Donations welcome - nay, needed!

[Peter Jack]

You got the "eh" right Bob!

Pete

[Milwaukee Midget]

Oh, and it gets even more peculiar in Milwaukee.

"Aina', hey?" - which is a contraction of the contraction, "Ain't it, hey?"

A typical "sout sider" of the generation ahead of us youngsters might actually create a sentence worded something like this -

"So he goes down to da Pig and gets a twelver, der, and den he stops by the bubbler, cause you know, you can't drink beer all day, den he tries to park his car over der, where dey go to park da cars side-by-each der, aina' hey?"

It was culture shock moving here from Iowa . . . you betcha babushka . . . 

[Freud]

Now I know the source for the "secret language" if we have another war that needs secure messages.

FREUD

[Moxnix]

My deaf son got new hearing aids last week.  I put on a Bob Marley CD, he liked it.  I put on Paul Simon's Graceland, he liked it.  I put on my beloved Honkytonkitis CD from our Beertown friend and, on track three, he pulled his right hearing aid out.  LeRoy twanging from the bandstand in the town that made Mel Famey walk us, scares kids, but I'll still be using it for background this year.

[Seldom Seen Slim]

NEW POST dated 7 January 2013:

Boyoboy, the subject line of this thread just became way more correct.  This afternoon I was notified that the major sponsor we've had -- Speedway Motors -- is changing its online strategy to concentrate on banner ads on a few key sites -- and landracing.com is not one of those.  In other words -- oh, crap -- I am going to have to beg for money again.

First of all I'm going looking pretty aggressively for a replacement major sponsor - and then, if I haven't found one that'll fit -- then I'll start asking you kind folks to help pay the bills until I can find someone to take care of major expenses.  For the sake of any potential sponsors I'll keep rates and stuff like that unpublished, and also because I don't need to have other website owners trying to grab something (such as knowledge of rates and income) from us without paying us for it.  Remember that I've always tried to keep our sponsors limited to businesses that deal with land speed racing in a solid manner.  That's why you've never seen ads for, say, a nice automated condom dryer on landracing.com.

Hang in there.  If you really want to send some $$ now -- go ahead, and feel free to use the Paypal buttons on the site, or mail a check to landracing.com (the address is here and there on the site, too).  But - there's $$ in the cashbox to keep things going for a while, so don't worry that next time you log in - there'll be nothing into which you can log.

73 -

Jon a/k/a WA8GDW a/k/a SSS

[Seldom Seen Slim]

Wow - a year and a half since I made my most recent plea for funding for the site.  Well, not really -- but this topic is well-titled so I'll ask once again.  We sure could use a good bushel basket or two of $$to keep things running here during this, the hot season of land speed racing.

After all, with SpeedWeek there'll be lots of stuff going on, and the streaming audio from Wilmington and World of Speed and maybe the Shootout -- all take a healthy dollop of cash to do.  Regular expenses don't go on holiday just 'cause we're at the salt - hosting fees and bandwidth and such bills.

Please - use the Paypal button and send in something to help out.  Speaking of income -- Bill Reilly (Wheelrdealer) is interested in us running another AN wrench contest.  With it being only a month or so from SpeedWeek I don't know if you're interested - bot too much thrashing to do, and even more now that some of you are going to the USFRA T&T in a week and a half.   But - the wrench contest was well recieved, if you remember, and did bring in some sorely needed cash.  For that matter -- Milwaukee Midget has tried to get Dynothon #2 up and running but we had only middling interest shown.  And now that he's working 37 hours a day 12 days a week -- I don't expect to hear much from him in the next few days.  So - wrench contest or not?  And donations - please.  Thanks.

[manta22]

Jon;

It will help to put a link to PayPay here and say what name to use for a donation.

Regards, Neil  Tucson, AZ

[4-barrel Mike]

Scroll to the top of the page for the donation button.   

Mike

[Seldom Seen Slim]

Thanks, Mike.  Maybe I should remind one and all that there are Paypal buttons on every page of the Forum and a few other locations on the site, too.  As for what name to use -- click on the PP button and it'll get sent to the site's PP account, and you're welcome to use whatever name you want to tell me who it's from.

And - if you don't use Paypal you're welcome to send your donation via US mail to Landracing.com, 509 Dukes Road, Skandia Michigan 49885.  Thanks for the hint and the help, Neil and Mike.

[manta22]

Jon;

I didn't know who was getting the contribution if the "Donate" button was clicked. Now I do but it might help if it was clear who they were donating to. My name question is now moot. I wondered what name or e-mail you wanted contributors to use to donate money to you. That "Donate" button is already programmed to send it to you. Not everyone knows how this works-- this is why I asked. You do a great job and deserve to be supported.

The next time I call Speedway Motors to order something I'll suggest they re-think the LSR website support.

Regards, Neil  Tucson, AZ

[Seldom Seen Slim]

Well, well -- some of you have come out of the woodwork and donated to keep this site up and running.  Instead of my usual responding via the return address on the Paypal statements I'll list those that have arrived here - both to let them know that their support has arrived, but also to let them publicly bask in the sunshiny aura by being some of them that actively supported the site with $$.  Thanks.

Thanks to Bill Huff, Gary Perkinson, Fred Vance, John Hanson, Neil Albaugh, David Hosley, Phillip Landry, George LeCavalier, Jim Dincau, Skip Pipes, and - one whose name doesn't ring a bell - H & H Structural Contracting.  H&H's donation arrived via a check today, which, most obviously, is a fine alternate way to support the site.  That is -- you don't have to use Paypal if you don't care to.  Send checks, money orders, and what have you to landracing.com, 509 Dukes Road, Skandia Michigan 49885.

Further donations will be welcome and important.  For instance -- we'll have live audio from Wilmington next weekend, and we're going to experiment with video, too.  We have no real idea of how we'll do it - where to put a camera/some cameras, for instance.  Putting them by the microphone at the timing tower means all we need to do it hook the camera's cable to the console.  If we want a camera at the line -- we'll have to either put the console down there or figure out how to get the video that mile from start to timing.  And there's a good-sized cost to stream audio - $100 for one month - can't buy it for only a few days.  Add video and now it's $200 for the month.  Milwaukee Midget and Gregg Adams have been doing most of the hard stuff including getting the hardware together and setting it up at the race track - so thank them.  We're planning on streaming from World of Speed and maybe even the Shootout - and this "practice" will be invaluable for those shows.  And that, friends, is just one reason we need donations to keep things going.  If you know of a company that has a budget that would allow some spending to advertise on this website -- please steer them to me or send me the name of the company or better yet, the name of the person at that company to whom I'll send a solicitation.

Whew.  Thanks to all.  Back to Prairie Home Companion for me.

I added Jim Dincau - whose donation just now showed up.  Thanks, Jim.