Author: rihahn
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Transmission issue part 2
Got the car back from the dealership this afternoon – turns out the issue was either a loose ‘star connector’ (CAN bus interface block) or the OBD dongle for the…
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Transmission issue
This morning on the way to work the hellcat flashed a warning message on the dash; “Service Shifter”, and then immediately went into limp mode. I was able to get…
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Waylens part 2
The second new Waylens Horizon arrived this afternoon… And after some firmware updating and physical installing, I took it out for a test drive: Much better. The only real issue…
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Friday Night Car Shenanigans
Took my roomie down to the Gunther Toody’s in Parker for dinner to get him out of the house for a while, and to get my Friday Night cruise out…
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Waylens
A couple of posts ago I mentioned that I’d purchased a new in box Waylens Horizon – and it did in fact arrive today, in one piece even! But, as…
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Interactive Entertainment
I’ve been orbiting the game development space for over three decades at this point, so I have a lot of cool stories and weird artifacts from the past. For example,…
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1987
For me, certain albums tie deeply to certain periods of my life – and today as I was listening to my tunes and working on some C++ code, I came…
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And done – for now…
The new carbon fiber intake tube / filter arrived today and was promptly installed. And with that I think I’m done for a little while. In the last 30 days…
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33,000 miles
Another thousand miles added to the car since March 12th, so 83 days. I bought the car with 24,800 miles on 31 MAY 2024 – 733 days ago – and…
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Fuel Injection
Memorial Day weekend over – back to the office, though I had to take an Uber to get there and back. After telling my roommate for the last four days…
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And again…
So, the injectors I ordered, that were scheduled to arrive today, then FedEx told me Thursday, then at 1pm Thursday decided that, no, it would be Friday – arrived. Well,…
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AT&T
When I moved in here, five-ish years ago, I had CenturyLink broadband installed, and got the “lifetime” $75/month deal for 1gig bi-directional… Not bad. The problem with ISPs and “lifetime”…
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Shipping and Handling, part 2
Since my last post regarding the epidemic of shipping foibles currently, I had an especially good screwup… In last Thursday’s meeting (The 14th of May), one of the project managers…
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The cost of (horse)power
Back on June 17th, 2022, during the height of an unprecedented global pandemic, I hit a personal record at the gas station: $5.20 per gallon. Today I set a new…
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Automotive
Two things done on the Hellcat over the last few days; coil packs and catch can. For the coil packs I started with the hard ones first – the passenger…
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Shipping and Handling
I’m not sure what’s going on, but for the last month I’ve not gotten a single package on time, and two so far have gone completely missing. It’s not like…
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Technology
A couple of months ago the battery in my 2022 iPhone 14 Pro Max bit the dust, so I replaced it with the iPhone 17 ‘air’ – which is a…
