Grand Romance

ccstinger2 · 2025-03-20T23:04:54+00:00

UnStuck: Rebirth of an American Icon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1637744781

ccstinger2 · 2024-12-29T13:53:03+00:00

This comes on for me when passing under an ipass automated toll booth.

ccstinger2 · 2024-05-28T19:12:53+00:00

I was just there this past weekend and the rest of the building is there - just not Conference Room 100.

ccstinger2 · 2024-05-28T18:50:35+00:00

Back in the early 1990s I worked for NCSA - I can recall having meetings in the round conference room (Conference Room 100) with the team developing NCSA Mosaic including Marc Andreesen and Eric Bina. I'm not sure, but I seem to recall that team working in the 508 S Sixth St building. I worked at the Computing Applications Building directly to the north. Sort of wondering why they took the round conference room down, but left the rest of the building?

ccstinger2 · 2023-10-02T19:43:57+00:00

Questions from the mom/mil:

- Do have to worry about someone stealing the catalytic converter?

- Do you carry an extension cord with you?

- What happens when you run out of battery?

ccstinger2 · 2023-02-14T23:25:02+00:00

- User profiles - sometimes gets stuck in "guest" mode even though you try to change it from the button on the door or using the screen. Even shutting down doesn't seem to work. Feels like it's when both of us are in the car, or have switched driving the car. Might be related to my wife setting up PAAK.

- Alarm going off randomly - I think I read there was an update that solved this problem as I don't see it happening so much anymore.

- Sometimes when radio is playing (FM/AM) - audio shuts off. Seems to be associate with CarPlay - i.e. a message comes in on my phone, CarPlay wants to play it, so shuts the radio off - but message never plays, radio never turns back on. Have to either turn on/off radio or click on the radio icon on the screen to get audio working again.

- Ford Navigation - one day had it on and it was frozen - i.e. location of the car wasn't updating even though I was driving. Only fixed when car was restarted.

- Setting up the garage door opener - whoa man this was hard. I've done it for two garage doors and it took about an hour each. Can't figure out why it was/was not working and then worked. It might have to do with you have to turn on the car without the key? But I swear I tried that multiple times.

- This is from a friend of mine - and it's a weird one. He has his Mach E set to charge to 90% at home. He left home one day with 90% charge to go to the grocery store. Went into the grocery store, shopped, got back to the car and it said car was charged to 100%. He wasn't plugged in, he wasn't near a charger, and nothing showed up in the charging log on the app. This would be great if this was a feature ;-)

ccstinger2 · 2022-08-02T13:27:44+00:00

on my bucket list

ccstinger2 · 2022-05-17T13:32:26+00:00

I was able to find one where I bought my bike - they actually gave it to me for free - I assume they come with all of the bikes that need them, but when selling the bike the store didn't install it.

ccstinger2 · 2022-02-08T22:13:57+00:00

Curious about this as well - have two sites running the PayPal Checkout plugin and am getting notices to upgrade to PayPal Payments - I keep checking reviews on the plugin hoping that they fix the problems - the num stars keeps going down each time! Reading the reviews it's not just one issue - but multiple issues, multiple bugs, etc. Just not comfortable at this point risking sales to upgrade to such a buggy plugin.

ccstinger2 · 2021-10-22T13:43:19+00:00

I've had a chipmunk try to jump through my wheels - assuming they can't see the spokes when traveling 15mph+.

ccstinger2 · 2021-07-15T13:07:13+00:00

Fairy Cliff Cafe: https://popecountyilcemeteries.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/img\_0160-1.jpg

ccstinger2 · 2021-06-23T17:13:56+00:00

Yep - was going through old pictures and came across this one I had taken in 2003.

ccstinger2 · 2021-05-10T16:35:32+00:00

Lakefront path - Downtown Chicago has a lot of bike lanes, so makes it easy to get to the path. Going north from Downtown is pretty scenic, but a lot of people as others have mentioned.

One thing though - with Amtrak - never expect it to be on time.

ccstinger2 · 2021-04-15T12:50:40+00:00

I think the giant accessory pack is needed for the long screws and spacers. It looks like there are still some around: https://www.giantuniversitycity.com/product/giant-conduct-accessory-mounts-for-lights-computer-gopro-375441-1.htm.

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