Last August Charkie Huegel, Jared Bolton, and myself thought it would be a cool idea to film some off-road motocross riders and put together a DVD. Even though I should have known better, we thought we would organize a ride day in Oil City, PA with a few guys and we would have enough footage. I can’t exactly tell you what I was puffing on but that wasn’t the case. We made it around the wooded area of Venus, PA for about 8 hours and ended up with about 40 minutes of footage, edited down about 5 minutes. We still needed about 40-45 minutes worth of footage for a good off-road DVD.
I’ve been spending my time since then getting together with riders and attending races gathering footage for the project. I’m not quite done with filming but I have things in the pipeline and will be finished with filming soon.
The title of the upcoming DVD, being released through my production company Scratch N Sniff Productions, is Dirt Scootin’ Boogie. It will feature off-road riders Charkie Huegel, Mark Fortner, Chris Buzzelli, and others to be named at a later date. The release is scheduled for April 2010, hopefully for mid-April.
I put together a 3 minute preview of the DVD. Check it out and let me know what you think.
It feels like it’s been forever since the site has even crossed my mine. I was browsing around on Amazon.com just a minute ago and the SRR blog popped into my head. I thought I was brush off the dust and make a quick and pointless post.
Nothing much going on with me. I’m still trying to kickstart some things with myself and figure out my own workflow for getting things done. It’s coming along slowly but that’s better than nothing. I picked up a Moleskin and started keeping a To-Do list of the simplest things. You know like “Wipe butt after going #2″ or “Remember to pee in the shower while water is running”. Nothing is more embarassing than your wife wondering why there’s dried yellow spots in the bath tube. The list has been going awesome! Totally awesome.
What else? What else?
In early March I went to the orientation meeting for Raleigh’s public access station, RTN. I met this guy Tony there who’s in the process of trying to get some comic and animations off the ground. I told him about some of the stuff I’ve done and we hit it off. We’re now working on some projects together, one of them being a short horror film called Mary. I’ll definitely be posting more about the stuff we’re doing. But that’s pretty much it for now.
There are a few other things I want to post about but think they all deserve their own posts. I’ll get around to those soon…maybe sometime this year. Hopefully. Some of the things I want to post about: Atlanta Supercross, Jax Supercross, Canon XH-1A, Suzuki RM-250 Project, Editing, Shooting Guns, Pimpin’ Ain’t Easy (Yes it is).
You may have noticed some changes to sirrobbierob.com. It’s that time of year where I get bored of things and need to change something up.
The biggest change is the site design. I got tired of looking at the maroon vomit of the last theme. Since I’m not really in the mood to work on a theme from the ground up I decided to use one from WooThemes. I put together a simple logo and poof…finished. Nice and simple I think.
The other change was getting rid of Entrecard. For the past couple weeks my interest in the application has been dying off. As much as I like having people reading the random crap that comes out of my mind, I’m don’t want to over load the site with ads. This isn’t something I’m trying to make money at, it would be nice but still isn’t my goal. Plus I don’t think there is much money to make from ads on a diarrhea posting. Then came the recent Entrecard announcement and the stuff that played out on their forums. Graham, founder of Entrecard, has proven time and time again the kind of person he is. To put it in the nicest words I know how, the guy is a douche bag. No matter what positive things I was getting out of Entrecard, I’m not going to support and promote a tool (referring to Graham the tool, not the Entrecard tool) like that. I fully intend to continue supporting the blogs and friends I’ve made through the service. Hopefully, you will continue reading this blog.
Those are the major changes with the site. I did make some other smalls things but nothing worth mentioning.
The title really doesn’t have much to do with anything except my like for randomly thinking about 80′s musical lyrics.
Ooh ooh ooh yeah
There isn’t much going on in my little world. I’ve been trying to climb out of this rut that I got myself into, only the harder I try the deeper I get. What I’m finding is that once you let negativity into your thought process it becomes a cancer and takes over. From that point on no matter how hard you try, the negativity will corner you in the shower and have it’s way with you. I refuse to let negativity corn hole me.
I’ve developed a nice little tool (Ha! little…tool) that helps me fight off the negative thoughts. When I feel them coming I stop what I’m doing and scream “I am no longer your bitch anymore. I…I say who gets to corn hole me. Not you, you bastard!”. This helps me push those feelings away and it invites the positive thoughts in.
Seriously, thanks to some medication I’m able to see some light at the end of the tunnel. To say it’s been a nice departure from the normal doom and gloom would be an understatement. With the fog lifting, I’ve been able to get an idea where I want to be in the grand scheme of things…professionally speaking (typing) that is. I won’t go into what I want to do right now. I tend to lose some steam on these types of things when I let them out of my head too soon. Hopefully, I will be able to stay focused on the goals and actually achieve them. Man, having a sense of achievement would be an awesome feeling, one that I haven’t felt in awhile. Bring it on!
There are some things I’ve been meaning to post about and I will get those done this week.
Encountering a rusty gas tank during a bike build can take the wind out of your sails in a heartbeat. Well maybe not for everyone, but for beginners it’s a huge obstacle. pipeworx over at the Jockey Journal forums has posted a great thread on a gas tank rehab.
Well, I have a client that is having me build them a motorcycle and I ran into some problems on the tank today. I thought that since I was having to repair the tank that I would share a little and possibly help someone else out. First, let me apologize for the blury pics as everything was taken with my cell phone. The tank is an old banana wassel. I do not know if they repop these but even if one could be found it would need to have the tunnel modified for the frame that is being used. Here is a pic of what I started with, looks like a clean vintage tank.
