Jasonisms

Well, that sucks. I ordered a new stator for my motorycle off of eBay. The eBay store titled the item as   Ricks Motorsport Electric 03-07 Suzuki SV1000/S Rick's Motorsport Stator 21-331 . The stator comes as described and I'm overjoyed. Now I just need a new gasket and we're good to go! Or so I thought. I thought I'd be able to get the gasket easier locally, but as it turns out, no one carries a gasket for a 2007 SV1000s stator assembly. It seems the bike, at 7 years old and not a large seller to begin with, isn't worth the shelf space. So, I had to order one.  Gah! It finally comes in yesterday and I pick it up believing I can replace the stator today. I sit down with Youtube and watch a couple of stator replacement videos to familiarize myself with the process and then I turn to  Ricks Motorsport Electric's  YouTube video on assembling the connector: Then I notice a discrepancy. The video shows attaching the wires to the terminals and the terminals to the con

Well, that sucks. I ordered a new stator for my motorycle off of eBay. The eBay store titled the item as   Ricks Motorsport Electric 03-07 Suzuki SV1000/S Rick's Motorsport Stator 21-331 . The stator comes as described and I'm overjoyed. Now I just need a new gasket and we're good to go! Or so I thought. I thought I'd be able to get the gasket easier locally, but as it turns out, no one carries a gasket for a 2007 SV1000s stator assembly. It seems the bike, at 7 years old and not a large seller to begin with, isn't worth the shelf space. So, I had to order one.  Gah! It finally comes in yesterday and I pick it up believing I can replace the stator today. I sit down with Youtube and watch a couple of stator replacement videos to familiarize myself with the process and then I turn to Ricks Motorsport Electric's YouTube video on assembling the connector: Then I notice a discrepancy. The video shows attaching the wires to the terminals and the ter

That was very annoying. A year ago I signed up for a Flickr account using my Google ID. Then sometime over the year Yahoo (which owns Flickr) decided only Yahoo ID owners may hold Yahoo property. Gah! In my desire to use Flckr on mobile I decided to revisit Flickr but Yahoo wouldn't take my Google sign-in credentials. Since I never used the service (I think I uploaded 3 images to it) I said screw it  and decided to just go ahead and create a Yahoo ID. On a whim I searched my Gmail account and found the "Welcome to Flickr" email and was able to log in from that email. Then Yahoo wanted me to create a Yahoo ID account since they were doing away with the Google sign-in option. Gah! However, the service wouldn't allow me to merge the existing account with the new Yahoo ID I'd just created. What a pain in the ass. After some twitching and twerking I was able to log into Yahoo with my Google ID and deleted the account, which was also a pain in the ass: enter

For those of you who don't know (which is probably all 4 of you who read this with any regularity), I have an older Asus EeePC , with the 1.6gig Atom processor and 160gig harddrive. It's nothing special, but in a world that predated tablets, this little mobile maniac was my travel companion when storage was limited, such as when traveling on the motorcycle.  Then tablets came out, but they weren't any more powerful and didn't have a keyboard. Then tablets became more powerful, but why did I need to spend more money on a tablet than I originally did on my netbook when my netbook worked just fine? And then Microsoft killed XP for good . Okay, technically Microsoft didn't kill  XP so much as they decided to stop supporting it with patches and security updates. So, I decided to take that very same netbook and replace the Windows XP with Mint Linux . I've used linux in the past but , most recently to eek out a little more life from an old one core processi

Batman  may not have been the first comic book movie (there was a plethora of terrible made-for-TV movies in the 70s and 80s) with Richard Donner's Superman  preceding it by nearly a decade but it was the first really good Batman movie ever produced. Here's a short (30min) documentary of the making of Batman. It's fun to watch if you have the time.

I couldn't sleep. Call it a side effect of the caffeine I allowed myself yesterday afternoon, a byproduct of the sniffling and sore throat that has bested me for days or the encumbrance of a busy mind. Perhaps we should call it s symptom of all three and more since they all seemed to meld into each other throughout the night. Regardless of the cause, it was 4am and I'd barely been able to score a twenty-minute nap since crawling into bed nearly 5 hours earlier. Brandon Sanderson's Steelheart wasn't boring enough to lead me off to sleepytime nor was my usual go-to when I need to fall asleep quickly: YouTube videos of 80s cartoons. So, I picked up my phone and read some news. And then some more. Finally, at 4:30 I decided to head to the gym. I didn't feel like working out, but lying there in bed for another hour or two didn't seem like a plan either. Normally I walk to the gym and this morning was no different. It's barely a mile away and driving

New day, new quarter, new life. As some of you may have noticed I haven't been as prevalent on the Plus as I used to be. In truth, it's become something of a chore to come here at all. Try to have a rational discussion and people call you a troll. Disagree with someone and they call you names. Try to discuss the merits of a topic and you're labelled with a plethora of names. I've complained about this in the past -- on numerous occasions. It's exhausting dealing with some kinds of people and unlike Buzz, those people seem to be abundant here. So, new day, new quarter, new life. I'm giving up Google+. I should have done it last night but I wasn't feeling well and decided to put it off until today. I will still blog and will probably be more active on LinkedIn. Facebook still isn't an option and twitter is for people who can't create coherent thoughts. Perhaps in a month or three I'll rethink this plan, but for now I need to step away. Have a good

Hugh Jackman sings 'Who Am I' from Wolverine, the Musical . You're welcome. http://feedly.com/e/JfJP7Ys-

I really wish I'd brought the Pentax with me today as the light was perfect, but I didn't. Instead, the Android Note II had to perform camera duty. Edited with Snapseed.