So despite inclement weather we made the ride. All morning it looked like rain and in fact it was raining/sprinkling till after 11AM, so much so that I went to wallymart and bought a couple of rain suits for us. 100 bucks I really didn't need to spend but in fact we'll use them occasionally so I may as well have them. It turns out we didn't need them after all. In a cliched storybook occurrence, the skies cleared and the heavens opened up and shined down upon us for the ride and it didn't rain till after we got home and out of our sweat soaked riding clothes.
The ride was about 40 miles and the turn-out was way higher than the organizers expected and that's despite all the wannabes that didn't show because they thought it was going to rain. Over 1000 bikes showed, we don't know for sure yet because the local cops stopped counting around 900. We gave the fire chief an initial Big Cardboard Check for about 8,080 bucks, not bad for a ride that was 10 bucks a rider/passenger. I expect that we'll have a final tally tomorrow of riders registered and moneys collected.
I actually won the first raffle prize, a white trooper style helmet, which is cool, because I've been meaning to get one, so that saved me $50, except I need to take it back to the shop that donated it to get the right size.
So, a good day all in all.
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Sunday, July 8, 2007
Saturday, July 7, 2007
Ride for the Charleston Nine
Tomorrow I'll be participating in a memorial ride for The Charleston Nine, the nine Fire Fighters who died in the Sofa Super Store fire June 19th. I'll be on a red 1998 Kawasaki Vulcan 800A, wearing my VROC vest. all proceeds go to the Fire Fighter Family Fund. We'll start just 1/2 a mile from my house at Azalea Square Regal 16 Cinema in Summerville, SC and end up at Brittlebank park in downtown Charleston, SC. Mrs. Verm snagged some donations for the raffle from Home Depot, where she works. I'm a member of The Patriot Guard Riders ( just joined ) and would fly those colours too, if I had them. They (PGR) did several rides already for the Nine.
Monday, June 18, 2007
The Nightly Nerdlinger News epi 10
After a rather slow week last week I'm back with more news for nerds, geeks and propeller heads.
Wall-e
Pixar has a teaser up of it's next feature film, this time a science fiction themed story about a 700 year old metal compacting junkyard robot named Wall-e.
Godzilla returns... in 3-D!
Godzilla is returning to the big screen, for the first time in 3-D! This contemporary version of the largest classic cinema creature of all time will take full advantage of the growing popularity of digital 3-D theaters to bring Godzilla to its worldwide audience in a way that has never been experienced before.Kerner Productions recently announced that Tokyo based Digital Motion, have provided initial development funding for the project. Kerner Productions and Kerner Optical LLC staff will also be providing miniature, creature creation, physical effects, and visual effects support.
Tokyo based Producer/Director Yoshimitsu Banno and Producer Kenji Okuhira, have teamed up with Hollywood 3-D veterans Producer Brian Rogers, Director Keith Melton, and Director of Photography Peter Anderson, ASC to form the core production team.
“Godzilla 3-D” will be designed to take full advantage of the composition, staging, and dynamic editing of original three dimensional photography. The film will also incorporate updated creature technology along with cutting edge motion capture and 3-D CGI animation to bring a more fluid and realistic energy to Godzilla. This will create more subtle facial moves and will allow the filmmakers to expand and enhance Godzilla’s character.
The anticipated start date for this original production is slated for February 2008, and will lens in South America, Mexico, Tokyo, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Casting for this English language film will take place in Los Angeles.
by way of Twitch
The Bat Pod
Check out the clip at Today that shows the new batcyle, dubbed "the Bat Pod". Rumour has it it's launced from the "Tumbler", plus it's just as heavily armed and armoured (though where the hell the armour is I can't see).
Vermsnote: As a biker this makes my dick so hard!
Watchmen Casting part 2
Well, it seems that Keanu is a greedy baster and too much of a "Movie star" to be in Watchmen. He'd been offered the role of Dr. Manhatten, but the paycheck was too small and really, he's not much of an ensemble player, is he now? Now it's likely the Jason Patric is to play the blue skinned genius reports AICN. Chud reports that Jackie Earle Haley has been tapped to play Rorschach, the mask vigilante that learns of the conspiracy that's the pivotal to the story. Coming Soon has an interview with Patrick Wilson where he practically comes right and and confirms that he's going to play Night Owl.
And one last great piece of news, AICN hints that they have it on good authority that a certain punishing actor will play The Comedian, the hero that get's killed that starts the whole shebang off. Can you say, Thomas Jane? I knew you could.
Jay and Seth Vs the Apocalypse
Oh My God! I can't wait to see this short by Seth Rogen.
Wall-e
Pixar has a teaser up of it's next feature film, this time a science fiction themed story about a 700 year old metal compacting junkyard robot named Wall-e.
Godzilla returns... in 3-D!