As a fan of the Honda CM400 series, I’m frustrated by the lack of builds I come across on the web. I think it’s a great bike for people who haven’t chopped a bike before, and even people that have chopped before. They are super cheap and easy to find on craigslist.
If I had to guess why the lack of support for the bikes I would have to say, it’s the lack of factory and aftermarket parts. Lack of parts usually means fabrication is needed or shelling out cash for someone else to do the work.
The cool thing is, when you do find a CM build on the web, because of the lack of parts, these people are forced to use their imagination. They are forced to come up with their own solutions and not just opening a catalog and busting out the credit card. So when I come across a build I get pretty pumped and try to follow it from start to finish.
Scotty Dont’s CM400E build over at the MassDriven forums, is one of the build I’ve been following. He took a 1980 Honda CM400E and created a nice “Cafe/Bobber Bastard Child”.
Head over to the massdriven forums to check out the build from start to finish.
I wanted to take a minute and thank all of the readers that come by my site. I get so caught up with things that I haven’t been showing any love to you guys and gals. A BIG thank you to all of you.
I also want to send a HUGE thank you out to the entrecarders that have written recommendations for the site. Every time I get a recommendation I get giddy like a little kid. If my mom lived closer I would probably show them to her like I would when I got an A on a report card…Yeah I’m guessing on that one. I don’t remembering getting any A’s. te he.
I know it’s not a lot but I want to share the recommendations for everyone else and give these guys and gals some link love.
100% Canucklehead approved! Not something to be taken lightly. To say this gent is kinda blogosphere royalty is akin to saying Amy Winehouse kinda like the taste of crack … – Life with Canucklehead
An interesting site .I enjoyed reading the posts and the images are great too.So I highly recommend this one…10 out of 10,for sure.Keep up the awesome stuff – Jesse Blogs It All (Blog no longer exists )
I don’t want to show any favoritism but I will. This one’s my favorite.
You’ve got to see why SIR ROBBIE ROB got an extremely horrible eyesight! I had quite a good laugh reading some of his posts. I admit I am a lurker most of the time and this blog is certainly one of my hangouts. It’s definitely worth every minute being here. You’ve got to see it for yourself! Adding to this blog’s appeal is the zero percentage of declining advert requests. Quick approval on requests and I just love to advertise again and again in this blog! – Lainy’s Musing
A random thought popped into my head that I want to share with you. I’ve been using the men’s restroom for quite a long time (It’s been 10 years since the gender reassignment operation) and I’m noticing some disturbing things. A large percentage of guys don’t wash their hands. They go to the urinal, unzip, and pull out their little buddy. After finishing up they quickly head for the door hoping no one notices. We do.
Big deal, everyone knows that, you might be saying to yourself. If you think about it, it’s a pretty big deal. A big disgusting deal. Let’s go through an example of why it’s a big deal.
Bob goes to the bathroom to relieve his bladder. He pulls out his little friend and does his business. Once finished he shakes his buddy…one too many times, pretty much masturbating. Then he darts out of the restroom without visiting the sink.
A few minutes later you run into Bob in the hallway. During the normal greetings with Bob, you shake hands. Maybe you even do the handshake followed by the shoulder bump and hand on the back. word. While conversing you happen to wipe your face with the hand Bob shook. Hmmm you like that? Yeah you do.
After this short conversation you go back to your desk to eat that bag of popcorn you just popped. Man…your fingers sure got greasy. Why not lick that butter off your fingers? Yeah like that. Quick question for you…How did Bob taste?
Nasty, right?
Now imagine this same encounter with Bob happening with 10 of your co-workers. You all have something in common…you’ve had Bob’s penis all over you.
Once again, imagine this same encounter with Bob, but instead of him doing a #1 he went #2. Yeah…you’ve pretty much just tossed his salad.
I want you to think about that the next time you go to shake someone’s hand. Most likely they didn’t wash their hands.
If you’re like me, you keep a mental list of the people that don’t wash their hands. Even the ones that “wash” their hands for 4 seconds. Not good enough. I keep the mental list so I make sure I don’t shake that person’s hand. I’m not about to have some guy’s junk all over me without getting dinner first. So yes, it’s a pretty big deal.
To view a list of open connections against your IBM Tivoli Directory Server (LDAP) you can use netstat.
netstat –an |grep 389
It won’t give you a ton of information, really just the IP address of the machine requesting information. If you want to get more specific information about the LDAP connections, run a base scope query on the monitoring service.
ldapsearch –D cn=root –w password –s base –b “cn=connections,cn=monitors” objectclass=*
IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager’s web console, by default, uses port 9080. There was an environment I was working in that required the port to be changed to meet security guidelines.
Here are the steps I took to change the port the Websphere application used.
1. Login to the Websphere admin console:
https://localhost:9080/admin
2. Navigate to Servers -> Application Servers, choose "server1", then "Web Container", then HTTP Transport
Choose the entry with port 9080. A configuration page will display, change the port here and save.
3. Then navigate to Environment -> Virtual Hosts, choose “default_host”, then host aliases.
Choose the entry with port 9080. A configuration page will display, change the port here (same as above) and save.
Now, restart ITPM (tio stop, tio start) and now you can login using the new port number.
– Jesse Blogs It All (Blog no longer exists 
)
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