Hopeless Geek

House Democrats today voted to raise gas prices to $4 a gallon, nearly double consumer electric bills, and to ship 2 million American jobs a year to China and India with passage of the environmental extremist national energy tax bill. Congressman John Carter (R-TX) voted against the measure, which passed the House by a strictly partisan 219-212 margin, with 211 Democrats and 8 Republicans voting for the bill. 168 Republicans and 44 Democrats voted against it.
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1. How is it “strictly partisan” if 8 Repubs voted for it and 44 ‘Crats voted against it? English, much?
2. It’s not extremist and it won’t double energy prices, you moron.
3. I feel embarrassed that you “represent” me, and my state, to the nation. You are ignorant, bought, and past your prime. Sadly, enough of your constituency has similar traits that you keep your job. I hope things change in six years in that department. A blue Texas would be a nice gift.

So … what’s “other” mean and why did it not go away when I removed all music, videos, podcasts, mail, contacts, calendars, and most of my apps?

Restore in progress…

So I’ve been posting my updates to Twitter during the conference for a couple of reasons: first, if I tag them “#wwdc” then everyone at the conf will see them and that’s kind of neat and second, FB is pulling them for status, so it’s a quick double-update.

Well, I posted this one yesterday: http://twitter.com/ahknight/status/2092801084

Little did I know, the first part of that was more true than I thought. The Stump guys themselves were searching Twitter for references to themselves and the host, at the start of the show, starts off: “So I saw on Twitter that some guy said he had ‘the best question’ for us tonight. Is he here? Is that guy here?” After that initial, “Oh. Crap.” I stood up to take my lumps only for the host to have apparently moved on to something else. As I went to myself “eh, oh well” one of the other folks on stage points “he’s over there!” and I’m subsequently called out entirely.

“Come up here. Come here.”

So I put some things down and start the long walk up to the stage. As I go there, some big video cameras start to float around me (obviously with operators behind them, but as far as I can see they’re cameras with legs). Yay, make me more nervous. Thanks!

I get up to the stage and the host points to the stage and says to come up there. Oh boy. So I do. He then says some things that I’m sure other people remember but around this time I realize I probably have a social disorder of some kind as everyone sounds like the teacher in Peanuts cartoons. I do make out that he’s said that he’s going to abide by the statement I made: the experts will have two seconds to answer my question. Go.

So I paused and organized my question, much to the disappointment of the audience, though the host backed me up a little with ‘what you don’t know is that just standing on the stage makes you lose 25 IQ points’. Then I released:

“What two pins on the LC III were disabled on the LC II?

Wow, a baby-shaker in one area, and then the jailbreak tool in another. These folks aren’t even trying anymore.

From Reddit.

Disconnect everything, power first. Keep the drain hose above the top of the washer if the bucket’s full of water. If there are clothes in it, remove them to a water-tight location (like a cooler or something).

Put the unit on an appliance dolly and get it onto the driveway before removing the drain hose from the rear of the unit. Water will gush out for a while here.

Unscrew the two hex bolts at the top of the unit that attach the plastic tabs to the console. Unscrew the screws in the end caps that attach it to the top of the cabinet. Unscrew the two hex bolts at the base of the rear panel that attach it to the base.

Pull the console forward and up a little to dislodge it. Slide it out of the way enough to get access to the two brass clips. Put a flat-head screwdriver in the hole towards the front and pry the clip forward a little to release it. Remove both clips. This releases the rear panel from the top of the cabinet.

One cable goes from the console to the top of the cabinet: this is the lid switch. Disconnect it.

Pull the cabinet forward now that everything is detached. It helps to have someone holding the console and rear panel while you do this. Remove the cabinet.

Place it on something to prevent scuffing, like a few towels or a small animal. The lid switch is the only device here. Unscrew it from the ground (one hex screw) and from the inside of the lid (two Phillips screws). Push the grey tube holding the wires out of the clip holding it in and release the plug from the top of the lid.

Take this to a parts shop and ask for another. It’s around $25-50 depending on how desperate you look.

Snap the gray tube back in, screw in the ground and switch. Close the lid: it should click now. If not, check that you actually screwed the new unit in properly. Yes, the new one.

Replace the cabinet and the rear panel, then the clips and the console. Replace all screws and bolts. Make sure there are no spare parts.