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  • Thursday, March 31, 2005

    The camera is sitting on a table out side of Volcano, one of the places where Dave and I study.
    Kind of a neat night shot for a digital camera. N34.03958W118.44190

    A DJ spinnin with my animations in the background...All the 3D stuff is getting cut off by the laser.
    Light show.
    This is not one of my pictures, but I strongly suspect that this might just be the car that we had on the road for two weeks then kept in the garage when we were working the C5 project.

    Ready to drag race?
    Good to be drunk with good friends, having fun dancing the night away until the early morning light to the sounds of a good DJ under the starry mountain sky peaking out from the forest canopy.

    With radically altered handling characteristics from the change of the steering geometry to the contact to the road via improved inverted forks and mono shock on the swing arm as well as wider contact patches with the pavement mated to a altered gear ratio lowered the top speed of this motorcycle but increased the torque transferred to the road which translates in to performance out of a turn, it will reach it’s speed faster and be ready for the next turn faster thanks to the steel braided brake lines, vented and floating disks and 4 piston calipers.

    Head on of the GSXR750 that my brother and I built, not much of it is original. The bucket lights are homage to the original style of the bike and 2 lights are always better. Never drive past your lights.
    (If you find this last line strange, it is a race thing, always keep your reaction time no more than the distance from first illumination from your lights to the front of your vehicle.).

    A shot from the other side, notice purple links on the chain? How about the stainless steel braided radiator hose?
    ZX10, a 1000 cc liquid cooled 5 speed, 4 cylinder, 4 stroke, monster that has been tweaked out a touch to suit special needs. Take note of the can on the exhaust, carbon fiber. Also of note worthiness is all the fasteners have been anodized purple. Any one want to ride?
    One of 2 Camaro X cars that contributed to the Camaro SS, Neither this one or the red one listed earlier ever reached production. The red one was a torque monster that was squirrelly in the corners and this one, well this one was just too damned fast.

    Friday, March 18, 2005

    Hanging pre cast panels for the curtain wall, big heavy beasts.
    In case of emergency, we all walk across the whole job site and down the street from what ever building we are on to where we meet here for a safety head count. This is a drill, that is why no one ever came to give us the all clear, upon seeing work starting up again it was decided that we would not stand idly by for the county to come clear us for this silly drill which is a good thing because no one ever came out. So much for a drill.
    Sage words echoing out from the cursed central plant.

    Need to get ready for another day at USC, boy hope this will make things clear.

    Need to move dirt? A lot to a little, we got you covered.

    The field facilities
    Mark and his crew man handling the iron in to place.

    Do you find bathroom humor funny? I don't perticularly
    Ever seen the breakfast club Delayne?

    Don’t think I can fit it in my mouth, but I’ll try.

    I’ll have my martini shaken, not stirred thank you.

    Screw the gym, want big arms? Save some money and join the bolting gang.

    Need a lift?
    The Iron Workers eat first! That is just the way it is, don't like it? Tough! It's there party so quit sniveling you pathetic whining buggers.
    Looking back at the end of the line
    Still looking forwards, yes mark the line does have some curves in it.
    Looking forward in the chow line at LAC USC toping out party
    Me and Norton.
    The old reflected in the new.
    Roofing done wrong. Not per specifications or plans and done with out inspection. This demonstrates the importance of inspection. The assurances of a janitor turned 2 bit bean counter for the government won’t keep the water out, and we wonder why the roof of city hall leaks? Real heart breaker if you take pride in work well done here.

    Roofing done right, per specifications and plans under inspection.
    Lee and Ron, over a hundred years of wisdom here.
    The detail gang at the end in the dark bowels of the building installing and plumbing up the elevator iron.
    Welding galvi tube steel columns. Nasty fumes from this stuff, try not to breath too much of it in...
    A little dozer.
    Big earth mover, wonder if who ever owned it would have minded?
    Me and Richey being unsafe on the edge.
    Big Carter and I on the Herrick side of the roof of UCLA Westwood.
    Me and Donny on the roof with all the dog houses in the background.
    UCLA. Sending out the detail gang with a joke in passing.
    Up on the outside of the iron.
    The sign says it all.
    The super cigar. When you need an all day smoke, this is it.
    Partnering, some thing we do a lot of....
    An Ironworker grinding on a column.

    Thursday, March 17, 2005

    Amazing to think that these are all concrete panels weighing in at a couple of tons, and they are held in place by little steel clips on all buildings. Really quite extraordinary.

    Amazing what concrete can cover if you are not careful.

    Lunch time nap on the roof. Looks comfortable.
    It is all iron right? sure this is fine.