Neanderpundit

I can’t wait for the new I-nternet. Steve Jobs invents new URLs that can only be reached by Apple computers and Iphones. Special features will be available only to users of approved devices. Then interfaces for Win machines will be written which will drag those machines to a crawl.

The tractor, on further inspection, hadn’t thrown a rod but in fact the metal retainer that holds the bolts in place had snapped, allowing the bolts to back out. Nothing was irrepairably harmed, but it’s been a giant pain in the ass. I went to the only place that might have it, the local Ace Hardware, and the guy at the desk said “no. Why not use loctite?”

Sigh.

I’m amazed at the ignorance of people, sometimes, I really am.

I just said “I don’t have time to teach you physics” and left.

Look, you fucktard: Steel and aluminum expand and contract when heated. They do so at a different rate. When you use Loctite to try to bond aluminum and steel, it fails, especially when the unit has a dramatic thermal cycle, especially when it is used in oil. That’s why they use nuts and bolts on a lot of small engines, and that’s why this engine had a steel keeper that crimps in place once the bolts are torqued.

This is why I hate “modern” hardware stores. And this is one of the better ones in my area, futhuchrissakes.

James Burnette of Burnette’s Urban Ettiquette has a great newspaper article up about the Iphone

I have a Treo. The technology does pretty much the same thing, and the tech is years old. I can play movies, take movies and pictures, mail them to people, surf the web, send and receive email from any of a dozen different sources, and it’s seamlessly tied to my office email account.

One of the guys I work with said “I’m the smartest motherfucker on earth when I have this with me”. And it’s true; you have the ability to look almost anything up anytime.

Now: What controls the information? If you have such a tool, and it has crappy information contained in it, how smart are you?