Sometime before I actually bailed on the grand state of New Mexico, I received a "prayer rug" in the mail. The "rug" was actually an oversized piece of newsprint on which a picture of Jesus was very professionally printed in a two-ink process. Included in the envelope were a number...
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As I mentioned in my last post, Layla and I went to see Video Games Live last night. As a followup to the fact that the organizers had to cancel a bunch of their planned shows due to poor advance ticket sales, I want to say that the show was...
Tonight, Layla and I are going to Video Games Live. For those of you who don't know (which is probably most of you), VGL is an orchestral performance of a bunch of past and present video game soundtracks. I'm sure they're going to play a bunch of stuff from Halo,...
I'll talk about Fargo first because, suprisingly, it's the less-weird of the two. This was the first time I've seen Fargo. I'm sure most of you have seen it already. There's not really much to say about it besides: the Coen brothers are awesome. On to The Secret of Nimh,...
Two years ago (almost to the week) I went to Maui for six days on a business trip. Beyond, you know, meetings and such, much snorkeling and diving was had by all. This was a picture that Ahni gave me because I liked it so much. She took it under...
I've owned a lot of cars. At last count, the number had just cracked two digits (Dart, GL, XT, Volvo, Talon, 4Runner, Bug, Camry, Scirocco, BMW, ...right). I'm not really sure why that is, but I think it may be because I've got a penchant for tiny crapmobiles that only...
So, /dev/null was accidentally down for a few days. Oops. I actually didn't even notice the problem until tomorrow (Edit: I meant yesterday. Am I high?) morning and I would have fixed it except that I don't have SSH tunneling turned on so I need to be at the apartment...
It's 6:30 in the morning and I've actually already been up for over an hour. Since I couldn't really sleep, I decided to fix the script that I've been using to tag my MP3 collection. Some history: I've been accumulating MP3s for a long, long time. At least five or...
That's right. My name. Hot....
So oddly, the weather here has been fantastic today. I'm not sure what this has to do with the following pictures—but whatever. Pictures! Read the label. Seriously. It's likely that you'll have to zoom in to read the label unless you, well, read the paragraph below. Here's what it says:...
That's right. I'm not using the Model M any more. The rationale behind this is really twofold: first, I really don't use my keyboard at home to type English anymore. In fact, this journal probably constitutes around 90% of the typing that I do at home. I really haven't been...
Will pointed me to this music video sometime ... either yesterday or the day before. I don't really remember which. It really doesn't matter. Honestly, I thought it was damned awesome when I first started watching it because I didn't really realize (at all) that it was actually anything other...
Matt was kind enough to link me to this analysis of automotive air filters. It's awesome. I don't expect you to actually, you know, read the report. It's long and drawn out and goes into amazing detail concerning things like how they came to their conclusions. You needn't concern yourself...
Rob has informed me (and you) that he's bought a Miata. Go, Rob. No seriously, though. That's damned hot. So I've mentioned before that I could definitely tolerate a Miata. And by "tolerate," I really mean "slobber all over and throw wads of money at." In fact, the only reason...
ES2005 Gallery OK, it took me forever, and I actually haven't gotten around to actually, you know, making a site for it. Here it is in all the lame-o gallery glory. P.S. It's slow. It's trying to generate galleries on my 300MHz file server, and hand the steaming bits to...
Update: I'm officially derelict of my duty to update this and keep it flowing. So, I'll resticky this post at the top when I actually get around to posting new entries (trust me, I've been busy) but for now, it goes back on the heap. The title is Spanish. Trust...
The Toyota MR2 isn't sold as the MR2 in France. The reason is because that in French, the name would be pronounced emm air deux, which sounds a lot like merde. Merde means shit in French. So it goes. To be honest, I don't think the MR2 is a crap...
Ahem. Bad Aleph...I presume. Bad....
Say I, There are certain acts of abject stupidity which, in my opinion, instantly qualify a person for execution. These points are largely nonnegotiable and include things like, "flying an airplane while drunk," "putting a source of compressed air up your ass," and, "NASCAR." It's indisputable that any one of...
