Bulldrek v3.0

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So I'm not sure if I'll keep up with Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. The fourth episode is widely regarded as being the best of the season so far - courtesy of Jeffrey Bell, alumnus of The X-Files and Angel - but that's really not saying much. I'm not impressed by anything Whedon does with his sister and br...

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I'm playing in a new D&D 3.5e campaign run by our very own Bishop - who I hope doesn't mind me mentioning it here - and I'm hoping you all will look over my character and tell me what you think: Morganstern . He's a second-level Human Cleric [I can't remember the last time I played a human, and ...

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Yeah, I would also assume it to be a derivation of "having the book thrown at you," but I'm approximately the least-well-informed person in the world about this issue.

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Running away from a rabid dog gets you bit. Back away slowly, with confidence, head high. Damn the rest of the rent, sure, but take your time and move your stuff out. With your three biggest friends. Dogs respect packs.

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One of those things seems reasonable. The other seems sure to be regrettable.

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Gave Ana the choice between Castle and Agents of SHIELD to watch with dinner tonight, and she chose Agents of SHIELD, which speaks highly of it, Castle being probably her second-favorite currently-airing show on TV, after Sherlock.

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Agents of SHIELD hasn't popped for me yet. Sometimes it takes me a few episodes to get into a Whedon show - I hated Firefly for quite a while - but I'm having trouble even seeing the potential in these characters. When you watch the pilot of Firefly, you can see exactly what they're setting up, exac...

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Well, there's something not everyone can honestly say: the floor of my car is in a pair of boxes on my porch.

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Yeah, this is by far the best of all the Cherokees in terms of floor, except my second Cherokee, which someone had already welded up...but not well. My new floor pans should arrive early next week, and sometime around Halloween the guy my dad works with who restores Jeeps will weld them in for me: p...

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After blowing my seat mount through the floor, I thought it'd be novel to maybe see what was really going on under the carpets. https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-HWmd0r5kg2w/UknxbefjEiI/AAAAAAAAR2c/9EIaJQzbaVY/s800/IMG_20130928_191652.jpg https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-kKlE4fFa00U/UknxbNqyaJI/A...

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Holy shit. This morning I discovered that I not only bounced the 80+ pound subwoofer box off the floor, I bounced it high enough that it flipped over and landed woofer-side-down on the floor. Thankfully I keep a pretty clean cargo area, so the only thing it landed on was our field bag: it appears th...

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You'll have to tell us if any of those are good, by the way: I could see adding a couple to my platter!

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Ever since my daughter's first middle-school band performance, I've thought that a lot more could be done with this huge pile of musical talent these schools are all full of. It occurred to me pretty quickly that if I were to need a band to play score for an independent film, I could do worse than t...

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This fall, I'll try to keep up with Parks and Recreation, Agents of SHIELD, Daily Show, and Top Gear and Fifth Gear, but I'm already so far behind on TV that I'm on the first season of Breaking Bad [it gets good sometime, I'm assuming?]. We're going to try to wedge in Agents of SHIELD tonight someho...

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Absolutely nothing. I do not understand. Somewhere out there is a sickly Samuel L Jackson, weeping.

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All of which is significantly better than what happened to my car on Saturday. Super-excited about my new functional rear driveshaft, I decided to make a small modification: I removed the front anti-sway bar. Slightly illegal, slightly dangerous, and definitely not recommended for road driving: it m...

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So, I recently had some major driveline vibrations. I crawled underneath, and lo and behold, saw shiny metal on the rear pinion u joint [where the rear driveshaft meets the rear differential]. So I pulled the whole rear driveshaft [which, of course, promptly fell on my throat]. https://lh3.googleuse...

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That's great, Sin! Awesome.

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Once I have decent front speakers, my new hobby will be driving out in the woods [where I won't bother anyone] and hooking my laptop up to the Jeep to make music.

If I were feeling particularly ambitious, I suppose I could load the kitten-melters up and drive around with those in the back. Oh, my.

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It really makes me amazed that these people can keep companies open. Makes me sanguine about the possibility of owning my own such company, though!

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Definitely got some EMI going on there. Sounds like you need to isolate some grounds?

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Awesome! I'd love to be able to make more trips like that. Should be a really great time.

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In 1992 I was at a mall in northern Kentucky when I saw a cassette with a warning label on the front: "WARNING:" it cried out, "This Album Has BASS, dropping as low as 10 HZ. We Can Not Be Responsible For Your Equipment Or Your Hearts!" In the preceding years, I'd become increasi...

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My Explorer (which is now 18 years old!) has just about had it and it's time for me to start considering something newER. While I'd like to have the money to blow on one of these , I just don't. Though one of the regular four-door JKs is looking pretty tempting, I'd likely end up getting a used one...

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Yeah, that's one problem I have with these SUVs that are really just rebodied minivans. Not quite as bad as my old full-size Ford van - the engine is three-quarters inside the passenger compartment - but just tough access, not least because the engines are longitudinally-mounted between the front wh...

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In truth, the Aztek was a really great car, a revolutionary redesign of GM's minivans into something that looked like an SUV, drove like a car, and had space like its minivan forebears. If it hadn't been for the aggressively retro-futuristic styling [carrying a kind of late-80s/early-90s vision of w...

