exits can be [...]
Saw this clip come through in The Sound of Young America podcast. The Pythons, sans Cleese, in-studio during a Dallas PBS station pledge drive in 1975, shortly after Holy Grail was finished.
Very interesting clip!
Thanks to a generous neighbor of my in-laws, Laura and I scored last minute tickets to Tuesday night’s Xavier bball game against St. Joseph’s. As we sat at center court, albeit closer to the nosebleed side of things, I pondered why I kept studying the guy in the row ahead of us.
Hmm…curly mop of hair, salt & pepper beard…
Then it hit me, he rather resembled Wayne Coyne from The Flaming Lips.
Naturally, a head-sticking of the opening riff of Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 1 ensued.