The Iggblog

it makes me sad to think I might never work on a collider. High-energy physics is what I love to do. how many times do you hear that. science consumes me. and it sucks that all I can do is read Feynman in my spare time and daydream about how cool it would be to be doing what I love. I’m stuck doing pharma or IT bitchwork. who knows if I’ll ever get a Ph.D, and wether I’ll ever practice what I love to do. at least I’m working, I guess. I just found a job playing with acoustic microscopes. whopty-shit, right? like anyone ever made a difference with an acoustic microscope. I want to play at CERN. I want to smash things together and see what comes of it. I want to be on the team that sees the first supersymmetric particle, or higgs particle. high-energy particle physics just screams at me.

I just finished “the pleasure of finding things out” by Richard Feynman. I have as much jealousy as I do repect for that man. who the hell was ever jealous of a physicist? maybe I have issues. Maybe I just need to be happy with my lot and see what comes of it.

-Igg

A conversation posted on the club:

So this girl at work I’m me with the following. Thought I’d share the frustration.

Her: hey there, how are you?
Her: I bought a car

Me nah uh
Me which one

Her: I ordered the 2004 mini cooper S, dark silver with a black top

Me what happened to your vw?
Me AWESOME!!!!!!!!

Her: nothing I am trading it in
Her: 🙂
Her: hehe
Her: I am SOOOOO excited
Her: I get it in like 8 weeks!

Me: wow you didn’t want one that was already in stock?

Her: nah, they only had green 2003, not supercharged
Her: no fun

Me no fun
Me you realise the one you are getting is a little sports car

Her: uh?

Me it handles extremely well and is very fast

Her: they said it was a 6 speed, I dont know what that means, but I am sure it is cool

Me did you test drive one

Her: nope
Her: never even been in one

Me what’d you do buy it on amazon or something!
Me thats pretty cool

Her: haha, nah i just called a dealer in VA beach and said this is what I want, get me it

Me its gonna be alot faster and better than your bug

Her: oh really?
Her: I didnt know that
Her: oh well

people like that frighten me. I pray she is never in any position of power of any sort. it’s not the actuality of her actions but the methodology.

So one of these days the Impreza may go. every now and again I decide it would be best to sell it. Generally when I’m unemployed 😀 . now is one of those times. one of these days she might actually sell too.

when she does I’ll need a new car. something cheap. I’ve got a couple ideas.

Subaru SVX – around 3 grand for the ’92. very fast out of the box. little possible in the way of mods. Subaru already modded them pretty heavily. Nitrous and turbo are the only worthwhile things that can be done to them. little 5-10hp mods just don’t express themselves as an increase in power or torque when your baseline is 240 hp and 230 lbft of torque. still, a very nice highway car, and a lot of fun to cruise around in.

Nissan 240SX – 1000-3000 for the -91-’93 models. those were had the benefit of the updgraded engine. it’s a 2.4 litre 4-banger pushing 155hp to the rear wheels. not great, but I’d be getting this car with an engine swap in mind. The most popular is the SR20DET (2-liter turbo) swap from a japanese silvia or the like. very common, simple swap. certainly very potent. the other possibility is the more powerful RB25DET (2.5 liter 6-cylinder turbo) engine from a japanese Skyline. This makes the car into somewhat of a monster. it would satisfy my skyline boner at least for the time being. so this is a very appealing possibility. get by on the stock 240SX engine with a few bolt-ons till I can afford an engine swap.

Toyota MR2 – same price range. 3-grand-ish. 93 or 94. the turbo model is pretty nice. it’s little, it’s got t-tops, and it’s turbo. not much more needs to be said.

the other possibility is to get something really cheap like an XT6 or something for a while and save up for a WRX engine to drop into Prity’s car. the WRX engine in the older Impreza bodies is viscious.

so that’s what I got for now. word.

-Igg

so I wanna give a shout out to Sean. I’m listed on his blog at http://www.inertramblings.com . So I figured I’d return the favor. this is the famous Sean of www.trunkmonkeyracing.com . so that’s what I got.

In other news, I finally got broadband and got my arse out of the primative world of dial-up. so here I am. are you impressed? you should be.

-Igg

A quick reminder to those who think the WRX is the only “hot” car subaru has to offer:

The Legacy B4. Sexier and more refined than the WRX, and with twin turbo. The Blitzen version is even hotter and I hear rumors of a twin-turbo’d 6 cylinder in its near future. Goodbye Audi RS6 , goodbye skyline. your days are numbered.

-IggDawg

Military survalence video 😀 .

http://www.statikradio.com/music/eyeful.wmv

-IggDawg

I got new bling 😀 . Prodrive P7s made by speedline. Below are some pics with them. they came with Yokohama AVS sport tires. 225/45ZR17. They’re hella wide. but they don’t rub, so I’ve got no complaints :D.

I love the rims. they’re a lot less “in your face” than I thought they’d be. Many thanks to Prity for getting them for me. for no particular reason. again, I’m not gonna complain 😀 . They ran me $500. they retail for 1200 without tires. I’m still trying to figure out why the guy sold them to me for so cheap. I guess it’s one perk of friendship 😀 . They look great, and these tires have sick amounts of grip. They’re going to spoil me 😀 .

I got gold cause that’s “the Subaru thing.” I realize they’re “blingtastic” to anyone outside the subaru community. But if you ask any suabru or WRC fan about gold wheels, they’ll rave about them. I’m enough into the sport as a fan and a participant that I can wear the golds with confidence. So yeah. here are the pics with the P7s. I’ll get more when I get her all cleaned up nice.

-Igg

I love pron. Oh how I love the pron! I love seeing beautiful naked bodies writhing in their natural beauty…

oh yes, baby… so wet,……

-Igg

there’s this guy Ted at my work. He’s a leper. I swear. one of his arms is all weird, and he’s got moles all over his face. kinda short. and if that didn’t prove it, he drives a Buick. But that’s besides the point. this man has the strangest eating habits. one of his favorites is eating half a can of progresso soup. from the can. cold. then refridgerating it. and finishing it later. from the can. cold.

but by far his strangest habit is his velveeta addiction. he’ll buy a huge log of velveeta from BJs. he’ll do one of 2 things. he’ll slice off big chunks and eat them “raw” back in his office. just cold chunks of velveeta. or he’ll put a bunch of it in a bowl and microwave it. then eat it like soup. WTH? that’s whAcK~!

-IggDawg

gas isn’t QUITE this bad around here yet, but:

-Igg