Holy pants! It’s a new blog post!

Yes folks, that's right. John is now using the word "blog" instead of "blag". Why? Who knows.

Crap, I don't actually have anything to blog about… hrmmmmm

I'll probably have something later. Come back then…

omg jame!

Kitten pictures:

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yay jane :)

Weedeater engine sans muffler

So today I got bored again, so I decided to go outside and work on the weedeater engine, see if I could get fuel to stop leaking around the tank gasket, get the mixture trims set just right, etc. Once I got that stuff done (fuel line needs a new gasket thing) I decided to have some 'fun' and take off the muffler, and run it. It works, but it results in a VERY loud and shakey engine, instead of a highpitched grumble there is a high pitched cackle, and it's almost impossible to control.

I attempted taking a video of it with leTreo650, this is what I got:


Unfortunately, it doesn't sound much different than when I ran it with the muffler on. Kinda bummed about that.

How to burn through GoPhone money in seconds!

I was Googling around randomly the other day, like I often do, and I found Google maps for palm. On a whim, I downloaded and installed it on my treo650, and it runs like a charm. However, it has a little indicator up in the top right hand corner, showing how much stuff has been downloaded. Within, oh, maybe 45 seconds of poking around, it was well above 200k (not sure exactly what it got to). I then realized that I am charged $0.10 per KB. That fun little session of Google mapping cost me over $2!

Not a huge deal I suppose, considering I have about $114 in GoPhone monies, but I don't think I'm going to use google maps anymore...

not cool. (literially)

Well this really sucks. It's October, and it's 84 degrees outside! It should be like, lower 70s upper 60s!

Dang you climate change... *shakes fist*

woo stuff!

Tonight in crisco class we had the module 6 exam, which was pretty intense, took me about 20 minutes to complete, but I got a 97% so it doesn't really matter.

I've almost finished my plane, even thought I KNOW I said I would try and take it slower and whatever.

I've got the fuselage, wings, rudder, and elevators done. I lost some of the precut parts for the elevators, so I made my own. woo.

Now I just have to put all that mess together, and I'll have a plane of sorts!

Hungates!

As none of you obviously know, the only hobby shop that resided (resode?) in greenville left 6 months (or so) ago, apparently gone forever. This troubled me, because I enjoy(ed) going there and browsing through the models making stuff and the model kits and such things. Apparently, they've returned, still in the mall, just in a different area (spensers took over their old place, whooptie doo). I went there today, with mom, and browsed around a bit. They're pretty much the same, but most of their art stuff is gone, and they sell alot of crappy toys now, many of them being the cheapy made-in-china-coated-in-lead ones, the ones that build character. Turns out they do still sell Guilow's balsa model aircraft, the ones that even fly if you don't build 'em like I do! I decided to get one, its a Cessna "Bird Dog", cost about $8.

I've had two of these in the past. My first one was a P-51 Mustang. Dad and I got in back in like, 1999, and we built the fuselage, but never went any further. Later, in 2003 or so, I decided to bust it out and work on it. I made the wings and tail section, but never got around to skinning it, so it never had a chance to fly. I bought it to school one day for a show-and-tell type dealie in 7th grade, and it got destroyed, so I tossed it.

Then I got another one, by the same company, a "chipmunk". Quite a nice little plane, I built it fast, in about 3 days. however, when i was making it, I had it pinned too tightly to the workboard, so the right elevator was warped when it came out. Never the less, I skinned it, and mounted the propeller and everything. It flew a grand total of one time, upon landing it hit some concrete steps and the right wing was smashed within seconds. A bit disapointing. I think it got trashed eventually as well.

I hope this one goes better. I have a better workspace this time, and I'm not going to try and rush through it, so hopefully I end up with a nice plane, weather or not it flies.

Weedeater engine is running again!

After several days of not, the engine is running! It took three carb rebuilds/cleanings, and alot of fine tuning, but it finally runs and idles now! woot!

I even busted out the treo and made a movie of it!

Part one:


Part two:

(note: audio SUCKS)

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it would appear as though i haven't blagged anything in a while

so here goes

*inhale*

*exhale*

I recently learned of (via kory) a service called ruckus, which offers free, DRM-injected music, to people that have an email address ending in .edu. Turns out I have one, thanks to BCCC.

that is all. your previously scheduled programming will now continue.

Woo!

yays! had a module exam tonight, for chapter 4 of the CCNA cisco class thing.

10 questions.

got one wrong, not bad.

i knew the answer to the question, but the provided answers were slightly different than what I had studied, ohwell.

that is all, you may now resume your scheduled programming.

Mathematica!

So today, I finally got my old Mathematica license transfered. Back in 2005, when I used an iMac G3/600Mhz with 10.2.8 as my main computer, and surfed the interwebs with dialup (3 months later we got highspeeds). I got a copy of Mathematica 5.2 Student, 32bit. 5 months later, I got an iMac G5/1.9GHz, and decided to switch to a copy of mathematica 5.2 64bit, for more powah or whatever. About 2 months after THAT, I had to wipe the G5's system, as it was acting up, and reinstall. Due to the way wolfram (the people that make mathematica) does licensing, I couldn't just reinstall and use the old numbers, I had to do a whole big thing of getting a new license number and password and whatnot. free, but time consuming.

on comes 2007, and I've got my fancy 'new' thinkpad.  I decided after a while, I'd like to have mathematica again, so I did another license transfer (this time only taking a few hours) and I now have mathematica 5.2 32bit on my thinkpad, woot.

I also have mathematica 2 (?) on my 25Mhz Macintosh Quadra 700. I've been trying some 3D graphing on it, but it doesn't go over well. Here's one that took about 10 minutes on the quadra, then crashed halfway through drawing, due to a lack of RAM. (hey, 4MB is tight). It took under a second on my 1,700,000,000Hz thinkpad.


Click the pretty picture for an even BIGGER version of the same thing!

bridge!

Here's another one of those pictures. Looks interesting how it was shot at an angle.
Click the picture for a (much) higher res version.

rocks and water

This is a picture of a pile of rocks on the edge of a river, with some plants grwoing on them. In the background you can see a train tressel, some water, and clouds, etc, etc.

OMG OMG OMG OMG

today I made an awesome discovery.

and had to post about it in my blag.

it turns out, that quite often, the 'sky' can be a light blueish color, and sometimes white or whiteish grey things called 'clouds' can cover up the blueness.

i think i'm going to write to popular science and see if they'll accept this information as scientifict fact.

i'm so cool

Another IRC victory.

[16:09:55] * Aeroraptor runs bubbleman7546 through with an old rusty trowel

Lawl, blagging from werd!

Looks like kory was ryte, werd2007 CAN upload to blags! Powah to dab lag! wooOOoo!

LOLZ I HAS A BLAG NOW!

oooh what fun! a blag!

the only reason I signed up for this 'blagger' thing was because kory mentioned something about it working with Office 2007, which is a piece of software I happen to love using. So I guess I should be using Office 2007 to write this instead of the cruddy web based interphace.

in other news, I got my Quadra 700 to talk to my old serial multiplexer (which is pretty much a giant modem with four serial ports. alot like a.... DSL + Router combo box, but lots cooler) which means my minidin 8 to db25 serial cable DOES work. just not with printer.

sigh.

in other other news, I think I'll head down to the library today and either A) study for cisco stuff B) write more crap in here or C) hang out and be cool.

yay blagging