1992 S10
- 2.5L 4-cylinder
- 5sp. manual transmission
- New clutch about 2 years ago
- New driveshaft and universal joints shortly thereafter
- New heater motor last winter
- New brakes last winter
- New ignition system a couple of months ago
- New bumper today
- New gas tank Monday
- New fan switch Monday
I swear, the next major thing that goes wrong with it, it will end up in Lake Bonet.
(23:54:38) Josh: And my English sucks. (23:54:39) Josh: *Your (23:54:48) Tim: and my vaccuum cleaner sucks (23:54:56) Tim: make dust disappear (23:55:09) Josh: Speaking of sucking... Is it true that your grandmother can suck a golfball through a garden hose? (23:55:16) Tim: huh? (23:55:20) Josh: Lmfao... (23:55:21) Josh: Nothing. (23:55:42) Tim: you totally lost me there (23:56:10) Josh: "...can suck a golf ball through a garden hose." -- Golf balls don't fit in garden hoses, so that's some serious, serious sucking power. You generally refer to someone's grandmother, implying incest. (23:56:22) Josh shakes his head. (23:56:28) Tim: that's a new one to me (23:56:38) Josh: It is to most sane people. (23:56:48) Tim: im going to get some shirts printed up (23:56:51) Josh: Just like, "I've had your mom to appear." (23:56:52) Tim: "Fear the Yen." (23:57:05) Josh: And YOU just lost ME. (23:57:13) Tim: http://www.clappingfetus.com/Flash/peanutbutterjelly.html (23:57:57) Josh: Eye twitches. (23:58:05) Tim: Fear the Yen. (23:58:18) Josh: If this wasn't my best monitor, the shotgun would already be out. (23:58:50) Josh: All I can think of is Jason and his stupid avatar 'cause of that God damned neurotic, dancing banana. (23:58:55) Tim: (23:58:25) Tim: Fear the Yen. (23:58:34) GrayFox blinks (23:59:26) Josh: A dancing... Strawberry... With a clock in it's "face." (23:59:32) Josh: Twitch. (23:59:39) Josh feels his head explode. (00:00:17) Josh: That... Was... Fucking... (00:00:23) Josh: Awesome. (00:00:50) Josh: Oh my God... What have I said?! (00:00:56) Tim: Fear the Yen. (00:01:02) Josh stabs himself in the eye with his stapler and falls over backwards.
(23:58:25) Tim: Fear the Yen. (23:58:34) ***GrayFox blinks (23:58:44) Tim: http://www.clappingfetus.com/Flash/peanutbutterjelly.html (23:59:40) GrayFox: lol (23:59:50) Tim: Fear the Yen.
(23:58:35) Tim: Fear the Yen. (23:58:49) Boyd: what (23:59:01) Tim: http://www.clappingfetus.com/Flash/peanutbutterjelly.html (00:00:29) Boyd: that was interesting (00:00:32) Tim: Fear the Yen.
A month or so ago, this would have made me feel really depressed. Now it doesn't.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A California teacher has been barred by his school from giving students documents from American history that refer to God -- including the Declaration of Independence.
Steven Williams, a fifth-grade teacher at Stevens Creek School in the San Francisco Bay area suburb of Cupertino, sued for discrimination on Monday, claiming he had been singled out for censorship by principal Patricia Vidmar because he is a Christian.
"It's a fact of American history that our founders were religious men, and to hide this fact from young fifth-graders in the name of political correctness is outrageous and shameful," said Williams' attorney, Terry Thompson.
"Williams wants to teach his students the true history of our country," he said. "There is nothing in the Establishment Clause (of the U.S. Constitution) that prohibits a teacher from showing students the Declaration of Independence."
Vidmar could not be reached for comment on the lawsuit, which was filed on Monday in U.S. District Court in San Jose and claims violations of Williams rights to free speech under the First Amendment.
Phyllis Vogel, assistant superintendent for Cupertino Unified School District, said the lawsuit had been forwarded to a staff attorney. She declined to comment further.
Williams asserts in the lawsuit that since May he has been required to submit all of his lesson plans and supplemental handouts to Vidmar for approval, and that the principal will not permit him to use any that contain references to God or Christianity.
