Danny’s moving back home.  How long before we start handing him crap?

Uninstalling it on the first laptop didn’t even complete, and after going guerilla-style on it in the registry, it still had some hooks in the OS that prevented AVG from taking over as the system’s anti-virus of choice.

Then I found this helpful tool from Symantec’s website.  Hm.  Reminds me of Gator from back in the day.  Hey, Symantec, if you know your uninstaller doesn’t work, why not include the Norton Removal Tool with your installs?  That could have saved me 2 or 3 hours.

On a related note, I still don’t less-than-three Vista.  Sure it’s got patches and a service pack update, and as long as you’ve got 2GB of RAM, it doesn’t chug.  But power-down modes still suck at the battery, and when I’m booting up, I can’t tell if it’s hung up or just slow.  No statusbar or anything: just a black screen.

This is exactly why I turned off quiet mode in Grub.

Last night, in covering a story on a new US tourism ad campaign in the London Underground (whose ads proclaim “South Carolina is so gay”), Dr. Stephen T. Colbert, DFA took a shot at Civil War hero and my Great-great-great uncle, Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard.

While I admire your meticulous pronunciation, Mr. Colbert, I must stand up and ask you, if his nickname, “The Little Creole” is the gayest thing about the Civil War, there’s not a lot of gay to be mined from the whole situation, is there?

This episode was filled with other homophobia-filled taunts directed toward Sir Elton John, which makes me wonder.  Why would you devote so much airtime to how gay everyone else is (or could potentially have been)?  Perhaps to deflect suspision of your own deviance?  Now I know why you want your Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream flavor so close to the Brawny guy.

In other news, Gaffigan was hilarious. The only material he recycled from Beyond the Pale was the Hot Pocket thing, and he’s been doing that for about a decade. Afterwards, he did a big meet and greet. We got photos with him and he signed some stuff. Check out the photos.

We also took a day to jump on the infamous Fung Wah Chinatown bus to New York.  I’d never been to the Big Apple, and at $15, the price was right.

We checked out ground zero, boated around to lady liberty, caught lunch at Tom’s, and wandered around Times Square.  After that we toured 30 Rock and got lost on the subway.  Plenty of fun to be had in that town for under a C-note.

After that, we caught a Red Sox game, where they lost to the Orioles, and I officially banned Brandon from ever returning to that site.

Once we flew back to the midwest, we immediately grabbed Jaime and a rental car and drove up to Colorado Springs for Rich and Michelle’s wedding.  Karaoke was enjoyed, songs were butchered, 6-pt beer was ingested at 7,000 ft.

After the wedding we all drove up to Denver for some Casa Bonita and a Coors tour in Golden.  As a non beer-drinker, I still found the tour fascinating.

I’ve caught up on my laundry and my sleep since then, and now it’s blogged.

Photos:
Boston - Freedom Trail | Boston - Fenway | NYC I | NYC II | Colorado I | Colorado - Wedding Reception | Casa Bonita | Coors Brewery Tour

Unfortunately, the ‘02 Accords are designed such that, in order to get to the headlight assembly (even to change out the headlamp!), you’ve got to rip the entire bumper off.

Lucky for me, as a Honda employee,  I’ve got access to all their service guides on their website.  So I looked up the instructions for removing the front bumper and headlight assembly and we went to work.

Once we got inside and pulled the headlight, we took a hair dryer (which I’d never use on my actual head) and evaporated all the moisture.  We got everything re-assembled and I was back on the road shortly after midnight.  Photo after the jump.

On the upside, I now no longer feel like a jerk for archiving those old sites with their flash content intact.  Oh yeah, and I don’t need to reboot anymore to make sure everything is loading properly.