Cars, Computers, Society in General
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 …
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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!
The goal was to prove you could run the OPTIMA Batteries and Ultimate Street Car Association Search for the Ultimate Street Car and get into the big show on a “normal” person’s budget, and we did it. We pointed in after finishing the season 6th overall in the GTC Class. This is a big deal …
Woah! What a rush! Round six of the 2023 Optima Search For the Ultimate Street Car visited Daytona International Speedway this year, running the road course configuration… at night! This was going to be a test. The Probe had never been taxed like this. The closest would probably have been our trips to Road America …
Read More “A Staggeringly Happy 2023 Optima at Daytona Recap!”
In what was easily the most ambitious automotive venture of my career thus far, I towed all the way to the legendary and historic Laguna Seca in Monteray, California, for an Optima Search for the Ultimate Street Car event. When they announced this year’s schedule, I couldn’t ignore the two bucket list tracks that weren’t …