Nissan GTR; An.... Honor...?

Forbes.com just conferred another great honour on Godzilla, the Nissan GTR. According to their research, the GTR is the most expensive car to insure (apart from the super-expensive supercars, of course).

Here's the list:

Most Expensive Cars to Insure

No. 1 Most Expensive: Nissan GT-R
Sports car
$2,533

No. 2 Most Expensive: Dodge Viper
Sports car
$2,446

No. 3 Most Expensive: BMW M6
Sports car
$2,236

No. 4 Most Expensive: Ford Shelby GT500
Sports Car
$2,186

No. 5 Most Expensive: Mercedes-Benz G-Class
SUV
$2,088

And here are the losers:

Least Expensive Cars to Insure

No. 1 Least Expensive: Hyundai Santa Fe
SUV
$832

No. 2 Least Expensive: Kia Sportage
SUV
$840

No. 3 Least Expensive: Hyundai Entourage
Minivan
$848

No. 4 Least Expensive: Kia Sedona
Minivan
$857

No. 5 Least Expensive: Kia Rio5
Passenger
$870

Friday Workout

Cardio : Elliptical

Time taken = 1 hr

Distance covered = 6.24 miles

Calories burnt = 732

Thursday Workout

Cardio : Elliptical

Time taken = 2 hrs

Distance covered = 11.38 miles

Calories burnt = 1,324

Tuesday Workout

Cardio : Elliptical

Time taken = 90 minutes (1.5 hrs)
Distance covered = 8.87 miles
Calories burnt = 1,037

Cafe Silan, Menlo Park, CA - Restaurant Review

Cafe Silan is in downtown Menlo Park, at 867 Santa Cruz Ave, Menlo Park, CA.

This is a small, Kurdish restaurant, with some pretty tasty dishes. My favorites:

- The appetizer - flat bread with dip. The dip is delicious!
- Some pizza with keema or ghosht on it. Very simple, and very good. To completely change the flavor, try it with the spicy sauce on the tables
- Salad with kebabs. The kebabs were good, but the salad was excellent!

Silan is on my once-a-quarter restaurant list now

Saturday Workout

Had to go play golf, so a short workout before:

Cardio: Elliptical

Time Taken = 30 minutes
Calories burnt = 324
Distance covered = 2.79 miles

Weights:

Biceps - 2 exercises of 4 sets each, for a total of 8 sets
Triceps - 1 exercise of 4 sets, for a total of 4 sets
Shoulders - 1 exercise of 4 sets, for a total of 4 sets

Played 18 holds of golf on Saturday, and again on Sunday

Monday Workout

A tougher cardio workout today.

Elliptical:

Time taken = 3 hours (180 minutes)
Distance covered = 17.86 miles
Calories burnt = 2,082 calories

Sunday Workout

Saturday, I played golf in Sunol. Not sure how much exercise that is.

Sunday: Abs.

Regular crunches: 5 sets of 20 crunches each, for a total of 100 crunches
Left-twist crunches: 5 sets of 20 crunches each, for a total of 100 crunches
Right-twist crunches: 5 sets of 20 crunches each, for a total of 100 crunches

Total = 300 crunches

NBC Fail

I would like NBC to lose enough money that it has to shut down. And ABC to at least fire their entire sports-related teams. Let me explain why:

NBC:

NBC has the rights to show the French Open Men's Semifinals this morning. The matches started at 5 am PST today, Friday, June 5th.
You have the opportunity to watch arguably the greatest to ever play the game, Roger Federer. In the other match, you have the cinderalla, who has already dispatched the world's greatest Clay Court player (and a possible arguable greatest ever to play the game, Rafael Nadal).

So when you switch on NBC, what do you see? Why, Dave Matthew's Band, Tom Brokaw, and the rest of the idiots from their morning show. Interspersed with ads from our local carpet dealer. They've decided we can wait until 10 am PST (on a workday!) to watch the matches. That made me develop my first symptoms of high blood pressure.

I am pissed off at NBC. Very pissed off. This is exactly what they did during the Olympics - while also lying about having the broadcasts live.

So what am I going to do about it? I am going to stop watching NBC. Anything on NBC. And I'm going to bad-mouth NBC whenever I can. I like Conan O'Brien. So I'm going to watch him free on YouTube. Hah!

ABC:

ABC won the rights to show the NBA Finals. I know, I know, the NBA season is unreasonably long. But after all that time, we've gotten to the point where we can see Superman and Skip-to-my-Lou go up against the Black Mamba and 9-time winner Phil Jeannie Buss. Kobe, at this point, is in the "best ever" discussions. And had a game to prove it last night. What I would have loved to have seen after the game would be some great analysis, interspersed with humor, etc. etc.... ok, I would have loved to have the TNT Inside The NBA crew (EJ, Barkley, Kenny) take us through the game.

Do you know what I saw instead? A local Oakland crew. Three guys - at least I know/ like Nate Thurmond. The other expert they brought in was the Warriors assistant coach for shooting for big men, or something. No disrespect, but.... And they kept trying to work the Warriors into everything. Kept talking about Michael Pietrus, and showing clips of him as a Warrior. WTF!?!?!?

Ok, so ABC wasn't as bad as NBC. I'm not going to bad-mouth them as much as I will NBC. But I'm quite unhappy.

NBC and ABC suck lemons. I want NBC to fail.

Thursday Workout

Cardio: Elliptical

Time taken = 1.5 hours, or 90 minutes
Distance covered = 8.63 miles
Calories burnt = 1,006 calories

Weights:

Shoulders: 2 exercise of 4 sets each, for a total of 8 sets
Triceps: 1 exercise of 4 sets
Back: 1 exercise of 4 sets

Total: 16 sets

Wednesday Workout

Cardio: Elliptical

Time taken = 1 hour
Distance covered = 5.71 miles
Calories burnt = 665 calories

Weights: Continuing with this new workout regimen

Shoulders: 1 exercise of 4 sets
Biceps: 1 exercise of 4 sets
Back: 2 exercises of 4 sets each for a total of 8 sets.
Total = 16 sets

Tuesday Workout

I'm trying out a new approach on the weights for a few days. Lets see how it goes.

Cardio: Elliptical
Time taken = 1 hour
Distance covered = 5.90 miles
Calories burnt = 690

Weights: Three body parts - two with an average workout, one with a minor workout

Biceps: 2 exercises of 4 sets each for a total of 8 sets
Triceps: 2 exercises of 4 sets each for a total of 8 sets
Shoulders: 1 exercise of 4 sets

So a total of 20 sets