Friday March 13, 2009
Even LuthorCorp is having hard times
Thursday March 12, 2009
My New Avatar
I use an avatar on all the forums I post on. Here’s the one I’m currently using.
Monday March 2, 2009
Back to the Clinton years
The libs loved Clinton. I’m happy to report they have part of the Clinton years back. The Dow is now at it’s lowest point since Clinton was in office. You libs must be really happy.
Yeah, we are getting “Change” alright.
Sunday March 1, 2009
2 years +
I forgot to say anything but it was a milestone so I should mention it. I have been a non-smoker for a tad over 2 years now. I quit on Feb 12th, 2007.
Yay me!
A couple of years ago
During my garage cleaning I found this picture. I think it was taken a few years ago.
I also put it in my Gallery for posterity.
Tuesday February 24, 2009
Miracle Labs
As some of you know I’ve been involved with a game called Counter-Strike and more specifically a plugin for that game called the Eventscripts Plugin. Basically the plugin allows people to change how the game acts depending on “events” and stuff happening.
My point is not about the plugin but about the guy who wrote it. His name is Mattie and he is a good friend of mine. I have become his friend and vice versa because of my participation in his Eventscript forum but in the past few years he has been doing some really cool and fun stuff on the web.
Enter Miracle Labs. That is what he calls his “company”. It consist of Mattie, a couple of his friends(Glenn and Ted), and his wife Helen. So far they have created several interesting and useful web sites.
The first one I knew about is called Bug.gd. That is a site that you can search to see if anyone else has seen a particular error or problem you’ve run into. The interesting part is it will optionally send you an email a few days after your visit if it didn’t help to see if you solved the problem.
Another is called ri.ms. It is a site similar to tinyurl.com that will shrink a url. It’s very useful for people who use Twitter because you only get 140 letter per post.
Their latest foray is called YumBunny. This is a dating/meeting site with a twist. It shows 2 people and asks if they look good together. You click Yes, maybe, or No. I’m still a little unclear on how it tells people they might match up but hopefully it takes off.
These are all intersting “Experiments” by Miracle Labs. I hope they do well. Below is the YumBunny thing.
Monday February 23, 2009
“New” Dishwasher
We cleaned the garage today. Well, Jenny, Micah(Jenny’s friend), Ann, and Betty did most of the cleaning. Actually Jenny and Micah but Ann and Betty did some. Patrick did some too but he was the most help on the dishwasher.
Ok, I’ll start at the beginning. A few years before we moved into this house we bought a new GE Quiet Power Dishwasher. It was a very nice model but had a few problems which were covered by the warranty. When we bought the house and moved in there was already a Kenmore dishwasher so we put the GE in the garage. I’ve been planning to replace the Kenmore for a long time but as long as it was working I couldn’t quite justify the effort.
Finally this week I was told the soap dispenser wouldn’t open anymore. I figured this was a perfect time to do the job and I wanted to get the garage cleaned out too. Since the GE was all the way in the back it was perfect.
I got a small trash bin delivered yesterday and then today we all went to work.
I had to go to Home Depot to get the fittings to plumb it. I just needed a few adapters and the old one was actually hard wired into the wall. I got an electrical box and just put an outlet in it and left it under the washer.
Patrick helped a LOT with getting under the sink and unhooking/hooking hoses. He’s a bit smaller than me so it was easier for him to do.
We now have a “New” 12 year old dishwasher installed. I was a little worried that the hoses would be brittle but everything seems fine. It ran through it’s cycle and seems to work like it should. I’ll take a picture later. It’s not quite straight so I need to move one of the brackets before I do.
Tuesday February 17, 2009
Stimulus signed. DOW drops almost 300 pts.
Today marks a sad day in our country. We took the first step to becoming a Socialist country. We aren’t there but we are a lot closer than we were yesterday.
The DOW dropped 297 points today. Seems like maybe Wall St. knows this isn’t the right thing to do too.