Best Black Label Society – Mafia “Fire It Up”: really cool guitar at the start, slow fade in, riffs, winning. That is all. Tool – 10,000 Days “Vicarious”, probably the best known Tool song, and also one of their best, is a really good song to start an album. It starts slow, builds, has a monster drop, and powers through all the way into the rock greatness. Plus, the lyrics are entertaining to think about, a interesting take on humanity: “Vicariously I, live while the whole world dies.

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Backends Continued…

Seriously BMW? You make some of the coolest cars on the market today (and tomorrow), including the soon to exist, and totally awesome 2015 M235i, but just can’t figure out how to make the back look like something you wouldn’t mind following (because let’s face it, you’re going to be following the M235i, it’s going to be mighty quick). Nice wide mouth, the signature kidney grilles aren’t connected to the headlights (good, they’ve been learning something!

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Hot hatchbacks should not be stealthy. I coworker of mine recently purchased a new Ford Focus ST, in silver. Silver?!? It’s the hottest hatchback Ford has ever sold in the US of A, and it unfortunately looks like a rental in silver. Don’t get me wrong, I love the Focus ST; it’s on my very short list of cars from 2013 that I would actually buy with my own money, and it’s definitely the best of the latest round of hot hatchbacks (although I must say I prefer the European version with 5 doors rather than the tri-door example they sell over here).

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Manhole Covers

Why ruin a perfectly good road with manhole covers every 20 feet? I understand the need for manhole covers, there’s got to be a way for maintenance crews to get down to the sewers and make sure all is well down there. However, it is pretty excessive to one literally every 20ft, tarnishing a freshly paved road. After months of work, and shattering my suspension on rocky, half-paved and dirt roads to get to my humble abode, the city gov.

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Theft of Focus

Oh Windows. I have grown up with you, loved you since a young age when I didn’t know there were any alternatives, any other ways to use a computer. While things have changed over the years, I still really enjoy using Windows. However, I have one major gripe with it (and don’t think Windows is the only guilty operating system here, there are many more I can assure you). Here’s my gripe: pop-up windows, or other applications, stealing focus of the keyboard when I’m in the middle of typing, or for any other reason.

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Human Nature and Parking

Today’s topic: why do people have to park right next to me when I’m parked miles away from everyone else, and how is that act related to human nature. Seriously though, if I’m parked way out in the boonies, there’s a reason for it, and my reason is I don’t want my car to get dinged by Mom’s carrying a kid and tons of groceries, kids on their cell phones, or any other careless idiot who doesn’t respect cars and other peoples’ property like they should.

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Directions to Parking Lot: Follow Harrison Blvd as it turns into Bogus Basin Road zero your trip computer (odometer) at Curling Drive by Highland Elementary School Drive up Bogus Basin Road for 11.9 fun, switchback-filled miles park in an unmarked side-road parking area to the left of the road Hiking Directions: head south west on trail from parking lot when you walk through a narrow, rocky and tree-covered section of trail and out into wide section of path that is a driveway up and to the right, continue going down (south) follow this well-traveled trail around the side of the hill, and go straight when you run into a fork in the path (designated by a rock with a stick in it), note you came from the left fork (which will be on your right when you return) keep going until you run into the East Side trail (#120) fork, and take a left.

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