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Casting with epoxy putty

Jim — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 04:04:21 +0000

Recently, I have been getting back into art and sculpture stuff, as it was part of my younger days which I never explored. I have been having a lot of fun, and looking forward to lots more fun, expirementing with different mediums and products.

The most recent product I have had the chance to use is Smooth-On Free Form Epoxy Putty which is a…

Jeep Upgrades

Jim — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:02:23 +0000

Winter is here! And that means one thing, time to upgrade the Jeep.

I have a great winter full of upgrades planned, but the highlights are:

40″ IROKs
Inner Air Locks
Corporate 14 Bolt Rear Axle, Shaved with Disc Brake conversion
Dana 60 Kingpin Front Axle
5.38 Gears
NP231-Dana 300 Doubler
Borla Headers
4 Link Rear Suspension
3 Link Front Suspension
Fox 2.0 16″

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Fallout: New Vegas

Jim — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 18:51:08 +0000

Well, I should have seen this one coming… I went to GameStop last night and got my Fallout: New Vegas, and as I suspected, I stayed up all night playing so I was absolutely worthless today. It’s a little too soon to provide a review, but my first impression is that it is a bit more polished than Fallout 3, and they spent…

Assassins Creed: Brotherhood

Jim — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 22:27:33 +0000

Today I went to GameStop to pre-order my copy of Assassins Creed: Brotherhood, and while I was there, picked up Assassins Creed II. Yes, I have already finished the base game of AC2, but I haven’t done the DLCs and have only 93% of the trophies, so I wanted to get those wrapped up before Brotherhood comes out. I hope I have…

IPv6

Jim — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 21:08:07 +0000

Lately, I have been working on IPv6 Planning and deployments… I am currently working through my Hurricane Electric IPv6 certifications, and wanted to post this image which shows my current cert level. It doesn’t mean much, just a convenient spot to track my progress…

Uncharted 2

Jim — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 17:07:51 +0000

Well, about a month ago I bought Uncharted 2 at GameStop for something to play until Fallout: New Vegas comes out. After several couple hour sessions, I have finished the game on normal difficulty (netting the very easy, easy, and normal trophies at the same time). After my playthough, I wanted to share my thoughts on the game.

First off, storyline was…

Blog Fixed

Jim — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 14:27:42 +0000

Well, after a few days of tinkering, I finally got the blog back to operational again. Earlier this year, someone hacked a bunch of mediatemple stuff and wreaked havoc on my websites. Had I remembered that they were all stored in SVN in the beginning, I would have quickly fixed them, but I tinkered with stuff for a while first, then had to rebuild my…

Quad Monitor Stand

Jim — Sat, 02 Oct 2010 14:35:29 +0000

Recently I installed my other nVidia 8800 GTX 768Mb video card so that I could attach my other 2 monitors. After doing so, I setup the monitors on my desk, in a 4×1 fashion. While this is functional, I find that I am moving my head a lot to go back and forth to all the monitors. I think I will try going to a…

Image Resizer for Vista/Win7 x86 and x64.

Jim — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:17:28 +0000

Back in 2007, I posted an article about must have tools for windows power users, and one of my favorite items on there was the Image Resizer powertoy. After I switched to Vista64 last year, I was very disappointed that the Image Resizer was not compatible with 64 bit versions of Vista, and now also with Windows 7. I had really been missing this…

Disable Aero Snap in Windows 7

Jim — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 20:50:44 +0000

One of the new features in Windows 7 is a nifty little bugger called Aero Snap. The intention of Aero Snap is to improve the management for open windows on the desktop. When a user drags a window to the top of the screen, Snap will maximize the window automatically (you can tell this is about to happen with a brief animation before you release…