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  The long weekend

  02.25.07 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  You gotta love those weekends that just seem to drag out in that happy sorta way. This weekend was one of those weekends. Here’s the rundown…
  Pulled Pork
  I’ve said it in an earlier post and I’ll say it again - the pulled pork at Smokey Bones is hands down the best. G took me there [...]

• Cars

  I got the shaft…

  02.22.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  …the CAM shaft.
  Doug @ Engine Parts Warehouse hooked me up with a CompCams XE262H cam, lifters and miscellaneous gaskets all at an awesome price. I also ordered a new oil pan and bolts today from Mustangs Plus.
  Once all my parts on order arrive, the engine will come back out of the Mach 1 and onto [...]

• Cars

  No leaks… it pours!

  02.20.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  I put the rest of the car back together and went for a test drive and boy let me tell you my previous small leak has turned into a whopper with two oil pan bolts missing.
  So… there’s only one thing to do… “never cry… modify!”. I’ll use this opportunity to swap up the engine combo [...]

• General

  Tragedy!

  02.17.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  I set about replacing the pan gasket in the Mach 1 today and all went pretty well - got the motor out the car enough to get the pan off and enough room to work - putting the pan back on one of the pan bolts snapped in the block before it got to 12ft/lbs!
  I [...]

• General

  Django-ified

  02.11.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Last week I started on a quest to learn a new programming language and framework - Python and Django. This weekend I finally stepped out of tutorial-land and wrote my first Django app - a snazzy todo list.
  It’s not the most whiz-bang app out there but rest assured that it does have a killer admin [...]

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