Below are the 19 most recent journal entries recorded in kmw7339's LiveJournal:

Sunday, March 11th, 2012
2:28 pm	5 stages of nutek mobo grief Ici B da 5 stages of nutek mobo grief : Denial: Hmm - POST was a bit slow ... Uh Oh hard crash during a freaking debian install? Oh its Fine, i just need to get the BIOS update from the mfr. Im sure the board will be rock solid & stable then, especially if I don't try to use any of its expansion slots or peripheral connectors Anger:  Tyan/Intel/Supermicro/Asus i hAt u so much, i curse u, ur children, & ur childrens children! You bastards have sold me yet another flakey mobo that only works when the cockerel crows thrice. Bargaining: How about some new DIMMS? a bigger case? I'll throw in a 2000 watt powersupply, a 3lb pure copper heatsink and a Finnish engineered liquid cooling system! How about a free trip to Vegas with happy ending? Depression: This POS mobo will never work and it enjoys taunting me. Theres no point in going on ... ill just sit here and wilt (sob) Acceptance: OK, so Tyan/Supermicro/Asus/Intel/ freaking _Foxconn_ all snck and they sell garbage - at least my Mac is still working ... Oh CRAP, frowny face!? steve, did u sell out, too? Wait, who did you contract to handle ur manufacturing? ur kidding, right?  i need a drink (sob sob quiver sob)). (Comment on this)
Friday, May 9th, 2008
10:53 pm	DSC_0071 DSC_0071 Originally uploaded by kmw7339. (Comment on this)
10:53 pm	new bike for liz DSC_0069 Originally uploaded by kmw7339. We picked up the IH Rogue Team frame at the velodrome last week and put extra parts on it: Iron Horse Rogue Team frame Avid BB7 mech disc brakes, promax levers Shimano XTR fd, Deore rd, deore shifters, sram chain wellgo platform pedals wtb stem, wtb She-V saddle, thompson elite seatpost fsa headset, manitou axel six fork bontrager sport handlebars, bb, and cranks (Comment on this)
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
11:53 am	ranking of auto repair shops in West Philly From Best to Worst: Midas, 4138 Market Street (honest, friendly, competent, interested in doing the repair) Ezra's Auto Repair, 301 South 48th Street (always has time to check out the car, straight forward, trustworthy) Keenan Lumpkin, 4436 Market Street (competent, good estimates, great service) Lei's Auto & Collision, 4200 Ludlow Street (good service,interested in doing the repair) Meineke, 4846 Spruce Street (mediocre service, poor communication skills, overpriced) Strauss, 48th & Chestnut (lazy, shiftless, filthy store, rude employees, not interested in doing the repair) Waynes Garage, 4521 Springfield Ave (incompetent, unable to deliver on schedule, repairs that need to be redone, arrogant) Albert Lawrence Sunoco, 46th & Walnut (incompetent, dishonest, unable to deliver on schedule, unable to deliver on promised repairs, overpriced, deceitful) Central City Toyota, 48th & Chestnut (arrogant, not interested in doing repairs, not even interested in looking at the car) Current Mood: calm (Comment on this)
Saturday, October 21st, 2006
10:30 am	tomac special tomac special Originally uploaded by kmw7339. a work in progress. i finally installed the new bars, brakes, and cables - fancy DA shifter cables, fancier jagwire brake cables. still using cheezy truvative cranks, cheezier nexhave derailleur, and HOS (heavy as $hi7) stock marin fork. she's a junker, but she rolls real schweet ;-). I need to add new bar tape (baby blue?), lights, then I will put on a sugino XD600, a new cassette. and a nicer stem & seat tube (maybe a new seat?). this bike is just for rolling around town and riding the gravel roads up in the Wiss ... basically a cheap verson of the Scott SUB. (Comment on this)
Monday, July 17th, 2006
3:56 pm	Cool Sculpture I found this page while reading about chinese water torture on wikipedia - http://www.karibyron.com/ (Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 11th, 2006
7:59 am	My weekday bike route: http://www.gmap-pedometer.com/?r=289438 (Comment on this)
Tuesday, May 9th, 2006
12:09 am	schuylkill reflection IMG_0615 Originally uploaded by kmw7339. I took this pic after one of my afternoon rides, near the Chestnut Street ramp. I'm a sucker for river reflections ... (Comment on this)
Monday, May 8th, 2006
11:25 pm	back in the saddle again 8^) OK - so this weekend wasn't so bad - I spent basically the whole time on the bike. On Saturday I took out the full-sus, rode up to Wissahickon and hike-a-biked for a while ... I rode as much as I could on the single track, but the steep inclines really kicked my butt. Oh yeah - on the ride out there I stopped at A-Plus for some enerjuice and ended up helping out this fixie guy who had a flat. Luckily I had my pump and some patches, so it was sorted pretty quickly. His bike was pretty cool - I think it was a motobecane frame. Anyways - after fixing the flat he took off to CC and I rode out to Valley Green. The weather was _awesome_!!! There were lots of ducks at Valley Green, as usual. On the way back, I veered off of FD up the ridge to the single track. The first climb made my lungs burn so bad. I rode the ST for a while, got passed by some hardcore XC riders, and at one point I went up this little rise and ended up next to Henry Ave - I could see the big TV antennas from there. Anyways, I went back down a steep DH section that spilled me out by the dam north of Valley Green. Then I rode back home. On Sunday I rode out to Belmont Plateau on the hardtail. That was alot of fun, too - I made a wrong turn at first and ended up over by the Japanese House - then I went back across Montgomery and landed in the middle of a BBQ/revival/motorcycle expo(!) - I rode across the softball fields and finally found the fire road. From there on, it was awesome! Lots of cool trails back there - I saw a couple of other bikers and about three people on horses. After playing around there for a while, I got back on West River Drive and rode back up to Wissahickon for a while ... SO - all in all it went well. I need to put a new bottom bracket on the hardtail, and the front hub needs to be serviced ... OK - that's all for now. KMW Current Mood: good (Comment on this)
