KLR Parts have arrived!
While bitching at work about the crappy service at Woods, my friend Shawn told me he hasn’t been to Woods in years. Instead, he gets all of his parts from Central Texas Powersports. So I gave them a call last Saturday and ordered my parts. Lo and Behold, my phone rings on Thursday. Do you know who it is? It’s the guy from Central Texas Powersports letting me know that my parts are in. So I made the drive up to Georgetown to pick them up. Had a look around the store while I was there, nice place. They are having a new one built and from the looks of it they need it. There were tons of people in there, and I only had to wait a minute or two before I got helped. They’ve got bikes crammed in all over the place, and more bikes outside. Did I mention how nice they were? I’m still amazed someone called me. I only ordered $4 worth of parts and they treated me great. So while I was up there, I sat on one of those WR450’s, not too shabby. That would make a sweet supermoto, and it’s only like five grand….hmmmm…….
Fuck You Woods Fun Center
I may not even publish this, but one of the reasons I have this blog is to vent. So now I am going to do just that. Three (3) whole weeks ago I ordered one (1) gasket and one (1) o-ring for the petcock on my KLR. I called the local dealer here in Austin - Woods Fun Center - and talked to a really nice guy on the phone. He looked up my parts, placed the order, gave me my total and took my credit card number and updated my account (I hadn’t ordered anything from them in over 3 years because they fucked up my last order, and the one before that, and the one before that). The grand total was $4 or $5, not much. He told me the parts would probably be here Wednesday (I ordered on a Friday), but that it might take up to ten (10) business days and they would call me when the order arrived. No big deal. I had a few things to wrap up before I needed the bike again.
One thing led to another and I have been so busy I forgot all about it. Until today. I’m going to need the bike Friday. I got to thinking, hmmmm, I haven’t gotten a call from the dealer. Surely since it’s been three (3) weeks now, my parts are here. So I leave the house early to run a couple errands, the last of which is to swing by the dealer and pick up my parts before I have to be at work at 3:00. At 2:42 I roll into Woods Fun Center and head back to the parts department. I tell the guy I’m here to pick up some parts, he asks for my last name. He types it into the computer and a puzzled look comes upon his face. He then asks for my first name. He types that in and yet again, puzzled look.
“We don’t show any order,” he says.
“That’s funny,” I say. “Because I called in on the phone, ordered the parts and gave my credit card number.”
“When did you order?”
“About three weeks ago.”
“Well, the last order we show for you is in 2005.”
“So you’re telling me that you didn’t order my parts….”
“At least you didn’t get charged for them.”
“I don’t give a fuck if I was charged or not, I called in here and placed an order three fucking weeks ago and no one actually ordered any of the parts!”
He stands there with a confused look on his face as I turn around and walk out the door, vowing again to myself to NEVER, EVER buy anything from Woods again. I’m still stuck with a leaking petcock that I have to get fixed in three days, but I bet I can find someone who can overnight me the parts. It really sucks, because a repair that would have cost $5, is now probably going to cost $30. Fuck Woods Fun Center - again.
Yahoo answers ???
If you’d like a few good laughs, head on over to Yahoo Answers. I haven’t been this amused in a long time. An excellent example is this wonderful question:
I took birth controle at 7 in the morning and had sex at 1 in the morning, no pertection, could i be pregnant,
Yep, that is a direct cut and paste of the question (even though there is no question mark to designate it as such, just a comma - maybe there was more, we’ll probably never know). Sadly enough, odds are she’ll keep the baby, because the dumb ones seem to reproduce more frequently than the rest of the population (watch Idiocracy if you haven’t already). I’m telling you, this place is full of them! Strangely enough, these morons have figured out enough of the internet that they can make it to Yahoo Answers, but they don’t know what Google or Dogpile are for? Maybe they are just too lazy to type and click, they want other people to do the research for them. Who really cares anyway, if you’re bored and want some good laughs, head on over - there’s tons of material!
