I will talk about a lot of different products in the mountain bike, freestyle BMX, pistol, computer game, and networking world as those are all hobbies of mine.
To start off, if you haven't noticed I like to keep my paragraphs short and sweet. I will do a quick round up of my hobbies and where I am at with them right now.
Freestyle BMX:
Just got my bike built back up and solid though I haven't rode it yet this year, have been getting really into the mountain biking so haven't had time to jump back on the 20 inch bike.
My bike is a first release 21 inch Terrible One Barcode, built up on terrible one, s&m, and odyssey parts for the most part. The only part to change on this bike in the last 5 years was the back tire. Other than that it has been about the same since about 6 months after the 21 inch barcode frame made it's debut. The bike is solid, I haven't ridden much since sophmore year of high school (2004) but plan to slowly get back into it, would be really into it if I were back in my home town but moving away from home has changed my priorities.
Mountain Biking:
As said above I am really getting into this now. Started off in the freeride/DJ realm as I was transitioning from skateparks and dirt jumps. But now I have moved over into the trail riding realm. I am an avid single track rider and am sporting a 2008 Specialized Stumpjumper FSR Expert demo bike. I absolutely love it and have been having a ton of fun riding through the trails on it.
I also own a baby blue Transition BottleRocket. It is in single speed form and is really for slopestyle/lift parks. Being in Raleigh, NC I don't get to ride it too much as there really isn't anything like that unless you take a day trip to the west side of the state, and with no one to ride with that doesn't happen. It is actually up for sale though I think I would rather just hold on to it.
Pistols:
Well I love guns :). I have owned many pistols ranging from good ole Smith and Wessons all the way over to a couple really nice Heckler and Koch, but have currently settled on a Glock 19. I am a fan of the 9mm cartridge, mainly because of cost of shooting, but also because of it's balistic performance.
I don't shoot as much as I did when I was up in Michigan so I have been pondering getting a big ass revolver since I just use the glock for home defence. I have my CPL (Concealed Pistol License) but I don't carry much as I really only leave to go biking or to work and neither are good places to have a gun.
Computer Games:
I have a home made PC. I got most of the parts of newegg.com and some off tigerdirect.com. I will give my first opinion piece right now. TIGERDIRECT SUCKS! I tried to like it but just had way too many issues, the messed up too many orders and newegg always had the best price and never messed anything up.
I am currently running ATI/AMD though I will probably go back to nVidia and intel for the next build. The only games I am really playing right now are the latest flavor of Call of Duty and Left 4 Dead. Some good ole counter strike: source pops up every once in a while.
I also have a new aluminum 2.4GHz Macbook. I upgraded it to 4GB of memory and have been somewhat pleased with it. I can tell you right here that in my opinion it isn't worth the money. The best thing about it is the trackpad, and I am going to go there... the worse thing about it is the software.
I think I may think (if that makes any sense) that because I use it in a corporate environment. I wish that PC's had as nice of asthetics and the trackpad, then I would be fine without having a MAC.
I have a 1TB time capsule also, it's ok. I had my old gaming machine running Windows Home Server before and I kind of wish I would have kept that but oh well. I just needed storage and that was an easy way to get it and go to N and gigabit, even though that time capsule can't push gig even though they are gig interfaces. It's actually a rancid performing product, it just has the interface and ease of use that is lacking in the cisco/SAN world.
Networking:
Meh, I won't talk about this too much. I am a cisco dork so you can imagine I have my whole lab at home with a bunch of old gear (I actually have a new ISR 881 with wireless-N which is AWESOME).
Well I hope you enjoyed the intro, I am going to copy and paste a few of my posts from my other domain over here but this will be the inagural first post. Hope ya'll (my North Carolina accent) enjoy! Hope you guys (Michigan Accent) enjoy!
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