Kyle Busch Barely Misses Texas "Hat Trick"
11/09/2009
I caught "NASCAR fever" after seeing my first live race in Vegas back in 2003. I am a fan of the incomparable Brothers Busch. Kurt was the hometown boy when I first picked a favorite, but it was his quote about his little brother being the best driver in the family that piqued my interest in Kyle. From the beginning, "Rowdy" may not have always won, he may not have always said or done "the right thing," and he will most likely never be voted "Most Popular Driver," but he has never let me down.
Since I've begun as a "syndicated writer" here at B/R, I've had articles or blurbs from them appear on websites including: jayski.com, cbssports.com, the Wall Street Journal (Digital Edition), Google News, Yahoo Buzz, ask.com, New York Daily News, National Public Radio Topics (topics.npr.org), sporttopix.com, NASCAR News Only, NASCAR Chatline, Motorsport Maniacs, Infield Parking, The Racing Daily, 164mph, and a whole host of others... Of course, many are sites that scrape stories from other sites, but that's still a lot more than I expected...
Within the past few months I have taken up go-kart racing. I am a member of four different kart tracks in the Inland Empire—two electric indoor karting places and two gas-powered karting tracks. I enjoy gas-powered karting the most and spend between two and ten hours a week practicing and/or running mini grand-prix and ironman races. I have a trophy and a medal from my home track—Fast Lap of California—and both have interesting stories behind how I came to receive them...
As for my life outside of racing, I have been programming for over 30 years and building, working on, teaching about, and surfing the net since 1990. I used it extensively for my research in grad school. I team-taught the first ever "Introduction to Computers" class at UCSD that focused primarily on the internet, where our motto was: "You don't have to know any programming to get in, and if you know any after the course is over, it's not our fault."
I have an M.S. and the only ever C. Phil. Degree granted by the UCSD Cognitive Science Department. The C. Phil. degree is no longer official - they sent a letter saying they didn't officially offer the degree, but not until after they had sent the diploma, so it's mine. I studied neural networks and computational neuroscience/theoretical neurobiology for my Master's and Ph.D. theses. I also have a B.A. from UCLA in History (History of Science Emphasis).
I have worked as the founder and head (WebOverlord) of the Web Systems IT Group at EarthLink Networks (1995-1997), technical lead and senior programmer for USWeb/CKS (1997-1999), founder and system administrator for Redgorilla.com (1999-2000), and technical director/consultant for Virtual Interactive (1997-2008). Within the past couple of years I have been a Part-time Guide for Mahalo.com, a search engine Quality Rater for Google, and system admin/architect consultant-on-call for Square-Enix and for SCB Distributors.
thank you..
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/289905-juan-pablo-montoya-are-the-words-sorry-juan-getting-old
9 days ago
No offense taken! It's hard to add/subtract commas when it's not your own words, because they can definitely change the tone the writer was trying to provoke. Glad it helped you think through everything though! :)
14 days ago
no, that's not my sister, significant other, or even anyone i know in my profile picture; it's just another fan with great taste in drivers, hats, jackets, etc. that i ran into recently...
14 days ago
Hey I was just talking about in your quotations... nothing on you. By the way I love your articles. They read really well even for non-nascar fans like myself!
15 days ago
thank you folks!!!
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/282577-jimmie-johnson-was-he-unintentionally-protected-by-the-no-bump-rule?just_published=1
22 days ago
thank you folks!!!
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/282577-jimmie-johnson-was-he-unintentionally-protected-by-the-no-bump-rule?just_published=1
22 days ago
After four months and three days of being a member of B/R, I just posted my 100th article.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/282206-dale-earnhardt-jr-is-back-at-the-house-that-he-and-his-dad-built
22 days ago
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/281159-nascar-chase-top-five-driversthat-could-trick-at-talladega
Am I crazy?
24 days ago
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/279454-dave-rogers-named-as-kyle-buschs-new-crew-chief-starting-in-two-weeks
Kyle's getting a new CC
27 days ago
Thank you
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/278623-juan-pablo-montoya-was-the-racer-his-fans-like-always-attacking?just_published=1
29 days ago
Thank you...
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/278336-bob-griese-stupidity-reigns-in-abcs-broadcast-booth
29 days ago
Hey, Brain. I just wanted to thank you for the fan-add. I appreciate it.
33 days ago
No problem, M Brian. I see your logic about the use of italics.
As for the rule about placing punctuation marks ourside or inside the quotation, I must say it's kind of a contradicting issue for me.
Apart from being taught to place them outside the quotes(if the quoted material is not a full sentence), I read a book which also states that is the right way to do it. But it also points out that this is one of the many diferences between the American use of English and British use of English. So, I guess the American ways are replacing the British ones when it comes to language.
The book that influenced me to make such changes is called "Improve your punctuation" and is written by Graham King and it's part of Collins series about English grammar.
Anyway, you are right about the B/R rules: They state that punctuation should be placed insde the quotation, so you were right to revert it.
Sorry for the inconvenience, Brian.
37 days ago
thank you
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/267625-nascar-johnson-and-martin-are-within-tolerances-after-kansas
47 days ago
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Kelly Crandall said...
DeleteHey Brian,
You want to join our Creature competition for next year?
4 days ago