Author Archives: carterchamberlin

Chain saws. lawn mowers, blowers and trimmers oh my! These common yard tools have two things in common: They all require that the user yank on a rope to start the engine. They all hate me. #2 above is nothing new. Seemingly forever, my life has been beset by diabolical frustrations emanating from the BriggsContinue reading “Pull start engines hate me”

So one of the long-time race chasers in our little group, Dickie Coleman, has checked out for the last time. Dickie, we had some good trips together, good conversations around the fire pit, gonna miss you. Carry on. Meantime, ARCA, now a subsidiary of NASCAR, continues to struggle as do so many things that affiliateContinue reading “RIP Dickie Coleman, and ARCA as well”

So Easter weekend, Kevin Harvick and Denny Hamlin finished 34th and 35th. respectively, in the ‘Bristol Dirt Race’ (so advertised). Interesting, as the two drivers most vocally opposed to longer races, which have essentially defined NASCAR, dropped out before even a fifth of the now-shortened distance was achieved in the shortest race so far thisContinue reading “Odds and Ends, Vol. 2”

In the discussion recently about Deepfakes and other manufactured media (link) the idea of political manipulation, propaganda and the like was touched upon. Almost on queue, several stories were in the news documenting such things. In a recent case (link), a fake video surfaced of the Ukrainian president purportedly telling his troops to ‘lay downContinue reading “Updates, and more updates”

Readers here, and people who know me, are well aware of my status as a long- long-term racing fan. And as such, I typically applaud efforts to improve race tracks to better the racing, the fan experience, and the like. Today, I’m making a big exception to that general policy. There are several notable trackContinue reading “Hey, who’s paying for that, anyway?”

The old adage says if you see it, you can believe it. Modern technology, as it has with so many old adages, challenges that belief. Most people, when answering honestly, would concur that photographs have been subject to some ‘customization’ for some time. Heck, modern language has even come up with a well-known term forContinue reading “Seeing is believing, until it’s not”

So the biggest weekend in the NASCAR year is in the books, and some observations are just *begging* to me made. Happy to oblige. Let’s chat about inter-stage caution laps again. Since NASCAR is still on the we-wanna-be-like-football kick, perhaps a valid comparison can actually be made to have them take note. NASCAR has brokenContinue reading “NASCAR I love ya, but we gotta talk”

Today marked an inadvertent press of the Caps Lock key. Well, not just a press, but about the 30 millionth inadvertent press of the Caps Lock key. By me. In 40 years of IT work, I never used the Caps Lock key on purpose, but about 30 million times by mistake. And each time, itContinue reading “The Death of the Caps Lock Key (please)”

Just as no one raindrop believes itself responsible for the flood, none of the tidbits that follow can comprise an entire blog post. But when they get organized, like rain, they can. Following up on the post about The Subscription Model (https://innoparticularorder.blog/2021/12/13/the-subscription-model/) there are now increasing indications that carmakers will be increasingly looking to makeContinue reading “Odds and ends”

(No, not yet another car racing post). So, I went to buy ice cream for my mother. And rather than the usual pint, I thought I would go hog wild and buy a whole half-gallon for her. Except…it seems there are no more of those anymore, anywhere. Unless you have been paying attention, this mayContinue reading “A race that nobody wins”