I was on my way home from my friends house early Sunday morning at a little past 3:30 AM and the roads were icy from the freezing rain and as I drove down one of them I heard this loud hissing sound and instantly as I drove past it I could tell it was coming from the right hand side of the road and then I smelled the strong smell of mercaptan which ( Read more... )

Poor CSX, I'm sure this will cost them a pretty penny, probably several million dollars that they were not planning to spend but will now have to in this big mess, I guess that's the way it goes running a railroad business, sometimes shit happens.
I'm sure everyone knows about the big trail derailment in Painesville, I imagine it was big enough that ( Read more... )

Sending a little robot to the moon sounds like fun, especially when there is a $30 million prize for doing it if it is successful and if it's not then you lost a shit load of money trying. So Google is offering that much money to the first person or team of people that launch a successful robot to the moon that travels at least 500 meters on the ( Read more... )

So I am sitting on the computer changing my lakeland schedule around when I hear the specific sound of a helicopter, particularly the sound of a jet powered one with a tail rotor and not a fenestron and that's exactly what it was. It was actually a dual engine Cleveland Metro Life flight helicopter with an ID of "N764MH" that's like a license plate ( Read more... )

So I took my car into Avenue Auto Clinic in Painesville because I have heard good things about them and they have done good work for me on my car in that past. This time it was because my car failed the stupid e-check because the O2 sensor circuit had a slow response time. Well they didn't  call me today so I called them to find out how my car was ( Read more... )

So my Dad is currently in Spain doing stuff for work and has a satellite phone that costs him over $1 a minute to talk on. So he called my brother and I the other day and we each talked to him for a few minutes. There was like a second in delay between what we said (latency for network geeks) His hotel doesn't have a phone in it so he couldn't pay ( Read more... )

Well I finally got my laptop computer to work the way that I want it to. Now I can dual boot Vista Home Premium and XP Professional with a boot menu when I turn on my computer. It was a big pain in the rear to get it there and I ended up having to reinstall Vista 4 times and XP twice and then finally figured out how to do it. Now I get to run XP ( Read more... )

Yeah so I've got two UPS units for my computer system. One for the monitor and the other for the computer. The monitor one isn't big enough to run the monitor and the computer and I don't even think it could run just the computer either. However the computer UPS which is bigger sometimes doesn't come on as fast as it should and causes my computer ( Read more... )

Imagine driving a big huge 18-wheeler with a big tarp over the front of the truck so no air could blow through the radiator as you drove so that the engine wouldn't get too cold! Well that's exactly what they do up north in Canada in the arctic. They make road on ice and drive over frozen lakes when the ice is 16 or more inches thick and even drill ( Read more... )

So last night at about midnight I was outside with my propane lantern because I'm strange and sometimes do things late at night in the dark and anyway I had recently fixed a tiki torch of my mothers and had to drain the fuel out of it into an Erlenmeyer flask of mine but it wasn't big enough so I had to get a glass breakfast bowl and finish it in ( Read more... )