Godzilla is returning to the big screen, for the first time in 3-D! This contemporary version of the largest classic cinema creature of all time will take full advantage of the growing popularity of digital 3-D theaters to bring Godzilla to its worldwide audience in a way that has never been experienced before.Kerner Productions recently announced that Tokyo based Digital Motion, have provided initial development funding for the project. Kerner Productions and Kerner Optical LLC staff will also be providing miniature, creature creation, physical effects, and visual effects support.
Tokyo based Producer/Director Yoshimitsu Banno and Producer Kenji Okuhira, have teamed up with Hollywood 3-D veterans Producer Brian Rogers, Director Keith Melton, and Director of Photography Peter Anderson, ASC to form the core production team.
“Godzilla 3-D” will be designed to take full advantage of the composition, staging, and dynamic editing of original three dimensional photography. The film will also incorporate updated creature technology along with cutting edge motion capture and 3-D CGI animation to bring a more fluid and realistic energy to Godzilla. This will create more subtle facial moves and will allow the filmmakers to expand and enhance Godzilla’s character.
The anticipated start date for this original production is slated for February 2008, and will lens in South America, Mexico, Tokyo, Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Casting for this English language film will take place in Los Angeles.
by way of Twitch
The Bat Pod
Check out the clip at Today that shows the new batcyle, dubbed "the Bat Pod". Rumour has it it's launced from the "Tumbler", plus it's just as heavily armed and armoured (though where the hell the armour is I can't see).
Vermsnote: As a biker this makes my dick so hard!
Watchmen Casting part 2
Well, it seems that Keanu is a greedy baster and too much of a "Movie star" to be in Watchmen. He'd been offered the role of Dr. Manhatten, but the paycheck was too small and really, he's not much of an ensemble player, is he now? Now it's likely the Jason Patric is to play the blue skinned genius reports AICN. Chud reports that Jackie Earle Haley has been tapped to play Rorschach, the mask vigilante that learns of the conspiracy that's the pivotal to the story. Coming Soon has an interview with Patrick Wilson where he practically comes right and and confirms that he's going to play Night Owl.
And one last great piece of news, AICN hints that they have it on good authority that a certain punishing actor will play The Comedian, the hero that get's killed that starts the whole shebang off. Can you say, Thomas Jane? I knew you could.
Jay and Seth Vs the Apocalypse
Oh My God! I can't wait to see this short by Seth Rogen.
Saturday, May 26, 2007
The handyman can, oh the handyman can
Sorry Sammy.
Well, today was productive, but not in the way I had hoped. Mrs. Verm's back was hurting so we decided not to go downtown today. We we're just going to go to a little leather shop up the raod to get my new patch sewn on the vest I got at Bike week 2 weeks ago. So we hop on the bikes, pull out the driveway preparing to go and I notice my wifes' headlight is out, again. So I tell her to pull back in and get out the tools to check it. It's illegal to ride a motorcycle without headlights. I open the bucket up and chek the connections, one is loose and it's shorted the bulb. So I send the wife to get a new bulb at wallymart since she's going to pick up a few things for a barbeque tomorrow for us and the neighbors. While she's gone I tinker around trying to figure out where the connections go, I can't do much till I have a bulb that works though. So I decide to put up the wooden screen door we got for the inner garage door to the laundry room. The breeze through the breezway into the bedroom is great but I hate all the flies, hence the screen door. It needs trimmed to fit and I proceed to fairly butcher it to size with the cheap power saw I bought a couple weeks ago. Looks like crap but it's inside the garage and the only people that will ever see it live here. I get it up about the time Mrs. Verm gets home ( with some Sam Adams Summer Ale thank God! ). Then I wire the bike back up, replace some stripped screws in the light bucket and whamo, let there be light. Now I need me that beer.
Well, today was productive, but not in the way I had hoped. Mrs. Verm's back was hurting so we decided not to go downtown today. We we're just going to go to a little leather shop up the raod to get my new patch sewn on the vest I got at Bike week 2 weeks ago. So we hop on the bikes, pull out the driveway preparing to go and I notice my wifes' headlight is out, again. So I tell her to pull back in and get out the tools to check it. It's illegal to ride a motorcycle without headlights. I open the bucket up and chek the connections, one is loose and it's shorted the bulb. So I send the wife to get a new bulb at wallymart since she's going to pick up a few things for a barbeque tomorrow for us and the neighbors. While she's gone I tinker around trying to figure out where the connections go, I can't do much till I have a bulb that works though. So I decide to put up the wooden screen door we got for the inner garage door to the laundry room. The breeze through the breezway into the bedroom is great but I hate all the flies, hence the screen door. It needs trimmed to fit and I proceed to fairly butcher it to size with the cheap power saw I bought a couple weeks ago. Looks like crap but it's inside the garage and the only people that will ever see it live here. I get it up about the time Mrs. Verm gets home ( with some Sam Adams Summer Ale thank God! ). Then I wire the bike back up, replace some stripped screws in the light bucket and whamo, let there be light. Now I need me that beer.
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