Monday, April 10th, 2006
11:24 pm	Si se puede! DSC_0045 Originally uploaded by kmw7339. I went to the rally at Love Park with some nice folks from casa Latina during my lunch break! It was really crowded, and everyone at the rally seemed upbeat. I got seperated by the crowd pretty quickly, so I took some snapshots and soaked in as much as I could. I wish that I could have stayed longer, but I neede to get back to LDC for a meeting right after lunch. (Comment on this)
Thursday, April 6th, 2006
10:55 pm	flagchopper flagchopper Originally uploaded by kmw7339. OK - so this is a weird crop of one of the boring pics that I took last weekend - i just snapshot the horizon as a med-evac chopper was coming overhead (at the Veterans Memorial by Delaware Ave). Anyways, I tried to scan from the negative and then cropped it to a square. I kind of like it - there's some rythm with the flags and the chopper, and the patches of sky are nice, i guess. i can't tell if it's neat, or if i'm seeing something that isn't there ... anyhoo ... maybe i'll adjust the colors so that it's peasoup green ;-). (Comment on this)
Monday, April 3rd, 2006
12:13 am	Cira Peeks Out DSC_0004 Originally uploaded by kmw7339. I decided to ride the east falls loop this afternoon - there were lots of folks on Kelly Drive! I shot some pics of the bridges and some river views ... I really like framing the views with shoreline trees and stuff ... i like this one because of the curves in the branches ... (Comment on this)
Saturday, March 25th, 2006
11:28 am	streetcorner singer DSC_0022 Originally uploaded by kmw7339. i took this pic a couple of months ago - walking around OC with a friend of mine. i like the texture in elvis's hair and on the flag. the light was behind me ... i'm shooting to the north, basically towards the bridge to NJ. this was a fun day - we went out for brunch and then explored OC for a while. A nice "Spring In December" shot ;-). (Comment on this)
Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006
8:08 pm	March 2006 Dream westphilflwr Originally uploaded by kmw7339. i'm in the living room of my apartment, looking at the far corner where the TV/stereo should be. a half-height trap door slowly slides open - the opening is very dark, so I can't see what's inside. -cut- i'm in bed in my bedroom - it is dark. a man, an intruder is in the bedroom, coming towards my bed slowly. he is breathing/pulsing slowly and he is angry. he is scowling -cut- the man is right at my bed. i am laying on my side, trying to get up to defend myself, but i can't move. i am trying to scream, but my mouth is pressed into the bed. the man is coming closer, raising up by the bed. i am keening/screaming into the bed. -wake up in a panic- the next morning when i tried to figure out what this dream was about, i thought about the trap door. i looked into the trapdoor and turned on the light. melli was crouched in this half-height room, crying and scrunched in a ball. i took her hand and helped her come out of the room. she smiled and laughed. her face was sunny and surrounded by flower petals. she was smiling and happy as she walked away over a sunny field. (Comment on this)
Sunday, March 19th, 2006
4:42 pm	incense altars DSC_0018 Originally uploaded by kmw7339. We found small temples and incense altars throughout Macau and Coloane - this one is right off of one of the main public squares in Macau. The scent of the incense was really strong, and in some places they use electric fans to make sure that it circulates properly. (Comment on this)
Saturday, March 18th, 2006
11:10 pm	Big Buddha of Lantau DSC_0154 Originally uploaded by kmw7339. SO - I am back from Hong Kong! The plane rides were crazy, but I had alot of fun while I was on the ground. THe first couple of days were devoted to business, and then the rest of the time was available for site-seeing. I went to Macau on Thursday and then on Friday I went out to Lantau Island by MTR (by myself!!!) to visit the Po Lin Buddhist monastery. The Buddha statue is really big!!! Impressive - I was awestruck ;-). I took a bunch of pics on the trip, some of which are online now - the Macau pictures are going to go up tomorrow. The coolest thing about Macau? No stop signs! (or stop lights, either!) OK - that's all for now. (Comment on this)
Monday, March 6th, 2006
8:47 am	is it kinking in? OK - so this is day 1 2 3 ... 14! SO - two weeks ... the side effects are basically gone (still a tiny bit of nausea in the afternoon), and my concentration is way up. I got up and exercised this morning, which was cool ... T & W of last week were crazy - I was high as a kite. Then R, F, and S were awful - it felt like the dark days of _Middle_School_ - all melodrama and weepy angst. Now I feel more evened out. SO - one of my projects is to expand the SH suggestions that I came up with back in February. Linda mentioned tying in tying in sensory images, metaphors, more specific details ... Maybe some pictures from the neighborhood? (Comment on this)
12:49 am	Purple Haze DSC_0002 Originally uploaded by kmw7339. The view from my office. The sun reflecting off all those windows is always fun to watch -- especially right at dusk. (Comment on this)
12:46 am	i luv my car ;-) IMG_0450 Originally uploaded by kmw7339. OK - so she's nothing special, but I luv her just the same. I took this pic a couple of weeks ago after the big philly snowstorm of '06. I was feeling sloth and torpor, so I decided to shovel snow for a while (even though there wasn't anywhere to drive). I have been having weird dreams about forgetting my car - or trying to drive it after it's been parked for weeks or months ... I had one last night - the gears weren't shifting right, and I kept trying to parallel park, but I couldn't get up to the curb ... anyhoo - IRL my baby is fine ;-). (Comment on this)