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Tue, 23 Aug 2005
[22:39] Dalek shmalek
Date: 8/24/05 at 6:39AM
Shona is off to the doctors today for her specialist appointment so that they can (hopefully) fix up her knee. She has a suspected meniscal tear. Basically, this is the cartilage that acts as a shock absorbe for your knee and keeps the big ole leg bones (tell me if this is getting to technical) from crashing into each other.
"Ahh, hello - this is meant to be in the Tech category" you're all waving and pointing and carrying on...well excuse the personal interest. I was building up to this: she's having some issues walking at the moment so a friend sent us this link to a Stair Climbing Robot. I've stolen the picture from the site so you can see how cool it looks but I'm sure it's even cooler in real life - steam probably comes out of valves and I imagine it makes cool Robotech style noises whilst going up and down!
Hehe - I love the Grip Of Death that the chick on the robot has on those arms there, "Sure I trust the robot" she's saying "Sure...now get me the hell offa here"
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[13:21] Streetfighter II
Date: 8/23/05 at 9:21PM
Well, I rode to work today again and, once again, my bike tried to kill me. I'm beginning think it's possesed by A'Nub Kid Thee the evil bike god. Either that or paying £80 for a bike entails the purcahser to exactly what they paid for!
What happend I hear you gasp - well boys and girls, take a seat and I shall tell a tale. A tale so dark and haunting you may well NEVER RIDE AGAIN:
Cue maniacal laughter, segue to story...
wavy lines...wavy lines...
The chain decided to make the same break for freedom as yesterday. This time however it timed it's devious behaviour a little better - it waited until I was powering around a truck, I'm standing up on the pedals to get all my weight into going forward, I need more power damn it! Throwing caution to the wind I click through to third gear...I can still hear the engineers haunting words in my ears, "It cannae be done Captain, shes going tae bloow". I lunged into the next down-pedal paying no heed to these words of caution. "Hahaaaa" I cried, "to hell with your antiquated notions of self-preservation - glory goes only to the glorious" and then (oohh, exciting isn't it) *sproing* the chain discarded the everyday constraints of the chainwheel - it's escape plan was foiled by the pedal and the two entwined in a way that I suspect Mr Rubik would gladly have paid for. Anyway, with all the mechanical links suspending me on the pedals removed I plummeted groundwards; Luckily I managed to catch myself with my testicles on the crossbar or things could have gotten pretty nasty.
I still got to work a damn site faster than the Tube and I managed to get home in 12 minutes this afternoon after finally working out the reverse navigation to my house. Hoorah!
I shall be paying a visit to the Decathlon store shortly to get the broken off bits replaced and to get the gear-shifty thing (alrighty, derailer if you must) adjusted. I'm suspecting that shifting into third is what caused the whole dismemberment thing in the first place. In its eagerness to comply with engine room requests it flucks the chain a little too far, up to where the fourth gear cog wheel would be if I actually had one :)
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[00:48] lUser Manager
Date: 8/23/05 at 8:48AM
Is it just me or is this just a little bit funny:
/cygdrive/c/winnt/system32>ls l*msc
lusrmgr.msc
That would be the Local User Manager for Windows
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