Among the materials she has rejected, according to Williams, are excerpts from the Declaration of Independence, George Washington's journal, John Adams' diary, Samuel Adams' "The Rights of the Colonists" and William Penn's "The Frame of Government of Pennsylvania."
"He hands out a lot of material and perhaps 5 to 10 percent refers to God and Christianity because that's what the founders wrote," said Thompson, a lawyer for the Alliance Defense Fund, which advocates for religious freedom. "The principal seems to be systematically censoring material that refers to Christianity and it is pure discrimination."
In June, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case of a California atheist who wanted the words "under God" struck from the Pledge of Allegiance as recited by school children. The appeals court in California had found that the phrase amounted to a violation of church and state separation.
What happened to our freedom of religion?!
I got a random thought earlier:
If DVD's were to be stacked side-by-side and on top of each other in a typical semi-trailer, how much data would the trailer actually hold?
To keep it simple, I am going to use single layer DVD's, which hold about 4.7GB.
I used estimates on the size of the trailer. Width: 8' 6" Height: 9' Length: 53'
Now, a standard size CD-R has the following dimensions: Diameter: 4.687" Thickness: .062"
I figured that the space occupied by each disk would be a cubic area with the dimensions below: Width: 4.687" Height: .062" Length: 4.687"
According to my calculations, approximately 21 disks will occupy the width of the trailer, 135 will occupy the length, and 1741 will occupy the height. This figures out to a total count of 4,935,735 disks in the entire trailer.
Now, since we're working with single layer DVD's, we need to multiply this county by 4.7GB: 21,223,660.5 GB
That works out to 21,223.66 TB, which works out to 21.22 PB. That's about 1/2 as much data as the entire KaZaA network holds!
This is a copy of the email I sent to the dean and chancelor of the college I just graduated from:
Dr. xxxx and Dr. xxxx: As you are aware, I graduated this past May from the CIS program. In my last semester, I was taking CIS203 - Systems Analysis and Design. In this class, one of the main projects we were to turn in was a portfolio of our completed work at Ivy Tech in the CIS program. When we turned our portfolios in, it was during the last few weeks of the semester, and we were told that we could pick them up from the business division after a month, which would have been towards the end of July. After that month passed, I went to get my portfolio, and was told that they had not been graded yet and to come back in a couple of weeks to check again. This continued from July all the way until the beginning of October, which is when I was told to come back in about a month and they would be ready to pick up. During this time, I contacted the program chair, Cindy Miller, to find out what the delay was. She informed me that the CIS faculty had not been able to meet during the summer as they had planned, and that they would towards the end of September or the early part of October. I understood the situation and decided to be patient and wait. Today, I went to pick it up, and was told that it could not be found and that I would be notified when it was found. As I was leaving campus, I noticed that I had a mesage on my cell phone: It was from someone in the business division. Attached to this message is a transcript of the voice mail. I can give you an audio copy if needed as well. Basically, what has happened is I was "given the run-around" with this matter from day one, and now it has come to the point that something very valuable to me has been destroyed. It isn't just the monetary value of the portfolio that I am concerned with; it is the amount of effort I put into the projects that were contained in it. And now, the only physical evidence that I actually was able to complete large projects, is gone. I don't know what can or can't be done with this matter, but I would like for you to know that I am extremely upset and disgusted with the actions brought about from the business division throughout this matter. I feel as though some sort of compensation should take place on my behalf, but I know it is impossible to replace the portfolio due to its value. If you have any questions or comments regarding this, I would gladly entertain either. I look forward to hearing from you and I appreciate your time. -Tim Garrison tim@skudd.com Attachment: voice_mail-portfolio_purged.txt 11:38AM Hi, I'm calling from Ivy Tech State college, the Business Division... Um, this message is for, uh, Tim Garrison. Um, your portfolio from 033, from CIS203, has already been purged, because I gave you guys calls about a month ago, as for you guys to come in, and my boss gave me orders to go ahead and purge those... Um, that's not, um... After summer 041... So, if you have any questions or anything, please call me back at (765)772-xxxx. Okay, thank you. Bye.
About a month ago, while I was trying to occupy my mind, I took a stroll through the Cedarville University web site, and I came across the name of an old friend, along with an email address.
