It’s long been surmised by tuners and drift racing fanatics that stickers not only add to the aesthetic of your automobile, they can actually make your car go faster. If you extend this theory a bit further, you realize that lots of stickers will turn your Honda into a hypersonic missile of cool.

That’s the theory. In practice, it makes you look like a complete dufus. Case in point: Mr. G. Antonov, better known to his friends as “Jawls,” as it’s written on the driver’s side door. He’s obviously put this machine through its paces, though; this isn’t some prettied-up curb queen with a big stereo in it. Have a look at the Flickr set for all the stunning details.

I can respect that it’s a real Japanese Honda. This baby’s got right-hand drive. I only wish him the best of luck next time he visits a drive thru.

Originally published at nyerm. You can comment here or there.

I’ve been slowly warming to LiveJournal, not because I love its interface or features, but because I have a number of friends over there I keep tabs on. I post infrequently enough to this blog, and coming up with more posts to put in a LJ seems far-fetched, at best.

To the rescue: the LiveJournal Crossposter, a WordPress plugin that automatically copies posts from my blog to my LJ as I make them. I was going to let it copy every post from here to LJ, but that went poorly; somewhere after the first hundred posts or so, the plugin tried to shove some malformed XML at LiveJournal, and its parser barfed with a delightful Perl error message.

As a result, I only managed to push posts from 2003, and not wanting a gap in there, I went through and deleted them all from LJ. By hand. This is why I’m using WordPress. I do stupid power-user stuff like this all too often.

With any luck, this should be my first post on LiveJournal. To those of you following my blank LJ already: hello, and I apologize if I just spammed your friends pages with a honking huge pile of old posts that are now deleted. With even more luck (and possibly a miracle or two), I’ll post things often enough to make it interesting for people.

Originally published at nyerm. You can comment here or there.