Archive for October, 2008

I Said A Beef Hot Links!

Posted in General Stuff, Humor, restored on October 22nd, 2008 by otter – Comments Off

I don’t know what’s worse. That I get that song stuck in my head, or that it’s now my ringtone…

GO MEAT!

Just In Case Someone Else Is Googling For This…

Posted in Reasons I Retired From IT, restored on October 13th, 2008 by otter – Comments Off

I have a Canon Pixma ip1600 printer, and use Mac OS X. It appears the nozzles have been clogged in the printer, since I don’t use it daily, especially for color, but I spent over an hour trying to figure out why there is no accessible Utility for the printer to allow cleaning and other maintenance. As it turns out, the problem is having it plugged in through the Airport Router.

For those who don’t know, if you have an Apple Airport router, you can plug your printer into it, and then anyone in your house can print to your printer. This works well for the most part. As it turns out, you have to have the printer plugged into the USB in order to use the utility at all. Grr.

So the following is for the googlers: canon printer pixma mac os x macos mac osx utility how do you clean cartridge
EDIT: Just so it’s clear, I had to figure this one out entirely on my own. Canon, Apple, Google, etc were all of absolutely zero help. Does anyone else remember back in the day when you could type your problem into google and it would actually serve up an answer?

I was going to post something else

Posted in General Stuff, restored on October 7th, 2008 by otter – Comments Off

But I can’t remember what it was. So you get this instead.

Good Vibes

Posted in General Stuff, restored on October 7th, 2008 by otter – Comments Off

So I got a new car. A Pontiac Vibe. It’s basically the same thing as a Toyota Matrix. It’s got the Toyota engine and transmission, so it should be good for a few hundred thousand miles. My brother and I installed the new radio and XM into it today. The same process in the Protege took me about 2 hours by myself. This took us a total of around 3 hours together. We ended up putting my subs and amp into his car, since the Vibe is a hatchback, I didn’t think it was a good idea to have it out in the open.

I got a pretty good deal on it, because I took in all the homework, and showed the high (what they wanted) and low (what I wanted to pay) book prices plus a few examples of what the same car (with less mileage on it) were selling for in the PNW. They wanted a little over $12k and I got it for $10,900.