If you were this guy, would you really want your job back? I wouldn’t. I wouldn’t even dare show my face around there ever again. Hell, I won’t even show my face around my old job now, and I never even went as far as to show up drunk with firearms looking to shoot my superiors (though I can’t say that there weren’t a few times when the thought was appealing…)
On the other hand, if I were in this poor bastard’s shoes, I might be looking for blood. Or at least government compensation… assuming that there was in fact a huge miscarriage of justice and he is actually innocent.
And now for something completely different… I bet Sim City never prepared you for this one. I’ll stick to playing the game, thanks.
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Found some interesting stuff on cbc.ca this morning, and thought I’d take amoment out to share…
I’ve had my SVX for about a week now, and it’s time for a transmission rebuild. I first noticed the flare from 2nd to 3rd gear after I bought it of course, so it was too late to take it back. Hopefully the warranty will cover most of the work.
I’m kind of torn about what to do. Should I just add an inline filter, auxilliary cooler, and have it rebuilt? Should I swap in the 5-speed? or take the plunge and go for the 6-speed? or perhaps I should rebuild the 4EAT but beef it up a little? I just don’t know what to do!!!
Posted by Ron as Fire-in-a-can at 1:09 PM EST
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Recently I picked up some boxed set CDs, one of which is the infamous Black Box. The Black Box contains a summary of the first 13 years of a record label called WaxTrax records, famous mostly for putting out records from Ministry and KMFDM. I borrowed a burned copy from someone once, but never bothered to listen to it; now I have a copy and I still haven’t. Apparently this little gem is quite rare, and I’m told (by the dude that runs the second hand record store) that I’m very lucky to find one in this good shape (it’s mint). I have no idea what it’s worth, since I can’t find it on eBay, but I have a feeling that it wouldn’t go cheaply.
The other one is conspicuously more ‘low-rent’ shall we say… called Undead: 50 Gothic Masterpieces, it contains ‘hits’ from such übergroups as Bauhaus, Iggy Pop, Echo and the Bunnymen, and many, many others I’ve never heard of. Most of them sound very… fetish-y? Should be interesting.
In other black box news, I haven’t touched my Gamecube in about two weeks. Haven’t run a game on my PC recently either. I figured that working less hours would somehow translate into more time for games, but somehow it hasn’t. And yet I keep buying more. I got Metroid Fusion for my b-day, and just bought Alpha Centauri, Post Mortem, and Syberia for the PC, plus I anticipate that someone will get me Silent Hill 3 and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Replublic for santa day. Then there’s the PILE of games that I’ve started and not finished. Oh, and let’s not forget the ones I haven’t even cracked the package on yet…
Posted by Ron as Games, Music at 11:43 PM EST
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I’m back from Ottawa; got in about 6am after 13 hours on the road. I have some pictures (the lighting sucks by the way) of the car for those of you that may be curious…
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Posted by Ron as Fire-in-a-can at 11:53 PM EST
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The ball is rolling, the day draws near. Sunday I leave for Ottawa to check out my soon-to-be new baby, a 1992 Subaru Alcyone SVX LS-L Touring Edition (top of the line) in Liquid Silver with Black Pearl detailing.
Kind of old, yes, but a unique automobile to be sure. It has been estimated that there are less than 25,000 worldwide (over 5 model years; 1992-1997) and fewer than 1,500 in Canada. Sounds like lots but when you consider that, for example, Chrysler makes 80-90 thousand PT Cruisers each year, it’s actually a pretty special car. It has been dubbed “the affordable exotic,” exotic being normally reserved for the kinds of things you expect to see only in Hollywood parking lots with nameplates like Laborghini, Aston-Martin, Maserati, Porsche, and Ferrari.
The next thing you hear from me will be a story of either glorious triumph, or horrible (and pathetic) self-pity.
Posted by Ron as Fire-in-a-can at 1:57 AM EST
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Upgrade is complete… well for my part, anyway. That board works like a charm for basic computing, though the BIOS will allow a minimum VGA memory allocation of 16 Megabytes, which in mum’s case is too much. Then again, 16 meg out of 512 is not all that much, even under XP.
The only glitch, for my part, was that with the old 300 Watt power supply, the board refused to power up. Turns out that this one actually requires the use of the 12Volt ATX CPU header. So I put that shiny new Enermax into this system… would have been overkill in the Legacy Box anyway.
Posted by Ron as Computers at 12:35 PM EST
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I was just informed by my garage that my other car, which Meghan currently drives, is in need of over $600 in repairs. Time to get rid of it, methinks. Anyone want a 1993 Plymouth Acclaim? Didn’t think so.
Like with computers, I’m going to play the “hand-me-down game” with cars. I replace the Blue Ox (as I affectionately call her) by getting myself a new car and donating the 97 Stratus to Meghan. What a nice guy I am!
As I may have mentioned it before (can’t find the entry), the apple of my eye is the Subaru SVX. Manufactured from 1992-1997, its performance, quirky good looks, and luxurious amenities earned it instant praise from automotive journalists everywhere. Then all I need to do is swap in a 5-speed manual gearbox and a few other custom parts…
Posted by Ron as Fire-in-a-can at 6:09 PM EST
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I love building and tinkering with computers, and to that effect, I have just received some more goodies. I had some credit at ncix.com from my last purchase, which I decided to spend on a new 40GB Western Digital Caviar SE hard drive with 8MB cache and 7200rpm for my mum’s machine. Her 8.4GB Quantum Fireball is nearly full, and besides that, I want it for my Legacy Box. Also on the order was a shiny new Enermax 350W power supply. I don’t trust the one that was in my main system when it blew its capacitors, since the power supply is a likely suspect. That’s what I get for buying a ‘topower’ PSU.
Add to that, I ordered an MSI KM4M-L mainboard from my workplace for less than $80. Tack on a 512MB stick of 333MHz DDR memory and we’re all set.
Why do this you ask? Well, my last order from ncix.com had several AMD 2000+ CPUs on it, one for Meghan, one for my cousin’s system, and one for my mum’s computer. I hit a little snag when attempting to install it in my mum’s computer: despite the fact that she has an MSI MS-6330 v5.0, the board seems to have been mistakenly equipped with a VIA KT133 northbridge rather than the KT133A necessary for operating the CPU at 266MHz FSB. Bizarre.
So instead, I am using that board, along with a slew of spare parts to do some more charity work and build a hand-me-down system for my other cousin, who could probably use it for school (and Diablo 2). Equipped with either a Spitfire Duron 700MHz or Thunderbird Athlon C underclocked at 750MHz, plus 256 or 512MB of SDR memory, a 32 meg Aopen TNT2 video card, and two 4.3GB hard drives, it should be sufficient for his computing needs.
Posted by Ron as Computers at 5:37 PM EST
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Yeah, I was supposed to have the day off, but there was a cute little emergency and I had to cover Saturday at the store in the mall. Don’t get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoy staring at software all day long, but I was supposed to play D&D at 15:00. Oh well, a slight 3 hour delay is all. Wouldn’t be so bad if this terminal wasn’t so bloody slow. At least I have the Minibosses and Friends on CD to keep me company. Oh, and I could really use some lunch… anyone wanna fax me some?
Posted by Ron as Work at 1:14 PM EST
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