My Ramblings

Saturday, February 16, 2013

New Brakes

I am desperately in need of a brake job on my van. I think I am going to check it out with the help of this video...

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

I threw together an app last night to keep you up to date on all things that have to do with the View Askewniverse. From Kevin Smith's Facebook page to the SMODcast, to the View Askew site itself, you will get all the information you can handle.

Find out the latest news on all your favorite View Askew characters and movies: Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Jersey Girl, Red State, Dante, Randal, Brodie, Holden, Leonardo, The Quick Stop, RST Video, Mooby's.

View Askew | SlideME

Monday, September 12, 2011

Monticello App Updated

The Monticello community app is now approved and activated on the slideme app store. You can download it through their appstore application, or right from the web link here:
http://slideme.org/application/monticello

Remember that it is a free app.

-Charlie

Friday, September 9, 2011

Monticello Android Apps

I have been spending a lot of time on my Old Android blog and have abandoned this place. But I have just created a couple of apps that hit closer to home and I wanted to share them here for a more local audience.

What I am looking for is a couple of people that would find these apps useful to try them out and let me know what you think. All you have to do is download a QR Reader (like QR Droid) and scan the barcodes. If it doesn't work send me an email, or leave a comment and I can send you the file too. Then just click on the .APK file and it will ask you to install it. (For more info see this article to learn more about installing apps that aren't from Market.)

Also: If you have any suggestions of other websites or businesses that could use an app like this I can put one together for it. Let me know about that too.

Monticello School District News:

Monticello Community News:

Let me know what you think! Thank You!

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Bunch of New Stuff for Sale

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Past Car Troubles

On my way into work today I saw a car that had broken down on the shoulder of the road, and behind it, stopped to help was a full tractor trailer. It reminded me of my issues I had a few weeks ago, and that I hadn't taken the time to post about it.

It was the week that I started my new hire training with Sprint and was commuting into the twin cities, which is between an hour to an hour and a half commute. I had known that my tires were in need replacements because one just kept losing air.

I had given myself an hour and 45 minutes to get there that morning, just to make sure I could find the place and get myself settled in for the week. I was driving along, like normal, going 5 to 8 miles per hour over the speed limit, which would make my speed 75 to 78, and I felt a vibration in the steering wheel. My initial reaction was to take my foot off the gas and slow down. A second later I felt the tire blow, and the car started to shake really bad. I hit the brakes hard, looked over my shoulded and made an instant lane change from the center lane to the shoulder.

So there I sit, on the shoulder, with no idea of what happened. I peeked out and saw that it was the tire that was giving me issues before. The front drivers tire had blown out. In order to change it I was going to have to get further off the road, so I inched over so that I was way off the road, then proceeded to change the tire.

As I was fighting with getting the lug nuts I glanced up and saw that an SUV had stopped in front of me. Between the 2 of us we got the lug nuts loosened and started jacking. We soon realized that the jack was too short. The guy who had stopped went and got his jack and we got the spare tire on. I couldn't thank him enough. He said that he thought that 2 cars were safer by the side of the road than 1, especially in rush hour traffic. I don't remember his name (Brandon?) but I remember that he was the General Manager of Papa John's Pizza in Maple Grove. Without him stopping I wouldn't have been able to get back on the road.

So I started off again. I called my manager to update him that I was back on the road and the GPS said I still may make it in time. I fought through the traffic and arrived at the office with a few minutes to spare. Made it up to the classroom 4 minutes before class started. It all worked out in the end, aside from the $500 price tag on the new set of tires, but the car drives great now...

Friday, May 6, 2011

OpenSourcePalm.com

OpenSourcePalm.com is now fully up and running. Check it out and let me know what you think. I designed the logo all by myself (with a little bit of help from google images).