And if I did, it would be awkward and horrible. I could hurt my partner if I tried to dance; in fact, people have been hurt. But I have to say that "Get Down Tonight" by KC & The Sunshine Band makes me want to start dancing when I hear it. But then again I've been listening to Peter Frampton lately when nobody's around. So I could have a brain injury or something.
Came across a really great .sig tonight:
The two loudest sounds in the world: a bang when you expected a click, and a click when you expected a bang.
Heh heh...
The latest addition to the locker is a big one:
It's a beaut, too: an Israeli-made Browning 1919A4 light machine gun, in .30 caliber (7.62x51). It's got a lot of newer parts, and has been completely re-parkerized. The trunion has almost no wear, there's not a weld in sight, and the tolerances are pretty good. I had to open the top cover with a rubber mallet the first time, in fact. The charging handle was pretty stiff, too. I'm going to need to take it apart and apply a generous helping of LSA to its guts with a shaving brush.
It's sitting on an M2 tripod of WWII vintage. The tripod has a brass id tag, but it was removed for repainting. The tripod's in very nice shape for being old.
Not shown is the T&E mechanism (well, it's shown; it's in the ziploc bag on the right, in the case by the manual). That mounts under the rear of the gun, just in front of the trigger/grip, and attaches to the traverse bar (the rod that runs between the rear legs of the tripod). It's a fairly complex device, and it's job is to raise/lower the muzzle, as well as move it left and right. This is done by using the adjusting knobs on the T&E itself (which are much like those on, say, a microscope), and/or moving the T&E across the traverse bar (which has gradations engraved on it).
The way it works is that once you get it all set up in a position, you sight the weapon in on one or more locations and then note the numbers on the T&E and traverse bar. That way, you can move between various targets without having to look down the sights; you're already zeroed in.
My uncle got one too (my friend Andy also owns one), so we were thinking of having a mini-competition next time we go on an overnight camp trip. We need to find a place that has some decent range, though. Then there's always the Big Sandy Machinegun Shoot, which was a hilariously good time back in October. It'll be a kick to go again as shooters and not observers.
...to watch the whole full-length movie, here's a 30 second version of It's A Wonderful Life. Bonus: it's re-enacted by bunnies.
First off, I'm really sorry that you're going to have a bad Monday morning. I'm sure there's some procedure for recovering or resetting a password on whatever brand of ATM that you have there, so things won't be too bad for you. I promise that I didn't mess with anything but the password. I'm not cruel or vindictive, I just wanted some beer money. You have to understand, however, that it's really your own fault, anyway.
When the printer cable fails or gets disconnected from the printer in the ATM, the machine should page someone -- it's connected to a network, for crying out loud, and it can do that sort of thing. It shouldn't sit there saying "Printer cable attachment failure" with an option to go into admin mode. People tend to stick their card into an ATM before they read the screen, especially if the screen in question looks like it has a normal "Welcome" message and side-button options. God forbid someone get it stuck in there. I consider myself lucky I saw the screen before I tried. And it really shouldn't say any of these things when it's the only ATM in a 4 block radius from the cash-only bar my friends were at.
Really, the machine should display something like "Out of Order" in a big flashing font. Or it should shut down completely. It shouldn't taunt users with the fake promise of twenty bucks. It definitely should not taunt chronic button-pushers like me with words like "admin mode". Some things should never be done.
In spite of your hardware failure (and lack of response to same), we got a couple drinks no sweat; everyone understands that these things come up. But your error message (or lack thereof) annoyed me. Apparently it annoyed someone else, since your machine had been out of order long enough for grafitti to be written on it saying that it was busted. I don't know how long it takes a non-working ATM to be vandalized before the punks with sharpies get uppity, but it was that grafitti which caught my eye as I was leaving the pub and walking past the annoying ATM again. I'm not sure how I first missed the message the miscreants left, but they were more helpful than you guys seem to have been.
Having said all this, you guys need to either:
- Pick better admin passwords
- Change the lame default admin passwords
Otherwise, some annoyed person with a couple beers in him will be walking past the machine which failed him an hour earlier and he will find your lame password, and then he will poke around in the admin menus until he sees the "" option. At that point, a bad day for you (whenever you do decide to fix your ATM) is an eventuality. It's just not my fault, see. Those sorts of menu options are like crack for some people.
Anyway, I'm sorry if I made your life temporarily difficult -- I've never had root on an ATM, and it was too much fun to resist. But you try harder to keep your ATMs working, and I'll try harder to push fewer buttons, OK?
Signed,
Wee
P.S. No, I will not tell you what the password was changed to -- you'll just have to guess. But here's a hint: if you were texting someone with those 5 numbers, you'd be able to use the letters "f", "u", "c", and "k". You might even be able to re-use a letter...