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Thursday, April 03, 2003

If the visitors of Kempa.com made up a list of best albums of all time, the concensus for the top spots would be:
Radiohead - OK Computer : (9 votes)
Weezer - Pinkerton : (7 votes)
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds : (4 votes)
Minutemen - Double Nickels On The Dime : (3 votes)
Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted : (3 votes)
Beatles - Abbey Road : (3 votes)
Sloan - Twice Removed : (3 votes)
Sadly, I do not have two of these albums (Abbey Road and Double Nickels On The Dime). I should fix that soon.

Monday, March 31, 2003

Ok, now I have a bit of time to talk about my weekend. Thursday, I ended up going out with Jamie and Chris. I really think we have coalesced and get along great as a threesome now. That is depressing because Chris officially moves to Chicago on Wednesday. But anyway, we had a good time. We ended up going to Scorekeepers because of the enticement of $3 pitchers of Coors Light. We were surprised to find out that before 10 PM, there were $1.50 pitchers of both Coors and Killian's. Needless to say, we finished off four of them between 9 PM and 10 PM. Since it was a Thursday, the place was packed like Chinese in the SARS treatment office. I saw at least four people that I knew, possibly more.

Friday was the Compulsive Lyres concert. I hadn't been to an a cappella concert in quite some time, even though I went often in my first few years here. The Lyres put on a great performance, as did the Friars and the Maine Steiners. Not so great was the Indigo dance team. After being introduced, they were late getting on stage, couldn't find their places, had to reorganized everything on stage and then the music problems kicked in. First, there was a boom box on stage that was used as a prop by the Lyres. For some reason, the dance team thought their music was going to be played on said boom box. First they couldn't figure out how to turn it on, then they noticed that there was no CD in it. They looked around confused, got into their dance positions just as their music started blaring over the auditorium speakers. This was just the beginnings of their problems. Two of the girls just could not stay in sync which threw everyone off. Though there were many little kids in the audience, most of their music was about sex and filled with swearing. Needless to say, even though they were scheduled to dance during two portions of the show, they didn't return.

After the show was the Lyres after party at Colonial lanes. It was a Rock 'N Bowl night, which actually turned out to be quite fun. Jamie, Alissa, Bri and I bowled a couple of games and none of us broke 100. Somehow, Jamie found a way to bowl that required her to clench her left butt cheek for balance. Her butt was sore for days afterward. We all had fun while bowling, but things got a bit tense early in the morning.

Saturday, Chris and I hung out for most of the day. His back is pretty messed up, so we went to the doctors first. The rest of the day was spent playing video games (Tekken 4 and NWN). That night, Jamie, Zig, Eric, Matt, Kristin and I went to Charlie's and then back to Jamie's place. Things got a bit crazy at Jamie's since I ended up putting Crisco in Zig's mouth at one point. I thought it was maybe 1 AM when I finally went to bed but Jamie informed me later that it was closer to 5 AM. Whoops. Anyway, here are the pictures from that night.

Sunday, March 30, 2003

THE CONTESTANTS:
350Z



RX-8



RSX



WRX



Evo VIII



THE RAW DATA

  350Z
RX-8
RSX
WRX
Evo VIII
Horsepower 287 250 200 227 271
Torque 274 159 142 217 273
0-60 Time 5.5 5.9 6.1 5.6 5.3
EPA City 20 18 24 20 18
EPA Highway 26 23 31 27 26
Price 32136 29900 26907 28540 30529
Seating 2 4 4 4 4
Transmission 6 6 6 5 5
Wheelbase 104.3 106.3 101.2 99.4 103.3
Weight 3188 2933 2775 3140 3263
Wheels 18 18 16 16 17
           
Looks 10 9 8 7 7
Power/Weight 0.0900 0.0852 0.0721 0.0723 0.0831
Torque/Weight 0.0860 0.0542 0.0512 0.0691 0.0837



THE NORMALIZED DATA
  350Z
RX-8
RSX
WRX
Evo VIII   WEIGHT
Horsepower 10 8.710 6.969 7.909 9.443   0
Torque 10 5.803 5.182 7.920 9.964   0
0-60 Time 9.636 8.983 8.688 9.464 10   8
EPA City 8.333 7.5 10 8.333 7.5   5
EPA Highway 8.387 7.419 10 8.710 8.387   4
Price 8.373 8.999 10 9.428 8.814   7
Seating 5 10 10 10 10   6
Transmission 10 10 10 8.333 8.333   3
Wheelbase 9.530 9.351 9.822 10 9.622   2
Weight 8.705 9.461 10 8.838 8.504   0
Wheels 10 10 8.888 8.888 9.444   1
               
Looks 10 9 8 7 7   11
Power/Weight 10 9.468 8.006 8.030 9.225   10
Torque/Weight 10 6.307 5.954 8.041 9.734   9
               
TOTAL 600.0 571.2 569.7 561.8 583.3    
RANKING 1 3 4 5 2    

Looks like I am going to buy a 350Z!

I don't have much time to tell you all the details about last night, but here is the image gallery.