Month: May 2023

May 2, 2023 – Need For Speed

I purchased this video on our recent vacation of me driving a Porsche 991 GT3RS. It was an awesome drive. The whole experience was expensive, but I paid the extra $70 for the video because everything was happening so fast. It is a new car, a new track and driving like you don’t normally do. If you watch it, you will see all of the instructions coming at you.

Even though my work is 90% serious, sometimes you have to have fun. I talked about my liner notes in the podcast that I couldn’t ever test drive a Porsche without putting in an offer to buy it. How do I know that I would like the car? I am not the kind of guy to buy a car just to see if I like it.

I have always been a race fan. I have gone to Indy, NASCAR and F1 races. I never really had a desire to drive a performance car until I started playing Need For Speed on the X-box. I won almost every achievement on the Shift version and then I suddenly came to an epiphany. This pastime has no real world value and it took a ton of time. At that moment, I pretty much quit playing video games. That was about the time I bought the Mustang.

I did enjoy driving the Mustang, but I never really felt that I got to enjoy the full potential. I wanted to drive it on a track but never got the opportunity. So this was the culmination of several dreams.

End Your Programming Routine: You can’t live your life in a video game. It is enjoyable, no doubt but all that time could be spend doing much more productive things. I paid for two extra laps so all told, it cost about $500 for those ten minutes of driving.

May 1, 2023 – The Tale of Two Countries

I hit all the hot buttons today like guns, abortion and drugs. I am attempting to make a contrast to different states going in different directions. For those of us ‘behind enemy lines’ it is hard to see any sort of light at the end of the tunnel. But, be awake we haven’t seen the fall yet… but it is coming. Rome took hundreds of years beginning with Nero in the year 54 and ending with the submission of the Roman emperor in 476 .

End Your Programming Routine: The reason Rome makes such a good parellel to the United States is because of the similarities of behavior. The largest global power falls because of narcissm. It’s no wonder the Afghanistan rejected our perverted form of freedom. Even the Taliban can recognize a bad apple.