I’ve been poking around on the project bike as time allows. It’s been surprisingly refreshing to work on the old beast. I used to enjoy working on my cars, but hadn’t wanted to commit to any of those projects in a while.
It turns out that the bike is worse that I thought. It’s down to […]
Just rolled a new project int my shop today. It’s a 1980 Yamaha XS 850. This is one of the few three cylinder bikes of it time, and is actually an interesting find. Three cylinder, air cooled 850cc engine, three hitachi carbs (oddity), overhead cams. 79hp from the factory! It’ll either get some serious love […]
Can you guess what this is for? Once I get it together and finish the project, it’ll show up on Hack-A-Day as part of an upcoming how-to.
I made it through my first week over at the Uni. I’m pretty happy with what I’ve seen so far. I think things will definitely stay interesting around there. […]
I’ve had to use windows more lately due to certain project requirements. When I last set up my machine, ubuntu was seeing more use, so I didn’t give windows very much disk space. Now it’s time to install a few more programs, and I’m down to my last gig on my windows partition. What to […]
This won’t make a big difference in my published work, but in a couple of weeks I’ll be starting a new position within the University of Missouri system. I’m pretty stoked about it - it should definitely make for an interesting summer at the very least.
I added a new recipe to my collection. This is one of the best yet. Seared Tuna steaks with Ginger-Shiitake Cream Sauce. This stuff came out amazingly tasty! The only un-healthy bit is the cup of cream in the sauce - I’m going to look into a healthier replacement when I have time.