Stop! Codon

Truck fun

2010-02-23T07:06:00.002-07:00

The lug nuts on one of my rear wheels unwound yesterday, which ruined the rim and all 5 wheel studs. Luckily the wheel didn't come off all together. I'll have to walk down to big o' tires later today and pick up the truck, which they are fixing.

Sister flies in tonight for a bit of vacation. We're going snowboarding with brother Doug.

Black Sun

2010-02-14T08:38:00.004-07:00

Murderer!
Man of fire.

Murderer!
Ive seen the eyes of living dead.
Its the same game - survival.
The great mass play a waiting game.
Embalmed, crippled, dying in fear of pain.
All sense of freedom gone.

Black sun in a white world.
Like having a black sun in a white world.

I have a son,
His name is Eden.
Its his birthright,
Beyond estranged time.

Give me 69 years,
Another season in this hell.
Its all sex and death as far as I can tell.

Like Prometheus we are bound,
Chained to this rock of a brave new world,
Our godforsaken lot.
And I feel that's all we've ever needed to know,
til worlds end and the seas run cold.

Give me 69 years,
Another season in this hell.
There is sex and death
In mother natures plans.

Like Prometheus we are bound,
Chained to this rock of a brave new world,
Our godforsaken lot.

--Dead Can Dance

Amazon reviewer professes undying love for George Lucas

2010-02-11T07:21:00.001-07:00

All I want in life is one simple thing:
The original Star Wars trilogy as seen in it's original theatrical release, in the best possible format technology will allow: BLU-RAY. That's it.

That means:

Take the original three films (SW, Empire, Jedi), do NOT change the story at all...don't add in new footage, cut old footage, change any story elements...don't make Greedo shoot first, Luke scream, Yoda dress in drag, Threepio with a gold metal boner, Jawas dancing around a campfire as they cook s'mores, Wampa enhancements, CGI-ing a Colt-45 bottle into Lando's hand, putting Jabba's fat sister in the same sexy outfit as Slave Leia, or ANYTHING other than what folks actually saw in the theatres the first time the films were released...

Release them NOW...not when my great grandchildren are having great grandchildren...I know you plan to release a different variation of the original Star Wars trilogy every 2 years and STILL never want to give the fans what they actually want, and plan to use your special effects team to turn your aging human body into a cyborg-hybrid-clone so you can live for 200 years or more all while you pull the same cruel tease to your fans every 2 years...but just this once George...JUST...THIS...ONCE...remove your fist from my rectum (is my prostate okay?), and do the right thing...give the fans the ONE version of the trilogy that they want to buy.

Blogger soon to drop FTP support

2010-02-03T07:43:00.002-07:00

>>For that reason, we are announcing today that we will no longer support FTP publishing in Blogger after March 26, 2010. We realize that this will not necessarily be welcome news for some users, and we are committed to making the transition as seamless as possible.<<

I guess I'd better figure that out. Can't you people just leave shit alone?

TechTracker

2010-01-15T14:16:00.002-07:00

CNET has a program called TechTracker which scans your computer periodically and informs you of application updates. The only downside is that you need a cnet login (free) to access a webpage the application generates with the upgrade report.

I'm running it at work (on xp32, it's fine). At home it's not loading the report page corretly (Vista64), though according to CNET it should.

You can try it out here.

another formatter board failure

2010-01-07T16:54:00.002-07:00

If this looks familiar, then you've got a good memory. About a year ago, my last formatter board from my p2015dn printer went tits up. I guess they had some manufacturing problem whereby the BGA wasn't soldered down properly (thanks lead free solder, you suck!) Anyway, instead of coughing up the 140 bucks or so it seems it would take to replace the board, I baked it in the oven. Yep, that's right. I put the formatter board in the oven @350 for 8 minutes on a cookie sheet. It seems to be working now. I should have just done that with the first one.

I was googling the problem and someone else said they had luck with that, so why not.

cock sucker

2010-01-06T16:32:00.003-07:00

A Fruita man accused of dragging a dog to death on Colorado National Monument was ordered on Thursday to be held without bond for the weekend.

Steven Clay Romero, 37, is scheduled for a detention hearing and arraignment Monday afternoon at the Wayne N. Aspinall federal building. Romero, shackled and dressed in a yellow jumpsuit from the Mesa County Jail, where he’s being held, expressed bewilderment at the allegations.

