Well, here I am, sitting in my mom’s living room (thanks, mom) waiting for Pep Boys to fix my car. I have been here since Saturday night.
I was going to Idaho to get my new job at DirecTV and was driving up the 580 freeway near Livermore when my car stalls in traffic. I’m not too worried at that point because I have never had a problem with this car, and I don’t expect it. Low expectations are a bitch, however.
I had it towed to the Pep Boys in San Leandro, and waited it out thinking it was an alternator problem. Nope. My timing belt slipped and it was just enough to eff up the car for the rest of the week. I am currently in the process of getting my cylinder head and valve guides replaced, a process that has basically taken my entire stake for the trip and living for the first month in Idaho. Good news is the car will be top notch for another 90,000 miles, at which point, yours truly will dutifully have the timing belt replaced again.
You see, this is all part of the scheduled maintenance process. If I had had this done before the trip, I would have saved a massive amount of time, money, stress and pressure. As it is, my mom has volunteered to take some of the burden off of me. At least I can get to Idaho and pay the phone bill.
Moral of the story kids, keep your car in good shape, especially the one you are still paying off.
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Just trying out the new MarsEdit, 3.0. This version supports WYSIWYG editing, custom pages in WordPress and other cool things. It may supplant Blogo for me, but I’ll have to give it the acid test. I have to get some new movie articles out as I said before in a previous post where I did no posting.
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Today, I turn 50. Nothing to see here, move along. I hope I can keep my youthful perspective. As Mohammed Ali said:
Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
Amen.
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This is as cool as you can get. If I get an iPad, this is the 1st $4.99 I’m spending. Just hope it’s a good news feed reader. The main article at TrekMovie.com has a video.
Earlier this week we reported that the much talked about “Captain’s Log” iPad application was pulled from Apple’s iTunes. Now this weekend a new Star Trek-ish application has been released called the “LCARS Internet Media Reader”.
link: New ‘LCARS’ iPad Application Released | TrekMovie.com
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Some of you are probably waiting for some new stuff. These are the posts I absolutely dread seeing on a blog, so here goes. I got dropped a little bombshell a couple of months ago that may make regular posts even more infrequent. Just as I was getting ramped up to do more movie reviews. I will have reviews of Kubrick’s AND Lyne’s Lolitas soon.
I have a new (used) black Macbook, a new (new) Google Nexus One and some other stuff going on that I plan on venting out here in the next few posts. I am still thinking about getting an iPad. I just tried on out. I haven’t been here in a while and I see we have some new members and new SPAM, so I will be taking care of those, probably this weekend. Take care til then.
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This is not going to be a post on how great the iPad will be. That I’ll reserve until I hold one in my hot little hands. No, it seems that the entire tech press has gone out of their way to proclaim the iPad a resounding failure or at least a wrong headed idea.
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MLIGN Sense ROM
Hey, just a quick post from my G1. I am going to see if I can do most of my online stuff from Android this weekend. If I can, it will solidify my decision to maybe, sort-a-kinda think about getting a Google Nexus One. Maybe. Still in love with the iPhone, there’s just no 3G on it whilst I’m on TMO.
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Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly Rule: ROBIN WOOD AND RIO BRAVO
I saw this article and was a little sad. I had no clue that
Robin Wood had passed. I had heard of him, but didn’t have much of a chance to read what he had written. I am heartened by the fact that he loved Hitchcock and
Howard Hawks with as much fervor as I do. Wood’s favorite film was Rio Bravo, and it’s one of my top ten.
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I have downloaded a new theme (Atahualpa) that, hopefully, will give me the opportunity to do a little more customization to the blog. Just didn’t want you all jarred out of your gourds.
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