I decided to bite the bullet and email her, just to try and see where she was in the world and life, and possibly work on re-developing our friendship that disappeared when she went to college and I went down another road.
Much to my surprise, she replied to the email, albeit a week later, and seemed to welcome my attempt at reconnecting our broken ties. Due to the way her week works with school and whatnot, she has only been able to email me about once a week, but has done so since that first email I sent. Just as she has been replying to my messages, I have been replying to her's.
I have to say, it feels really good to catch up on lost time, and to see where people have made a solid attempt at making their life better and getting a good education.
10:00AM, EST.
I am interviewing for this job.
From what I was told, I was under the assumption that it would be mainly a secretarial position. Now that I have read that, it seems as though it may be something more along the lines of my normal work.
So yeah, wish me luck or something.
Yesterday, a friend gave me their old computer. When it got here to the house, Dad moved it into my room, but it was right in the middle of the floor.
I picked it up to move it, sticking one hand in the hole where the power supply goes, and grasping the little "shelf" on the front panel of the case to pick it up.
When I lifted, the metal on the case cut my finger really deep. I think it might have hit bone. If not, it came really close to it. It was just like someone took a razor blade and sliced my finger. The worst part, it is right in the middle of the first joint on my right index finger.
Right after I cut it, before it started bleeding too bad, I ran in the bathroom and ran cold water on it to wash it out. After that, I grabbed one of the washclothes out of the closet and wrapped it up to keep it from bleeding all over the place. About 20 minutes later, I pulled the cloth off of it and noticed that it had been ruined with blood, so I tossed that in the trash and got a bandage to put on it.
I think I ended up changing the bandage twice before I showered, then I put another one on after I got out of the shower. I changed it twice today, and I will change it again after I shower tonight.
The cut is literally bad enough for stiches, but I refunge to go to the hospital or doctor's office unless it gets to the point that it is REALLY serious. As of right now, it isn't bleeding anymore, and I have the cut pulled together with the bandage, which is just as good as stiches.
I don't have hardly any blood circulation in my hands at all, because of the frostbite I got when I was little, but this finger now is really cold. Mom says it is one of the following causing that:
- The circulation got messed up worse
- The nerves got cut, so it just feels like it is cold
- I have the bandage too tight and it is cutting off what little circulation I have
If it gets worse, I'll head to the hospital in Lafayette. There's no way I will go to the hospital here in town... Friggin' band-aid clinic...
(I'll post a picture of the cut later)
I looked out this morning and the sun was gone Turned on some music to start my day I lost myself in a familiar song I closed my eyes and I slipped away
It’s more than a feeling, when I hear that old song they used to play (more than a feeling) I begin dreaming (more than a feeling) ’till I see Marianne walk away I see my Marianne walkin’ away
So many people have come and gone Their faces fade as the years go by Yet I still recall as I wander on As clear as the sun in the summer sky
When I’m tired and thinking cold I hide in my music, forget the day And dream of a girl I used to know I closed my eyes and she slipped away She slipped away. She slipped away.
Boston - More Than a Feeling
Ok, so I just ordered 4 new tires for my truck... I ordered the tires online, so that means I am responsible for mounting, disposal, etc...
4 P225/60SR-15 BFGoodrich Radial T/A In Stock $66.00 $264.00 Shipping: $34.78 Tax: $17.92 Excise Tax: $.00 State Disposal Fund Fee: $1.00 Order Total Including Shipping: $317.70
From Purdue: Tim, I would like to set an interview appointment for Monday, November 22nd at 10:00am. Let me know if this will work for you. Thanks.
From the Career Services office at Ivy Tech: Tim, I wanted to let you know that Purdue changed the job title from WWW Technician VII to Departmental Operations Clerk VI.
Unfortunately, I replied to the first message before I read the other. I really hope that they don't want me to be an "administrative assistant"...
Today, I had a great day as far as pain and such are concerned. That lasted until about 5:00, which is when I got in my truck to come home. Apparently, I was fine as long as I didn't sit down.
Since I have gotten home, I have developed an upset stomach, a phlegm-ish feeling in my throat, and a terrible headache. Oh yeah, don't forget the fact that my back hurts really bad.