It appears as though Dad found a tank for my car. Guess A&P was able to track one down. It and the sending unit will be here in a couple days (whether that means Saturday or Monday is up in the air) for just shy on $200. That's a much easier-to-swallow number than the $500 Romano Subaru wanted for the tank alone, but still kinda sucks. I guess ( Read more... )

Ever have one of those days when nothing goes right? I've had one and a half of those, starting at 9:57 a.m. yesterday.

Long story short: I'm at school a day late, I don't have my car (and it will be inoperable for the foreseeable future), and Dad's truck crapped out.

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Ended up getting that Outback I mentioned before. Turned out $1500 was enough to have it follow me home. Issues at purchase include seized lock cylinder on the hatch (cheap and easy fix), minor tearing on door panels (big fucking deal), faded headlight lenses (already taken care of), and a rusted/leaking fuel filler neck (relatively common and ( Read more... )

Sold my the Supra earlier today. Got less than I would have like, but the offer was on the higher end of what could reasonably be expected for a car in its shape. I'm now $900 richer and without legal transportation to call my own ( Read more... )

I'm debating on whether progress should be in quotes or not up there ( Read more... )

Finally figured out why Jaime's TV didn't like either of the computers we threw at it. Turns out he got a bum HDMI cable from Newegg. Yeah, I know, we should have tried that first. With that out of the way, we got the compy to output to HDMI, got XBMC to acknowledge the screen as 720p 16:9, got hardware accelerated video playback going, and got ( Read more... )

I ran out of 30 Rock. Now I have to wait until probably October to get my fix. Dammit.

Jaime finally migrated everything to his new Core i7 rig. Thanks to that, I was finally given the go-ahead to make his old compy a media box. At adam's suggestion, we install Ubuntu, configured that as best we could, then installed the XBMC binaries ( Read more... )

"I don't want to know how to work computers, or use a digital camera, or figure out social networking sites, but I want pictures to be taken and then uploaded to my Yahoo Singles page."

I want to punch my dad in the face.

After watching the entire first season of 30 Rock over the past two days, I have such a crush on Tina Fey.