gps is the cheapest replacement speedometer there is
I've had two vehicles in the past where the speedometer decided to stop working. Each time it was well over $100 to fix - and bear in mind this was over 5 years ago. On one of the vehicles I had to custom order a gauge cluster, and for the other the cluster was in stock in the shop.
If I had a speedometer bust today I wouldn't even bother replacing it. Instead I would purposely buy a Garmin nuvi, use double-sided Velcro and stick it right over the busted speedometer.
I have watched A Charlie Brown Christmas more times than I can remember. It originally aired in 1965 and has been broadcast yearly on TV ever since. First with CBS and now with ABC.
For grins last night I decided to check out AIM chat rooms. The last time I used one of these was.. well.. I don't even remember the last time I used one.
Periodically I will write a blog post that's purely informational just for my reference. I usually do one of these up when I find information that's scattered on different web pages/sites and put it all into a single blog post. This is one of those. :)
I bash on New England a lot, but this is one of the instances where I'll speak of that region of the US in a positive light.
Anybody that's read my blog knows I'm a road geek. I happened to stumble across a video of a very nicely done driving video through Hartford. It has some effects purposely put into it but that's okay.
The ART X-15 Ultrafoot is one of the absolute ugliest electronic music items you will ever lay eyes on. It is, unfortunately, the world's most popular MIDI foot controller. Fortunately today it looks a whole lot better, but for years the above photo is what it looked like. It's also fortunate there are new MIDI foot controllers that are much, much better and cheaper than the X-15 ever was.
I gotta hand it to Microsoft, because the theme can be modified out-of-the-box to look just like 2000 or 95/98 very easily. This is cool because for old-school users like me there are times when you want 7's stability but the look of an older Windows.
Something very creepy about modern social media are those who have profiles but are now deceased, as in kicked the bucket. Bought the farm. Dead.
This is sad and creepy, but not without humor. Oh yes, you knew this was coming.
Over the past few weeks my nuvi 255W was having problems getting a GPS signal. It was so bad that the signal would drop right out, or at best I'd get a 90 to 150 foot accuracy resolution.
Below, a freshly labelscarred PetSmart at 2816 E Fletcher Ave. A labelscar is when the sign on the building is removed and you can see the outline of where it used to be. This one happens to be a very prominent labelscar. Ordinarily they don't stick out this much.
