Hard Drives

Posted on 7/14/2005 by Kyle

Well, tonight I finish my migration to all Seagate hard drives. The drive that I thought was failing (and thus the reason I purchased a replacement for it two weeks ago) failed again tonight. It’s not a huge deal for that one, but it is my music and backups drive.

I’ll be pulling it out and copying the backups I made of all that data to it in about half an hour. After that, I’ll use the computer my brother sent up for his girlfriend to use in the fall to stress test the drive. Speaking of that computer, he did something that was pretty dumb. See if you can spot it:

That’s right, he replaced the stock power supply with a better one and the holes do not line up. Apparently his old one didn’t have a power switch. The part that boggles my mind is that he didn’t dremel a new hole for it before he sent it up here with me.

EDIT: Apparently this is actually his computer that he moved from a different case and hadn’t finished working on before I took it up. I was wondering why the dvd burner and 3 hard drives were inside.

Trip home

Posted on 7/13/2005 by Kyle

I took a trip to see my parents over a long weekend, and had a great time. I got to spend a bunch of time with my dad helping him out on a couple of things. I also got to spend some time hanging out with a couple of really cool people from high school that I haven’t been able to. On the way back up, I got bored sitting through all the construction, so while I was waiting a prepped my camera and was able to snag a few shots like this one:

Never give a bored man a camera, he’ll do stupid things.

Bonfire at Gay

Posted on 7/7/2005 by Kyle

A bunch of us headed out to Gay the other night (July 5) for a nice bonfire (and fireworks, but someone forgot to bring them…). Kevin and I set up our second big fire of the week, though this one wasn’t quite as impressive. We stayed out there until 12:30am and had a pretty good time.

Notice Kevin’s heat shield.

It ended up burning pretty well too:

Summers in the Keweenaw are amazing!

Fireworks in the Keweenaw

Posted on 7/5/2005 by Kyle

Last night I went to Copper Harbor (~50 minutes away by car) to watch the fireworks with a few friends, as apparently it’s pretty much the only place in the Keweenaw that does them (Lake Lindon does too). We got up there around 9pm, and wondered around until we found some friends to sit and watch them with (from a great spot too). About 10:30, a dense fog started rolling in, and by 10:45 we could only see about 50 feet away. They finally decided to start shooting them off around 11:15, and this is what we got:

It was a new experience to say the least. Eventually some of the fog was burned off, and they were able to get a few high enough so that we could actually make them out.

Dad, the fireworks in Rose City are better though. Even had I been able to see them all, the show was far shorter than back home.

Lost Liberty Hotel

Posted on 6/29/2005 by Kyle

Irony is a dish best served… well, funny.

On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled that the process of eminent domain to seize private property for private development. Well, Logan Darrow Clements is trying to do just that. The truly ironic part is, he’s trying to get Justice David H. Souter’s land. The same Justice Souter that voted with the majority to allow this.

The best part, the hotel’s proposed name is The Lost Liberty Hotel, featuring the “Just Desserts Cafe” and a mueseum showcasing the loss of personal liberties in the U.S..

You can find a copy of the letter sent to the Code Enforcement Officer of Weare, New Hampshire, here.