There’s A Lady Who Knows

Three to four hours with a giant hammer trying to get a rotor off my car is insanity.

But here I am. The thing is all pitted and beaten up from all of the hours it took to get it off.

But hey…Shiny and new!

SHINY!

I Said You Shook Me

People wonder what banning guns looks like.

If you cannot get a gun, there are plenty of other ways to commit a crime.  Seriously.  The UK has some very terrible crimes committed with very terrible weapons.

Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained

One of the shows I loved when I was younger was Batman The Animated Series.  I snagged some of the DVDs so I can watch it again, and I must say…The show is still as amazing as ever!

Born To Be Wild

I always knew that Google kept an awful lot of data about me based on my email and smart phone usage.

I always knew that they had location information based on location data off my phone, but seeing, for instance, nearly my entire trip to New York a few years back is interestingly creepy…

Company, Always On The Run 3–Packaging

I found a copy still in shrink wrap for next to nothing. 
Here are the scans of all of the packaging and discs!

Not quite in the order I want them to be in, but I’m not feeling like fixing that.  It’s all here (except the product keys, of course!)

Way Down Yonder

Those crazy kids made it!
It looked like they might be doomed when they had some cooling system issues earlier today but they got it sorted and carried on.

Take It On The Run

Today was insanity.

We were literally double booked for lunch. There was lunch at one place at 1 and at another place at 2:30.

Back to the first place about 6:30 for dinner.

Otherwise, yeah. Driving around, dealing with a nutjob child due to lack of sleep, and following Project Redwood's progress on Jalopnik/Twitter.

I'm Singing In The Rain

Or wrenching in the snow.

As I'm pulling into the driveway after work this evening, one of my windshield wipers snaps off.

Given the snow that was coming down, I opted to dig out the Jeep and take that to get a new wiper.

Two hours later I had the battery in, front driveshaft removed, the vehicle dug out and the tires inflated and away I went!

On the way there I got caught up with a car accident  (Not mine!), and ended up with the Jeep back in it's natural habitat!

Been Driving All Night, My Hands Wet On The Wheel

I’ve been following David Tracy’s Project Redood over on Jalopnik and Twitter recently.  Basically the project is this: David Tracy is an engineer who formerly worked at Chrysler on a Jeep project then quit to be a writer on Jalopnik.  He has a fascination obsession with buying rusty old Jeeps and fixing them up.  He has something like seven as of this writing.

Anyway, Project Redwood is a Jeep Grand Wagoneer he picked up for $800 that hasn’t run/been driven for over 12 years. The goal is to get it running and drive it from the Detroit area to Moab, Utah for the Easter Jeep Safari.

He has been procrastinating. A lot. He needs to get this thing on the road. Yesterday. Literally.

Blood On My Hands But Not On My Soul

I feel like in in Nightvale right now...

I've Been Selected To Orbit The Planet In A Rocket

Got my Windows Vista RC1 packaging and discs scanned!

Here we go:

Run A Comb Across My Head

Because it's all about the Instagram Cred these days, yo!

They Didn't Have To Work

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/man-sues-microsoft-seeking-new-copy-of-windows-7-after-forced-windows-10-upgrade/

I struggle.

I realize many, many people aren't computer-savvy enough to install a different drive on their PC, the reinstall Windows using the product key on the sife, but seriously? Suing for a new copy?

If be tempted to buy him a product code off eBay.

I Can't Help Myself

Finished A Song of Ice and Fire (or the other way around) the other day and started listening to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Don't know how to feel about ASOIF...It just keeps feeling like people are doing things massively out of character, but I realize it is for drama.

And Come Back For More

Listened to the first episode of the new Hitchhiker's series last night.

Thoughts.

The pacing works so far, but that has more to do with it being scripted and adapted by the same guy who did the final books in the series.

The language doesn't quite jive though, and that is what is getting me so far.

Hopefully it will grow on me as much as the original books did though.

And They Call Me The Working Man

So there is this.

I stumbled across this yesterday.  I hadn’t been keeping up with the world of Hitchhiker’s on BBC Radio 4 seeing as I felt like it ended pretty definitively with the The Quintessential Phase back in ‘05.

Seeing as how Douglas Adams died in ‘01, I kind of didn’t expect there to be any more radio shows since he seems too dead to write anymore books at the moment.  I’m aware that Eoin Colfer wrote a “6th book” in the series.  I tried to read it, but it felt wrong.  I’ll give this a chance though.

Old Billy Was Right

Talked to a man today who voted for Hillary but still hopes Mike Pence ends up a 2 1/2 term president...The hell?

Mars Ain’t The Kind Of Place To Raise A Kid–Clean Install

Here is the clean install of Windows Millenium Edition from the Promotional Step-Up disc:

We start with a Windows 98 Startup Disk (or image file in this case). Bear in mind that it needs to be bootable and have CD-Rom support!

So this is the same machine I ran the upgrade from yesterday on.  Just going to format the drive and start clean…

Now that the drive is wiped and bootable, we’ll switch over to the CD and begin the install process:

The same scandisk program that started showing up in (I belive) Windows 95C

Now we get to a re-skinned Windows 98 installer:

Now we have the upgrade eligibility check.  This one only works if you have a Windows 98 disc of some description.  I inserted my Windows 98SE ISO file, pointed it to the install files and it was happy!

We will go through the install customizer now.  It was mostly non-existant in the upgrade because it just retained the same settings and whathaveyou. Granted it did add the Web TV crap which took forever to configure. I am skipping that this time, but installing pretty much everything else.

As for the customizing, the Desktop Themes part was the largest part of the install, clocking in at a whole 31.1MB…We can only dream of that these days!

Otherwise there is all of the localization settings, the startup disk (skipped), the network stuff (surprisingly works and I CAN BROWSE THE INTERNET ON WINDOWS ME IN 2018?!)

I’m going to skip most of this part since it is basically the same as before, just blue…

We get a PC Restart…

Which brings the installer back in line with what we hade before with a slightly prettier skin!