Lao Tzu Quote in Which he Tells you that you can Only be at Peace if you are Living in the Present

Living in the present.... easier said than done. Especially in this day and age.

Colorado Car Chase, Man Hijacks Multiple Cars GTA Style Before He is Caught

Man caught in a Colorado car chase!

What's unusual about this one is we can see at least two carjackings by an unarmed carjacker trying to flee.

Nobody gets hurt (I think).

Snowboarding Slopestyle at Sochi 2014

Some drama and comedy at a ladies' snowboarding slopestyle event at Sochi Olympics today.

Czech Rep's Sarka Pancochova has a nasty crash... but survives apparently unhurt.. the helmet doesn't... brave girl.




Austria's Anna Gasser has a false start... attempts to get back to starting position...

Mechanical gears in... insects

Not only watches or clocks have mechanical gears.... Insects do too! Especially certain jumping insects.

A Youtube video.

Lord Karnage Reviews Gran Turismo 6

A Classic Game Room HD review of Gran Turismo 6:

Classic Game Room - Gran Turismo 6 review for... by ClassicGameRoom

As an owner of Gran Turismo on PS1, Gran Turismo 4 on PS2, Gran Turismo on PSP, Gran Turismo 5 on PS3... I guess I've no choice but to buy this one too, though have yet to play Gran Turismo 5. 

Big Breakfast @ McDonald's

My restaurants: McDonald's Big Breakfast (with a double Egg McMuffin on the side) in a McDonald's place here in Moscow.

Here's what it looks like (real-life clickable pics).

As offered here in Moscow, Big Breakfast by McDonald's includes in a box: a pork patty, scrambled eggs, two halves of a grilled "English" muffin (I slap jam on it), a hash brown patty, some jam, salt and pepper pouches.

As (self-)served and eaten also includes a double Egg McMuffin (on the left), orange juice and a coffee latte. 

More pictures after the jump.

Russian Railways

I like this Russian Railways picture.

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CD Collection: Conquest by Uriah Heep 1980

In addition to my ever growing watch and clock collection, I also have a collection of 500+ CDs which I only get to listen to in my car.

About to be fed to my carnivorous CD changer is a new addition to said collection but in fact an old album - Conquest by Uriah Heep fronted by John Sloman.

I looked for it and I bought it on purpose and it is an expanded deluxe edition with some bonus tracks. I know that some won't even consider it to be a proper Heep album but I like it. 

To be honest, I have no time for the classic Heep - July Morning kind of stuff. 

I like this album and that's that. If I didn't it wouldn't have already been in my CD changer for a month. First, I listened to it on repeat, now it waits for its turn to play but it is still there and likely to stay for some time.

My favorites are Feelings and Think It Over but the whole album is very much listenable.

Feelings x 2

 Think it over x 5

CD Collection: Fire It Up by Joe Cocker

This is a non-watch entry on my mainly watch and clock blog.

Another thing that I have interest in collecting is music CDs and have about 500 of them in my collection, both new, current and old -- sometimes very old -- stuff.

As a rather busy person -- what with all this blog writing, collecting, researching stuff on the Internet and even occasionally working hard(ly) -- it is inconceivable for me to just take the time and do nothing but listen to the music -- be it rock, pop, classic or current stuff. So my listening gets confined nowadays to only when I am in my car which is not a lot as don't drive that much. And my car is a 5 year old car that has nothing in the way of new infotainment systems, bluetooth or anything of that nature, but what it does have is a 6 disk CD changer, hence my interest in collecting CDs. Also, I prefer something more tangeable than digital downloads.

To start with my collection countdown, here's something more recent from the bowels of my CD changer.

The latest (I think) album by Joe Cocker called "Fire It Up".

What I have here is the premium edition. In addition to the CD you also get a DVD with clips of some of the songs. I found the DVD pretty good.

Overall I enjoyed the album very much. It didn't spend as much time in the changer as some of my other favorites -- and I can think of several that literally spent years in there -- it is still very good. Or at least I like it enough to say so.

Joe Cocker "Fire It Up"

Additional info on the album on wikipedia.

Fire It Up (Joe Cocker album)

On Youtube, I believe this clip is on said DVD.