{"id":79,"date":"2006-04-13T10:44:54","date_gmt":"2006-04-13T17:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rynosoft.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/?p=79"},"modified":"2008-04-09T13:11:18","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T20:11:18","slug":"vital-statistics-38","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/vital-statistics-38","title":{"rendered":"Vital Statistics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I called the number on the truck and got some more information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1975 Ford F-100 with 124,000 miles<\/li>\n<li>Four on the floor, new clutch<\/li>\n<li>Rebuilt engine that has 24,000 miles on it<\/li>\n<li>New radiator<\/li>\n<li>Priced at $1800, but will sell for less (guy has a $1200 tax bill)<\/li>\n<li>He&#8217;ll let me drive it to my mechanic&#8217;s across town<\/li>\n<li>Has not done any work on the front end (including the bushings) and there is 2&#8243; of sway (which might mean it&#8217;s hard to steer)<\/li>\n<li>Won&#8217;t go over 85 mph because of the four-speed, but gets 14 mpg because of the 2-barrel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I snapped some pictures this morning which I&#8217;ll put up later today.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bike odometer:<\/strong> 5990 miles<br \/>\n<strong>Current reading:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/product.half.ebay.com\/Endurance_W0QQtgZinfoQQprZ213356\" target=\"half\">Endurance: Shackleton&#8217;s Incredible Voyage<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alfred_Lansing\" target=\"wikipedia\">Alfred Lansing<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/product.half.ebay.com\/9-11_W0QQtgZinfoQQprZ2237309\" target=\"half\">9-11<\/a> by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Noam_chomsky\" target=\"wikipedia\">Noam Chomsky<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>McCartney Trivia:<\/strong> If is well-known by Beatle fans that &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sexy_Sadie_%28song%29\" target=\"wikipedia\">Sexy Sadie<\/a>&#8221; was written for the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maharishi_Mahesh_Yogi\" target=\"wikipedia\">Maharishi<\/a> (substitute &#8220;Maharishi&#8221; for &#8220;Sexy Sadie&#8221; when singing). As the story goes, John became disillusioned with the Maharishi because the guru made a pass at a girl (often said to be Mia Farrow or her sister but was likely just a blonde who looked like Mia Farrow) in their camp. In fact, the allegation was probably fabricated by a guy named <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Magic_Alex\" target=\"wikipedia\">Magic Alex<\/a> who was a well-known hanger-on who had attached himself to John Lennon. After Magic Alex got John worked up over the allegation of impropriety (which is not necessarily inconsistent with the Maharishi&#8217;s teachings), Lennon did not even allow the Maharishi to answer the charge &#8211; he just packed up and went back to England. Later, when recording the White Album, George begged John to change the lyrics because he still admired the Maharishi.<br \/>\n<strong>Recent listening:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/product.half.ebay.com\/Decade_W0QQtgZinfoQQprZ3159509\" target=\"half\">Decade<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/product.half.ebay.com\/Amore_W0QQprZ51106105QQtgZinfo\" target=\"half\">Amore<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Recent viewing:<\/strong> Sportscenter, Countdown, Distraction, South Park<br \/>\n<strong>Recent playing:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pokerroom.com\" target=\"game\">Poker Room<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Recently Accomplished:<\/strong> New truck stuff, found my missing W2s<br \/>\n<strong>Imperative To Do:<\/strong> Taxes, lube bike, fix bike fender, fix bike pedal, take truck to John Mechanic<br \/>\n<strong>Cool link:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joelonsoftware.com\/articles\/DevelopmentAbstraction.html\" target=\"joel\">The Development Abstraction Layer<\/a>: Why are some software companies successful while others aren&#8217;t?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I called the number on the truck and got some more information<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[1561,1566,41,928,975,32,1559,38,1562,263,1560,42,24],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vital-statistics","tag-biking","tag-books","tag-cars","tag-lennon","tag-links","tag-mccartney","tag-music","tag-poker","tag-politics","tag-software","tag-sports","tag-taxes","tag-television"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peh6u-1h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}