Rollbar and frame rails
March 17th, 2009 — The Sharka Rebuild, Wrench Turning
It was a big weekend of car work. A long weekend. Loonnnnnnng….. Half of Saturday and all of Sunday. And it was good. And I didn’t lose any fingers or toes. I started with the rollbar. This marks the 3rd rollbar I’ve installed in a Miata. I always wondered if it was possible to install […]
Ka-cliiii…..wurr…..gnk. NO!!!!
March 13th, 2009 — Photos, Polaroid
The scene: 2 Fools Pub a few days ago. A bar, a glass of scotch (belonging to my darling wife). The players: me, my LED clip lights, and my beloved Polaroid SX-70, 1973-vintage. The shot: the cliche scotch glass on the bar with lots-o-bokeh shot. Ready? Set? Action! Ka-cliii….wrr…gnnk. huh? ARRRGGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! See, a Polaroid is […]
TEIN shock rebuild
March 11th, 2009 — Suspension, The Sharka Rebuild
Something that’s been in the back of my mind for a while, long before my 97’s wreck, is having my TEIN shocks rebuilt. The shocks have something like 60,000 miles on them. I’m the 2nd owner. The first owner was my buddy Tom, who used them on his 99 for about a year. They were […]
The Last Ride of the 97
March 3rd, 2009 — The Sharka Rebuild, Wrench Turning
I’ve been so hard at work stripping the 97 that I’ve not updated my blog with pix of it. I’m quite done now. It is very stripped. Not much left. This weekend, I bought a nice big shelf to store parts and make room to actually WALK in my garage. I came back to find […]
Ubuntu Intrepid: Upgrade your Flickr Uploadr (postr) to 0.12.3.1
March 3rd, 2009 — Linux = Freedom, Ubuntu Laptop
Just a quick entry for this. It’s hardly worth the effort, but I spent a good 10 minutes searching teh googles for the answer to this one. The official postr site has everything BUT the .deb file. So here we go. -Go to the jaunty postr page: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/sparc/postr/0.12.3-1ubuntu1 -Grab the .deb file near the top […]
Dead Car Update
February 23rd, 2009 — The Sharka Rebuild, Wrench Turning
I’ve not written an update about the dead 97 for a while. As I sit here in front of the laptop, every joint in my body aches. I glare in the direction of the garage. I dream of the time when I’ll be done (soon) and able to park my new 95 in there. Soon. […]
The Office
February 11th, 2009 — Interior, Sharka pix
Not much to talk about here, I just wanted to post this shot of Sharka’s interior to the blog. I’ve tried to take shots like this before that show the whole interior without focusing on a specific small part and have sometimes struggled with it. It’s hard to get a good angle that gives a […]
Upgraded to Intrepid
February 5th, 2009 — Linux = Freedom, Ubuntu Laptop
Yes! I’m up and running on the latest Ubuntu and am lovin’ life. Only 4 months late, but hey, I try. When I upgraded my test box at work from hardy to Intrepid, I did it THE FIRST DAY the new distro was released. I lived a week without good graphics drivers. I said I’d […]
longest head unit install in history
February 2nd, 2009 — Interior, The Sharka Rebuild
One of the few casualties of the Big Wreck of 2008 was my JVC head unit. It shot out of the DIN socket and broke the faceplate on my Voodoo shift knob. Getting hit at 70 mph causes weird things to happen, I guess. Bummer cause I really liked that stereo. It looked nice, worked […]
Ubuntu Pocket Guide
January 27th, 2009 — Linux = Freedom
I installed Ubuntu in the middle of last summer and have been using it exclusively at home ever since the install. I’ve been an off-and-on linux user since college (in 94!) but have never found a distro that really agreed with me or that I could get to work on a daily basis. Ubuntu 8.04 […]
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