My Quiet Life

I've put together a summary post on the growing problem of comment/referer spam over at the CentreBlog.

I want one of these:

Korean Proto Motors’ Spirra was shown at the Seoul Motor Show yesterday and promises to offer high-performance in a mid-engined package. The car that will appear on Korean roads this fall is powered by a 4.6-liter V-8 and makes 320 horsepower. We couldn’t find any pictures of the motor, but that sounds awfully like a Ford engine we all know. Proto wants to expand the line by adding smaller engines to appeal to a wider group of buyers. The Korean answer to the old MR2s.

The Sentra's radiator is humming along, and the car is running cool as a cucumber, so no updates there (no news is good news at this point).

Check out some spy shots of the new Nissan hard-top ("Coupe", wtf) Convertible. Opel is making one too; they're all the rage! At least they aren't calling it a coupe.

I have been listening to the "Secret Agent" music stream on soma.fm compulsively for the last few months.

Here is some random James Bond trivia:

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Can anyone recommend a good tailor in the Nashville area? I have a few jackets I'd like to have altered..

I think I went to some woman over on Crestmoor in Green Hills.. No complaints, but I don't really remember anything about her..

Be it resolved that I find this hilarious.

I just spent 25 minutes weaving through sidestreets trying to get from 8th avenue to 2nd avenue. Conferences suck. There's some big douchebag motivational speaker conference in town, featuring such popular douchebags as Peyton Manning, Tommy Franks, and Rudy Giuliani (which I learned by walking past him on the street as I went to get coffee this morning, which was a little surreal).

As a result, every douchebag in a 1000 mile radius has flocked to downtown Nashville, with the express purpose, as far as I can tell, of clogging up my normal 5-minute commute.

In the pursuit of new and creative ways to waste even more time, I have set up an IRC channel for RTB and Tennessee area bloggers to use to chat. I have no particular goal in mind beyond this. If you've got an IRC client and you're interested, point it at:

IRC server: irc.freenode.net
Channel: #rtb

Amanda got us tickets to an advance screening of HHG on Tuesday. Woohoo!

The New Zealand built Hulme.F1 supercar plops a BMW M5 engine mid-ships and molds a carbon fiber body around it. Ultra light weight (2643 lbs) and 450 horsepower along with F1 inspired looks could make this quite a road burner.

I'll take one, please. I agree with one commenter, though. Is 2643 lbs really "ultra" light weight? I mean, hell, my Sentra is only 2800 lbs.