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Oh, I’m a goon now, so watch out for me in the forums 😉

I got bored, so I put a favourite photo of mine through the Rasterbator. The PDF it produced is here. was here but I lost it 🙁

It seems like they are crawling slowly back up my legs, killing everything as they go. My shoes are pretty much completely worn out, and with how much I wear them and walk around in them all day, my feet hurt like nothing on earth, my ankles are shagged, and now the muscles in my calves are starting to hurt. It’s happened before, when I was in high school, and I was walking too much in shite shoes. Hopefully I’ll get my ass in gear tomorrow and go buy some nice rockports or something. In the meantime, it’s painkillers ahoy!

Ok, so in my Corporate Mercenary rant, I wrote about a handset that makes phantom calls. There’s lots of explanations for it, could be bad programming, could be someone with remote access to the handset or the network (authorised or not), all sorts of things. But what is the explanation for all these examples, over quite a few years?

Well, another knowledgeable person has posted on my “help me” thread on the Gemini forums. Seems that I might be able to completely avoid using one of the coolant chambers on the manifold - the one designed to provide heating for the runners, and feeds to heat the throttle body - which I don’t need anyway. Means I can just run a pipe from the bottom of the thermostat housing through to the heater, and that’s that. The coolant temp sender isn’t changed, and if I do need a coolant feed for a turbo or something down the track, then I can open up that chamber again and spend the money to modify it to allow for the heater pipes *shrugs*

I’m going to get it out of the way early - I’m a Corporate Mercenary®, and I have no qualms about that. I’m just like a lot of people out there doing things for money which most people with “normal” old style morals wouldn’t do. I have been given a set of rules, and I stick to them. It’s called towing the company line.

“Normals” working in big corporations don’t realise this. They are taking people’s livelyhoods for the sake of their own, thinking that they are just working a job. I work for a major phone company, and there are so many cases where something happens, and it’s nearly always the customer’s responsibility to deal with the results.

Ok, so previously I’d been able to put the manifold on the head and see how the engine goes together. I haven’t actually tried to make it fit since we bolted the gearbox in. Stupid me, I went to test fit things yesterday, and realised that all was not well.

The intake manifold that everyone’s said to use through the different EFI threads on the forums and so forth, doesn’t fit. In saying that, it doesn’t fit without a bunch of modification. Ugh.

Well, I got bored and needed something to do tonight, so I went to JB and wandered around for a while. Bought myself a copy of Reservior Dogs Collector’s Edition, on the recommendation of my good friend Mitchell, and a copy of 28 Days Later, a movie I’ve loved for a while. Cost me less than thirty bucks, so that was cool.

I live on Brisbane’s South Side, and my project car’s in a mate’s garage in Clayfield - making it a bit hard to find a decent amount of time to work on it on my days off - it takes about an hour to get up there and back, not to mention fuel prices :S

So, if anyone has/knows someone with either a spare single garage/shed (lock up) or some sort of workshop with space to work on a car that they would be willing to let me use (and possibly pay for) for a month or two until I can at least get it going I’d love to hear from you. As per the topic title it has to be on the southside, and preferably close to springwood.

This may well be the coolest gun EVER! The Barrett XM109 25MM Payload Rifle. This thing is a man-portable 25mm anti-tank … semiauto rifle. You could theoretically shoot thirty rounds a minute with this thing, if you could get around the fact that your shoulder would be somewhere near your ass, and reloading the pair of five shot clips three times in that minute. Bastards Inc. has a bit more info (and some hilarious comments from the users) on the gun.

I can’t be bothered whinging too much about it now, but this fuckwit “oldholdensneverdie” who I assume is the store for American Autos took ages to fulfill my order. The “Buy It Now” was clicked and submitted on 20/12/05, I’d sent payment by the next day, including shipping. I sent a message to the seller when that was done, including the payment details. Not hearing anything by the I sent a message asking for when the item was sent, and asking for the tracking number.