Archive for March, 2006

darn truck

Friday, March 31st, 2006

Well, my truck is still in the shop. I took it into get smogged and it failed. In the process of replacing two fuel injectors, they discovered that a converter in the transmission is bad. So after the truck passes smog on Saturday, I’ll take it on Monday to Big 4 Transmissions and have Butch [...]

Drone aircraft may prowl U.S. skies | CNET News.com

Wednesday, March 29th, 2006

Drone aircraft may prowl U.S. skies
Lovely….. Just what we need, a “domestic surveillance market”. Sure, there are plenty of legitimate uses, but don’t cameras on street corners, and cameras in the sky bother you?
We now have cameras on corners, that issue you a ticket if you run a red light. How about we [...]

High School Students Extend Immigration Protests Into 4th Day – Los Angeles Times

Monday, March 27th, 2006

High School Students Extend Immigration Protests Into 4th Day – Los Angeles Times
Kids got onto the freeway. Seriously…. not helping their situation at all.
Any thoughts I put on this tonight will be in haste and reaction to their stupidity.
WHich doesn’t deal with the issue at hand at all.
For the record: Chanting Mexico and waving Mexican [...]

Mac Mini Blues

Friday, March 24th, 2006

I bought an Intel Mac Mini a few weeks ago. Then last weekend, I purchased an Elgato EyeTV500, and it works pretty well. I come home tonight, and try to access my mini. Nothing. I hit the power button. Nothing. I unplug the computer. Replug. No juice what so ever.
I had it plugged into a [...]

PDs release kids from Schools

Friday, March 24th, 2006

Coppermine Photo Gallery – Huntington Park High School Walk OUt
Here’s some photos I took this afternoon when school let out at South Gate Middle School. Police from various local departments, including Bell Gardens, Maywood•Cudahay and Huntington Park, in addition to South Gate PD, were at the school, releasing children to go home. After they [...]

damn kids

Friday, March 24th, 2006

stupid kids, walking out of school
KTLA Channel 5KFWB
ABC 7Right in front of our place on Otis St. And the I didn’t have my camera. Idiot kids, chanting “Mexico”, and asking if we had any Mexicans inside the property, to come out and march. We closed the doors pretty quick, mostly to keep kids from running [...]

V for Vendetta

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

For the record, while V for Vendetta wasn’t quite as much fun as I had hoped for, it was a pretty good movie.
All in all, it’s a bit surprising it got made in this day and age, which actually is all the more reason that it is good it was made.
No mention of Alan Moore [...]

Scarlett Johansson escapes Cruise’s clutches – Gossip: The Scoop – MSNBC.com

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

Scarlett Johansson escapes Cruise%u2019s clutches – Gossip: The Scoop – MSNBC.com
Not new by any means, but it sheds more light on the ongoing South Park/ Scientology debate.
Last night’s episode: “Chef Returns” is just great fun… poking fun of in a almost subtle way, then hitting you over the head with it. I couldn’t stop [...]

Hamburger Helper

Thursday, March 16th, 2006

Just had a break through in developing the BOM structure for making a hamburger. (I’ll work on the MRP related stuff later).
Several tables:
Assemblies- Listed by Part Number. Which has a portal to related records in:
Usages- Where are parts used. Sorted by Assembly Number (which has to be unique, except when an Assembly overrides that), and [...]

Building a better hamburger

Saturday, March 11th, 2006

I’m still working on the Liberty Database. Right now, I’m trying to tie together food processing in the galley. I have my materials list, but trying to get a hamburger to equal beef+bun+lettuce+tomato+ketchup+mustard is being more of a trick than I had hoped for. I’m trying to avoid a full on MRP system, but I [...]