Salted Wound

Jackpot. Nasty, nasty jackpot.

admin — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:58:21 +0000

We found 2 dead skunks under my grandparents bunk house. They’ve been there a while – over a year. First we had to dig it out with the mini excavator, but we sill found only skunk nest and skunk poo. So, I reached under with a rake and was pulling out nest/bedding and out rolled the skunk. I’m pretty sure my 40 time would have been best at the NFL combine. I wore tennis shoes instead of work boots for just such and occasion. Turns out dead skunks aren’t very fast at all.

Charter Internet is down for the Entire State

admin — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:32:05 +0000

Internet is down for MN charter communications customers. Strangely I can reach google and charter.com. Charter.net and all other urls fail.

Update: It’s back up. I’m not sure if this news is the cause of the outage or a smokescreen for the outage.

I can’t tell you how frustrated I am with ebay

admin — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:27:00 +0000

I can’t tell you how frustrated I am with ebays inability to validate and police it’s userbase. eBay is broken.

The @MNTimberwolves have draft…

admin — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 03:26:52 +0000

The @MNTimberwolves have drafted 4 point guards and a shooting guard so far. I wonder which ones will still be here in the morning.

Just received this text: “Its …

admin — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:58:24 +0000

Just received this text: “Its gonna be perfect to mow and apparently michael jackson died!”

Not good. @msofficeus abandons…

admin — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:37:13 +0000

Not good. @msofficeus abandons web standards, using Word to render HTML emails in Outlook 2010. Visit http://fixoutlook.org and RT

Import settings from iPhone 3G to iPhone 3Gs

admin — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 03:45:53 +0000

Well, if there’s one available at one of the local AT&T stores, the Best Buy, or the Walmart, I’ll be the proud owner of a new iPhone 3GS. I think my first stop will be Walmart… nobody is brave enough to camp out at a Walmart are they? Not with all the trampling fiascos over the past year…. besides, you can’t beat their return polices.

What I’m looking for is the best way to migrate from one iPhone to the latest and greatest – hopefully taking as many of the settings with as possible. I’m looking for saved SMS messages, email accounts, photos, notes, and other personal settings… everything. Here is my plan.

First, make sure to have the latest iPhone OS 3.0. You don’t want to try and install iphone 2 on the new iPhone 3Gs because, well, it isn’t supported.

The next step also falls under preparation, backup my current iphone. To make sure it’s been done, I’ll plug in my iphone 3G. Right click (control click) on the Phone in itunes, and choose backup.

Your Backup will be stored here:
On a Mac: ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup/


On Windows XP: \Documents and Settings\(username)\Application Data\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\

On Windows Vista: \Users\(username)\AppData\Roaming\Apple Computer\MobileSync\Backup\

I anticipate that I’ll need to enter email account passwords again, but if all goes well, all my junk will all be there.

Update: Well I strolled into my local AT&T store at about 8:00. Fully staffed and no line. They had a 32 Gig, and five minutes later I was out the door. Connected to the wifi at the starbucks next door from my truck and restored from backup. Basically, iTunes walks you though the entire thing and this post is for nothing. Apple is cool like that.

Zero cavities at the dentist t…

admin — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:55:06 +0000

Zero cavities at the dentist today. Currently shellacking a layer of Mountain Dew back on my teeth.

GetHuman. What a great website…

admin — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:27:51 +0000

GetHuman. What a great website and iphone app. Bypass automated phone systems, talk to a live person. http://gethuman.com/

New Golf Gear

admin — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:12:56 +0000

I’ve been slowly over the past 12 months accumulating some new golf gear. The latest is a new driver that sounds like an Easton aluminum bat when hit. It’s a Cleveland HiBORE Monster XLS. They have a deal from now through the end of June where you buy a driver and you get a free 3 wood. From now on, when I go to the driving range I’ll just call it BP.

My old driver, TaylorMade 320Ti was sliding out the hosel and had lost some distance after I got it repaired (see also: getting old, wussy excuses). Besides (he says self justifyingly) I haven’t owned a 3 wood since high school, so I figured I was due for both. The deal was all too tempting. I had planed on getting the new 2009 Burner after reading good reviews and seeing the aforementioned deal, but I was all over the screen on the simulator when I tested it out.

The Austad’s salesman suggested the Cleveland and I saw much better results (same price, same free club deal). Time will tell if the simulator results apply in the real world.

Moving on. For my birthday early last winter I got a new putter. It’s a Taylor Made Rosa Daytona 34″.

The final purchase of the 2008 – 2009 off season was a steal on ebay. It’s a Callaway / Grey Goose golf bag. Though, now that I’m playing it, everyone seems to think I’m a raging alcoholic rather than a player good enough to get a sponsor.

“Sheesh, how many bottles you have to drink to get that thing?”