“I don’t get it,” he said, sitting alone at the defendant’s table. Assistant U.S. Attorney Michelle Heldmyer then rose from her seat, walked toward Romero and tossed a copy of the charges on the table in front of him.

Heldmyer told U.S. Magistrate Judge Laird Milburn she will ask for Romero’s continued detention during Monday’s hearing.

Romero expressed concern about sitting in jail over the weekend and said he’ll be hiring his own attorney. He told the judge he’s an over-the-road trucker for a company in Silverton, and he supports a family.

“So, in other words I’ll be sitting in jail and probably lose my job, too?” Romero asked Milburn.

“Yes,” the judge responded.

According to Romero’s arrest affidavit, about 4:30 a.m. Wednesday a maintenance worker at Colorado National Monument saw tire tracks and drag marks in the snow leading up West Hill, past the Fruita entrance to the park. Two miles later, the worker saw the carcass of Buddy, a German shepherd-blue heeler mix, with a rope tied to its neck.

reboot

2010-01-03T23:09:00.000-07:00

Lacuna coil

2010-01-01T21:12:00.001-07:00

Deep within me
Life’s crawling and wasting my days
Another night gone and I know there will be another way
I’m leading myself to be free
In this eternal goodbye

The soap eating dog

2009-12-22T08:43:00.002-07:00

Jerry puked his guts out yesterday, and I couldn't figure out what the issue was. During his bath on Saturday he kept trying to bite this bar of soap in the tub. Well, this morning I noticed that the sliding glass doors to the tub were open, and the soap was gone. So basically he opened the doors, grabbed the soap, and had a snack.

He puked like 4 times, which was kinda gross.

Halloween

2009-12-22T08:42:00.000-07:00

Hanna (left) and Hope, the neighbor kids.

down with the sickness

2009-12-12T15:15:00.002-07:00

Winter brings snow, cold, and influenza. Happy times! This round of near death sickness started thursday and continues into the weekend. Besides missing a couple of days of work, which I have no time for missing at the moment, I've also had to skip out on Samantha's xmas party on Friday. I'll also miss my firm party tonight and tomorrow morning. That sort of sucks.

On the bright side, I get to sleep 20 hours a day.

Murdoch can stuff his product placement right up his ass

2009-12-10T19:23:00.003-07:00

I was watching a fox show last week, and found it a bit annoying that half the show was basically a giant product placement for that new movie avatar. Of course avatar is a fox movie production, which is also owned by Murdoch. This week one of the show characters made some comment about locating someone on myspace. I thought, who the fuck uses myspace? Well, Murdoch owns myspace, so I guess that answers that.

willekeurig uit het web

2009-12-09T20:00:00.003-07:00

In my dreams

2009-11-28T20:27:00.001-07:00

you beat me to death with a hammer. I remember thinking "only now can I really love you."

liz

2009-11-28T19:38:00.000-07:00

C’est peut être la déclaration de Caribou pour Patricia Kas qui m’a incité à dévoiler mon admiration secrète pour Elizabeth Fraser. Vous ne connaissez pas ? Diantre, je vais me faire une joie de vous présenter cette Dame dont le talent particulier est de chanter.

Il est des moments de grâce, aussi spirituels que physiques, où l’enchantement confine à l’extase (oui, je n’ai pas peur de le dire, na !). Pour moi, la plupart des chansons interprétées par Elizabeth Fraser sont une occasion de cotoyer les anges ou d’effleurer du pur cristal !

Direct connect (at the liquor store)

2009-11-28T18:17:00.002-07:00

me: so you went to NDSU?
him (ringing me up): yeah. I graduated with a finance major. Probably not the best choice.

случайный от сети

2009-11-25T07:55:00.004-07:00

Same shit different day

2009-11-25T06:37:00.009-07:00

Not much new to report, actually. I'm working a lot. I'm out of the office until Monday, though. Somewhere in there I'll have to write an appeal brief. I should probably do that Saturday.

Tonight I'm driving to CS for some turkey with my old friend Chuck Angert. I used to share office space with Chuck back in the dark ages before moving to Denver. Every year he cooks for something like 30 friends and I'm always invited but never go. The only bummer is driving to and from CS all in one night. It's only 3hrs total, so I shouldn't bitch that much.

