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As of Sunday, September 26th 2010 I am no longer moderating, nor will I be contributing to honda-tech.com in any way.

This is a big change for me, and I would like to take some time to address why I made this decision. However in doing so, I feel that I should provide a little background information as to how I became so involved with the site. So, for those who do care to know, get comfortable, as this may be lengthy. I wish to not leave any stones unturned, nor leave any unanswered questions.

When I was in high school I became fascinated with computers. Very fascinated, in fact almost obsessed with them. I wanted to learn as much as I possibly could. One thing led to another, and then another, and so forth. Eventually it was gnu/linux that really captured my attention. To those that are unfamiliar with the gnu/linux project, the gnu project is an open-source project, whose goal is to develop free software that is not governed by a corporation. It is written by the people, for the people. The software 'blueprints' if you will, are posted online.

These 'blueprints' being programming source code. For most closed-source software companies (apple, microsoft, adobe, autodesk, etc.) the software source code is closely guarded. Only the company that owns the code, can view the code, or modify it. Linux is an open-source computer operating system that has been written by thousands of volunteers all around the world. It started off as a project by some hobbyist, nobody expected it to ever get as big as it has.

When I was in high school, my good friend Chris went to programming classes, while I went to welding and automotive-tech classes. Chris was learning a skill that allowed him to extensively modify open-source applications, and even contribute back to the open-source community. I wanted to contribute to the project as well but my training was with welding and metal fabrication. Keep in mind that all contributions to the open-source community are free contributions. We didn't care about money at that age, and why should we have? All we cared about was candy, skateboarding, computers, and obviously not school. We didn't care about making money. We were perfectly content with looking like bums, driving POS cars, being average C students, not studying for highschool classes we didn't care about. We were having too much fun making our computers awesome.

Sooner or later I started getting to the point where I was bored with it. I didn't know how to write computer code, so after learning how most of it all worked, I wasn't able to write code to contribute to the project. Thus I started looking elsewhere for a new obsession. Chris eventually ended up in a chemistry program, and as you can imagine, I wound up becoming interested in fast cars.

I started reading more and more, and began to learn that cars shared a lot of things in common with computers. They could be modified, upgraded, optimized, tweaked, all in the similar ways that I had done with my computer. I became fascinated.

When I was in high school me and another welding student (who was also taking auto-tech like me) were assigned to fabricate frame rails for some camaro. I remember doing this, and not really thinking about what it was that I was doing. I was probably thinking about computers, as I would often read linux books in auto-tech class while the other students in the class were out in the parking lot rolling tires back and forth while the teacher was yelling about something. Anyways, moving on.

As you can imagine, auto-tuning captured my attention. Eventually I got a civic and was looking for ways that I could modify it. Honda-tech at the time was in it's prime, and I was fascinated with how others were making writeups with how they modified their cars. It reminded me of the open-source philosophy with the gnu/linux project, and I wanted to join.

You can see where this is leading to, eventually I was at the point where I was doing crazy modifications to my car. The welding courses that I had taken taught me that many metal structures, brackets, framing, etc. could be modified and redesigned. The automotive-tech course that I took taught me a few basics to get started. The experience that I had with researching computers taught me how to research online, and work with computers. These three things put me in a great position to attack many projects.

And I did. I took on many many projects. I had downloaded a PDF manual for my car and began reading it. I started modifying transmissions, playing with the numbers. I did this mainly because I was bored, and I found it fascinating. I would research how to do things on honda-tech, and get frustrated that nobody else had bothered to compile all the information together. I would find half-written threads where people had done modifications that I wanted to do, but they stopped posting in their thread once they figured out what to do. I was the one that would message them and found out how they overcame certain obstacles with their projects.

I kept doing this, and eventually I got pretty good at it. I would post my findings, and I enjoyed doing it. I didn't care about money, just like a few years prior in my computer phase. I did it simply because I genuinely enjoyed doing so. Others could see that I wasn't out to make money off of them, and they realized that I was contributing. They respected me for it. (People tend to respect those that contribute valuable information when expecting nothing in return).

I gained a lot of attention and the site made me a moderator. I now had the ability to modify threads and clean things up more. I did this for a while. Eventually I got to the point where I was wanting to take on projects that were over my head. I was picking up books that had answers to the questions that I had, however these books were written for readers that had a four year degree in engineering. I stepped away from the car projects just as Internet Brands (IB) bought out honda-tech.com from it's original owner.

