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ivan opalka

loves mx and fruit



I'm doing 18 things
  

How I did it
How to make my Honda xr400 street legal
It took me
1 month
It made me
happy

How I did it: I have a 2001 Honda xr400. This model has no battery or electric starter. The standard OEM stator produces only 100W of electric power. I was debating to buy an after market 200W stator. That would supply enough power to all lights, but that was adding another $150 plus installation to the price. After doing some research I have decided to by a Dakar Dual Sport Kit from http://www.electrosport.com. It has a small battery build in it to ke… Read how I did it…

Sep 10, 2008, 11:36AM PDT | 2 comments | 1 cheer


How to own a dirt bike
It took me
7 days
It made me
happy

How I did it: Last year I was invited by my friend Daniel via his friend  Dan to go and ride a dirt bike in the forest.  The offer was Honda xr400 with the full protective gear. How can you resist that. Last time I was sitting on a dirt bike was 20 years ago.  Due to excitement and partly due to the fear I could not  sleep the night before. We went to one of the North West forests designated for off road riding. I was the first … Read how I did it…

Sep 10, 2008, 11:05AM PDT | 0 comments


Recent entries
Make 43 Things Faster (read all 3 entries…)
Updating hardware with 7 new servers 2 weeks ago

We are in process of replacing web servers which some of them have been with us since the beginning and adding a new ones.

- 7 new servers will be put into production by the end of next week.
- adding 28G of memory for memcache
- planning to switch master db with a slave db box since it’s newer and faster
- going to re-index entries and comments tables
- changing architecture of www.43places.com, www.allconsuming.net, www.43people.com and www.listsofbests.com setup to offload traffic from master database to farm of slave servers
- planning to speed up search by doing it locally on each box rather then doing it across NFS mounted drives
- I can not forget about the code optimization in progress

Hopefully this all will contribute to speed and stability of 43T.

Jun 25, 11:33PM PDT | 1 cheer | 0 comments


make my Honda xr400 street legal (read all 2 entries…)
got the license plate 11 months ago

I already got my first parking ticket. Nice

Aug 04, 2008, 04:19PM PDT | 1 cheer | 0 comments


walk 1500 miles (read all 21 entries…)
10mil 1364mil to go 12 months ago

I got back to this over the 4th of July weekend.

Jul 08, 2008, 03:57PM PDT | 1 cheer | 1 comment


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I want to:

The world wants to...

go to california save $500 dollars walk every day stop eating so much junk lose weight and keep it off increase my will power Drink eight glasses of water each day learn how to drive stick-shift kelbelle wants to develop healthier eating habits eat good food Buy a newer car go on more camping trips watch "The Secret" get out of debt buy a home learn photography get a meaningful tattoo Have my first kiss play bass Send something to post secret pfmonaco wants to be more productive act in a feature film write a screenplay Make new friends The_Last_Muse wants to finish learning french Learn Flash volunteer at an animal shelter get a new nickname that everyone calls me instead of my real name
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