Gordaen’s Blog

For those who don’t know, I am often fascinated by statistics. It’s interesting the things you can prove, and the things people think they prove by misinterpretting statistics. Here’s an example:
For young males, driver fatalities rose by 1 percent [from 1994 to 2004], compared with a 15-percent increase for young females

I find it funny that of all the photos I took, this one turned out the coolest. The others I took because I wanted to capture how nice the car looked in the sun after the hours of cleaning. This one I took because I wanted to show some of the other MR2 [...]

I have my Google Homepage setup to display news articles from various sources as well as RSS feeds and other useful data, so that I don’t have to check too many sites (the ultimate point of technology is to make us as lazy as possible, right?). This morning I saw an article about drunk [...]

What the ad says… What the ad really means
rough condition… too bad to lie about
parts car… beyond repair
immaculate… recently washed
concours… recently waxed
engine quiet… if you use 90-weight oil
needs minor overhaul… needs engine
needs major overhaul… Phone the junkyard
burns no oil… (it all leaks out)
rebuilt engine… Cleaned the spark plugs.
Drive it away… I live on a [...]