Crazy But Able

Okay, this one is easy. I based it off a recipe given on the back of a can of spam.
Dice spam. Skewer spam chunks, alternating with chunks of pineapple. Run the kabob under water, heavily sprinkle with brown sugar, and grill for about five minutes. Flip it once or twice.

Wake up. Trudge to auto parts store. “Sorry, we don’t carry hoses. Try the Napa store down the street.” Trudge to Napa store. “Sorry, we don’t stock hoses. We can order you one.” Back to the motel room. Looked in the phone book for auto parts stores, […]

Trudge trudge trudge through the snow. The auto parts store just closed, of course. We walked across the street to the Holiday gas station, and asked a couple of yoopers if they knew if there was an open parts store nearby. “Nope, everything closes at 6.”
Crazy yooper inspects our hose. […]

On to Marquette, where got gas and had lunch at the Beef-A-Roo. Someday I’ll have a full review up, with pictures, but let me tell you this: if you ever get a chance to go to the Beef-A-Roo in Marquette, go. It’s really good!
More driving. About 20 miles outside of Bruce […]

We made it through Chicago okay, and got to Peggy’s house. Peggy’s dad gave me another bottle of premixed coolant as a joke gift. <— HINT: MORE FORESHADOWING. He also gave me a better screwdriver to keep in the car. Also at Peggy’s house I opened the bleeder valve on the […]

I’m already sick of telling the story of what happened to my car over vacation. But I’ll tell it here once, in several parts, so that I can just point everyone here if they want details.
On December 23rd, we woke up and packed the car. Only after packing the car and getting ready […]

finish the sentence in the comments. If you need inspiration, see
the post by Warren Ellis that gave me the idea in the first place. Or you could just search google.
[Assuming that all goes to plan, John should be driving back to Minnesota from Michigan today. When he gets back he’ll probably resume […]

Of course, if you don’t love programming, you won’t think so.
Ever wonder how you could script your windows box to do whatever you want? Sure, you could install Perl, but what if you want to do something windows specific, like get a list of devices which aren’t working right in Device Manager?
Enter the Scriptomatic.
The […]

Merry Christmas Keir, here’s a link just for you: “The Invasive Species Weblog: The latest information about invasive species, updated daily.”
And here’s one for Corey: Wine Blog Watch, a centralized location to get all updates about all wine blogs on the internet (well, all the blogs that this guy knows about, anyway.)
[Us little […]

Don’t pee in the Millenium Falcon.
[John is still on vacation; this link brought to you by the letter P (of course) and the number 3. You won’t get the number 3 joke unless you know the full and sordid details of the controversial number 3 ban enacted at Michigan Tech in 1995.]