Due to unforeseen circumstances, I wound up spending my weekend fixing broken things instead of preparing this week's resource suggestions. So, at least for Monday and Tuesday, I'll have to show you that, instead.
Without getting into how it happens, my only Jeep key got broken, and the tip was lodged in the back end of the ignition cylinder along with a lot of packaging tape (not my fault, I swear).
I was (understandably) upset, and I had to get the Jeep moved in a very short period of time, lest it get towed. I may have overreacted when I had the panel halfway removed and encountered tamper-proof torx screws.
Whoever invented tamper-proof screws is undoubtedly burning in hell alongside every DRM and copyright proponent. In all reality, Taper-proof consumer goods are the material equivalent to DRM.
Also tamper-proof. A friend loaned me his set of tamper-proof screwdrivers.
After considerable effort, I got the ignition control apart, took out the cylinder and tried to get the tip of the key out. Eventually I gave up and brought the cylinder to my mechanic (whom I go to only after I get as far as I possibly can). It took him 20 minutes to get the thing apart and back together.
Then I just made a couple copies of the broken key and reassembled the Jeep.
Then I just made a couple copies of the broken key and reassembled the Jeep.
Also, my microphone stand broke (same guilty party as the key), and I replaced the broken piece with some aluminum from work. It's not the only audio engineering problem I had with this weekend's main post, but it was one of the bigger ones.
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