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Hey, Bishop, I've been meaning to ask: how is the new car working out for your family? I mean, it's okay if you don't want to admit it in public, but I thought maybe if you wanted to just come right out with it, it'd be, you know, a brave thing for you to do.

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Yeah, the big new ones - modern KTMs, the BMW GS bikes - can actually be genuinely nice long-distance tourers, set up properly. That's what I'd like to graduate to, after learning on a 70s Suzuki TS 250 or Kawasaki KE100 or something else similarly tiny and super-cheap. One great thing about bikes: ...

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That thing is awesome! I wish I had the balls to ride a motorcycle. Once my daughter's out on her own and can support herself, I think I might get an enduro, but that's not really the same thing at all.

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Huh. Well there's one strange thing: it doesn't have a front driveshaft, or linkage to connect the transfer case to the handle inside the vehicle; it's basically a 4x2. Huh. Probably something I'll want to fix.

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Brother, it sure seems that way! He made a lot of fuss about it not being "a perfect Jeep." but I've struggled to find anything really wrong with it. The floorboard rust is lesser than any we've ever had [except the one with the rebuilt floor]: he's from MO, by way of CA, so I understand r...

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$287.77 in fuel.

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As it turned out, Dad didn't drive to California until today, and that timing didn't work for the seller, so I did something a little crazier than hitching nearly to the Missouri/Arkansas border and driving a car back sight-unseen: I drove there with a car hauler and picked it up, and then drove bac...

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Okay, so I'm selling the above Cherokee [our third], and buying another. Some older pictures of it are here : I actually tried to buy it from that guy, but missed putting a deposit down by a couple hours. Well, the subsequent purchaser is selling it , plus several improvements, for the same price he...

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Because he was a minor character that served no real purpose since it was not very practical to keep viewers from knowing that Whitebeard was Barristan Selmy without some kind of magical trickery involved (the likes of which figure into another storyline that has nothing to do with Selmy). I'd not ...

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Okay, so now I'm looking at Gendry's arc, and thinking, "FUCK YOU, FUCKING STUPID FUCKING MORONS, IT WAS FINE THE WAY IT FUCKING WAS." Jesus. Change where change is needed.

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Here's where we lie: it takes days for me to come up with settings we could play in for years. It takes you days to come up with adventures we finish off in hours. So let's average it out: I build a setting, an arc, and you guide it to its end. I build the bow, you hold the arrow until it finds the ...

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Oh, come on! Seriously, did they just read the Cliff Notes? First season, they made scenes from chapters. Third season, they just make shit up. Or did I miss where the Red Lady meets Dondarrion?

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I'll be that guy-why not deviate from the book? When it makes sense to serve the purpose, and the medium, why not? Budget and time constraints, not to mention the very real difference between "book" and "TV show" make such differences inevitable. But eliminating Strong Belwas? W...

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Seriously, they're just making shit up, now. My theory on that is that they're not planning on going beyond season 4. I'm told there's a very real concern that they'll get Season 5 finished before GRRM - their affectionate abbreviation for their god - gets the next book finished. And even if he rele...

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I've finally started watching some of Season 3 and I'm starting to get the impression that the writers haven't even read the books, but rather been told about their plot by a dying goose on meth. Sometimes I understand their divergence, but sometimes it's just bewildering.

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What up, Vralkie!

Look-ee everyone, it's Vralkie! Except he's all old and stuff now.

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Are you going to replace the shocks with OEMs, or something a little aftermarket? If they've been fine for you, I think the OEM shock would be fine; if you're looking for something more, I highly recommend Bilsteins. Should be an easy job all around: new cars sure are easier to work on!

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Joseph, you've got to go with me sometime. I anticipate a lot of replays of Mal and Wash scenes on the bridge of Serenity. "It's okay: I'm a leaf on the wind!"

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https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-LvK2rQWOQbI/UZV0ye4MDtI/AAAAAAAARJA/1NeHR7JJj7c/s800/IMG_20130516_200626.jpg Some asshole drove my Cherokee through a bunch of bogs today, over a logging field [one of the most treacherous and damaging environments possible for such a vehicle] and far, far, far be...

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Initial test runs with the Cherokee indicate the steering component replacements have done their job, but I'll be doing a more thorough test today. It's possible the new steering damper is just masking the problem - the alignment shop noted my ball joints are also shot - but at this point, I'll take...

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Nice bike! I've been thinking about getting a cheap Enduro for a while now, something I can restore myself [so I can learn about how they work, since I know almost nothing about bikes] and not worry too much about wrecking. But if I'm going to ride it on the street, I want to wait until I have healt...

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I tend now to buy cars/trucks that have just come off lease or were traded in after a few years on the road. Still have most of the new car smell, and tend to be very clean with 90-95% of their service lives left. The difference between a brand new car and one that has, say, 24,000 miles on the clo...

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Well, thank fuck. https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-x2NFLcOOWjQ/UZOEG6_WpcI/AAAAAAAARFE/3ZXekU-e3Oc/s640/IMG_20130515_084543.jpg We've been trying to get a good bleed on this Cherokee since day one, and haven't been able to. I replaced [and bench-bled] the master cylinder, and that helped some [wa...

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Was part of their equation simply being able to get into a brand new car after 3 years in the older one? A small part, but mostly it's like your wife's "monthly payment" thinking: they can have a lower monthly payment, and a whole new car! Well, yeah, but now they've got three more years ...

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[D&D 3.5e Character] Morganstern