Honda-tech sold out. I had been too busy with school to really pay attention to what was going on with honda-tech. I figured that it was time for me to do some learning, so that I may return and do more extensive and eloquent writeups to contribute to the site.

I'm now towards the end of my BS in mechanical engineering (where we start looking at applications and less theoretical subjects.) So I began visiting the site more frequently. Much had changed. There were TONS of ads. Yes, I know how to block ads so they do not appear. But the principle really bothered me. Here I was becoming a valuable resource for information that I was volunteering, and the site was becoming plagued with ads.

Internet Brands (IB) was trying to milk the site for every dime it could get. IB simply doesn't know what they are doing. Moderators that have been there for years agree on this. My actual breaking point was when I posted an image, an image that was hosted elsewhere (not on honda-tech) and that image received an advertisement overlay.

My education has not come cheap, I have put a lot of work and a lot of effort to learn this material. If anyone is going to receive a payment for the work that I have contributed, it's going to be me. If I do not receive a payment, nobody else should either. I am not talking about a few meager advertisements that serve the purpose of keeping the site running. I'm talking about the type of excessive advertisements that the site owners profit heavily off of.

I've seen many moderators quit, and try to start a competing web forum. I have no desire to create a competing honda forum. I am fascinated with too many different things right now to put them all into one category.

In the future, when I have a bit writeup that I would like to contribute I will more than likely host it on my own webpage. I will make it so that it is free to view, print, and share. But it cannot be taken and made money off of by some other party. It will be modeled much similarly to the GPL

Honda-tuning was just one of the many hobbies that I enjoy. I have a big to-do list of things that I would like to do, most have nothing to do with honda-tuning. Right now I want to build a network load-balancing linux server, and take a dishwasher apart.

In 2002 When I was in my welding class in high school, I built a desk. When you're in a class like that, materials are free, and you can weld whatever you want. So I just welded something up without putting a whole lot of thought into it. I then got some wood, sanded and painted it, and that was it.

In the past year I have spent many hours studying in random places. Libraries, reading rooms, empty classrooms, etc. Upon doing this, I realized that I had been taking my desk for granted. I quickly began realizing a lot of things about these other desks that I really did not like. The biggest issue was that most tables are designed like the image below. There is a HUGE distance between the top surface of your table, and the bottom where your knees are. On some of these tables it's as great as 5-7 inches. Due to my size, it leads me to where I am forever banging my knees on the table.


When I was in my welding class, I made my frame out of steel. I never thought anything of it other than the fact that it was simply the material that I had the easiest access to. However, the largest advantage of making a steel frame such as the one that I had constructed was that I didn't need to have a 5 inch tall support beam to go underneath the table surface. The 1 inch square tubing that I had used didn't have this problem. This combined with a cut sheet of 3/4" plywood, turned out to be a very ideal setup. I put very little thought into my desk design that I made 7 years ago. However, it turned out very well.

When I am doing my homework, the amount of material that I have on my desk that I am working on can get pretty high. There are many charts, formulas, tables that I have to refer to. As a result, precious desk space diminishes quickly. Sometimes homework requires working out of a book and also working on the computer, so I needed my computer to also be on the same desk. Also, since I am left handed, I wanted my computer to sit to the right of me in the corner. That way I could work to the left of the keyboard. These are some of the thoughts and considerations that I had in mind when I was brainstorming.

One day I was sitting in the USC library studying for an online clemson course that I was taking (oh the irony). At the time, I just did not want to study. I was sitting at another one of those forsaken library tables with the HUGE piece that I was banging my legs on underneath. This was my breaking point. I had no computer with me at the time and I sat down and I just sketched out what I wanted. After crunching some numbers, I had an idea of what I wanted. I sketched it out and got back to studying.



Within the next several days I improved my original design. Then drew my design up in autocad while working with the constraints of the room I was about to move into. Then figured out the exact dimensions that I wanted. I then picked up a 4'x8' piece of 3/4" red oak plywood, and figured out where I would make the cuts. Here is what I started with.



After doing this, I started with the cuts. The one that I knew would be the most difficult was the inner "half moon" circle. I figured that the best way to do this would be to mount a jig saw onto a radius arm, and then mount that arm on a hinge and go from there. This is what I ended up doing, and it proved to be very effective.









