Here's the follow-up 3k project:
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-3k-Project

I hadn't thought I'd get a sportbike, but my buddy was selling his for cheap and there was a surprising lack of secondhand bikes for under $3K around Montreal. The Ninja's grown on me as it turns out

Is it possible to insure one's bike for only part of the year? I thought it might be but nobody I asked had heard of it. I seem to recall phoning my broker about it and them being all unhelpful, too.

As 9-11 proved, if you're an American, you're already in the war, right here at home.

I normally stay out of the pure politics threads, don't even read them just for this reason, but I saw this quote in recent comments and can't help it here.

We lost once the recounts were done just about 3k people on 9-11. Each and every year, every one, we lose MORE to accidental drowning.

http://www.allcountries.org/uscensus/135_deaths_and_death_rates_from_accidents.html

I'm sorry and I don't mean to minimize what happened, it was as severe a crime as could have happened but they can't destroy us like that. They can propel us toward suicide though and that's exactly what they've done. The real threat is from those who want to turn us into an authoritarian regime over it and they can destroy us from within.

If each and every year without exception another 9-11 happened accidental drowning would STILL be a bigger real world risk than death by domestic terrorism would have been, but it doesn't happen that often. Only happened once. Yeah, I expect it or something similar or bigger probably will again sometime, how else can they keep us on the path toward sure suicide? But I've also no doubt they'll be but a pin prick when history is done telling the tale, the damage will be mostly self inflicted.

9-11 changed nothing. Our reaction to it, panic and our willingness to sell our futures for momentary illusions of safety did. We're no safer now, we're less so. Just more scared.