Learned'd VIII: Less Bewbs, Same Nonsense

[Rogue One]

How do you like your whippet? I've wanted one for a long time? How are they on shedding?

Tough question to answer as we wound up with an atypical one. She's the exact opposite of her litter mates. Pure evil. Nicknamed her LucyFur.


As a member of the sighthound family she has no undercoat, and the is hair fine and short, so shedding is minimal.

While I prefer to support rescue groups whenever possible, whippets are generally hard to come by through rescue, so we went to a local breeder to get her. Here's her page on the breeder's site. http://www.jayteawhippets.com/Birdie.html My partner and I have an extensive background in greyhound rescue, including background checks and home placements. Besides the whippet, we have a couple of Italian Greyhounds, a retired racing greyhound (NGA), and a show greyhound (AKC). Shoot me a PM and I'll answer any questions.

[nissangirl74]

She's beautiful. Most of the evil ones are.

[Rogue One]

Thanks! She was raised by a strong willed male Italian Greyhound named Louie. He had his on version of Gandolf's "You shall not pass." When we opened the sliding door on the minivan, he would jump in first, turn around and brace himself so as to deny entry to the two greyhounds we had at the time. Used to call him Little Big Man. When Louie passed away, we placed his ashes in a hand carved box from Ghana with the West African Adinkra symbol gye nyame, which can translate as 'Except God' (I fear none) or 'I fear none except God'.

Anyway, our Whippet Birdie likes to dig under the fence to get out and run though the neighborhood treeing cats, and teasing the other dogs that are penned up. We had to run an electrical wire along the bottom of the fence to keep her from escaping (yes we're operating a doggie gulag). Louie, being a typical male, liked to pee on the electric wire (It's a guy thing). Picture if you will, the little guy balancing on three legs doing his thing, when Birdie sneaks up behind him and shoves him into the electrical wire! Poor guy gets the shock of his life and she gets a good laugh. This happened several times, so I know it was deliberate.

[Bubba1]

Awww. What a cute face on that whippet.

[float_6969]

Yea, now I really want one, lol!

[sx moneypit]

Good morning!

[WDRacing]

Morning Ben!

[Kompresshun]

Mornin' everybody!

It's cold. Damn cold.

I can't even go out in the shop today for longer than a couple of minutes.

[frapjap]

Damned cold! Locked myself out of the house this morning like an idiot. Luckily the lady wasn't far away. Even the dog didn't want to be out there this morning, and shes husky-stuff.

Chris, you have plans for Carlisle this year, right? RIGHT? Mazda's gotta represent!

[Kompresshun]

Yeah I tried to thaw out the Five Hundred last night and it was a wasted effort. Completely iced over again this morning. I'm worried the battery is about shot in it too. It's been having a hard time starting and last night it BARELY turned over enough to start up. Thankfully the wife didn't need to go anywhere today, so I just hopped in the Kia since it was already warm.

I would like to come to Carlisle, but Kristen's school schedule is a lot more intense since this is her last year. We're coming to VA in March, but after that we're going to be limited. It was hard enough to squeeze the Dragon in this year, but i'm at least going to that for sure.

If I do figure out how to squeeze in Carlisle though, I doubt i'll be bringing the Miata. I'm not spending 9hrs in racing seats and I don't think it'll be ready for a long trip by then. Looks like i'll be autocrossing the land yacht if I do come

[frapjap]

Haha, you can join the yachting club, theres a few that turn up every year. Kevin says he might bring his big a** LS, too.

Pillows go a long way for 9 hours! I usually bring an extra one for the 8 hours ride.

I bet the battery will keep going as soon as it warms up again. You could get a $15 battery tender from Harbor Freight. I have one on the lady's car to get it through the cold days and another on the T/A just to keep it topped off. Autozone and Advance are going to lose their asses on battery warranties this year.

[Kompresshun]

I'd kinda like to see what the big boat would do anyways. I really haven't thrashed it much since i've had it, so it might be fun.

I'm hoping it will, because batteries have went up quite a bit since i've last bought one. I do really need to grab one of those battery tenders though, because every time I get in the Miata to start it the battery is dead. It's been sitting a lot lately so I haven't really worried about it much. The battery in that thing is a joke anyways.

I've been doing a ton of research on cheap paint lately too, because I really want to paint the Miata before summer but I don't want to drop the cash to have a professional job done. Plus i'd rather spend that money elsewhere on the car and have a really nice job done on it a couple of years down the road. There are a few good options to get it looking good for less than $75-80 so I think i'm going to give it a shot. The paint already looks like crap anyways, so I figure what's the worse that could happen?

[frapjap]

If you take your time the rattle can approach can be decent. Just do a great job with the prep work and it'll look pretty decent.

The battery in the Miata is a joke until you get to pay to replace it
Stupid expensive sealed battery. However, I have heard of some folks using lawn mower and marine batteries with success. I wouldn't do it myself, but still an option I suppose.

[WDRacing]

Roll on paint jobs are cheap and fairly easy. The worst part is the time it takes to get a finished product. Takes 4 coats IMHO, with wet sanding between each coat. But after a week of hard work you've got a decent paint job for the work. Definitely the best bang for the buck.

Rattle cans suck by comparison. A Miata would be pretty easy Chris. I say go for it.

