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All I was trying to do is sell my Apple iPod Touch on craigslist.org instead of using ebay.com.  Back to the scam: someone with a email address like ssuesmith10@aol.com will email you and ask if you still have the item.  Then you say “yes” then he says “I will give you $350 for the $250 ipod touch”.  Then he wants your paypal.com account. Next he will use a stolen bank account to give you the $350 through paypal.com.  By the time the item is shiped, paypal.com will figue out it was a bad bank account and take the money back.  You have been scammed.  As a general rule just do not sell anything to a guy named George Henry who lives at: No 12 omoakinjobi Street Off Odo Oba Elere, Ibadan, Oyo, Nigeria, 23402.

If you want to read the full emails check out my craigslist.org email page here:

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I really like the iwash and took a couple pictures of their pumping station and their residential version?  It would work perfectly next to your mailbox at your house.

Have you ever wondered what the automatic kleen-rite was selling looked like?  Well I did, it always seems to be the page I open to.  It is a Hydrospray Cobra and the little thing in the last picture is a Rainmaker.  Which seems like half a Cobra?

I hope the Hydrospay Rainmaker is better then the movie.

My IDX coin acceptor got jammed then someone beat on it until the timer lost power.  After I cleared the jam I noticed the IDX acceptor was giving me the red / green lights of death.  I tried resetting but no luck.

“Buff-It Car Wash” or “$5 Exterior Ride Thru Wash”

While at the ICA show I wanted to check out a couple car washes in the area.  I decided to go to the Gatorland Carwash at 14513 Gatorland Drive, Orlando, FL.  My first picture of the car wash/oil change next door had a UFO drone in it.  The next picture I took did not have the UFO in it, which is proof it was an actual UFO!

Also, in the first picture, besides the UFO, is a sign “irrigated with reclaimed water, do not drink”.  There must have been a problem with people drinking water in the median of the road?

Well, this location was a full service wash & detail, an oil change and an express exterior wash blow dry place.

What should people do with all those scrap tires?  Put them outside their homes of course!  This bag of scrap tires was at Sams, cost $8.22 for 1.5 cu.ft. (2.17 tires) and seems like a great idea for “natural areas”.

I had a Fragramatics vacuum blow its fuse (FNM-30), which is a time delay.  I know that the Coleman vacuums use a breaker (not sure what kind) and not a fuse.  So my question would be: could I just swap them out?  I do realize that the breaker will not fit in the fuse holder (I did have that shape discovery toy as a child).

I finished the last of the ICA related photos:  http://cwguy.com/?page_id=2537

I also have some non-related photos:  http://cwguy.com/?page_id=2539

I purchased this 50 foot long vacuum hose from Erie Brush at the ICA show.  I like the multi-colors and the inside wall is a lot smoother.  It will be interesting to see how well it last.

By the way, do you want to see the worst web site in the car wash industry?  Well check out Erie Brush’s site:  http://www.eriebrush.com/  This web site makes me want to start web developing again and do pro bono work.

I swapped out my Mother’s hard drive on her laptop.  After these last few days, with all these computer problems, it is like I got my old job back.

Here are some more ICA pictures.  I should post some more tomorrow.
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My Homelite electric mower just quit working.  I assumed that the cord was shorted, but the electric mower was broken.  I used my vacuum motor knowledge to figure out the problem.  Check out the brush problem below.

Well my Mitsubishi DX-TL900U finally broke. Well, the hard drive gave out, which is normal I guess.  The Mitsubishi website said that the unit needed to be sent in to a tech. But the site also said that the operating system was embedded.

So because the OS is embedded the dvr should use the hard drive just as storage. So I removed the broken Maxtor 120 gb drive and replaced it with some 160 gb I found somewhere. My unit, according to the directions does not support multiply drives. But looking at the mother board (picture 3) there is a place for the drive’s power cord and you could probably use a Y connector on the mother board power? It also looks like just a standard ide drive and maybe just a master / slave ide cable will allow 2 drives? I did not try it though because I have never had any space problems. Next you power the unit on and it says “ALL HDD DATA WILL BE ERASED” I did not know what was on the drive so why not erase it all (that mean “initialize”). Then the unit formats the drive and it works.  Yea!

I have been a little slow on posting the ICA show pictures, I should post some more tomorrow.
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The first picture is someone that looked like Steve Jobs on a Hoveround or a Segway?  I believe this was the first time I have seen a Segway, but not sure why this is a noticeable event?  What was noticeable was the very large McDonalds convention that was being held in the other building.

Well the iphone ruined these great pictures (or was it my finger)?  These pictures are of the Police searching for something that the person with the handcuffs threw out the window of his car.  This is why you should always obey the “No Littering” sign and keep that Wendys cup in your car!