Well, it’s not riding quite yet. But here’s the biggest prop we’ve ever had — our very own short bus!
This bus will be the star of our latest educational TV project. It’s a series of programs called QuizBus: Dealing With Data, the subject being statistics, the audience middle school kids, and the premise a game show in a school bus, a la “Cash Cab.”
Besides the incredibly cool paint job, there’s a lot more customization here. On the exterior there’s a hood scoop, four fog lamps, chrome wheel covers, and flashing multi-color neon underneath. The ugly black mirrors have been replaced with cool chrome ones. Now we just need to apply the logo to several places.
On the inside, there’s new carpeting and headliner, a six-speaker 750W sound system, flashing chaser lights, custom bench seats, three nine inch LCDs and one 42″ plasma screen. The driver and host seats are racing seats. The side windows all have limo tint in them, and the driver’s side and door windows have a 35% tint.
Andy, the genius who’s worked his ass off for this project (logging over 400 hours so far) has a little more work to do. We plan on shooting the program in late May. Can’t wait to see the bus completed!

Jackie’s right, ’tis been entirely too long without a post. Trouble is, I haven’t really had anything “blogworthy” happen in my life. There are plenty of blogworthy things going on in other’s lives, but it’s not my business to write about them. So. Let’s go…conjuring a post from thin air.

Saw a Flick.

On Friday night we went out with J & T. Had a little dinner at Max & Erma’s, then went next door to the new Atlas Theater by Great Lakes Mall to take in a movie. We saw Leatherheads which, while predictable, was funny. Have you ever noticed that many movies based in the ’20s seem to have that witty banter thing going on? This one had an overabundance of it, particularly between Renée Zellweger and George Clooney. Stephen Root, as usual, played an eccentric. This being a sports movie, I almost expected him to make a reference to Obscure Sports Quarterly.

Anyway, the theater is pretty nice. It seems all the theaters use digital projectors. The picture was amazingly crisp; too bad the only glasses I had with me were my sunglasses. So I alternated between seeing the picture kinda fuzzy or seeing it kinda dark. Worked out okay, though.

Bought a Mower.

Here’s something sure to get everyone’s heart thumping: we finally bought a new lawnmower. Since we moved to this house, Jul and I have been using the Honda that Dad bought back in 1988. Before that, we used a hand-me-down Toro that I got from my old boss. So this is the first mower I’ve ever purchased. I told Julie that the snowblower we bought a couple of years ago was the engagement ring; the new mower is the wedding ring. So now we’re finally committed for life.

Got What You Asked For.

A really boring post, conjured from thin air!

I recently updated the installation of pixelpost, the CMS that controls our photoblog. Something in the update b0rked how the images displayed in IE6/7 and I was forced to wipe out the database and install a fresh copy of pixelpost to fix it. As a result, I lost some of the images and all of the comments.

On the bright side, there are a couple of fresh images there…

This is a test post.

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Yeah. Nice job parking., originally uploaded by daveronku.

Honestly. How the hell do you do this?
Usually, when people do a crappy job of parking in front of our building, they park too far from the curb. Apparently, this person decided to err on the side of caution.
Hey, want to bet this car can be seen driving around with half a foot of snow on the windshield?