More changes, and bike race photos

I set up a new blog over the weekend.

TooFatToRace

Make a note. Bookmark, even. Pop in from time to time. I'll probably cross promote it here when I update it. Cuz I'm just the self-promoting kinda guy.

It's purpose is to complement this blog, and consolidate my mountain bike race photos in a single location. Since I've found myself shooting more and more races every year (Wednesdays@Wakefield, the Cranky Monkey series, 12 Hours of Lodi Farm, and whatever else comes up moderately close to the TooFatToRace basecamp).

As time permits, I'm going to copy my existing race posts from this blog to that one. A couple are already done.

I've also posted up my first new content there too. I shot the Leesburg Baker's Dozen endurance race on 4/22/07.


I call this one "some guy dropping in"

Unfortunately, I only had about two hours to shoot, out of the 13 hours of race time. See the complete bunch of photos here:

http://www.pbase.com/gmr2048/leesburgbakersdozen

If you see something you like and want a full-rez copy, let me know and I'll do my best to get it to you.

Something you don't see everyday

The local Ferrari shop at which I occasionally work took delivery of a shiny red Ferrari Enzo today. Luckily, a buddy who works there gave me the head's up.

After work, I ran by my house, grabbed all my camera gear, then headed a bit further west to the shop. I spent an hour or two shooting photos of the rare (1 of 398 left) $1,200,000 beast. It's a beauty. But shooting it's ultra shiny body, under showroom lights, with tons of clutter around (funny how a room full of $200,000 Ferraris can become "clutter", isn't it?) wasn't easy. It makes you appreciate the guys who shoot cars for car mags and make them look good. Anyway, here are four quick shots of it. These are straight out of the camera. No post processing at all. Once I have some time, I'll go through the photos and try to clean them up. Anyway, here's what I got:








(You'd think for $1.2M you'd get some power windows. You don't. The round thing in the above photo is the window crank.)

Sherlock Holmes-like detective skillz

This just in from the "Oh, no shit?" department:

"...on Wednesday, soldiers found Campbell's body buried in a shallow grave in a dry river bed in the area of the northern Philippines where she was hiking by herself. Police said they believed foul play was involved."

http://www.wtop.com/?nid=25&sid=1115249

These cops are good. I'm glad they didn't fall for that old "she died of natural causes then buried herself in a shallow grave in a dry riverbed" routine. That one works *so* often.

Now what?

Still testing out comment stuff. Stay tuned. For those of you subscribed to this blog...sorry for the RSS flood.

Err

So the Haloscan comments seemed to work on that last post about how the Haloscan comments weren't working. (Oh irony, you cruel mistress).

Now I guess the big problem is figuring out how to get all of the *old* comments left on this site to show up. I'd rather not lose them.

I just made a change to the Blogger settings. I want to see if it removes the comments again.

Stumped

Ok, so at this point, I'm at a loss. I've gone through the Haloscan code insertion instructions at least a dozen times but still can't get the comments to work. I've dumped my existing blog template code, and re-tried the Haloscan installation to no avail. I've read the Haloscan forum and tried a couple of "unofficial" methods found there, but still no luck.

The strange thing is that even without the Haloscan comment-code, the default Blogger comments should work, but they don't.

If anybody has any bright ideas, email me at gmr 2048 at yahoo dot com.

Times (and templates), they are a-changing.

Still working on the new look and layout. Comments aren't yet cooperating. And I realized just how much the minimal/black look infringed on my buddy Spearman's blog, so I'm test-driving other templates.