WordPress Visual Editor update
Sweeet. Did the upgrade to 2.5 and so far - it rocks! Love the whole new interface and the visual editor is not only working again, but seems improved. In the short time that I used it though, I was really impressed Deans FCKEditor. So if your VE is broken, I would definitely recommend this as a substitute.
New WP Test Post
Let’s see if this has been fixed !!
WordPress Visual Editor is broken
I’m checking the dates, but I’m pretty sure it happened when I did the last update to 2.3.3
I was really really really pissed off. I had written a rather lengthy page, wanted to check some facts, hit the save button. When I went back EVERYTHING I had written was gone, except for the page title. So after I recovered from my head exploding, I wrote everything again, this time saving a copy to notepad. Clicked on the Save button, went back and everything was gone again. I clicked on the code tab, but nothing happened.
So I went into my user profile and unchecked the box that says “Use Visual Editor.” Now the visual editor is gone and I can only write in code, but everything stays after I click on Save. Wish I could say I had figured out how to fix the Visual Editor, but I haven’t yet.
Well, after doing some more reading, this has apparently been going on for quite some time now. It’s just new to me, because I’ve got three different WP installs and the Visual Editor has always worked. Oh well. Apparently there’s a few plugins to choose from that offer the same, if not better, tools as Visual Editor. Maybe I’ll try one, maybe I’ll just keep writing in code. Whatever.
So I’m going to load up Dean’s FCKEditor and see how I like it.
Babel Fish Translator
I’ve used Babel Fish before, but I just found their Page Translator. It’s free and I like gadgets and stuff. So now you can click over there on the sidebar and it will translate my ramblings for you. If anyone uses it, let me know how it works.
Craigslist retards!
So I’m looking to buy some stuff, and I found about eight ads on craigslist. So I fired off a bunch of emails, asking questions. Of those eight, seven of the people had already sold their stuff. So are you retarded? Apparently. Do you think maybe you might want to remove your ad? Nah, I’ll just leave it up and keep responding to emails, telling people I’ve already sold my shit. The only ones that are worse are the fucktards who log back in and edit their post to read SOLD!!!!!!! but don’t bother removing it. I don’t care if you sold it. Take your stupid posting down so it doesn’t show up when I search for whatever the hell it is I’m looking for. Now I’m just mad. Stupid people suck.
IE, Maxthon, SeaMonkey style sheets
For IE7, I took my same style sheet that I made for Opera and went to Tools > Internet Options > Accessability and checked the box “Format documents using my style sheet”, then browsed over to my style sheet and BAM! IE, Maxthon and Outlook started using my style sheet, too. Sweet. Outlook only changed the actual email display, not the folder pane or anything else, but I like it much better. So for SeaMonkey (1.1.7) just save your style sheet as userContent.css in C:\Documents and Settings\<Windows login/user name>\Application Data\Mozilla\Profiles\<Profile name>\***.slt\chrome uand away you go. IE and Maxthon didn’t have to be restarted, but SeaMonkey did. It’s the little things, as they say. Whoever “they” are…..
Firefox closing with crazzy.se dialog box fixed!
I sure as hell couldn’t figure it out, but someone else did! I found the answer on mcarterbrown.com. I do get a little credit, because I at least figured out that it was the External IP extension that was causing it, I just didn’t know why. You can read the post here, or just read on. The credit goes to member VWulfe on the aforementioned mcarterbrown.com site. Where VWulfe got the info, I don’t know, but I try and do my best to quote sources.
So to get this fixed, browse on over to C:\Documents and Settings\YourUsername\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\.default\extensions\externalip@erik.morlin\content and open up the file getip.js in your favorit editor (mine is Crimson Editor, available here for free). Remove lines 226-229 and replace the “else if (i<50)” with “else” on line 224. VWulfe says that External IP is trying to reference four sites to verify the external IP address, two of which are broken. When you are done it should look like this:
function getA(i)
{if(i<25)
return ‘http://checkip.dyndns.com’;
else
return ‘http://www.mittip.nu/’;
}
I re-enabled the External IP plugin and haven’t had any trouble with it since. Again, thanks to VWulfe over at mcarterbrown.com !