The next step wasn't as easy. I picked up some 1.25" square tubing from a metal scrap yard (Which by the way was a very awesome place!). I then went back to autocad to design my frame:


You would think that you could just simply cut the metal tubing to the right lengths and just simply "weld it right up" However, it's no so easy. The thickness of the tubing that I used was thinner than most materials you'd be welding so It was difficult to keep from burning through the material while I was welding. Also, when you weld, the materials like to shift around. So I spent a lottttttttt of time clamping everything down onto a flat metal plate and making sure that every angle was true and exact. This was very very very very very time consuming.

Yeehaw !












Done with the frame! The next part was just drilling holes and bolting the wood onto the frame. Also the leg inserts were just inserted into the shorter legs that you see here.






After all of this, I realized that there is a somewhat similar ikea desk called the galant. It goes for about $350 I had a chance to see one of these in person. I wasn't very impressed with it. It is particle board with paneling on it to "simulate" the look of the more expensive woods. The metal frame of their desk is very inferior. It's not the type of table that would last a lifetime.

I have $162 invested in my desk. It's exactly what I wanted and it will also last longer than me. I got some other wild ideas in mind on a few improvements that I'd like to make.

I see that a few of you on the forums have wondered where I went. I would like to now address that. Because the transistion was a pretty big step for me.


To quote one of my favorite movies:
[On the phone]
Ed Rooney: Are you also aware, Mrs. Bueller, that Ferris does not have what we consider to be an exemplary attendance record?
Katie Bueller: I don't understand.
Ed Rooney: He has missed an unacceptable number of school days. In the opinion of this educator, Ferris is not taking his academic growth seriously. Now I've spent my morning examining his records. If Ferris thinks that he can just coast through this month and still graduate, he is sorely mistaken. I have no reservations whatsoever about holding him back another year.
Katie Bueller: This is all news to me.
Ed Rooney: It usually is. So far this semester he has been absent nine times.
Katie Bueller: Nine times?
Ed Rooney: Nine times.
Katie Bueller: I don't remember him being sick nine times.
Ed Rooney: That's probably because he wasn't sick. He was skipping school. Wake up and smell the coffee, Mrs. Bueller. It's a fool's paradise. He is just leading you down the primrose path.
Katie Bueller: I can't believe it.
Ed Rooney: I've got it right here in front of me. He has missed nine days...
[His computer screen begins counting down from nine to two. Ferris is at home looking at the same screen]
Ferris: I asked for a car, I got a computer. How's that for being born under a bad sign?

The very last line is one that I think about a lot. When I was in high school, I got a computer for a car. And I spent allllll of my energy learning as much as I could about computers. Which led me to my fascination with the linux operating system. When I was in highschool I was a C student. I never focused on class, and I always focused on what I wanted to focus on, which was computers.

But then I got a car.......

I got my car prior to entering my freshman year of college. I was immediately fascinated. All the tinkering that I had done with computers could also be done with engines to increase vehicle performance. I was immediately hooked and fascinated. I was so hooked, that I couldn't focus on my school work, and I ended up dropping out of school because I wasn't learning about what I wanted to learn about. Oh, and my intended major is the same as it's always been, mechanical engineering.

Freshman year of college for me was Fall 2003 - Spring 2004 at USC-Upstate. I left before they asked me to leave, and I earned a 0.875 GPA. People always think that I was partying. I didn't really party a whole lot, I instead was distracted with linux and cars.

I moved back home and took some courses at midlands technical college (A local 2 year community college). This went on and off for some time. Beginning in Fall of 2004 - till Fall 2007. I went back in forth between full time and part time student. During this time I was working really crappy jobs. I always had the intentions of going back to finish my degree, and I knew that I wouldn't be satisfied until I did.

I worked several jobs during this period:
* shop assistant - cutting metal, fixing water pumps, sometimes welding, etc.
* delivering pizza
* welding on 18 wheelers - (I had taken 2 years of welding in highschool)
* Teradata - It was a tech support job that my brother helped me get, I got it because of my linux experience. I quickly realized that It wasn't for me.
* NCR - I did technical support and hated it. This was my job breaking point that helped feed my urge to go back to school.

