Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Kyu's Wedding







not shown: when zoe saturated her diaper and leaked pee all over my pants. sweet!

The pathetic and the sublime

I had lunch with my friend Taras at a so-so phillipino place called Tribu Grill in San Bruno. Parked across the street was this:

The Mercedes high performance division has apparently come a long was with its new Black Series. Who knew it came from such humble origins!
Later that day, on the way to a family friend's wedding I stumbled upon this:

A Ferrari 365 GT 2+2. Beautiful.

One note about AMG. A long time ago, before AMG was part of Mercedes, they made a car called the AMG Hammer, which was a tuned 300E with a massive 5.6 L engine. That a four door luxury sedan could give many supercars of the day a run for the money was pretty impressive, and inspired much teenage car lust. I never actually saw one in real life until much later, when I was visiting my friend Keith in San Francisco. I was still in grad school, so this would have been around 1998 or so. We were walking down Guerrero from his apartment on Fair Oaks and a Hammer came rumbling southbound. The fact that it was a Hammer didn't occur to me at first: I was too busy staring at the driver, who was smoking a cigarette through a long cigarette holder, and at the occupants of the back seat (three prostitutes, or women dressed as prostitutes)! The car pulled a high speed U-turn, then sped off back up Guerrero, at which point we saw the word "AMG" on the left side of the trunk.

life in Grenoble, France as an expat postdoc
life in Grenoble, France as an expat scientist
life in San Francisco, CA as a biotech nerd life in Grenoble, France as an expat scientist

Blog Archive

Popular Posts