Poke Me In The Eye

Weight: 2440 lbs
Length: 181.1 in
Width: 70.3 in
Height: 53.5 in
Engine: RB26DETT
Redline: 8000 RPM
HP: 327 @ 6800 RPM
Torque: 293 @ 4400 RPM
0-60 MPH: 4.9 seconds
¼ mile: 13.7 seconds @ 103.5 MPH

That’s a lot of letters for one car but of all machines on this planet this one deserves them all. This is the first car in my series that I have not driven personally so I can’t speak of its “seat of the pants” performance but I can definitely talk about, well, how awesome it seems to be.

Imagine a big car. It’s an inline 6. It’s all wheel drive. It has turbos. Sounds good so far, doesn’t it? Now imagine it is Japanese and filled with every single trick bit of electronics available from the Land of Electronics. This beast is world renown as the tip of the iceberg when it comes to off the shelf Japanese bad-ass-itude. It’s a rocket ship that can turn and stop. It looks like something straight from a video game. And I’ve heard of tuners pushing the 1,000 horsepower envelope on a practically stock block and transmission.

OK it isn’t exactly lightweight. It’s extremely expensive and rare. One cannot even buy one in the US (yet�) but there is no question that every automotive enthusiast that has spent any time playing Gran Turismo or knows anything about the Japanese domestic market (JDM for those insiders), they all know about this machine and will spend endless days expounding on its virtues (and vices).

Someday I will drive one. Someday I will uncover the mystique that is the Skyline. I must!

   

Moe’s Picks:

This is rather old but still great. Matrix Ping Pong
I guess this place is honest with their name
Don’t be an idiot, like this retard
I love this type of Flash game
Buy one Porsche get the second one free!

Crawford’s Picks:

Why email when you can snail mail…for FREE?
A haunted vending machine…I’d be freaked out.
I saw this video linked from a forum. Although it isn’t totally smooth it still is damn impressive.
Someone brought a very expensive camera camping and took fantastic photos.
The story is cute but the artwork makes me concerned.

When I was in High School and watching Married With Children this woman was the hottest TV personality I could imagine. She isn’t a supermodel by any stretch of the imagination and yeah she’s had a couple flops in her career but I still have to give her props for the delicious Kelly Bundy. I can’t think of another actress that could play the blonde bimbo idiot slut with such poise and character. And to follow up (much much later in her career) with a co-staring role in Anchorman? It’s like a dream come true.

And yeah…I’d still love to see her naked. I’ll never outgrow that.

    

Crawford’s Picks:

This is my favorite internet speed test site.
Something broken? This site supposedly tells you how to fix it.
What dogs think and what cats think…and I’m convinced they are true.
A simple click on stuff flash site.
It’s golf but…uh…you are a cat, with a bow. Yeah.

Moe’s Picks:

This autistic man is like a human camera, this video just has to be seen to be believed
Watermelon carvings that will blow your mind
Now this is one funky looking boat
This is both spooky and cool
What if office space was a horror movie?

In honor of a camping trip the Crawford and I took over the weekend I came up with this weeks question(s). Sitting around a campfire you get to choose three people. One of these people would be there to entertain you with music. Another would be there to make you laugh and the final would just be someone to talk to. These people can either be dead or alive, you can assume that they would be forthcoming with any questions you would have for them, etc.

Moe’s Answers

I am going to start with the musician. My first choice when I thought about this question was Roger Waters, I then considered Johnny Cash, I then thought Bob Marley and I thought for sure I had come up with my answer. But then I made up my mind and chose John Lennon. I can’t even imagine how amazing it would be to hear a solo acoustic set by John Lennon while sitting around a campfire. Hours of Beatles music and of course some of John’s solo work would make me a very very happy man.

When it came time to choose someone to make me laugh I found this choice to be the easiest, Robin Williams. The man is insanely funny, can improv on anything and is just highly entertaining. If you have ever seen his appearance on Inside The Actors Studio you would get a good idea of why I think he would be highly entertaining to hang out with around a campfire.

