Tag Archives: Personal Blather

Stop motion lecture hall animation:

This is the cat on drugs:

If the cat were not on drugs, he would be even louder and more obnoxious.

I know you have been inconvenienced…

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Edit: updated to non-broken link, because I love you all.

Roughly here, actually.

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Or secretly want to.

Had an odd thing happen while driving today. My blinker was acting like a perfect metronome for “The Girl You Want” by Devo.

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Found an interesting little site called Walk Score. It helps determine how “walkable” your address is, finding nearby stores, theaters, libraries and such to see how close you are to useful places so that you can get to them without having to do a lot of driving.

My house scores a rather poor 40 / 100. How ’bout yours?

Howard Taylor (of Schlock Mercenary fame) has posted some incredibly useful directions over at his Livejournal, detailing how to remove the passenger seat of a VW bug.

Not that I’m likely to need these directions any time soon, but it’s still cool to know. We frequently drive the bug around with the back seat folded down for cargo area, and the idea of maximizing that area for hauling stuff is appealing, especially since the alternative is to take my Wife’s truck with its amazing 8 MPG V8 Engine. Great for hauling lots of heavy stuff around town, not so great for long distance drives.

When it comes down to it, the Q Household is kind of lacking in cars for carrying more than two or three people. The truck can fit three across the bench, barely, and the bug has seats and belts for four, but my Wife and I are both tallish people. And while the bug is plenty comfortable for one pair of six foot tall people, anyone over four foot that we’ve managed to wedge into the back will soon be looking back longingly on the days when they could feel their knees.

They’re going down right now at the International House of Pancakes!