Those are the job situations that most tend to focus on. Most think that that is the biggest reason to me deciding to come back to school. However it is not.

As I mentioned previously, my goal was always, to learn as much as I possibly could about vehicle performance. During this period between 2004-2007 I learned a lot about engines and transmissions. I got a lot of hands on experience in vehicle performance. I was involved with the forums, etc. This was good in a lot of ways however....

The car tuning scene is not a pure scene. What I mean is, it is mostly driven by money. Who has the fastest car? The person/team with the most money. It is not until you get wayyyy up in the tuning scene where research and development are the largest contributers to the build.

Here's an example. I went to a car meet one time in charlotte. There were a lot of vehicles there. One of the vehicles that I saw was an old civic that this kid was working on. It was a 3rd generation civic (1984-1987) and it originally came with a carb'd engine. The kid had converted it to EFI using the megasquirt DIY ECU platform. He had done a lot of other things with the engine that were really neat as well. His engine however was not a powerhouse, it probably would have only put down 115hp. I could tell that the kid was driven by his genuine interest in learning about how the vehicle operated, rather than getting caught up in the rat race of trying to be the fastest. I probably was one of the few people there that paid attention to his car, and was really impressed by his build. Shortly after, a hoodlum pulled up in this civic that he had "built" He bought all these fancy parts and bolted them on. Very little research, learning going on, and a whole lot of money spending. Naturally everyone flooded around the vehicle and was fascinated by the 600hp that the thing probably put down. This is an excellent depiction of the focus of the car scene of typical young males between the ages of 17-30.

After being in this environment, I knew that there had to be something else out there. I was running out of topics to learn about online, and I was running out of people to talk to. I then began looking at books. I got a few books and I knew that they were the next resource that I would need to gather my information from to fuel my passion. However, what I quickly realized was that the audience of these books were people that had completed many of the courses that are found in a mechanical engineering curriculum. Crap, 4 years later and I'm back to square one. This was the point where it really hit me, and where I felt the urge to go back. It was not because of getting a better job, it was because I knew that it would help satisfy my lust for knowledge.

I decided to quit my job at NCR and I signed up for 16 hours of courses at midlands tech. Calculus 1, Chemistry 1, Drafting, a computer math course, intro to welding (I missed welding). When I first got my calculus book, I flipped through it. One of the first example problems involved using calculus for aerodynamics of some wind tunnel that nascar used for performance tuning. I knew that I was in the right place. Full time started in the Spring of 2008, and I have not stopped since. I completed nearly every course that counted towards the first two years of a 4 year mechanical engineering (M.E.) degree. I ran out of courses to take at the technical college and I transferred to a 4 year university.

In choosing universities, I needed one that offered a degree in mechanical engineering, and I needed one that was in-state. This left me with USC or Clemson. My freshman year was at a USC satellite school, which counts as USC. This was the school that I had 'earned' a 0.875 GPA. Despite the fact that I had a 3.3 GPA at midlands tech, with over 50 hours of tough engineering courses, USC didn't want to accept me. This left Clemson, I applied, got accepted and now I'm here.

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I do miss the car tuning scene. I have not "given up" on cars or abandoned the car scene. If anything I'm progressing forward more than I was before. However I am learning the fundamentals now. By doing this, when I read those advanced books, I will be able to understand them, and use them to make my next build that much greater.

I consider this step to be the next step of my next upcoming build, whatever it may be. I don't know yet. I am still in the mindset of taking pictures of some of the steps along the way, and that is what this is:

This is how I celebrated my 26th birthday (:

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A lot has been changing in 2007. Since march I have been moderating three forums on honda-tech.com. 1992-2000 civic forum, Tech/Misc, and Hybrid forums.

I got this new job that allows me to spend more time concentrating on Hondas. My F2D swap being my daily driver feels like an achievement every time I drive it. For the most part it's been a success, but it still has some small kinks to work out.

A while back I wrote a proposal to get a taller d-series 1st gear made. I spoke about it in this blog. well I just got back word from gear-x who is going to send me a prototype to test fit.

I've done a lot of research on these accord/prelude engine to civic/integra transmissions. They seem to be the future of where the honda tuning for the 88-00 civics and the 90-01 integras is heading. There's no need for custom axles, no need for custom linkage. The F/H series engines are cheaper than b-series engines, and the have more potential. The B-series transmissions are expensive, and the D-series are everywhere, and super cheap!