My hardest choice was someone to just talk to. I first considered someone like Albert Einstein or Socrates but then I faced a sad fact. They are both far far smarter than I can ever imagine to be and I think they would just end up confusing me. I then considered some people from history such as one of the Egyptian kings, Patton, Ghandi or Alexander the Great but when I sat down and thought about it I figured it would be incredibly interesting to talk to these people for a short amount of time but I think it would get old kind of fast. I then came down to three people who I highly considered. Quentin Tarantino, George Lucas or Kevin Smith. Choosing between these three was actually quite hard. I feel that Tarantino would be incredibly interesting to talk to with his encyclopedic knowledge of film and I love to talk movies. But then I considered some of the interviews I have seen with him and sometimes he just doesn’t know when to shut the hell up. I can’t even begin to fathom how fun it would be to pick Lucas’ brain about the Star Wars universe but outside of Star Wars I don’t know how much I could relate to him. Which brings me to my decision, Kevin Smith. If you have ever seen the “An Evening With Kevin Smith” DVD then you may have a good idea why I think he would be a fun guy to talk with. Lots of really funny stories, he seems really down to earth, we are in the same general age range. So while Kevin Smith may be a lowbrow choice I think it would make for a very fun evening.

Crawford’s Answers

Musician: When I think of a musician my first thought goes to an acoustic artist like Ben Harper or Dave Mathews. But there have been some fantastic acoustic performances by rockers (Nirvana comes to mind instantly). That really makes this choice hard. Weird Al is intriguing…but we’ve already got a “funny person” on the list. So I would have to choose Stevie Ray Vaughn. I think some rocking blues guitar would fit the campfire setting perfectly.

Comedian: There are a lot of really funny people out there that I’m sure would be extremely entertaining. Mitch Hedburg, Will Farrell, Adam Sandler, and Steven Wright all come to mind. But my choice would be Robin Williams. He’s been around long enough that he’d have some hilarious stories to tell and every interview I’ve seen with him he’s been outrageous. I’m sure he’d be intensely entertaining…perhaps a bit overwhelming but he would be a blast around the campfire.

Talker: This one is a bit harder to imagine. My first thought was Steven Hawking…that brilliant mind would have such mind blowing information to share…but at the same time would I be too far below his level to understand everything he talks about? I’d want someone with worldly knowledge and experience. I’d want someone who was around to see major world events happening before their eyes and been a player in that theater. So my choice would be Sir Winston Churchill. Not only was he heavily involved in WWI he lead the British Empire during its most dire time. He was a gifted orator and the thought of sitting by a campfire, him smoking a cigar and telling me about the Blitz…it practically sends shivers down my spine. Bill Clinton would probably be a blast, and Boutros Boutros-Ghali (and Egyptian diplomat who became Secretary-General of the UN) would be intense…and my final runner up has to be Aristotle who would completely blow my mind.

Moe’s Picks:

Rednecks do math funny, pretty clever little clip
Fun Lego stop motion video about beer
If you watched Cheers you will enjoy this list of Normisms
This womans dog bites it’s owner in sensitive places
You can learn a lot of useful things watching Movies

Crawford’s Picks:

Ah, philosophy humor…so witty, so clever!
A neat short cartoon movie in HD.
What I want to know is where to people get the LEGOs to build these giant things??
I don’t know why no one thought of this sooner!
I have potted meat food product at home. I will never eat it.

In a perfect world with a perfect operating system this piece of software wouldn’t be necessary, unfortunately we don’t live in that world. Have you ever tried to delete, move or otherwise modify a file or folder and seen one of the following messages:

Cannot delete Folder: It is being used by another person or program
Cannot delete file: Access is denied
There has been a sharing violation.
The source or destination file may be in use.
The file is in use by another program or user.
Make sure the disk is not full or write-protected and that the file is not currently in use.

You get these messages even though the object in question isn’t being used by something? The reason that I found this program in the first place was that I had a folder on my desktop that I just couldn’t get rid of. No matter what I did my computer would tell me that something was using the folder and I couldn’t delete it. I could even restart my computer and as soon as it was booted up I would try and delete it and still I would get the error message. It was then that I went looking for a solution and found Unlocker.

Unlocker is an Explorer extension that allows you with a simple right-click of the mouse on a file or folder to get rid of error message such as error deleting file or folder, cannot delete folder: it is used by another person or program and kill the process.

While this may seem like no big deal it can be a real life saver and save you from some annoying computer headaches.

Unlocker is a small program, very unobtrusive and of course, free.

Download Unlocker here.