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I've never been able to get a new dust cap onto the drum, so whenever I had to remove the cap (such as to replace the rear wheel bearings or brake shoes), I'd re-use the original cap. This worked fine until recently the cap started to leak grease because it no longer sealed tightly enough.

I removed the old cap and tried unsuccessfully as I had in the past to use a rubber mallet to hammer the new dust cap into the drum. The fit is very tight, and the cap always gets cockeyed, with one side seated fully and the other side not at all. It occurred to me that what I needed was some sort of circular device that would make contact around the full circumference of the lip on the cap and press on it evenly with each tap of the mallet. So, off to Google to search for a dust cap seating tool.

As far as I can tell, no such tool exists. I did find mention of someone using a short length of 2" ID copper tubing to rig up such a tool for use on their Chevy/Pontiac/whatever it was. As it turns out the diameter for the dust caps the Jetta uses are 1.25". I went to Home Despot and found me a 1.25" ID PVC end-cap. It fit snugly around the dust cap, and would allow me to press evenly against the lip.

I tackled the installation of the new dust cap this evening. There was one small wrinkle that I had not anticipated. Namely, the PVC is softer than the metal used in the dust cap. So with vigorous tapping the dust cap would slip and become lodged inside the PVC end-cap. I took a shop towel and folded it into thirds along its long side. I then folded it in half along the short length. I placed the folded shop towel between the dust cap and my PVC pressing "tool". The added thickness of the paper shop towel prevented the dust cap from slipping into the end-cap and further helped to evenly distribute the force of the blows from the mallet.

Result: Within about half a dozen smackers the new dust cap was seated firmly in the brake drum holding my precious grease in where it belongs.

  it's your brother, lost his eyes

  taken out and polarized

  cosmic morons orbiting my head.



  feeling dizzy, feeling dead

  looking to the TV set 

  to pacify my thoughts and keep them down.



  here's to boredom and regret

  here's to bouncing all the checks

  i'll hack away at the roof above my head.



  don't you worry, dry your eyes

  i heard some good advice

  burning bridges and taking out the trash.



  i don't know what you've been told!

  it doesn't pay to try!



  i don't know what you've been told!

  let it go; it's in your head.



  talking nonsense, taking sides

  blame this on your foolish pride

  task(?) boy sleeping in his chains.



  have his chance he'll fuck it up

  truckstop with no coffee cups

  he'll bring the table, i'll forget the chairs.



  tell you what this means to me

  i'm riddled with uncertainty

  i'm sure you hear it fumbling in the lines.



  second guessing, jump the gun

  leave the clown shoes, take the fun,

  put your dagger back into my side.



  i don't know what you've been told!

  it doesn't pay to try!



  i don't know what you've been told!

  don't let it go, it's in your head!

  

Finally, a good use for Flash.

I didn't really touch on the "evil" angle before. In the most basic sense, the "good" of the corporation is to maximize profit and minimize cost. A person that displays these qualities is usually taken to be greedy and selfish (possibly even destructively so). So anthropomorphization could be part of the reason corporations are so readily cast in a bad light.

Corporations are basically a social instituition that pools the resources of multiple human beings to achieve collectively more than any one individual could. This is good when the corporation is run ethically. However, there is a much greater potential for evil and destruction when a corporation is not run by moral persons for the same reason. So, corporations aren't necessarily evil, but simply potentially evil. Is this controversial?

Is there anything more disconcerting than stepping up to the urinal and reaching for your zipper only to find that it's already down? How long has it been open? Did anyone see?

It must be because I'm an atheist, but the banana always ends up pointing away from my face, and then after I eat I get a stomach ache...

Vorsprung durch Technik

"If you fucking beat this prick long enough, he'll tell you he started the goddamn Chicago fire, now that don't necessarily make it fucking so!"

Is it just me or is this Sudorku grid fucked up?

I've made some revisions to my change IP daemon script. I was having trouble with ZoneEdit getting out of sync because the script would miss an IP change, so I've updated it to check not whether the workstation thinks the IP is different, but rather check with ZoneEdit. I do call a small VBScript file, because I couldn't figure out how to parse the IP address from the ZoneEdit page using BASH scripting. I find that every problem is a nail.

$ cat bat/chipd





eEdit.







ipfile=/etc/chipd.txt

logfile=/var/log/chipd.log

actual_ip_src="http://bovwimi.net/"

defined_ip_src="http://www.zoneedit.com/auth/edit.html?zone=yousuck.net"

datefmt="%n%Y-%m-%d %T"



  #Output banner

  date +"$datefmt"

  echo "Starting $0..."



  # Get the current actual IP from a website

  date +"$datefmt"

  echo "Grabbing current IP from $actual_ip_src..."

  actual_ip=$(lynx -source $actual_ip_src | grep -i "