Tomorrow I'll probably spend Thanksgiving with Brett and Liz. Friday I've heard will be 60F, so I plan on working on the battery truck. I want to swap out the spark plugs and change the differential oil. If I'm feeling really productive maybe I'll replace the transmission fluid and the transmission filter.

The only downside to the transmission task is that you have to fill the thing through the dipstick hole. That doesn't seem all that easy to me. That tube is pretty damn small.

The dogs are fine. They shed like motherfuckers these days, so I'm vacuuming like every two days. That gets old. In addition, Jerry keeps bringing stuff in from the back yard (e.g., bits of wood, ice, etc.) which he happily eats on my carpet.

My workouts are so-so. Either I feel like puking or sleep in late because I was up at 3am. It is what it is, I suppose.

The new girl Samantha is in Chicago visiting family this week, so it's just me and the mutts this weekend.

I've been looking at getting a concealed carry permit for CO. I used to have one in ND, but that was some time ago. I don't have any real plans on carrying, but it would be handy in some cases to have the permit. Sometimes when I'm hiking or backpacking (especially backpacking) I'll carry. You can do that without a permit when you're in the woods, but in some cases I'll have a gun on me and will have to remember to leave it behind when I'm stopping for gas, groceries, etc. It would probably be better if I didn't have to worry about forgetting to leave it in the car and breaking the law.

FYI it's been cold here. We had a nice day or two the other weekend which may have turned into a nice motorcycle ride, but sister was in town and we were probably drunk that day.

You are not wrong, who deem that my days have been a dream

2009-11-19T12:49:00.002-07:00

Last night I had a dream about you. In my dream you told me that we were having a baby together. I was happy, yet confused. Did you mean 20 years ago?

cookies

2009-11-09T07:49:00.002-07:00

'cause I'm handy, that's why

2009-11-03T10:30:00.002-07:00

I went in this morning to have some studded snow tires I bought on CL put on the battery truck. Obviously mounting and balancing tires requires some specialized equipment that I just don't have. Anyway, I had called around previously and the tire place down the street would do them for $15/tire, which isn't so bad.

I wanted a front end alignment too. During the alignment the tech checked the front ball joints. It's not hard to do -- you basically are looking for wheel movement. Anyway, it ends up that I have a bad front ball joint. They were kind enough to quote me $350 for the job, which I declined. Parts came to $150 and labor came to $200. After they mounted the snow tires I drove over to checker. Together the upper and lower ball joints are $36. I may need a press tool which runs $30-$50. I can probably do the job in a couple of hours on a Saturday afternoon.

Clearly I'm not paying someone $350 for something I can do for $36 in parts.

bugger

2009-11-02T22:18:00.001-07:00

Some kind of ftp issue prevented me from blogging all last week. I had to go in and reset some directory permissions to make it work again. It must be some problem with my host.

There isn't much to tell...working too much, not working out enough. Sleeping like bloody hell lately. Tomorrow at 7am I need to be at the tire place. They're mounting some snow tires I bought on CL. They need to do a front end alignment too..the truck pulls to the right.

Buried under an ass-load of snow last week. It's all basically melted now.

Sunday

2009-10-25T09:11:00.017-06:00

Sunday morning, pre-workout. It's cloudy...37F. It was awesome out yesterday, so I spent most of the day working outside and in the garage. I power washed the engine in the battery truck again. It's about as clean as it will get now, which will help me figure out if I need a new power steering pump. I think it may be leaking.

I cleaned the garage a bit, took a motorcycle ride over to a local high school to watch Hope play soccer (neighbor girl, 6), and the usual laundry, vacuuming, etc. Samantha has her grandma in town for a bit, so she's been sleeping here at night instead of her couch at her place. Basically she shows up at the end of the night and leaves early in the morning.

I'm not sure what the plan is today. I may pick up some snow tires on CL that I've been talking to a guy about.

Maybe I should do some touch up painting around the house. That, and watch a bit of football. I still have that gas dryer in the garage, so I should have the neighbor help me bring that down to the basement. That thing has been in there for most of the summer.

In local news....

2009-10-21T14:52:00.003-06:00

Work, sleep, hike, get sick. Work, sleep, gym, get sick.
Fixed up an old battery truck donated by the parents. It was in pretty sad shape but it cleaned up ok. I've been scrounging CL for parts. I parked the Chevy for the winter. I now have a radio AND power steering. You so want it too. Just admit it.