At least it's not a 1980s Subaru. In actuality, it's actually pretty damned sparse in there. But, I'm annoyed that I couldn't find anyone local who carried 12mm ID hose so I could clean up those big lines that should be connected to the currently-removed air cleaner housing....
I bought this earlier today. Reportedly all C6s with the FE bolt pattern and which were made from 1972–197? (the end of the 6th gen F-series run) are essentially interchangeable. So I've got a used unit out of a 1975 truck that had a 360 or 390 in front of...
Layla and I watched The Madness of King George earlier tonight. The film was good, but that's not what this post is really about. I've had a good deal of exposure to British history in school and on my own in the last dozens of years, but one of the...
Mr. Rob W. informs me that /dev/null is still blocked by the Chinese government. I'm not sure what I said to piss them off, but it's clear I'm too much of a corrupting influence on the citizenship....
I've been taking the bus lately as I leave the Porsche parked in the garage pending diagnosis of a misfire at idle. Detangling a prior owner's mess of broken electrical connectors and freely vented vacuum hoses (???) has proven to be more time-consuming than originally anticipated. But anyway, the bus....
Layla and I recently watched The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters, about the still-fervent races to set record scores on classic arcade games like Donkey Kong and...well, it's mostly about Donkey Kong. This is great stuff even if you aren't into Galaga and such. It's a good story...
After all, where the hell else could you find an 8" radiator hose pick for $2.99? And one with colored plastic in the shape of a spork on the side, to boot? I ran across this earlier today at the local Harbor Freight while looking for a timing light to...
I had a 4-day weekend, but I'm glad to be back at work doing the things that I enjoy doing here....
Layla and I went to see Get Smart on Friday. It was good—not groundbreakingly awesome, but very solid and well worth the watch. The most interesting thing is that apparently we went to see it on opening night, and we were asked to fill out questionaires about us (demographics) and...
It appears the onset of summer heat has killed my cable connection. The cable modem appears to have survived, but it looks like the heat has affected the cable enough to make my already questionable signal completely unacceptable. On the odd occasion that I'm actually getting a signal, my modem...
I'm taking yesterday and today off, so I get a 4-day weekend this week. It took me a bit longer than expected to unwind originally, but now I'm 100% checked out. So far today all I've done is go on a run, drive to Seattle solely to get lunch at...
While refreshing some components of the electrical system earlier, I apparently neglected to firmly seat all of the spark plug wires fully into the distributor cap. The net effect was that the engine ran a little rough and died once or twice while driving around. One of these times I...
I've been watching a lot of crime dramas lately. So this article on how cops really want to police sparked my interest when I saw it earlier today. It's an interesting read. I was struck in a couple of cases by how much these guys get away with (or claim...
I'm really annoyed with dandelions. They had taken over both our front and back lawns well before we bought our house, and now I have to deal with the infestation. The photo at right shows a particularly bad example. The weeding tool that came with the house helps immensely, but...
I don't underwrite mortgages. But if I did, I'd probably stay the hell away from issuring loans against manufactured homes. The minute that the loan principal is higher than the value of the home, the lender would be at risk of losing money if the owner defaulted on their obligation....
This is the first weekend in quite a while when I've been able to unwind completely and do absolutely nothing. Normally I don't like to do nothing but it was sortof a necessity after doing something for the last several months. So for the last two days I've been doing...
Layla and I watched Word Wars earlier this week, so naturally, we bought a copy of Scrabble. And the first game we played was stupendously horriffic on my side. I managed to only get 2 Es the entire game (that's a 1-in-1024 shot?) and somehow managed to have the above...
It took 3 hours to get this working. I'm not sure who to blame: Belkin, for a potentially crappy DHCP server, or Roku, for a potentially crappy DHCP client. Either way, switching over to my Linksys access point for DHCP fixed the problem. Of course, I added the Belkin in...
The Netflix player arrived yesterday and Layla was able to get it set up on our Wifi easily enough, but it fails to "connect to the local network" (whatever that means). It does request a DHCP lease so I know the layer-2 stuff is working just fine—and DHCP is difficult...
I listened to an interview with Richard Preston last night on KUOW. Preston wrote The Hot Zone over a decade ago, and he's just published a new book, Panic in Level 4, which is based on a bunch of essays he wrote for the New Yorker. I admit that I...
We tried Netflix's Watch Now option a while back, but it was kindof clunky and getting the PC wired into the TV was always a hassle (the Xbox 360 is the only way we pull Media Center into the living room). So I ordered the Netflix Player a few days...
Today was my first day in my new building. In fact, that's it in the photo to the right. Except that now it's like decades after this picture was taken. But the building is still two stories, and I'm on the ground floor in a part of the building that...
Anyone remember the Book It! program that rewarded halfway-literate kids with free Personal Pan pizzas? Man, that was a great marketing move on Pizza Hut's part. I bet those little pizzas were incredibly cheap to make (they were made offsite and frozen, right?) and the "I've earned a free pizza"...
I adjustorated the valves on the 914 today. I was able to do the whole job with a flathead screwdriver and a single wrench, although it did take 4 hours to complete. I also changed the fluid out in the transmission. There's a ton of access to the transmission (see...
Even though the engine on the Porsche is covered by a mere sliver of a hood, it's actually pretty easy to work on. The flat engine layout makes it really easy to get at practically everything on top of the cylinders, and the low and long trunk does wonders for...
Part of my office move involves taking home a bunch of crap that I'd rather not have the moving people mess with. So, laptop, poster, and a smallish box full of framed stuff. The box and the poster filled most of the front trunk. The laptop bag filled at least...
Seattle is fairly far north. Not like, Iqaluit north, but pretty far up there. The first thing that probably comes to mind when you think "north" and "daylight" is that the winters must be comparatively dark. This is true. The second thing that probably comes to mind is that the...
For the next 2 days I have to wear pants to the office. No shorts. This feels strange and wrong....
One of the best parts about having resident rabbits is that they eat dandelions like crazy. I approve. The only downside: rabbit poop. Not approved!...
I ran across this photo today while tagging newer shots. Good times....
