Client: Dave, when I get in first thing I log into my laptop, then I go get a cup of coffee. By the time I get back, if I’m lucky it’ll be ready. It literally takes forever to login.
JustAnotherDave: Is that a metric forever or an imperial forever?
Client: *blank stare*
You have now convinced me that upgrading to the 118dB Twin Supertone kit from Hella is worth my money.
I would very much have liked to see the reaction on your face after you tried to change lanes into me without shoulderchecking because you were too busy talking on your cell phone when you mistook the noise produced by my little hatchback for the end of all things. Perhaps I shall get you next time.
Time to catchup.
It’s been a while since I’ve written anything of any substance so I thought it might be prudent for me to post a bit of a recap of the last little while.
I took my brother and his gf to get Lego Star Wars 2 at EB games Wednesday night. They did the right thing and bought a legit copy. I picked up a cheap copy of the incredibles game (though the original, not the second one which was a two player that I thought I was getting and carla wanted to play…) A few minutes after we get home pete comes down saying he can’t get it installed.
After a few minutes of yelling at it, I start googling for the error and we realise that a large number of people are having issues with this release. It’s a know problem that Lucas Arts hasn’t released a patch for. Luckily, there is a fix for this, and we can thank the pirates for it. They fixed this a little while ago, and basically we copied all the files off the cd, replaced one of the files, burned that off and installed from our new master. Works like a charm.
Go Lucas Arts, you cocknobs.
Went to Edson yesterday for a pitiful amount of work. Though I did get to listen to a number of great interviews from IT Conversations. There were to guys I listened to that had incredible passion for what they were talking about (Asterisk and Identity on the Web), and while listening to them I was thinking to myself, I remember when I used to sound like that. Fast forward a number of hours and I’m on campus waiting for Carla to finish up so I head up to RATT and meet up with some LSD folks. Lo and behold, I find myself preaching for damn near an hour on the history of the open source movement. That made me rather happy as it’s been a long time since I’ve gotten to rattle of the tale of serendipity that is the coming together of the GNU project and the Linux kernel.
When I get a change to sit down again, I think it might be time to impart on the world my thoughts on the shooting in Montreal. I’m going to warn you all now, there’s going to be a lot of seething anger, and I’m going to bring up a lot of shit about Columbine that most people have forgotten. And I’m going to become part of what I hate. I’m going to take what should be a time for mourning and turn it into “current event focused prosumer generated content in the blogosphere”. I think I’m going to go puke.
The list of metros I’ve been on. Because I’m a trend following whore and I like to fall in line with Planet Debian.
Just stupid IT consultants asking what an RFC is.
Update: I thought I should add an anology. So, I was talking to a Catholic priest the other day, and he asked me what I meant when I refered to the Holy Scripture.
That immediately follows the mucking about phase which came after the taking things apart phase never really gets the attention it’s due.
Right after putting everything back together I’d noticed I hadn’t hooked up my door-pull properly so I had to extend it much further than before. So that went on my list of shit to fix “later”.
While out last weekend in Rocky Mountain/Rimbey I finally noticed that I hadn’t hooked up my mirror control. This obviously needed to be fixed.
10 freaking minutes. I can’t believe it didn’t take longer. 10 minutes to take apart my door, not lose any screws, reconnect things properly and put everything back.
And to top it off, the door-pull works properly now and everything! I guess now that that’s done properly, I can move on to planning the next mod… if only I could pick what to do next…
But at least it’s pretty nagware. I present to you the new WGA activation nag screen:
So last night I installed my Alientech window controller in my Golf. Super happy fun times! Within 15 minutes of finishing the install I had ladies oohing and aahing in awe. Well… one lady at least. It impresses the ladies in my head!
I’ll put up pics when I get home from work today. I realise this post is rather pointless, but I figure I had to post something new on the front page. Maybe I’ll update the mileage stats when I get home too, two more datapoints to add.
I guess now I should start looking at the next inexpensive project for an afternoon or evening’s quality time with my car. Perhaps the W8 overhead console from the Passats…
Update:
Pictures are up!
