Alex’s Honda Ruckus Photos

Some other facts about the Ruckus and everything that the guy gave me with the purchase. First off the Ruckus color is gunmetal which was only made in 2008 and I have never seen another gunmetal color Ruckus in Louisville. It also came with a ton of performance parts and tools that he just threw in with the deal! The items included were a Leo Vince exhaust ($325), a under seat bag ($100), a modified air box ($100), a new rear shock ($125), a racing coil and plug ($75), a new carburetor that is not installed yet ($225), Ruckus manual ($50), racing clutch spring ($20), upgraded variator + weights ($75), new mirrors ($35), kevlar drive belt ($35), digital tachometer ($50), 2 x carburetor jet kit ($70), variator tool ($35), various air filters ($30), and all of the original parts.

Once I got some time I reshimmed the valves in the engine and rejetted the carburetor and the Ruckus is running pretty smooth at this point! I could not be happier with my purchase. Plus Martin just got a Ruckus two days ago so the posse of Ruckus owners in the Highlands is growing pretty quickly! I think I know of 10 Honda Ruckus owners in the Highlands and 4 of them are friends of mine. We have a couple other friends outside of the Highlands all the way out to Taylorsville, KY who come and ride with us.

Other than working on the Ruckus I haven’t been doing much else but working like crazy! I could not be happier with my job to date and look forward to some of my side work slowing down so I can 100% concentrate on my new job and getting my load balancer skillz up to par with everyone else on the team which should be a challenge since we have some really smart guys on our team. It is really nice to work with a huge group of guys that are top notch at what they do!

Amy and the kids are great! Alba has been going to “school” twice a week and she loves it. Seems she is much better taking naps there than she is at home! Also Haley and Amy had a gymnastics banquet tonight and Amy got voted “Coach of the Year” which is a huge honor for her. I know she deserved it so that is really cool she got recognized for that. Also I finally got Amy a new Macbook Pro and a iPhone to boot so she is all decked out with the latest Apple products. It is nice to finally be able to get the family some of the things I have been promising them.

As great as the trip was it was equally great to get home and see Alba and Haley. This week is Spring Break so its fairly relaxed around the house. Amy and I are celebrating our third anniversary today! The past three years has been amazing and as time goes on things seem to just get better and better. Amy and I are going to have a night on the town to celebrate in the near future. I am headed to Las Vegas tomorrow night and won’t be back until late Monday.

My little sister Abigail had a baby shower on Saturday which meant that my oldest sister Lisa was in town from Atlanta. On Sunday night we all had dinner at my Mom’s house which was a lot of fun. It was the first time that I had been together with all three of my sisters at the same time in  way too long!

Also great weather in Louisville recently so hopefully it will last for Derby time! I promise to continue updating on a much more regular basis! Don’t forget to check out the media gallery located in the right hand navigation menu! Over the past couple weeks I have uploaded thousands of pictures… mostly of the girls but also of some trips, my office, and some other random stuff.

To catch up with what Alba and Haley have been up to check out the Media gallery by clicking the link in the right column. Haley is still a Cheerleader for the Hawks, doing great in school, and sending more text messages than the rest of our extended family combined. Alba has developed quite a personality and enjoys doing everything she can by herself.

It has been an awesome year. I worked for Halo most of last year but scaled back hours right at the end of last year and now I am working with HP Enterprise Design Services which is awesome so far. Martin and I turned the old computer shop also know as Computer Rehab into the Question Defense offices. We basically made a living room on Bardstown Rd. in the Highlands and now we both work from there. So work wise things haven’t been better than they are now in years if ever.

The past year I have also been lucky enough to go on a bunch of trips which included Wilmington, Las Vegas, St. Augustine, Disney World, Nashville, and Huntsville. There are tons of pictures from many of the trips in the photo gallery which can be reached by clicking the Media link in the right column.

Tomorrow Amy and I are off to California for our first solo trip in almost two years so we are super excited for some solo time. Hopefully it won’t be so long until my next post.

What I found out was that 60% of states were represented in the NCAA Tournament this year. I wonder if the tournament committee tries to represent as many states as possible in an attempt to draw more viewers to the tournament games on TV thus making more money. I have no idea if this is the case but it would seem to be a possibility. I would be curious to see what other people think.

