"The said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to prevent
the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping
their own arms." - Samuel Adams, U.S. Constitution ratification convention,
1788
I went to the BG / Toledo football game last night. It was an exciting game and it took two over-time periods to decide it. Both BG and Toledo had no defensive skills and I probably don't need to point this out since it was reflected in the score.
During the game, there was a rabbit that ran all over the field during the first half. At half time I saw that the concession stand was selling limited edition rabbit stew for $6. I had to pass since I thought it was over-priced, but given the cold weather the stew would have hit the spot.
BG lost and obviously it took its toll on us. But OSU's victory over Michigan is enough to make it a very happy year. Go Buckeyes! Anyway, I have already received plenty of pay back for all my smack talk.
Sorry Terry, but hybrid cars don't make economic sense and probably won't ever will. Their only justification is environmental in nature. However, I would argue that reduced CO2 emissions could easily be offset and possibly be exceeded by all those batteries and how they are disposed of.
Since hybrid owners don't care about economics, I propose oil companies give them a special price when they gas up their machines, normal costs plus a little extra.
Last week, I achieved a personal best trap score of 18 (which means I destroyed 18 of 25 birds, which look like miniature orange frisbees).
I waterskied on Saturday and had a very enjoyable time. With my recently altered drysuit I stayed nice and warm, despite the mid-40 degree water temperature. I will be able to continue waterskiing.
Photos of the fire inside my XBox are available. It didn't take too long to completely disassemble my XBox and remove its motherboard. Once disassembled it was easy to survey the damage. The motherboard is definitely cooked. There are also several globs of white melted stuff on the power supply and voltage regulator. Is this normal?
***Note: My XBox was not modified in anyway before it burned up.
Fortunately one of my blog readers had an XBox also affected by the power cord recall and loaned me his replacement cord (since he wasn't using it). The replacement power cord is a bit usual. Think a plug hog style with built in reset along with other buttons and lights. Only Microsoft could build a power cord that would need to be rebooted.
The replacement power cord didn't fix my problem. I will open up my XBox tonight and see if I can figure out anything obvious.
I returned last night from a long week of work on the road. I flipped through my mail and was excited to see that the next DVD in 4400 series arrived from Netflix. (I highly recommend the 4400 series.) I popped the DVD in my XBox and dropped into my leather couch for a little relaxation. About 15 minutes into it I was sufficiently relaxed and hooked into the story line, then the picture started dropping frames and audio choking. Before I decided whether to get up and try to clean the disc or stay put and see how much of the disc was effected smoke started bellowing out of the XBox. All the fire safety training I got at work kicked in and I had the XBox disconnected and sitting on the stone steps in front of my house in seconds. (It only takes about 2 minutes for a home to be totally in flames.) So much for a nice relaxing evening.
I did a little research and it appears that the XBox's power cord could be a fire hazard. Microsoft is offering free replacement cords for affected XBoxes and the online check recognized my XBox as needing a new cord. Now I have to wait several weeks to play DVDs and XBox games on my TV. Microsoft claims only 1 in 10,000 experience this failure. What are the odds when I sit down to relax after a long week of work? I was working with MTBFs and such all week, I guess I can attribute this to Murphy's law.