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Veep debates
Oct. 3rd, 2008 12:59 amI watched the VP debates tonight, as did a lot of you I'm sure. I got just about what I had expected. Palin , when compared to the utter ditzbomb she was during the Katie Couric interviews came off as well rehearsed, but still falling into failsafe mode by spouting talking points. Biden did okay in my book, but both danced around the core of the actual questions. Being politicians, it's what they live for.
When Palin started saying 'nucular' over and over again, I was wincing and appreciating the fact that I was not in the same room as she, for I would have belted her across the tits each time she said it. If one word, or shall I say the pronunciation of that word could sum up the Bush Doctrine, it was that one.
I sort of figured that there would be some commentary on my friends list about it. You guys did not disappoint, for there was four posts in a row, some in 72-point fonts.
And since this would not be a genuine post from yours truly without some car and computer blathering, I will finish off with the required subject matter. Those tired of it or with no interest and skip. Butcha aint getting a cut.
I FINALLY got another ECU for the Stratus to replace the one I had unsuccessfully "rebuilt". When I installed it tonight, it initially did not work, which immediately sent me off the deep end and ranting to the shop. I missed the closing time of the rebuilder by just two minutes, so I got no satisfaction. After a while I went back to the garage and reconnected my scanner/programmer/troubleshooter to the thing and did some poking around. The VIN was not programmed into the unit, so I did the deed and all was fine afterwards. Why this was not done despite giving them this info along with all other data escapes me, and the previous unit did not need the step. I have off tomorrow, and will finally be able to take the hooptie in for overdue emissions testing.
The mega file server came a step closer to completion after I received the motherboard the other day and installed it. I'm using a dual socket Xeon server board from Supermicro, this is in keeping with what I had done over ten years ago with my old server. It will get filled with a pair of quad-core Xeon CPUs, about 4gig of RAM (the board can use 64G across 8 sockets) and it will be ready to fire up. The drives are all in place, the two hardware RAID controller boards are in, and a few other sundry items and an OS is all that is needed for takeoff. I just hope it is as successful as the old box was.
When Palin started saying 'nucular' over and over again, I was wincing and appreciating the fact that I was not in the same room as she, for I would have belted her across the tits each time she said it. If one word, or shall I say the pronunciation of that word could sum up the Bush Doctrine, it was that one.
I sort of figured that there would be some commentary on my friends list about it. You guys did not disappoint, for there was four posts in a row, some in 72-point fonts.
And since this would not be a genuine post from yours truly without some car and computer blathering, I will finish off with the required subject matter. Those tired of it or with no interest and skip. Butcha aint getting a cut.
I FINALLY got another ECU for the Stratus to replace the one I had unsuccessfully "rebuilt". When I installed it tonight, it initially did not work, which immediately sent me off the deep end and ranting to the shop. I missed the closing time of the rebuilder by just two minutes, so I got no satisfaction. After a while I went back to the garage and reconnected my scanner/programmer/troubleshooter to the thing and did some poking around. The VIN was not programmed into the unit, so I did the deed and all was fine afterwards. Why this was not done despite giving them this info along with all other data escapes me, and the previous unit did not need the step. I have off tomorrow, and will finally be able to take the hooptie in for overdue emissions testing.
The mega file server came a step closer to completion after I received the motherboard the other day and installed it. I'm using a dual socket Xeon server board from Supermicro, this is in keeping with what I had done over ten years ago with my old server. It will get filled with a pair of quad-core Xeon CPUs, about 4gig of RAM (the board can use 64G across 8 sockets) and it will be ready to fire up. The drives are all in place, the two hardware RAID controller boards are in, and a few other sundry items and an OS is all that is needed for takeoff. I just hope it is as successful as the old box was.
