I’ve been slacking in the blog department. It’s lost its appeal once again.
In the news…
I hope to have it inspected shortly.
Though I don’t think Washington said those words, from the Treaty of Tripoli.
Cool Video. I’m glad they put forth the effort to construct great engineering feats. Too bad the rest of their culture is 500 years behind.
Clever. A Web 2.0 to end your lame web 2.0 life. The Suicide Machine.
Instead of you going through your account to remove all your friends and clear out your profile. You can let that website and it’s “app” do it for you.
Very clever, I thought. However, If you really want to drop out of the ridiculous Twitter/Facebook/Myspace world, you should just… stop.
Stop using them. Who cares whether or not your profile has “friends”. If you don’t visit the site, it shouldn’t matter.
Still, the website offers some way to prevent you from going back. I didn’t read up on the details, but I’m sure there’s a way around it when you coffee-shop pseudo-sophisticates go through withdrawal. Up, too late, it’s been baninated.
It’s okay crazy lady, I punched through the freezer door at Wally World when I learned about the Waffle Shortage of 2009.
Threats against prosecutors and judges are on the rise. Read the story, but then read some of the comments for the real truth:
It is not unexpected that threats against these liberal, left-wing, anti-American judges is on the increase. They destroy the U.S. Constitution at every opportunity, keep thugs on the street to rape, rob, murder and injure U.S. citizens in order to protect illegal aliens and Islamic thugs.
You guys in New York City better start looking for a new home because once Muslim Obama’s brothers from GITMO arrive and are protected by the Federal judges, Iran may well provide nukes to some terrorists to make martyrs of that GITMO bunch!
Rather than support, protect, and defend the U.S. Constitution, these black-robed thugs are destroying it and our Constitutional rights at every opportunity. If they lived in the Muslim countries, they would already be hanging from bridges.
Thanks DonRon. It’s so clear now. Only if you are a whiny liberal leftist communist socialist would you ever receive a threat from someone. It couldn’t possibly be because you handed down a long sentence to killers, rapists, etc. It’s only because of your crazy liberal anti-constitutional bench work.
If I were a criminal let back out on the streets, I sure would send the liberal judge who gave me that light (or non-existent) sentence a death threat as soon as I got out.
See, the ones that are stuck in jail for life or longer, the ones properly dispatched by Godly Republicans, I wouldn’t be fulminating back at him in the least!
I can forgive the label, “Smartbook”, since it’s reportedly so cheap. A $200 tablet? I’ve been waiting for something like this before I ever bought a mobile PC again.
From PCWorld:
Next to the 512MB of RAM, up to 64GB of internal storage (microSD expansion) and a 1GHz processor, Freescale’s smartbook tablet features a potentially killer spec: a $200 price tag. Next to an Android or Linux operating system, it also includes Wi-Fi and Bluetooth connectivity and options for a 3G modem.
Sold!
It wouldn’t be so tedious, if they would make things consistent. Well, maybe not consistent, but in-line with what I want.
First, when I have to update Wordpress itself, I’m presented with a prompt to update on the control panel. There are two options, “Upgrade Automatically”, which I can’t use since I don’t like setting all my files to be writable by the web server. The other option is, “See vX.Y Details”. I click on that, which takes me a to a page (still on my website) which allows me to download a zip file. That doesn’t help much since I like to use the tarballs instead (Although, I have a bash script to update my installation for me). To get the tarball (without using the script), I have to go to the main WordPress website.
Upgrading the plugins is even more frustrating, since, for some reason, the plugin vendors insist on releasing a new version right after I install the last one. Multiply that by how many plugins I have, and it’s a pain. What’s frustrating about it, is that there are again two options: “Upgrade Automatically”, and “See version details”. Clicking on the details doesn’t lead to a download link. You have to go to the WordPress plugin page to get the latest zip file.
So, WordPress, here are some changes I would like to see:
This would make it much easier for me to grab the links, switch to my ssh session and get them all at once.
The War on Christmas is over for this year. I received a western saddle for our horse. I tried it out, and Argo was apparently really happy, so he cantered for me.
Which is great since I’ve never cantered on him before. However, the horn functioned as a handy “Oh shit!” bar.
In other news, someone called my grandfather claiming to be a Mountie or something, and said that I am, “in Canadian jail and needs to be bailed out, send money”. Thankfully, my grandfather didn’t fall for it.
The Z had a rear strut bar installed, and hot starting has improved since I drastically reduced the cranking pulsewidths, but it is inconsistent now. At least now it’s too lean rather than too rich. I replaced the battery (that I bought in June), since it was bad. I received a new speed sensor with the correct gear for my differential, however, installing it has proved to be difficult since the old gear housing won’t come out of the transmission, the new sensor housing won’t come apart, and my third option of just putting the gear in another speed sensor I have from a 240SX is moot since the 240SX one also won’t come apart.
In other other news, some Nigerian tried to blow his legs up on a plane on Christmas day, and failed. Then some other Nigerian tried to… try to do something, and failed the day after. The former Nigerian had some chemical strapped to his leg, and a syringe sewn in to his whitey-tighties. He boarded the plane in Nigeria. Big surprise.
And some Health Bill has passed, but I haven’t even looked at it. From what I’ve heard, I’ll die before I receive any benefits.
Apparently my WordPress installation has gone sour, I’ll update it here in a bit.
Road Legal
The Z is now road legal. It passed emissions with flying colors. Except that time it didn’t count, I redid the test for real right afterwords and barely passed. But, you know what they say in Fast & Furious: “It don’t matter if it’s an inch or a mile, winning is winning”.
Thank you Vin Diesel.
I ordered custom plates for it, but I don’t know if they will get the final approval when I go to pick them up….
The car is running really well, cold starts are great, but it still needs a cold idle valve. I have a working one, but I just found out that I welded the old idle valve’s air source shut. Oops.
Hot starts are still a pain, I’m getting mixed signals about what pulsewidths are too lean or rich. But I found that 4% is too lean, and 100% is too rich. So that narrows it down… I’ve got it at 20% (which happens to be about 2.4 ms, the idle pulsewidth anyway), and it works. Sometimes.
We had snow here! We built a snowman!