The d-series transmission is weak, but it's only the stock differential. EVERYONE needs to upgrade the open differential to an LSD. The OBX LSD is less than $400 shipped and has a very high success rate. It is very strong, I've seen it take up to 400whp. The d-series trans can also take a good amount of abuse. Several people write it off as weak, but it's really not.

F/H series can't upshift in the higher rpms. Also the cable shifter is sloppy (hard to get an accurate shift)
K-series are nice but they have problems grinding gears (and use the same diff bearings as d-series)
B-series is strong and has not as many issues non lsd diffs are weak
D-series is strong and has a weak diff.

The D trans has bad oem gearing, but it's so cheap that installing and LSD and close ratio gears is cost effective.

H2D and F2D is the future of honda tuning IMHO.

That's all for now, I'll update when I got more time :)

Stay "Tuned"

I should have just gone with ITBs, it's less work. :P

Most of this comes from my F2D F20B build http://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1638988
but I figured that I'd help you prelude guys out :thumbup:


The first thing that I started on was the euro R single runner manifold. This thing by far is the biggest hassle. It requires lots of modification, lots of adapter plates, and lots of attention. I dunno what honda was thinking when they made this thing. Heres what has to be done:

Fuel rail modfication
Throttlebody modification
IACV adapter plate
EGR blockoff plate (or just bolt an unplugged egr switch on there)
Grinding away some material from the IM flange
Blocking off some ports for air injection things
Turning the brake booster hose nipple towards the LHD brake booster
modifying the injector ports

In fact, the only things that is about the same on this and the stock manifold are:
The runners actually line up with cylinder head.
Throttlebody bolt pattern is the same.

( Click here for pictures and entire writeup )

You can contact Rosko via PM :thumbup:
http://honda-tech.com/zerouser?cmd=viewprofile&id=999374673

[b]Special thanks:[/b]
Rosko - CONTACT THIS GUY, HES GOT EVERYTHING YOU NEED!!!!
JDogg
Turbogixxer
2Point6
SoccerKing3000 (you were going to help me spend $115 in extending my fuel hose for the f20b RHD fuel rail, i ended up just buying a h22 fuel rail for $15, but thanks anyways!!!!!)
Ryu (i totally stole your pics from page 127 in the h2b faq :P)

I had this all nicely spaced out with tabbed seperated values, but html likes to screw it up, i'll fix this later

1st gear:
3.250 39/12 all


2nd gear:
1.650 33/20 hf/std (88-91)
1.762 37/21 cx/dx/lx/vx (92-95)
1.782 41/23 cx/dx/lx/hx (96-00)
1.894 36/19 dx/si (88-91)
1.900 38/20 ex/si (92-95)
1.909 42/22 ex/sol si (96-00)
1.944 35/18 dohc zc (88-91)

3rd gear:
1.033 31/30 hf/std (88-91)
1.066 32/30 cx/vx (92-95)
1.172 34/29 dx/lx/hx (92-00) *also in 96-00 cx
1.250 35/28 ex/si (92-00)
1.259 34/27 dx/si (88-91)
1.346 35/26 dohc zc (88-91)
1.565 36/23 mfactory (aftermarket)

4th gear:
0.823 28/34 hf/std (88-91)
0.853 29/34 cx/vx (92-95)
0.909 30/33 dx/lx/hx/ex/si (92-95) *also in 96-00 cx
0.937 30/32 dx/si (88-91)
1.033 31/30 dohc zc (88-91) *can also be a flipped hf/std 3rd gear
1.066 32/30 cx/vx (92-95) *not really a 4th gear, but it can be used as 4th


5th gear:
0.694 36/25 hf (88-91)
0.702 37/26 all non si (92-00)
0.750 36/27 sol si (93-95)
0.771 35/27 dx/si (88-91)
0.878 29/33 dohc zc (88-91)
1.000 29/29 mfactory (aftermarket)

