Archived News starting from 09-29-2008 and earlier
BlogAfter the Cougar Whisperer fixed my alarm issue, the grinding noise I kept hearing got louder. Initially thinking it was a bearing, I finally
examined the wheel hubs and discovered my rear brakes had been
severely neglected. Having changed my front brakes 3 times, my stock rear pads had finally worn down to bare metal thanks to a caliper seize. My trip to get the rotors turned ended badly when both rotors flew off my motorcycle and into traffic, rolling to the curb behind me (well at least one did, for all I know the other one is lodged in somebodies radiator). Now the brakes responsible for 20% of my braking are
back to 100%, which by multiplication means I can now stop 2,000% better!
After a less than exciting day at our Garage Sale, we were visited by
Ron and Jen for operation Ron's Cougar Storage. On completion, and after a refill at Steak & Shake, my complaints about my malfunctioning alarm system on my car prompted a diagnosis from Ron. A quick internet search and 7 taps of my hood latch sensor later it was all better. The Cougar whisperer told me it was in a diagnostic mode the whole time, immune from battery resets. Only the tap sequence could save it from continuous alarm (annoying even with the fuse pulled). He also brought a successfully extended Wii sensor bar I
asked for earlier, requiring a jerky showing of The Love Guru over my less than reliable network connection as a thank you. I even had to call off the
L.A. ICE sting I had planned, especially now that he's on track to being less Canadian than me.
Today I was given a reason to live again,
Enorym 24/7! After
Enorym found the service, which re-broadcasts video from your internet-enabled phone, he quickly got over 30 viewers glued to their screens. The life of Enorym has eclipsed all other entertainment options and I predict it will soon replace all media broadcasts. Catch a glimpse of your future, a vegetable slave to the entertainment of Enorym. Highlights today include vehicle quality commentary, disturbing video download, call from a disgruntled customer and co-worker arrival. All with the constant "boss background noise."
Typically, the only gaming achievements I care about are my
Xbox achievements. Without them, my satisfaction of accomplishment would not exist and I simply would not play games. The points have no purpose other than bragging rights, but that's the only value needed for an obsessive compulsive nerd such as myself.
EternalOne likes to tell me Steam came out with achievements before Xbox, and tries to tempt me into playing, but his lies do not fool me. Today he finally gave up trying to get me to play, and instead made the smart move of offering up Marco to get them for me. The temptation was sufficient to surrender my account credentials and now I can say I have an achievement farming operation
in progress.
After reading various praises about
Seafoam, and watching their Pepridge Farms themed
how-to video, I decided to spend the $7 and give it a shot. My constantly excited neighbor decided to join me in the test for maximum smokification. While I'm not sure how well it actually cleaned my engine or did any of the other magic things it claims, it did make a nice
smoke show for the whole neighborhood to enjoy.
After years of crafting the perfect comment to crash my famously robust Microsoft Access database,
Stavos finally found the right combination to
bring it to it's knees yesterday. There's some debate if my file transfer for the last update completed properly since the
error points to file permissions, but the comment posted by the senator unquestionably brought down the corporate empire that is my website. For up to 5 minutes, I was unable to spew my rants into the interweb tubes, and there was peace in the world. Fortunately I was able to turn it back on and order was restored.
Enorym and I came up with a
technical brief attempting to describe how totally awesome this upcoming engine technology is. I wait patiently for my 2012
Focus RS.
With my
weather station losing first it's
thermo-hygrometer sensor, then the rain gauge, coupled with
last Wednesdays Gnome Cam outage, both of which occurred on 9/11, I can only assume I'm being targeted by terrorists. The gradual crippling of my outside measurement devices and webcam is intended to keep me in the dark since they know I don't look out windows. It's a race against time to get my new weather sensor (ironically
delayed by bad weather) up and running before I have to give in to their demands, most likely to stop transmitting my pirate weather signal to the world, so they can control the world through weather.com.
After
Jaird and Melanies Reception, the Schwartz's, Kelleys and Kendziors stopped by for some
more Rock Band in the torrential downpour leftovers of Hurricane Ike. "Green Grass and High Tides" by the Outlaws on Medium difficulty had a few of us ready to murder the band for creating such a difficult song. We took a break and made Schwartz
Hulahoop on the Wii Fit for our entertainment, which ended with the
classic shake from Lisa. Re-energized from watching Schwartz rotate her hips suggestively, we finally conquered the song with Lisa doing an impressive job on
medium difficulty drums while the guitarists timed their overdrives to keep everyone in the green.
An online collaboration last night with Jaird on Rock Band necessitated creating an
Xbox LIVE account for Lisa. After completing the sign up, all her achievement points from playing locally immediately transferred to her new
online gamer card, effectively ending my point farming scheme I had her locked into. Now that she can get her own gamerpoints, all hope of catching up with
Whineyho is gone, and my lead over Jaird is in jeopardy. On the plus side, online multi player Rock Band was more entertaining than I thought it would be.
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