Cars, Security and a Peek into my Life
It was time. But still…
Read it online at Autonet.
The last one.
Here are 4 new banners, based on the newspaper’s photo gallery,
And with that I’m done saying goodbye… love you forever buddy xo
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Starting in 1948 this was Porsche’s first production automobile, and 1956 was the last year it was made.
It was replaced by the 911.
Of the 76,000 originally produced, about one half survived, making this one 1 / 38,000 in the world. Even less if you do the math based on model year (1 / 9,000-ish.)
Being so into cars, it’s assumed I’d be really into this, but I’m not, because…
I take a lot of heat for saying that, but it’s true.
Anything before circa 1995-ish doesn’t much interest me.
– because they break,
– are unreliable,
– and uncomfortable.
I barely fit into the backseat, and I fit into everywhere.
I’d be skeptical of any stories of 4 adults taking a road trip in one of these.
Even on this day, the car broke. Doesn’t matter if it’s meticulously maintained, which this one is, that’s just the nature of an old car: to break and be unreliable.
And since I will choose function over fashion every time, I don’t like them.
1965 Porsche 356
A 2.0 L outputting 95 hp and… okay I’m done, can’t care enough, here’s the link to the Wiki.
Cables belonging to a top tier telecom, in a major Canadian city, look like this.
First ever, really! Bit spoiled though, since this is the top of the line, as-good-as-it-gets Camry – the all-new XSE V6 sport trim.
2015 Toyota Camry
Starting at $23,850
This one $33,650
3.5 L 6-cyl atuomatic transmission engine
268 hp and 248 lb.ft. of torque
To be honest, I never much paid attention to the Camry because it was rather bland. Now it’s opposite.
If I show you only the bumpers, bet you’d be surprised it’s a Camry. Pretty sporty eh, with some Lexus front-end influence:
2nd favourite is the steering – it was weighted so well, precise, effortless and well-balanced, making it very enjoyable to drive.
1st favourite thing was the centre stack…
… with its hard buttons and large knobs.
Why? So ergonomic, and early into the test week I could operate the entire thing without looking, which is as it should be. Which is rarer than you may realize, especially with all touch-controls being so en vogue, eye roll.
Good finishings and materials, sporty contrast stitching, the arrow is pointing to a semi-hidden compartment #security
I’d like to test the base model of this, see if the steering is as awesome.
But I get it now, why the Camry is one of North America’s best-selling vehicles, for years.
102 blog posts are now broken, and look like this:
It’s because Viddy shut down.
For a time, Viddy was like the Twitter of video; you could even edit using their app, add music, sophisticated stuff. Maybe too ahead of their time, people aren’t really watching online video like they will, so it’s out of business.
We had a good relationship – they’d promote me, Tweet my videos and highlight them in the app – so I uploaded a ton of videos exclusively to Viddy. That was my mistake.
Sad as it is to type this: that’s the last time I bet on the small guy. It’s YouTube and Google from now on, forever.
I downloaded all 102 videos, but they’re smaller than the originals and pretty grainy. The right thing to do is haul out my hard drives and sit here uploading 102 videos to my YouTube account, then re-embed them into the posts.
This will take 20 hours, at least.
The good news is it will force me to clean up my YouTube account.
I’ll make a few playlists and there’ll be 250+ videos (add in my “Canadian Explorer’ series, and that’s 400 videos online, totalling 9 edited hours of content.)
From left to right:
– How to backup a Trailer – here
– Blackberry Security is why you buy – here
– Watch a Ford Focus park itself – here
– Putting on & Taking Off my Scarf – here
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