Cars, Computers, Society in General
That’s right, the time has come to split the Inkyracing racing brand away from Andrew Scott. So, we have launched https://www.inkyracing.com! All car and racing news will start showing up over there, and this blog will revert to more nerdy and personal updates. The inkyracing site will also allow easier launching of stuff like merch …
This past weekend (June 27-29, 2025) was the annual Optima Search for the Ultimate Street Car event at Road America. This track is legendary. Four miles around, huge speeds, beautiful facilities, and mechanical attrition. This is a tough venue to race at. The sheer size of the track and the speeds means equipment is taken …
I dropping this blurb here because I had a heck of a time finding information on how to service this thing. All that came up with the google goggles were were parts suppliers and some Youtube videos that were WAY too long. So, the long story first is I have a 2016 Cadillac CTS-4, the …
This post is going to be a sad one. We’re scrapping the 2025 season. At least as far as we can tell. The reasons are many, but the biggest is we lost another engine. The Buick did really well this year, no major problems until the Time Trials Nationals in October, where the only problems …
Read More “Looking forward to 2025 and a season that might not be.”
We just returned from NCM Motorsport Park and the 2024 SCCA Time Trials Nationals. The recent announcement that the event would be moving to PittRace in 2025 put a bit of a period on this year’s event. So this could be the last time to lay down records at NCM for this event, at least …
This one hurts. J. Jerome Amend, husband of Jackie Novotny Amend and father to Jack Amend, and musical father to hundreds, passed peacefully last night (September 3, 2024) after a nearly yearlong battle with cancer. I met Jerry in the fall of 1992. I was a high school freshman and had managed to get myself into the …
For folks not into tech, I’ll go ahead and answer the headline: No. Ok, all the luddites gone? Ok? Let’s go. The TLDR is Crowdstike makes anti-malware software. Some may call it anti-virus, but the capabilities of these packages has far surpassed simple virus scanning and interdiction. These are complicated products that utilize complicated mathematical …
Probably not. But, I’ve been neglecting this blog. I’ll not do that going forward. There are lots of things that have bothered me, primary among them the enshittification of social media. It’s being overtaken with AI generated trash. So, what do we do? We retreat to online properties we own. This website is mine. It …
Been a long time with no updates, sorry about that! But we have kicked off the 2024 season! We travelled just a short way up the road to Traders’ World north of Cincinatti to participate in the Optima Batteries DriveAutoX season opener. The DriveAutoX events are put on by the same folks that run the …
If you want to keep tabs on the action this week, there will be livestreams ongoing. Click the day to go the livestream details! Wednesday Thursday Friday The live streams are also available on the Optima Channel on your Roku device, Channel Info here!