Today involved whole bushels of moving. Wowee. The picture at right was something I grabbed when I image searched for, well, "moving." So yes, lots and lots of moving. For all I care, things can move themselves from now on. I am happy to be disassociated from the whole process....
I moved in approximately mid-May of this year. For those of you with degrees in mathematics, that's about five months ago. Ever since then, the electric account in my name in Socorro has been screwed up. It's been a number of different problems. Apparantely the account didn't get turned off...
I'm really busy this week. And probably for the rest of the month, really. This is why the Spanish posts have been lagging. So here are some pictures. I [heart] pictures. And they're easy to post. This first one is a peach I bought at a farmer's market last weekend....
As you may have guessed, Layla and I have booked some flights recently. In specific, we'll be flying from the Honorable State of New Mexico back to the only state in the union to have been named after a President. ...besides, of course, West Buchanansylvania. But whatever. The whole reason...
I was poking around Expedia (dot com) today, and ran across something interesting. The thing to be aware of here is that, in general, the top "something" is on time 70% of the time, whereas the bottom "something" is on time 60% of the time. But what, exactly, are they...
Some things confuse the living crap out of me. One of these things is a tiny bit of Whatcom county, Washington which actually sits at the end of a peninsula which is otherwise completely Canadian. Take a look. Zoom out to get the context. Yeah, that's nutty, isn't it? I'm...
I had a pretty lengthy post written out (about, specifically, the awesome car situation Layla and I are in which makes buying a crappy autocross car a Really Good Idea) when I accidentally closed the window. So dammit. Dammit dammit dammit. I'm really tired now, so I don't feel motivated...
Last night, Layla and I went up to Bellingham to catch the premier of a (ostensibly student) film called There. There isn't listed in IMDB—I looked. Sometimes, things like that are. Sometimes, they aren't. This time, it wasn't. Nevertheless, the film was really pretty good. It had a good number...
Some of you may have noticed that there was an eclipse a while ago. And, you may also have noticed, the eclipse had prime viewing areas in Morocco and Spain. Except I left a few days before it happened. Damn. During the last week, I've been looking at pictures of...
Last weekend, I ordered a strut tower brace from eBay for the 3. Put simply, a strut tower brace is a piece of metal that connects the very tops of the two strut towers under the hood. The idea is that when turning, these two towers get stretched together and...
This is a copout post because Layla arrived tonight. Behold, supercat. ...and his sidekick, fluffball....
May I gush about Autologic for a minute? Fantastic crew. Their website needs some help. But, great people. I called them up the other day to get the SRS lamp reset on the 3. I had a feeling that the dealership nearby would charge me megabucks for 5 minutes of...
Honestly, duct tape doesn't really fix anything. It's sortof a kludge and leaves a giant mess behind if you ever need to peel it away. Gaffer tape works infinitely better on most everything except ducts, where oddly, aluminium tape is my favorite. But duct tape is always around, even in...
For different reasons, both of my fixes to the 3 yesterday had to be redone. The new dash lamp I installed was slightly brighter than the old ones, so I had to replace those, too. Actually, I was planning on doing this from the start, but the local car store...
I contend that some things really are too shiny to be photographed. Nice ... head. Edit: +5 points to whoever comes up with the best caption for this photo....
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Damn. It looks like these guys are really pulling out all the stops. You have been chosen to participate in an invitation only limited time event! Are you currently paying over 3% for your mortgage? STOP! We can help you lower that today! Answer only a few questions and we...
Ideally, here's what I've got in mind for the 3 (in no particular order):Reset the damned SRS code Hammer out the dent in the front fascia Install the front strut tower brace that I ordered today (woo!) Coolant flush, new water pump, new thermostat New throwout bearing and maybe a...
Well, I've finally fixed the fogs (err, driving lights) on the 3. You may remember that the broken lamp lens was one of the things I commented on right after I bought the car. It took me just about forever to actually get around to doing it, but thankfully I...
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