Total States Represented In The 2010 Men’s Basketball Tournament: 30

States Represented In The 2010 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament:
**NOTE: Format –> Alphabetical Order –> State(Number of Teams in 2010 NCAA Tournament)
Arkansas(1), California(3), District of Columbia(1), Florida(2), Georgia(1), Illinois(1), Indiana(3), Iowa(1), Kansas(2), Kentucky(3), Maryland(2), Michigan(1), Minnesota(1), Missouri(1), Montana(1), Nevada(1), New Mexico(2), New York(3), North Carolina(2), Ohio(3), Oklahoma(1), Pennsylvania(4), South Carolina(2), Texas(7), Tennessee(3), Utah(2), Vermont(1), Virginia(2), Washington(2), West Virginia(1), Wisconsin(2)

Total States Not Represented In The 2010 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament: 20

States Not Represented In The 2010 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament:
**NOTE: Format –> Alphabetical Order
Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Idaho, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Missippi, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Wyoming

State With Most Teams In The 2010 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament:
**NOTE: Format –> Ordered By Seed –> Team(Seed)
Texas: 7 Total Teams Including:  Baylor(3), Texas A&M(5), Texas(8), University of Texas El Paso(12), Houston(13), Sam Houston St.(14), North Texas(15)

Alphabetical List Of States With Number Of Teams In The 2010 NCAA Tournament:

Alphabetical List Of States With Most Teams Per Capita:

State With Most Teams Per Capita In 2010 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament:
Vermont :: 1 team per 621,760 people

Most Populus State With No Teams In The 2010 NCAAA Basketball Tournament:
New Jersey :: Population: 8,707,739

Second Most Populus State With No Teams In The 2010 NCAA Basketball Tournament:
Arizona :: Population: 6,595,778

Third Most Populus State With No Teams In The 2010 NCAA Basketball Tournament:
Massachusetts :: Population: 6,593,587

Ranking Of States With Most Teams Per Capita:
**Note: District of Columbia Displayed In The List But Not A State So It Is Not Ranked

New Personal Blog Energy & Enthusiasm:

I got energized again about this site when I got a comment posted to an article regarding my Grandfather’s obituary. My Grandfather, whose name was John Hallett Clark III though all of the grandchildren called him Boo rightfully named so by one of my sisters because his birthday was on Halloween,  passed January 7th, 2009 in a nursing home here in Louisville, KY. Anyhow the comment related to some books purchased at a yard sale years ago in Essex Fells, NJ which happens to be my Grandfather’s birthplace. I have been emailing back and forth with the person and it appears that the books were given to my Great Grandfather by my Great Great Grandfather. I will post a follow up once I know what the outcome is.

Louisville Snow Reaches 6+ Inches With More On The Way:

Last night we got a bit over six inches of snow here in Louisville. Amasetta decided to take Alba out for the first time and it was really cute. I got to witness the entire event from my office window. Below is a picture of Alba’s first day in the snow.

Alba Ventures Out Into The Louisville Snow For The First Time:

Alba wasn’t so sure what she should be doing in the snow but regardless she had a great time with Momma, her big sister Haley, and Haley’s friend Ellen. We are supposed to get another three inches tonight and the snow is expected to stay on the ground for another week or so and hopefully Miss Alba Scout will make another appearance out front sitting in the snow.

Survived The 2009 Holidays Without Much Hassle:

Since the last time I posted a ton has happened though nothing much out of the ordinary. We made it through the holidays and it was a pretty amazing time with Alba just having turned 1 and Haley just having turned 10. Both of the girls racked in on presents and were angels through the 100 family events we trekked around to in November, December, and into January. Typically when I am in Louisville for the Holidays it becomes a little overwhelming having to go so many places while trying to enjoy the vacation around that time however this year it wasn’t a drag at all. I think there is something to be said for being such a proud “da-da”. We did also go to Atlanta to stay with my sister and her family for Thanksgiving and we had a blast. Other than going to the Atlanta Aquarium(pics coming soon!) we really just hung out around their house which provided plenty of quality time to catch up. I miss my oldest sister and having a bunch of time together like that was really cool.

Halo Monitoring’s Technology Is Amazing: We Save Lives!

Work has been great. Not only is Halo still trucking along but we have signed some interesting partnership recently that should define the upcoming year. We have some solid initial investors that have provided us more financial backbone until we finalize C round funding. Our myHalo product is amazing and the technology is becoming extremely stable as we put more and more customers on it.  The number of seniors who have had falls detected by the myHalo system continues to rise and its pretty amazing hearing from the seniors children when they tell you they feel like you saved their parents life. I imagine this number will continue to explode for us since there is nothing else that comes close to our technology on the market.

Question Defense Tools, QD Security Audit Tools, QD Advanced Technology:

Outside of Halo I have been doing a ton of work with www.question-defense.com. We recently launched a Tools section that includes a Online WPA Password Cracker, a Online MD4/MD5/NTLM Hash Cracker, and a Online SHA1 Hash Cracker. The WPA Cracker is a very unique service to have online and the hash crackers are fairly amazing as well with the ability to go through over 450 million combinations per second. I have been working with a friend I recently reconnected with that is a core Backtrack developer. We have a bunch of plans in the works for Question Defense and the tools section including more advanced dictionary selections and a Online RaR Password Cracker. Question Defense continues to grow in daily visitors and is currently doing over 4,000 unique visitors on a daily basis which makes it around the 85,000th most visited site in the world with the US accounting for just over 35% of the visits.

Alex Kah Dot Com… The Future!

Anyhow hopefully I will get some time in the next week or so to upload pictures and try to get back in the groove of doing a better job splitting time between technical articles and personal blog posts.