BLOGs?

[toyotafreak]

Try this one on for size. A blog is like a running, meandering documentation of somebody's life, right? What if each of us members strated their own blog thread in the forum?

I can see the villageidiot's : "Cal's blog". In it, he'll describe his hull-sanding, airbag-installing, TRD-supporting, etc. Of course, he'll still spawn other threads, but his blog might be the best place to capture a life's history of his pimped black-trimmed X22. Cyclone's would be another well-filled blog. And think of all the blah-blah-blah I could do in the quiet darkness of my own blog!!!

Does this make sense? Any feedback would be appreciated.

[lakerats247]

Lead the way...sometimes those of us that rode the short bus to school  aren't all that great with words.

 

[cyclone]

I fell out of a shopping cart.

[Epicrider]

There was one??

[phenom_1819]

Okay, Epicrider and Pete - you guys lost me at hello.  

Derek- I think the blog idea is a good one, but wonder if a better way of doing that would be to start your own Epic blog somewhere else, then link to it in your profile.  I kind of like just posting randomly and waiting to see what people say (or don't say) about whatever stupid activity it was I attempted to tackle this time.  

So I guess I already sorta treat it like a blog... But I like that people can respond and talk shit/make fun of me about my over-analness.  And I like to think that I can do the same to the rest a' y'all.    

[phenom_1819]

Hey Lakerats- would you mind switching the pic in your profile? The big picture size is doing all sorts of crazy things to the site...  

[cyclone]

Derek,
I guess it would be cool but I don't think anyone is interested in me or you any one of us other knotheads screwed up life stories. I think we get enough exposure here. If not, I can do it. I can provide whatever service us sorry Epic owners require.  Whatever it takes to justify that 300$/mo payment for the next 15 yrs.

That sounds harsh, I know. Don't take it that way. The fact is that nobody cares. Everything that I own is an orphan, I seem to attract them. I (you) am somewhat disconnected from the mainstream. Everything I think is cool is not cool for about 15 yrs, then when it becomes cool, nobody believes that I thought it was cool in the first place. BUT, I know.         I KNOW.           I have a '69 Mercury Cougar XR7 convertible with the original build sheet, original leather interior, 10.7/1 compression, etc. It is a bad MOFO, I occasionally take it out and smoke knuckleheads in riceburners and thumper trucks. Nobody knows what the hell it is.
I have a Mercury Marauder, which is going to be an orphan as of June 2005. It is totally badass, I'm ready to trade my 2004 with 5k miles on a new one if they make one. They won't, so I'll keep this one forever like all my other stuff.

I have a Matchless guitar amp that they only made 40 or so of, it is the biggest baddest boy on the block. 120 watts of pure valve power. Sounds like angels singing. Pure class A yada yada yada. They quit making them too.

I could keep going, but then it would be a BLOG!!!!!!

Pete

[Epicrider]

Pete,
 It was just an inside joke.I'm a movie quote fanatic.Watch the first half of Stripes and then read it again!

[cyclone]

The guys in my car club call me the Cruiser!

[toyotafreak]

Thanks for the feedback. I'm really not up for the blog thread idea, but I do want to esplain what I was thinking so you don't think I'm a total fruit bat.

I guess what I'm saying is that I enjoy hearing everything Pete does to his boat and to his trailer, and maybe his tow vehicle (especially if it's a Toyota). Same goes with Cal's boat, trailer and truck. In fact, at some time or another, I know that any single one of us could provide the missing link (yes, even me.) Some of the real veterans re-Pete, davidgree, etc., have some killer stories for sure.

I usually record stuff that I do to the boat, and a lot of those times I'm thinking two things at the same time:

1) it's good to record this stuff, because I know I'll forget the specifics, and because it may fill in a blank for someone else or keep them from repeating a mistake I made. Sometimes the little details are important.

2) when I'm speculating or recounting stuff in detail, I can't help but think most of you guys couldn't care less.

The idea of each of us having blog threads was to keep most of our personal boat endeavors in our own threads. Cal has some problems with a rough idle, reviews the archives, takes action and then posts to his blog thread to let us know what he did and how it turned out. Cal installs Pete's Perfect Pass, and makes a post about it. He finds a great way to remove scratches, he posts a 'removing scratches' thread. Sweet. Maybe Pete even posts the method in the 'how to' section.

Maybe the two biggest drivers are 1) I want to hear everybody's Epic life stories, and 2) I don't want people thinking "friggin Derek likes hearing himself speak". If we see that Epicrider makes a post to his blog, maybe we do or do not read it right away. However, if he posts a "I installed a supercharger" thread, we stop everything.

No biggie, though, I was more bouncing it off of you guys than trying to make a case. It was a thought that struck, and we all know that can at times be dangerous.

[cyclone]

Derek,
Too much trouble. This site is small and specific. I've preferred to keep it that way, I visit a lot of small and specific sites I go to every day for only what info I want on all the cool orphans I have. Incidentally, I just registered the domain coolorphan.com

blogs, et al are an interesting thought, though. The Internet is an evolving media. I remember driving up RT 1 in Va. (country, south of DC) in 1997 or so, in my old Cougar, top down. I saw an Alta Vista blimp. It occurred to me that I could not have easily explained to my Gramps (ad 1992) what a web search engine was. The web (human communication) will evolve much more quickly in the next decade.

The site will evolve, but my primary goal is to provide info on these boats for those that need it.

My dad and my gramps were anthropologists. It is interesting to think that blogs, as an electronic tablet, could capture life experience like a cave painting did 100k yrs ago, and that it could exist forever.

Now that I've had my touchy feely Friends moment, I reflect on the fact that I missed the last episode of Friends. That's actually OK, as I missed every other episode too!

[Epicrider]

Derek,
 I wasn't ripping on you or your post.That was my way of saying I didn't quite understand.I like to use movie quotes alot.Sorry if it came out the wrong way to you.Not what I intended.

[re-pete]

What is 'Friends'?  

[toyotafreak]

Friends is that show with all the hot braless zillionaires.

[cyclone]

Now, that part I like. It's when they start to talk that I lose interest! Unless it's "OH GOD,, OH GOD!!