Idle Time

Dead eVGA 7600GT

Richard — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:00:02 +0000

This isn’t a big deal at all, but I have a three year old eVGA 7600GT video card that just died a couple nights ago. It appears to have been due to a failure of all six FZ73 1500 6.3V capacitors that lived on the board, after they failed, the voltage regulator failed. This of course means you get the magic smoke and the hardware stops working. I really wish these chinese capacitor vendors would get their shit together, capacitors are something that should last for years.

My NCAA bracket!

Richard — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:20:16 +0000

http://games.espn.go.com/tcmen/en/entry?entryID=4492711
Yep, I picked Vanderbilt to make the Final 4. Whoops!

Fraudulent CC charge!

Richard — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:35:32 +0000

This just showed up as a pending charge on my bank statement

01/13/10 APL*MOBILEME WWW.ME.COM 01 $106.92

This was a CC charge to my bank card. I contacted Wells Fargo to report this and they are sending it up to the people who investigate this. Hopefully I get my money back, though I’m not optimistic. For the time being, I have had that card cancelled and am getting a new one.

Craziness abound in religion

Richard — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 06:08:25 +0000

Religion is crazy. It is crazy not because of what it is or what it’s purpose is, but because of what crazy things people say or do in the name of their chosen religion. Here’s a quote from the first page of Marilyn Hickey’s book title “Break the Generation Curse.”

One day I counseled with a young woman who was going to divorce her husband. I asked, “Was your mother divorced?”
She said, “Yes.”
I asked, “How many times?”
She answered, “Three.”
“How many children did she have?”
“Four.”
“How many times have you been married?”
She answered, “Three.”
“Do you love your little girls?”
“Oh yes, I love my little girls!”
I said, “Do you know that they’re going to grow up, and they’re going to marry and divorce three times, and they’re going to break your heart because your mother is under a generation sexual curse. She’s been into all kinds of junk. You’re in the same thing; you’re making the same decisions. And you watch–your little girls will too.”

Holy fucking shit. I didn’t go but a few more paragraphs, which I’d quote, but it’s too long and much too stupid. She even uses an example of a christian and an atheist, both male. The christian leads a wonderful life and spawns a family tree of wonderfully successful Americans that help the country. The atheist spawns demon children that create a family tree of failures and blights on America. Way to go cherry picking for the best and worst subjects to prove a retarded point.

The entire point of this book is to sacrifice ones life, even if the marriage sucks or is abusive, to break the “curse” and allow your children to have a better life. Yes, sacrifice to make it better for them, but one should not have to suffer a shitty marriage with a shitty person.

One’s religious belief has little bearing on how shitty a person they become. Good people come from all walks of life and people like Ms. Hickey need to realize this and stop associating non-christians with fire-breathing, evil-doer, satan-possessed demons.

Oh that silly neighbor…

Richard — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:58:00 +0000

The yard continues to look more and more like an abandoned prairie.

Neighbor still hasn’t mowed

Richard — Thu, 28 May 2009 21:10:45 +0000

My Neighbor’s Yard is Pathetic

Richard — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:32:10 +0000

Well, I’ll let the images do the talking, needless to say they haven’t mowed yet this year.

The table is painted!

Richard — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:16:39 +0000

I finally got the table painted. I’ve already cleaned up the mess, so ignore it.

Bigass game table

Richard — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:04:56 +0000

A couple of months ago I built a gaming table with a couple of friends (thanks Dave and Kevin). The top is 8′x4′ and is big as hell. I’d put some photos up, but I’m lazy lazy lazy. In any case, I’m nearly finished using filler, both bondo and spackle. Bondo for the big fills, where two boards meet together also for larger areas of wood imperfections. Spackle for the small nail and screw holes, as well as in small areas with imperfections in the wood. In addition to being nearly done with the filler, I’m also nearly done with sanding it all down. Once I deem it finished, I will go over it one more time with spackle and sandpaper to get it to the point where I am happy enough to paint it. Photos to come!

Update with photos!

I finished a couple kitchen projects

Richard — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:51:03 +0000

I had been putting off a couple things in the kitchen. First I filled this dumb hole that the previous owners had created which you can see below. Now that it is filled in and painted, I finished up my project of getting an amp installed and a speaker setup on top of the catwalk.

After that, there were two electrical outlets on the bottom side of the catwalk up above, with some help I relocated them to the topside so they would be unseen. Well, just recently I patched over and then textured the holes on the bottom side. Today, I painted them.

We also just got bullrushed by a ton of snow today, it’s still coming down like crazy too.