Paved Earth

2011 Thanksgiving Tahoe

hoisumguo — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 21:36:39 +0000

This Thanksgiving was an amazing time filled with awesome food, family, friend and lots of fun activities.

Oakland Trivia – Who is Perry C. Fry?

Marc — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 05:02:14 +0000

In the end of summer, many homeowners go about the arduous task of fixing the house before the rainy winter season stars. This particular project was to fix the chimney that the kitchen contractor had run into a while back. Some masonry work was needed, but the poor chimney flue took the brunt of the [...]

Crocker Highlands Drama – Emperor’s New Clothes

hoisumguo — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 01:53:08 +0000

Crocker Highlands Drama recently put on a performance of “The Emperor’s New Clothes’”

Talking Lion Phone on The Good Wife found

hoisumguo — Wed, 06 Apr 2011 07:07:56 +0000

Tonight’s episode of the The Good Wife “Wrongful Termination” had a cute bit around one of the characters talking on a speakerphone featuring a small plush lion toy which moved it’s mouth as the character on the speakerphone talked. This had to be the absolutely funniest bit of the week but completely misplaced product-wise is [...]

Honda CR-Z with aftermarket HKS Racing Suction Reloaded intake

hoisumguo — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:32:27 +0000

Installation was pretty simple. The majority of the installation can be done away from the vehicle and then just put in place. To be noted that pre-attaching the aluminum heat shield made the installation more difficult than it should be. It would be much easier to install the heat shield in place and then attache [...]

Noblesse CR-Z parts landed!

hoisumguo — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 03:01:53 +0000

Thanx to Jason at Bulletproof Automotive the Noblesse parts have arrived! Now being tortured by weather (stupid rain) and not being able to install. NOTE: The diffuser does not come with reflectors (if it was posted, I missed that somewhere), so transfer of the OEM grid fillers, purchase of reflectors or rear light replacements [...]

CR-Z Night Shots

hoisumguo — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 03:55:25 +0000

It’s interesting how sometimes you can be just fiddling around and you grab something that you end up liking. After getting car washed the top floor of the garage was empty and seemed like a good opportunity to break out the camera and try out some shots. As usual a lot of the shots were [...]

CR-Z Volk Racing Formula Lug nuts

hoisumguo — Sun, 27 Feb 2011 04:53:07 +0000

First set of lug nuts from Wedsport that were put on the Honda CR-Z ended up being far to pink as oppose to the listed red. The Volk Racing Formula lug nuts came recently and are much more true red and with the base being chrome will keep the color as an accent and not [...]

Honda CR-Z black interior

hoisumguo — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 01:28:56 +0000

Finally was able to finish and reassemble the interior of the CR-Z. All of the legacy grey interior is now gone and replaced by black and red leather seats, black console, black pillars, and black headliner. The mod makes the cabin quite a bit darker so some augmentation of the lighting other than the previously [...]

Cosmos vs Vipers

hoisumguo — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 02:13:46 +0000

Soccer game today between the Cosmos and the Vipers at Atlantic Two field in Alameda. Game was lost by the Cosmos 0-to-2 but it was a fun game with lots of action.