Duh, October now has 4 more days in it. Halloween rocked so hard that we needed to add days to make it all fit.
BTW, it was 5.4 when I originally wrote it.
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Dec. 23, 2008 1:28 p.m. Per Schroeder Technical Editor/Advertising Director
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Dec. 23, 2008 1:58 p.m. confuZion3 Dork
I've been a fan of the magazine for a while, and I do enjoy it usually, although lately I must admit I've been finding some issues hit or miss.
My chief complaint about the magazine would have to be Tim Suddard's recent articles where he brags about his poor spelling and information gathering.
I mean poor spelling in Grassroots Motorsports magazine can be viewed as being iffy, but acceptable considering you know, big words, foreign languages, confusing engine designations, and the like.
But a guy who gets rich off of our subscription money, and then rubs our faces in his poor spelling and information gathering is just not cool. His rather boring Starting Line columns where he praises his own leadership and business skills are nauseating, and it just seems like he's trying to make us feel that he earned these abilities to use poor spelling and information gathering skills of his that he praises just as much as he praises himself.
I mean fine own the magazine, earn some money, slack off with the spell checker! Maybe he does deserve it, it is a good magazine. But using numbers and words that clearly do not fit into the scope of the magazine?? WTF is up with that??, other than an obvious tax write-off. And then go on about how a 30 day month is just as good as a 35 day month with some tweaks, is that REALLY making you square with your Grassroots readers Tim? Oh and bragging about how his the thesauri he reads to "attract some more upscale words and numbers."
Sounds more than a little douchey to me.
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Dec. 23, 2008 2:05 p.m. Tom Heath Production Editor
I <3 ConfuZion3...(even though I never play Xbox live anymore...)
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Dec. 23, 2008 3:27 p.m. Supercoupe New Reader
The Cement Lady said:
You know, I don't care how bad I felt about something, I just don't think I'd make it past the "plunging a sword into the abdomen" step.
Margie
I'm sure that depends on whose abdomen you're referring to..
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Dec. 24, 2008 6:00 p.m. matt_fulghum New Reader
Schmidlap wrote: Ironically, another samurai would typically decapitate the one committing suicide very soon after starting the act of seppuku, sometimes even before the act of slicing across the stomach was complete, so despite being an act that is supposed to be a long painful death was actually a very quick, though still painful, death.
At least that's how I understand it.
The other samurai (the general's assistant) decapitated the sepukku-er in order to carry the head off the battlefield, to keep the enemy from taking the samurai's head and dishonoring it. (then, as I recall, the assistant also commits seppuku).
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Dec. 25, 2008 10:59 a.m. mel_horn HalfDork
Honor aside, sounds like losing a lot of skilled fighters for no particularly good reason. Bleagh.
Or, as Patton said, (paraphrasing, of course); It doesn't make sense dying for your country. Make the OTHER SOB die for HIS country!
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Dec. 25, 2008 12:44 p.m. 924guy HalfDork
bah, just do what the politicians do.. change the facts to fit the fiction... motor swap!
