matt | May 31, 2009
Went out in the morning, hit Tractor supply, got the stuff we needed. Came home, compressed the springs in the struts, changed out the shock, kind of messed it up and bent the retaining ring, so I had to press it back into shape. Hit it again, got it right, did the second one, no [...]
matt | May 30, 2009
First, I love my wife. She’s awesome, and probably knows more about cars than I do. It’s fun to wrench on stuff together.
Anyway, I HATE the right side McPherson strut assembly on Jettas and Golfs. Anyone who has had to change one out knows what I mean.
The Bentley book says “unbolt the drive shaft from [...]
matt | May 29, 2009
So, let’s say that our monthly electric bill is 1000 kwh, and for this we pay something like $2k/year. There are 600 hours in a month.
Solar
Panels seems to be something like $1000 per 100w panel. 17 panels will give you 1kw, so you’ll get 600kwh for $17k… in Arizona. On the other hand, in NY, [...]
matt | May 27, 2009
Great Ethanol Scam
Now, I don’t have a problem with biofuels. Hell, I don’t even have a problem with driving up the price of corn by making alcohol out of it (though I think we should stop with the federal mandates of minimum ethanol usage while subsidizing the farmers as well – but I also think [...]
matt | May 27, 2009
This one was just awesome.
matt | May 27, 2009
Don’t trust your freedom to closed source.
Or your life.
The latter is more scary because people were killed, and they managed to keep the code a secret, so a lot of it is just speculation.
matt | May 11, 2009
Liz and I cooked up a storm and had a nice mothers’ day brunch with my folks and my in-laws. My father was apparently bored, however, and didn’t want to leave the new chandelier in the box:
So, we dragged out the scaffolding and the ladder and hung it up:
It’s much easier with three people, and [...]
matt | May 5, 2009
Somewhat apropos in regards to this post by , this article is quite good.
matt | May 3, 2009
(well, aside from netbooks, which I’m using out of the box with no modifications)
Xfce4 suffers from a very annoying window stacking bug, plus general flakiness
The volume buttons on my laptop are broken
KDE is too slow
Gnome is not configurable enough.
I’m going back to intrepid. Maybe the XFCE guys will fix the WM.
I’m also considering CrunchBang, but [...]
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