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Go Fast or Suck!

Hire Me, me worky worky, long time

About Me

I am the oldest person on my space, alpha geek, automotive engineer, inventor, ex race car driver, F list celeberty and author. My voice has been described as sounding like Einstien taking a crap, everyone makes fun of it. It sucks.I am currently unemployed as my large faceless automotive OEM, Assan, pulled up its stakes in Southern California to seek tax refuge in the deep south. Other motives probably include corporate greed, politics and the abilty to dump highly paid people like me and replace them with fresh, young pimply faced out of collage kids in a state with a much lower payscale.To the corporate world I say good ridance. The culture of mediocrity that big corporations foster has been getting on my nerves lately and I have been planning my exit for around a year. This opertunity is cool, instead of just leaving, I got paid to leave.Its not too bad, I still have my freelancing jornalist business thats doing well enough to pay the mortgage and my wife Sharon is going back to work full time to make up the difference. My baby Christa is now old enough to go to school full time so mommy can work.I plan to return to the performance and racing world from which I came. I am currently busy starting my own company in the internet publishing world with some of my friends from my prior .. mag NPM.www.nissanperformancemag.comThe new venture will be www.motoIQ.com, hopefuly it will be a hit and I will rule the world.This spring I was seriously hurt in a racing accident which left me unable to drive competitivly so I am going sorta stir crazy, I hate going to to track and seeing my friends having so much fun while I sit on the sidelines.Need to hire someone for engineering, project managment, product planning or lifestyle marketing?Contact Me!

My Interests

My baby daughter Christa who is not so much a baby anymore. I love racing, speed, the adrenalin rush of, well everything that can give you one, extreme tech, learning stuff, making stuff, blowing stuff up, social binge drinking of blue things. I get bored easily, entertain me.

I'd like to meet:

Potential sponsers for my racing efforts, a good doctor to fix my broken parts and my quriky immune system, intellectual people, scientists, poets, writers, debaters, skilled artesans, craftsmen, artists of all sorts, creative, engauging, funny and analytical people.People who have opinions, that don't agree with mine. Nearly everyone can be interesting or smart in some way. Buzzkill is cocky people with no substance. Competent cocky people are cool. So are dumb people as long as they are hot! j/kIf you are not one of the above and you want to add me as a friend read this. If you are one of those spamming bot girls who are trying to get me to look at your web cams or your for charge nekked web sites, I won't add you. You annoy the heck out of me. If you want to be added, I will add you if I actualy know you or you are at least a motorsports or automotive enthusiast. I won't add people who randomly want to be added, I mean whats the point?

Music:

I like most music and am not super picky in my tastes. My preference is alternative rock. I really like the seattle sound, total grundge. Pearl Jam, STP, Nirvana, stuff like that. Kinda raw simple and not heavily produced. I like post punk era stuff as well.Stuff I don't like: Hardcore, Opera, Emo and total sappy pop.

Movies:

I am a closet film snob. I also like really stupid movies. Campy B movies, Nuvo Classic stuff, Indie Stuff, Troma weird horror stuff, stupid low brow southmoric humor, Quriky humor like Clerks, office space, etc. The crappy thing is the stuff I like is on late on cable (yawn) the IFC and Sundance channels rule! The Fast and the Furious sucks. So does all that NASCAR on Speed channel.

Television:

I hate TV, who has time for it. I hate reality TV the most. Star Trek 1st gen, South Park, Two dimentional old school Bevis and Butthead, Thunderbirds, Battle Bots, Iron Chef, Futurama, The Simpsons, Speedchannel. You should not watch more than an hour a day at the most, your mind will rot. The alternative is to watch really stupid TV like me, you will feel smarter....TV is the opiate of the proletariat (Mike Kojima circa 2003)

Books:

Supringly I can read.... Tom Clancy (well, figure that, all engineer geeks read his shit), Arther C. Clarke, Tom Wolfe, John Irving, Some Isaac Asimov, Hunter S. Thompson, P.J. O'Rorke, Carrol Smith (The best engineer/writer ever) rules, he is my hero, I aspire to write like him, Dave Coleman has humor and geekyness, too bad he only does car magazines, Smokey Yunick (the redneck mad scientist).One day I'll write a book or magazine article not related to cars or something technical but no one would probably buy it much less read it.

Heroes:

My Sharon, friend, mother and good person, all the emergency response guys who perished on 9/11, people in our armed forces, Daryn Kobata the tiny girl with the big heart who ministers in places I dare not tread.I wish I could be half as good as you all...

My Blog

Ironic...

So while working at the redline time attack I was sitting around with a few guys who are pretty well known in the turner industry or as top drivers on the drift/road racing circuit when someone s...
Posted by Go Fast or Suck! on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 11:19:00 PST

My Friends Blog

Eric Hsu's on JDM insider .com http://www.jdm-insider.com/Blogs/Eric/ Its really funny. If you go there read the stuff about Japan.  I never thought of Eric being a particularly funny person...
Posted by Go Fast or Suck! on Tue, 13 Feb 2007 08:02:00 PST

Goodbye 2006

Its time to say goodbye to 2006, goodbye and good riddence.  2006 was the worst year in my entire life to date, in which I suffered though round after round of incredably bad luck. 2006 was the y...
Posted by Go Fast or Suck! on Thu, 18 Jan 2007 09:35:00 PST

Life is sometimes hard

Just when you think things are bad, they can get worse.  My mother got serisouly ill and needed to be hospitalized many times in the past few months.  I guess the the strain was too much for...
Posted by Go Fast or Suck! on Fri, 18 Aug 2006 09:32:00 PST

Team Brokeback update

I got rid of the braces on Friday, This makes me very happy and it marks a turning point for my recovery.  I start PT soon, I got to set that up but my mom is in the hosptial and there is no time...
Posted by Go Fast or Suck! on Tue, 11 Jul 2006 11:03:00 PST

Getting Better!

I can sit upright for a few hours at a time now, walk pretty good with no walker and can drive short distances! I went out with my friends this weekend for a few hours, it was really fun although I am...
Posted by Go Fast or Suck! on Mon, 05 Jun 2006 07:37:00 PST

What to do with myself?

This accident has been a big scare. I am lucky to be able to walk after this one. I really should give up racing but it is such a part of what I am. I have been racing something or other since my teen...
Posted by Go Fast or Suck! on Tue, 23 May 2006 11:38:00 PST

I can walk!

I have been practicing walking and find that I am now rapidly getting better.  I did 5 laps around my cul-de-sac last night and can now ride in a car ok and even went out to dinner with my family...
Posted by Go Fast or Suck! on Sat, 20 May 2006 12:37:00 PST

This Sucks

I got hurt pretty bad at the last race at willow springs, my back is broken in two places and the doctors say I am pretty lucky to be able to walk. One vertabre higher and I would probably be par...
Posted by Go Fast or Suck! on Fri, 19 May 2006 11:47:00 PST

Racing fun!

Tomarrow, its off to Willow Springs for the Buddy Club press day, I guess I get to drive some of their race cars.  I am really looking forward to this.  I am going to help Steve and I gor wi...
Posted by Go Fast or Suck! on Tue, 02 May 2006 10:53:00 PST