Drove out to the autocross on my new street tires, the Falken Ziex ZE-512. GREAT price, decently quiet, good ride. I enjoyed the course this month - felt like it had a high average speed, but the maximum speed wasn't that high at all, maybe mid-50s at the most for me. Felt kind of busy, and I'm sure my line left lots of time out there. I never really felt that I put together a great run, just mediocre. I'm missing all of that front camber I lost, especially on the two big sweepers on the course. :-\ Fun course though. The "three runs count" idea was interest, and certainly added some pressure when I coned my second run. Ended up with 3 clean runs though, so it wasn't all bad. My pax score counting 3 runs was only one point more than my score counting 1 run, for whatever that's worth.
Leaving the event early meant there was actually time to do other stuff on Saturday, so we finally went to the James Bond exhibit at the Arizona Science Center. It was pretty interesting. They had an Aston Martin DB5 from one of the earlier movies there, which was nice. Also several props, such as the Oddjob hat and Jaws' chrome steel jaws. I especially liked seeing some of the original drawings of gadgets and such, and old movie posters (including a number from other countries), so that was cool.
Last night we finally played my 007 Scene It! game, after an Easter filled with sugar and other generally unhealthy stuff. With just two people it goes pretty quickly unless you play where you can only move when you answer a question right. It really pointed out that, despite liking Bond movies, I couldn't tell you much about them. :-P They're all on my "to watch" list now, along with all of the LOTR movies with commentary. Hopefully I'll pay more attention this time. You really have a shot of doing well if you can remember the following about each movie:
- the name of the movie
- where it was in the order of release
- which actors played Bond
- brief plot summary
- the main villian's name
That alone should give you enough info to make a really good guess at most of the answers.
Alas, in all of that business, there was no time for GT4.
Posted by Ben at March 28, 2005 08:33 AM