Damn Car!

I had a good Christmas, except for my damn car! It broke down Monday morning while trying to get to an electronics store to purchase a replacement cd-rom drive for my sister's computer, which I was (attempting) to rebuild. Luckily I was only about a mile away from a Saturn dealer and was able to get it started long enough to drive it there before it died in their parking lot. It was the crankshaft sensor. Last time I was in Indianapolis it was the "mass fuel air" sensor. What sensor will give out the next time I'm in Indianapolis? If another sensor gives out before, say, July, I'm trading that car in.

Excellent photographs by Andy Rosen

Andy Rosen has posted several photographs of various punks in London from 1976 to 1984 - worth a look. This is Peter Murphy (via We Make Money Not Art)

Very cool case mod

This is totally overboard, like most people who do case mods, but I've got to give the peep his (her?) props. This is one of the coolest, non-garish case mods I've seen... (via ExtremeTech)

E-mail notifications added

I blogged earlier about how to keep up to date with my blog (and others). If you don't want to mess with an RSS reader, there's a service called FeedBlitz which allows you to be notified by e-mail. I've added a form in the sidebar for you to do this. Once you subscribe, it'll ask you to confirm your subscription via e-mail and then you'll receive updates on when there are new posts. You can turn this off at any time, naturally.

Happy Wednesday. I'm off to band practice tonight. Hopefully a gig has been set up...

Another cool gift thingy

These custom personal electronics cases are a good idea, and not terribly expensive. $24.99 at the container store. (via popgadget)




















That's all I got.

Soviet-Era Anti-Alcohol posters

These are great. I'm sure no one paid any attention to them, but in terms of cultural art, they're interesting. (via Neatorama)

Christmas lists

One of the worst and best things about Christmas is daydreaming about buying all the gadgets you can eat (but not afford). I've been seeing a bunch of cool stuff, mostly provided by the neato blog Boing Boing.

This remote-controlled spy plane looks pretty cool. I wonder how good the pictures are?



I've been waiting for this Line 6 Toneport USB audio interface to come out so I can start "Hammond Hitz" studios. Too bad it doesn't also have RCA inputs. I guess you could get the Edirol UA-1EX for that. It's a lot cheaper than this $400 gorilla, but even the $400 gorilla is kind of cool, too.

Even though these dental floss holders in the shapes of piranha are wickedly handsome, they also look just plain wicked. Floss your teeth, then get out the band-aids. Link (via Boing Boing)



Given my recent foray into poker, I'm lusting after these stainless-steel playing cards. They're really expensive, though, and you'd have to get out the band-aids for the second time that day after you shuffled them. (via Boing Boing)



For you comic book fans out there, there's these DC Comics stamps that'd probably make a cool stocking stuffer. Stuff that stocking! YAR! Oh, whoops. Can't get them until next summer. Well, heck, why not cheer everyone up by stuffing their stocking with the AMBER Alert stamps? (via Boing Boing)



And yet another daydream would to build an arcade machine for my living room...



Maybe I'll win this Aeon Flux Alienware laptop? I gots a chance!



And the ultimate daydream is this motorcycle that isn't even available for sale - the Ducati HyperMotard (via Bikes in the Fast Lane)



Of course, this wish list has been a lot longer in the building.

With that out of my system, I can be happy with my I-bought-a-house-and-now-I'm-broke existence.

Cold! Bah humbug.

Stayed home this weekend, which was nice given I've been out of town the past 3 weekends. The best thing about it was getting back to band practice. Surprisingly, it went well in spite of my congested head and trying to sing. Dave reworked the practice space and it's much, much easier to hear the vocals. Supposedly he's looking to do a gig on the 23rd at the Mutiny. I gave Tom a ride home, though and he remembered he has something on the 23rd. He said he'd talk to Dave about getting one for the 30th.

Other than that, I'm trying to get rid of this cold, and it's freezing here. I'm going to sell my house and move somewhere warm.