Today I managed a successful test drive of my pickup after reinstallation of the aft fuel tank, in which I have replaced the broken rubber pickup with a short piece of Gates multi-fuel compatible fuel line (3/8" ID.) This time I made it to town and back without mishap. It was actually fairly amazing how quickly the truck started up; I didn't do any air bleeding until after I got back.
1 1/2 c whole wheat flour 1/2 c nut flour, almond meal, or similar 1 tbsp baking powder 1 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp salt 2/3 c nuts (walnut, pecan, madacamia?) spices to taste: some pumpkin pie spice, a bunch more cinnamon, and a little more allspice 2 tbsp molasses 1/2 c melted butter, cool 4 eggs 1 c half and half 1 tsp vanilla
Combine dry ingredients except nuts and sift or food process. Chop nuts to desired consistency or add to food processor and pulse to desired consistency. In large bowl combine wet ingredients and mix well.
For some time I've had replacement headlights for my 1992 Ford F250 waiting to be installed. These are DOT-listed and apparently OE-spec, and they are identical in most respects save that one of the adjusters is a 6mm hex stud where it was originally a philips screw. The original headlights were both badly clouded, and one had broken glass inside of it. This may be the prelude to a HID upgrade, but first I'll have to see what the lights look like with the new, unclouded plastic lenses.
The wacky axle I've got on my F250 is apparently a super duty axle. If I install one ton springs and a class V hitch then I have all the equipment (but not the legal weight rating) of an F350, and then some. My rear springs need replacing anyway, and the ideal would be to find super duty springs, but I assume they're in short supply. The alternative seems to be to get rear lift springs, which is a somewhat spendy proposition; indeed, they are almost as expensive as the rest of the lift put together!
It would be excellent to remake Star Co- er, excuse me, The Ur-Quan Masters in the Vega Strike engine. It wouldn't currently permit the resource-gathering portion of the game, but that was my least favorite part anyway. The most hoped-for features in Vega Strike are first-person combat and continual flight down to planets' surfaces, so one day that too may be possible. All the really good parts of the game could be implemented in the existing engine.
The temporary placement of the CDR on my custom F250 intake was apparently a little too temporary and I lost it on the way home the other day. So I hustled out and picked up another one from a GM 6.5 liter diesel in a van at Last Mile in Upper Lake.
Two days in a row the daily woot has been an HP desktop computer. Kind of makes me wonder if everything they sell is complete shit nobody wants. I thought most of it was just stuff they got cheap.
At the Santa Cruz Flea Market I got, among other things, a Magellan Maestro 4050. I already have a slightly later unit, but this one has bluetooth. They run WinCE 5 which means most relevantly that they have persistent storage. WinCE 4 and earlier devices almost uniformly have only volatile memory, so when your battery runs out, your device resets itself to its factory settings. This was likely the best design decision Microsoft could have made, because WinCE 4 was an unreliable pile of debris that would corrupt its own installation at the slightest opportunity.
Last June 5th we broke down and bought an air conditioner. We went to Sears to buy it, because they had 'em and nobody else in town has much selection. This turned out to be a gigantic mistake. We used it throughout the summer, and then put it away in the back room. When I brought it back out the GFCI-equipped power cord's breaker decided to blow every time the unit was plugged in. I figured it was just the cord. The girl I talked to on the phone said that servicemen carry that kind of part with them, which turned out to be a lie, shock amazement.
After installing plugbox linux on my Dockstar I found that new users' passwords expired on login and forced a logout forever. To fix this for a single user use this script:
#!/bin/sh
chage -d 1 -E -1 -I -1 -m -1 -M -1 -W -1 $1
Call it with the username you want to fix. It sets the last change date to a day after the epoch but it works.