Day: October 8, 2006

Well, there’s always a catch.

Whether that catch is the power supply or the motherboard is what Kent is working on figuring out now. (He got the two 22″ VGA monitors out of the deal – which turned out to be better than advertised, since they were both dual-input monitors with A/B source selector buttons on their front panels – since I’ve already got LCD flatpanels I’ll be using for this.) All I do know is that everything else powers up, but when the PC is connected to power, it just emits a whine, and can never seem to be turned on. I can’t wait to hear what it sounds like when it is up and running though – just the Avid Meridian module, the “QuietDrive” (HA!) and the VTR all turned on sound like a plane about to take off next to my head.… Read more

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My wife and I made the trip from Arkansas to just south of the Illinois-Wisconsin border and back in one incredibly compressed trip lasting 26 hours. The whole process was made much easier by the fact that her vehicle has dual controls – two steering wheels, two brake pedals, two accelerators, etc. etc., you get the idea. (Now, never mind that one set of those controls is in the back in a tail gunner position…okay, okay, just kidding there.) So we didn’t have to do a Chinese fire drill for someone else to take the wheel. With only brief stops for gas, one five-or-six hour layover at a truck stop in a tiny little Illinois town (whose name I now can’t remember – Topica? Topeka? Tapioca? Kai Opaka?) for a nap, and about a half-hour stop on the return trip for a little bit of a “picnic” in the parking lot of a filling station, we were always on the move. … Read more