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Annnnd... the car's back from the shop. $60 to find that a bolt was missing from the brake assembly and replace it. It wasn't the CV joint at all.
Did I mention the last people to work on the brakes were my father in law and myself? And I doubt the mistake was my father in law's. I really need to stick to coding. -
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The car's in the shop (probably a bad CV joint from running around with an off-kilter rotor for so long), so I'm telecommuting today ( Read more... ) -
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Finally found a real reason to keep those neodymium magnets at work (other than keeping them far away from disks and video tapes at home)... My pen, binder clips, Penguin Mints, nail trimmer, and even a stapler are happily out of the way and yet easily accessible, stuck to the underside of the metal bookshelf in my cube ( Read more... ) -
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I feel betrayed in more ways than one. Zelda is NOT supposed to have this dark shit going on. (No, I won't offer any more spoiler than that ( Read more... ) -
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Diana has to follow certain procedures when taking patients down to MRI, because the magnets in the machine can disable watches and make other stuff fly across the room. Well, I stumbled across a site that depicts what happens when you're not careful ( Read more... ) -
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Because I'm lazy, here's a copy-paste from my post to Morning CafeMy wife is so cool - she hit thinkgeek.com for my presents. I got a shirt with Pi to 4493 digits, a set of neodymium magnets (finally, something that will actually hold papers on the fridge), and a cold soldering iron. The clippy iPod Shuffle didn't come from ThinkGeek, but is ( Read more... ) -
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Been playing Secret of Mana with Lenny - he asks to every night. (Except last night, when he asked to play Return Fire. The kid's got good taste ( Read more... ) -
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We watched the second episode of The Lost Room last night... DAMN, this show is cool. I'm really glad it's a mini-series, too, because it's not going to have time to get lame (ahem, Invasion, maybe but hopefully not Heroes ( Read more... ) -
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Lenny asked to play chess again over the weekend... He's no grand master, as we have to keep going over how the pieces move, but once he had it all in his head, he was actually thinking a move or so ahead. Remember, this kid's only 4 1/2 ( Read more... )