Monday :: 08 February 2010 :: 04:36 PM
320 days to Christmas!
If your chip has your car or truck vinlocked and will not unlock. Maybe you lost the chip controller; or maybe the performance chip broke down. Regardless, you are now in a bind. You will likely have to take your vehicle down to your local dealer and have the chip reflashed. Reflashing a chip sets it back to the OEM default settings.
Watch For Deer Crossing
Tonight I was driving with my daughter, and she told me yesterday she had seen a deer cross the road right at a deer crossing sign. You never have your camera at the right time. I told her it reminded me of a news article I had recently read.
It seems a man had recently moved up to our area (Coeur d'Alene, ID) from California. He came from the big city but he loved life here in the country. However, he was concerned about all the deer getting hit by motor vehicles. So he petitioned the commissioners at a county meeting, requesting the removal of the deer crossing signs because he thought the signs gave the animals a false sense of security. He posited that if the signs were removed, we would have fewer accidents with deer.
Fortunately, the papers never publish the names of people like that.
[02 Jan 2007 Update:] While on Christmas holiday visiting relatives in Ohio, I was relating this story. My sister-in-law broke in and said that one of her neighbors (Philo, OH) asked the highway department to remove the deer crossing sign from the front of her yard because she did not want the deer crossing there.
What is scarry about all this is that these people vote!
Random Humor: Scandinavian Logic
A paper mill had a football game between the Swedes and the Italians. They played all afternoon with neither team able to score.
At five the plant whistle blew and the Italians went home.
Three plays later, the Swedes scored a touchdown.