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I’m a doofer, and one of the best non-music entertainment aspects of a doof is people with poi/firesticks/etc - it’s also pretty good exercise since you’re always moving 🙂

Bob bought a set of the Ultimate Performance Poi from Home of Poi the other day, so I inherited his old glowstick poi and have decided to start learning the art.

As anyone that knows me would realise, my coordination sucks. This makes getting some of even the beginner things like even getting them spinning a bit weird to start with, but I think I’m improving even after just being shown the proper technique and practising for an hour or so today. I think I’m going to have to buy myself a proper set of poi, since the glow stick ones just aren’t balanced right - they are dog chains with glow sticks on the end, and the ends are lighter than the chains, which borks them up.

Basically all we have to do now is put the tailshaft in and hope for the best - there’s a few little things to do on that side, like get a PCV valve and an oil catch can, and find one of the bolts for the rocker cover to make it seal up properly. I know the clutch that’s in there is a bit bodgy, so that might cause a little bit of a problem, but that’s relatively easily fixed.

Today, humanity stands on the brink. Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Israel, Darfur, Chad, Nepal… across the world, violence and anger overwhelm any progress towards peace and liberty. We are a divided species, basing our hatreds on even the most arbitrary classifications, unable to move past our quarrels to embrace common humanity. Since difference is all we can see, suffering is all we can expect.

That’s why you should go poop right now.

Email Battles has an article on a new change to Firefox’s JavaScript Garbage Collection. Aparrently there’s a hard limit of 4MB for some JS engine operations so that people using loads of tabs with pages full of JS will kill things. Sounds like what happens every time I go porn browsing or researching something - after a while it’ll just chug up, take loads of resources and I’ll have to either wait a day or two for it to un-fuck itself, or I’ll kill it and lose all my tabs.

Finally, after 10 months, I’ve got an engine that runs! Over the last few days we’ve done a lot of work, getting the fuel system in, cooling system completed and all sorts of wiring done up. It took a lot of playing around, but it got together in the end.

It felt so great just to put the key in the ignition, turn it, and have something happen! We got oil pressure rather quickly - after we filled up the oil filter. 🙂 Next was confirming fuel flow and so on, and it mostly worked pretty well first go, just a bit of air in the lines and so forth. We had the inlet/outlet backwards on the carby first go, since we didn’t know which one was which - the wonders of using old hardware that doesn’t have a manual 🙂

Wow, I was going through my web stats because I was bored today, and what did I find? More people trying to access something I uploaded (as far as I can tell) about this time in 2003. I posted the Playboy Photoshoot of the Brazilian Womens’ Soccer Team, and took it down about three or four months’ later, because I redesigned the site or something. I keep seeing people try to access it in my stats, so I thought I’d try and find it (which I did, in an age-old backup of my site) and upload it to see how many more people will access it in the future. The only thing I’ll change is an addition of a link back to the main page, so hopefully someone will come to my site for more than the boobies.

Mental note - when you’re supposed to start at 11pm, don’t get out of bed at 10:35 - especially when you live what is normally a twenty-five minute drive to work - it sucks. I got there with a minute to spare, and I’d showered, brushed my teeth, shifted the pimpmobile out of the way to get to the camry, picked up my lunch and gotten dressed except for my shoes (one of which I put on while on the highway, the other while sitting at the last red light before work. Go me!

Woo, I’d completely forgotten about this project they started a while back. Basically it’s just another stats tracker, but Google-Stylin’ which means they’ll actually have something pretty to show me.

I’ll see how it goes, with my zero-pageviews-a-day site 🙂

Hooray, I finally got my ADSL connected this morning, and I’m already loving it. Pity it got connected JUST before I had to leave for work, but oh well, it’s all working perfectly 🙂

Here’s a comparision of my line stats between the two filters I’ve tried…

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  Downstream
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  Upstream
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  6.5 dB
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<td>
  13 dB
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  47.5 dB
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  25.0 dB
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  7.0 dB
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  12 dB
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  47.0 dB
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  24.5 dB
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