[Kompresshun]

The roll on job is definitely the cheap one i'm leaning toward the most. I'd spend less than $75 on everything needed and the results are fantastic. Plus I don't have to rig up the garage to be a paint booth or worry about any overspray. Again, the paint is already crap anyways, so if it makes it a couple of years and looks decent then why not?

I'm not against spraying the car myself, but i'd rather wait until we move so I can really take my time and do everything really well. Plus I plan on buying more body pieces for it later and i'd rather paint it after I buy everything for it.

This is one of the red:



Then a Mustang done in the black:



Not half bad for something so simple.

[numbnuts240]

anyone have a link to a good step by step for factory resetting a gs3. i'm an idiot with technology and want to do it the most painless way possible without losing as much stuff as possible. google search just tells you how to find the "factory reset" option in the settings menu. i'm looking more for tips and hints on how to make setting it up how i had it a bit easier.

[Kompresshun]

Factory reset will delete everything off of the phone, but won't delete things stored like pictures and music.

If you have your phone setup to backup to Google, it will already have all of your apps and contacts backed up. You should be able to just factory reset the phone and once it powers back up afterward, you just enter your Google account info and check Restore my phone and apps from Google account. It will automatically start downloading everything again once it loads up.

As far as getting settings, widgets, and ect back exactly as they were - that is pretty much impossible without the phone being rooted and using an app called Titanium Backup.

I'll see if I can find a good step-by-step how-to though.

[numbnuts240]

as far as getting home screens set up as they were, i was just going to take screen shots. i really want to retain my background image, but it was stored on my old sd card which took a dump on me so i can't have it back apparently.

[Rogue One]

as far as getting home screens set up as they were, i was just going to take screen shots. i really want to retain my background image, but it was stored on my old sd card which took a dump on me so i can't have it back apparently.

Is the SD card damaged? If not you may still be able to retrieve the image. BTW, there's no need to take screen shots as your image is stored on your phone. The easiest way to save it is with this free app. https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... rSaverFree
I take it you don't have Samsung Kies on your computer? http://www.samsung.com/us/kies/ Samsung Kies can backup your entire media library across all your devices. Kies Air makes it easy to manage media with Wi-Fi sync ...

[numbnuts240]

Is the SD card damaged? If not you may still be able to retrieve the image.

it's not physically damaged at all. one day i just kept getting a notification that there was no sd card, even though i hadn't touched it since putting it in when i first got the phone.

[Rogue One]

Is the SD card damaged? If not you may still be able to retrieve the image.

it's not physically damaged at all. one day i just kept getting a notification that there was no sd card, even though i hadn't touched it since putting it in when i first got the phone.

What brand and class rating is your card? There's apparently a problem using SanDisk Class 10 cards.

[numbnuts240]

idk about class rating, but it was a sandisk 16gb that i transferred over from my last phone. it worked without incident on the old phone, and lasted over a year on this one, then s*** the bed out of nowhere.

[Rogue One]

idk about class rating, but it was a sandisk 16gb that i transferred over from my last phone. it worked without incident on the old phone, and lasted over a year on this one, then s*** the bed out of nowhere.

A few things of note: 1. SanDisk and the GS3 don't play nice together. 2. Solid state cards like any hardware can fail at any time. An average lifespan for them is roughly 2 years. 3. For this phone, the cards seem to function better if they're formatted as FAT32 rather than NTFS.

[MinisterofDOOM]

Definitely use FAT32. NTFS is a Windows creation that is only natively supported anywhere else because of windows' ubiquity. Plus, Android's really Linux, so asking it to read NTFS should probably be considered a crime in most states. (Shhh, don't tell anyone I have my NTFS partition on my home PC mounted to my Linux install so I don't have to duplicate my media libraries.)

Flash memory can definitely spontaneously fail. I've had it happen many times. I lost a whole nandroid backup to a s*** chinese USB disk when it stopped working spontaneously one day.

[Kompresshun]

Yeah i've had two MicroSD cards fail on me now. One 8GB and one 2GB from years ago. Thankfully I use MicroSD very little these days, but both of those were included with the phones they were in.

[MinisterofDOOM]

I pretty much only buy microSD, since you can scale up with an adapter but not vice-versa. But that's an interesting point I hadn't thought of...I wonder if failure rates are higher for microSD than standard.

[Dattebayo]

Regular SD cards seem to have a little more reliability when put into a situation where static electricity could be an issue, so that's all I can contribute. Maybe you should use different laundry softener?

In all seriousness, the outdoor security backups for these camera units I used to install were all on a mix of SD and microSD-in-an-adapter. We had a few failures in the winter with the microSD cards, but the regular SDs seemed to hold just fine through many read/write cycles, even beyond what the cards were rated for. Supposedly the innards are exactly the same between the two types, but the casing on the regular cards must have a little more isolating effect...

We know it had to do with static because the temperature was regulated inside the housings but they had no static protection at first for a long while. We fixed that and the failure rate went down significantly.

[sx moneypit]

Mornin' folks!

[Hijacker]

Morning Ben!

[frapjap]

Morning fellas!
Surprise snow shower this morning! Roads are pretty terrible and I *almost* got t-boned by a dummy in a brand new CTS coming down a hill into an intersection. Hey, at least he has insurance, right?

Pats/Colts this weekend! It'll be one hell of a rainy, muddy, crappy conditions game! Probably wont be very much passing going on.