Final drives (cable = 88-91, hydro = 92-00):
2.954 65/22 some HFs (88-91)
3.250 65/20 cx/vx/HF (88-95) cable form in some HFs, hydro from in 92-95 cx/vx
3.722 67/18 hx/cx*/dx* (88, 96-00) found in 1988 dx, hx, 96-00 hatchback
3.888 70/18 dx/std/zc (88-91) 89-91 dx, 4spd std, zc
4.058 69/17 dx/lx/ex? (88-00) found in all hydro dx/lx, cable form in 88-91 ex sedan?
4.250 68/16 ex/si (88-00) found in all d-series si's, and hydro EX's
4.437 71/16 zxi/aerodeck (88-00**) found in cable zxi, believed to exist in hydro from in euro aerodeck wagon
4.533 68/15 mfactory aftermarket
4.733 71/15 mfactory aftermarket
4.928 69/14 mfactory aftermarket



3.25
1.9
1.47
1.172
0.9

I need to stop getting so excited about looking at these parts that come in the mail. Car parts although are very exciting when they're in you car, are 90% of the time boring to look at. For example, when I got my first 4.928 final drive. I was SO excited. I was like OMG OMG OMG OMG HERE IT IS!!!! But then I opened it, and yep, it was a 4.928 final drive. There's not much to do with it outside of your car. For example, you can count the teeth, or take a picture of it while it's next to something cool looking. Woohoo! 69 teeth on the ring gear, 14 teeth on the countershaft. Those liars, it's not really 4.928, it's 4.9285714285714285714285714285714

Or how about a Quaife LSD. Yeah, this piece is definitely the most expensive block of metal ever. I saved up for that thing forever. I tracked it via UPS for a week while it made it's journey via UPS ground. I rushed home for a quick lunch break that day, opened up my quaife labeled box, and there it was, another block of metal that I spent a lot of money on. Woohoo! Things you can do with a quaife while not in your car include: Looking at it, screwing the bolts into it and back out of it, taking pictures of it, and set it next to something neat looking. And that's about it. I started to wonder what was crazier. Quaife for developing a product that costs so much money? Or the fact that I am paying for it, and I'm super excited about it. I'll leave you to decide that one.

Then there's an intake manifold. Woowee, definitely not much to do with this thing. Although I am still pretty stumped at how they make them. But nevertheless, it's just a chunk of aluminum. Things to do with an intake manifold is, leave it around for your friends to admire (they won't). Polish it (it will take FOREVER and it's not worth it), look at it, take pictures of it, set it next to something cool and take pictures of it, test out the threads with screws (whaddyaknow, they screw in!) Also, I almost forgot, it's great fun when you let your friends yell out engine noises while blowing into the TB inlet. H-I-L-A-R-I-O-U-S

AHHAHahaha, and then there's the clutch/flywheel/pressure plate. Yep, here we go again. Look at it, take pictures of it, lay it next to something cool and take pictures of it, ask yourself why you realllllllllly need all this stuff.

X engine / Y trans adapter plates. Although they're very useful in what they do, they are definitely not made to look very cool. I was way too excited about this thing. It came in the mail, I furiously opened the box. I had the expression of a kid about to open his big gift on christmas morning. I opened the box, and there it was. My excitement immediately stopped. Yep, another piece of metal. This one was blue though, which was kinda cool. And it was made of aluminum. I layed it on the table and took a picture of it. After I was done admiring how it looked (20 seconds later) I took one quick picture, wrapped it back up, placed it in it's corresponding box and placed it with the rest of the other boxes in my closet. There it was with it's family of greatness.

On the other hand, Sony PSPs are very exciting, hacked PSPs are even more exciting. I got one of these gems recently. And yeah, I got all the hacked software loaded on my PSP (cause I'm cool) These things are definitely the coolest things since sliced bread. I hate that simile by the way, anyways, this PSP of mine is definitely going to slow my car project down. I have all these sweet applications for it, and more illegally downloaded games for it than I can think of (which I of course own original legit versions of all of and these files that I download are never played and only used as learning/testing purposes only) Speaking of which, Sony's gaming division plans on losing 1.7 BILLION dollars this quarter. So that means that everyone that makes any amount of money at all during Q1 of 2007 (or at least manages to lose no more than 1,699,999,999.99 dollars) will offically make more than sony's gaming division.

Car parts, although they're very useful with their function, are otherwise worthless as anything else (: (EDIT: I take that back. I have yet discovered another very important and effective function of these blocks of metal. Yep, you got it. Impressing women.)

All right well brown santa woke me up early (UPS MAN) so I'm going back to sleep.