Capstan Tables

Don't have much for a post today, so just a couple of oddities that I found...

First off is something that you may have seen, the most expensive yet cool tables I've ever seen: http://www.dbfletcher.com/capstan/

And secondly, tonight and tomorrow is the Blazathon!!! So come and enjoy the BBQ and support JUDITH KARMAN HOSPICE.. http://www.blazathon.com/

And one final thing, I was going through stuff I had packed up and realized I had some things that I've stored and never used... I was a friend's ride to a Star Trek Convention in Oklahoma City many years ago.. This was the time frame when Voyager was just starting to get popular and Babylon 5 was doing well too. My friend paid my way because I really didn't want to go, but they did and wanted the ride, hehe. Thing is by attending we were automatically entered in the door prize drawings. I won the grand prize, which included a couple of signed action figures, a couple of hats, a couple of T-shirts and a leather "letter" jacket. Someday I'll even post pictures here, hehe.. My friends wanted to shoot me on the way home......

Anyway, Peace!

Summer Movies!

May
Spiderman 3
5/4/2007

Shrek the Third
5/18/2007

Pirates of the Caribbean 3 at World's End
5/25/2007

June
Fantastic 4 Rise of the Silver Surfer
6/15/2007

Live Free or Die Hard
6/29/2007

Ratatouille
6/29/2007

July
Transformers
7/4/2007

Harry Potter and the Order of the Pheonix
7/13/2007

Simpson Movie
7/27/2007

August
Rush Hour 3
8/10/2007
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Oh, Wilbur!

Well a blast from the past, I didn't know this but some people believe that Mr. Ed is buried in TAHLEQUAH, Okla. But other people feel that the horse buried there was just one used for promotional shots after the show finished. I say go ahead with the plans as described in the news post:

http://www.kotv.com/news/local/story/?id=123498

After all, many animal acts use multiple animals to play the part, Benji, Lassie, among others.

I'm a hack"er"

Well I decided I'd put together a new system from a bunch of old parts laying around. Well I say old parts, but it is a P4 1.8 Ghz with 1GB of RAM and 100GB HD... I mean this thing will handle World of Warcraft and all.... But it is from parts that I pulled off my main system when upgrading....

As per my luck everything seemed to be going 100% until half way through the OS install. I had a nice shiny new version of Windows XP MCE 2005 with service pack 2... The box that it came in even had the "Open this box and you agree to the license agreement...." on it. Boot off the first disk, and format the HD just in case, the whole bit.. Now there are 3 disks in this package, Install disk 1, 2 and a speacial features disk... So when the install prompted for disk 2, no problem pop out disk 1, pop in disk 2... But then it asked for the Windows Service Pack 2 CD... I think to myself, well the other 2 disks have already been used, so it must mean the third disk... Um, nope apparently not, so I click the browse button... Guess what there are no drives listed to browse to! So I figure I'll just skip the service pack 2 install and deal with that after the os is installed.

Well, the rest of the installation proceeds without error.. Just one small problem, upone boot up. The Internet Explorer link doesn't have an icon, and the link says the program is not found it may have been moved.

Ok, I'm thinking something stupid happened with the install, and I'm right, I'll get to that later though.. I go to networking and there are no adapters listed..... Um, ok, I go to "Add and Remove software" and then the Windows components section.. I remove IE, (which shows as installed), and networking and reboot.... Then install networking and reboot. Windows comes up gleefully like there isn't a problem in the world, but no networking connections at all.

Ok, at this point I realize that the NIC is integrated and I haven't loaded the drivers for the motherboard, great I say feeling stupid at my own brilliance... I grab the CD that came with the motherboard, and slap it in the drive, the first installation, for the intel chipset drivers fails saying it can't find an MCX library.. At this point I'm a bit frustrated, and it is midnight so I say to heck with it and turn it all off and head to bed.

This morning I stared at the pc and said to myself something must have just been off, as I was looking at the "you have 30 days to activate Windows XP"... I grab the install disk 1 and put it in the 40X SCSI CD reader and reboot the PC, boot up off the disk and format the drive again, Everything seems to be going right up to the same point as last night where it asks for the Service Pack 2 CD again. (this time I formatted FAT, instead of NTFS thinking maybe, just maybe it was something to do with the drives not showing up in the browse option).... So I browse again and the same situation no drives to browse to... I give up and just start plugging the disks in each of the 3 hoping it finds what it wants. Guess what, it actually wanted disk 1 again, but why couldn't it say that!!

So anyway apparently install disk 1 = Service Pack 2 CD.. Just a helpful note from your Uncle Matt here.

Enjoy!

David, David, David....

Today, I bring you another wonderful little article pulled directly from MSNBC's news of the weird, linked to in the title of this post....... I can't say much about it except we all do dumb things once in a while!

Novelist (27 books) David Eddings, 75, accidentally destroyed his Carson City, Nev., garage and part of his next-door office in January while he was flushing out the gas tank of his idle sports car. He said later that his intention was to remove the gasoline from the car to reduce the fire risk, but then he saw that some fluid had leaked onto the garage floor. For some reason, Eddings' curiosity about the leak (water or gasoline?) caused him to light a piece of paper and toss it onto the puddle, just to find out. "One word comes to mind," he later told the Nevada Appeal. "Dumb." [Nevada Appeal, 1-26-07]