“Yes we all need someone we can bleed on…”
Yesterday, I had the pleasure of driving out to BFE to get my first glimpse at the new house of my (and Chief Oddball’s) best buddy, Reaper. Of course, since the house is a bit of a work-in-progress, this was no open house; I was expecting to [...]

I received an interesting letter from GM corporate last week. Apparently Pontiac would like to inform owners of 2005-06 GTOs with manual transmissions that, if driven aggressively, the LS2 engine in their vehicles will consume a small amount of oil. Over time, if the oil level is not maintained, the mill might be [...]

Well, I have to hand it to Sony’s Playstation division. They are now executing a slow burn as they desperately try anything their marketing department can think of to sell more Playstation 3 game consoles, except nobody really cares — probably because the PS3 costs a fortune, there are almost zero exclusive games worth [...]

If you’re seeing this, you’re viewing Oddball Update on my new web host. Pages are being served from a quad-processor machine at a small hosting company that looks like a real quality operation, so I have high hopes. Post a comment if you see any errors, have any speed issues, or just want [...]

This week…jeeze. I don’t know where it came from or what happened, but I have worked harder in these last four days than I can ever remember working before. I’ve stayed up until at least 2 a.m. on every single night, have racked up almost 60 hours so far, spent afternoons in four-hour [...]

The time has come (once again) to move my myriad of websites to a new web host! I’ve had numerous issues with my current host(s) — most notably, emails that show up late or not at all — and ever since Oddball Update was moved to a new server, I’ve had more random issues [...]

It’s no secret that I abhor using Flash, Macromedia’s Web authoring system that now belongs to Adobe. This is mostly because I’ve always been particularly incensed by the program’s ridiculous little idiosyncrasies. It would also be valid to say that I’m still harboring a grudge from the days when I painstakingly taught myself [...]

I’ve been getting more and more interested in finding things we can do at home to help be more friendly to the environment. And yesterday was Earth Day. But seriously, if the “Hollywood elites” want people to get on board with the green movement, some of them are clearly going about it the [...]

Year One, source of restoration and performance parts for classic Firebirds, has teamed up with Burt Reynolds to create a new series of limited-edition Bandit Trans Ams. These special edition cars start with completely restored, authentic second-gen T/As, and are then upgraded with a massive, 450hp Pontiac 455 engine, performance bucket seats, custom-built 18×9 [...]

Lately I’ve been trying to be nice. I know I have at least a couple of people who read my site just for the rants, but I have been trying to avoid such pessimistic prattle as of late because…well, I don’t know; I could spew something about “maturity” or “trying to turn over a [...]