Year: 2008

No, It Is NOT OK!

When AutoCAD crashes it pops up a dialog box that reads something like this – FATAL ERROR: Unhandled Access Violation Reading 0x000c Exception at 654bdec7h – and underneath there is one button to push, the button that you know when you push you will lose all the work you’ve done in the last half hour, and that button is labeled OK.

No, it is not OK. Maybe it should read We’re Sorry or You Are So Screwed or maybe it should read my personal favorite AutoCAD Crash Slogan – It Always Goes Faster The Second Time You Draw It.

I Missed Again

It happened 3 weeks ago and it happened again this past Tuesday, I missed House. You would think that with only one TV that I need to remember to watch, I’d remember it, but you’d be wrong.

I downloaded the torrent overnight and just got through watching it. It was a nicely written episode with a couple of story lines that melded the medical mysteries with family relationship issues, up to and including the brotherly relationship between House and Wilson. The medical parts were their usual all over place guessing and testing before stumbling on the right solution, as to whether they were medically well written, I’ll defer to the expert – Scott.

Started up, went down, still down.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 37

Two For The Road

Number 44 of 83 with just 3 remaining in Season 2. This is Anna Lucia centric and here the show takes a darker turn. After Sun & Jin settled in all happy once they find out she is pregnant, last episode’s love story show with with Rose & Bernard, a budding romance between Hurley & Libby and a steamy jungle quickie between Anna Lucia and Sawyer this show ends with a major betrayal and two murders by gunshot. It seems as if Michael will stop at nothing to get his son back.

Wordless Wednesday

Started up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 36

S.O.S.

Episode #43 of 82 introduces us to the Rose and Bernard back story and is another fine example the writers relating the on island story to the off island one. We see how they met, the marriage proposal and after they are married how they ended up in Australia, Rose is dying and Bernard tries to fix her by arranging a visit to a faith healer. Bernard wanted to fix the survivor’s plight by making a giant S.O.S., but abandons the plan when he finds out that that where the faith healer failed, the island succeeded. Rose says she is cured, she can feel it.

Top Update

After nearly 4 weeks and 3 dozen top transitions the new roof has stretched enough that latching it is as easy as it used to be with the old roof. There is still a extra push required on the back window to get it to fold down. I’ve done it enough so it has become second nature and barely noticeable in the top down process, but I worry about the stress on the material surrounding the glass. Maybe it will loosen up more in another month or so.

Started up, still up.
Miata Top Transitions since 10/24/08: 36

Dave

(42/82) Hurley is tonight’s episode’s central character, both on and off the island. Both on and off island scenes concern Dave, that’s him in the picture with Hurley, and is a figment of Hurley’s imagination that that resists change. In the Santa Rosa Mental Health Institute he tries to keep him from coming to grips with his grief over having (in his mind) caused the deaths of two people and to keep him from losing weight. On the island he is manifested when Libby, a tail section survivor, tries to help Hurley to lose some weight too, but perhaps Dave is also there to prevent Hurley from developing a relationship with Libby.