…to here:

Mom just sent me a big folder full of accident photos of me and my brother from ‘74. All I can say is “damn”. The beginning of the 30 year road to distal femoral and proximal tibial osteotomies. I wonder how many more years this road goes.

Now that I’m a parent, I don’t know how Mom and Dad could have stood it.

Also in there was the front page of the local paper from the next day, with an article (”Car Hits Brothers on Picacho Street”) and a photo of my brother lying on the ground. Also on that front page? “Nixon, Aides Check Possible Legal Option”, “Sealed Evidence Worries Lawyers”, and “55 MPH Limit Mandatory Now”.

Back in the day, all you could do during the Olympic Games was watch the 4 hours of prime time coverage they had and hope the sport you were interested in was included. If you were satisfied with it, you must like track & field or swimming. Track cycling though? Hah!

Well this go round NBC has stepped up to the plate with massive amounts of coverage, including HD; hooray! But we discovered during the Tour de France that HD fills up the TiVo pretty quickly. Time to upgrade the shipping on the external drive (buy.com rocks BTW).

But now the problem is there’s so much content, I’m having trouble finding the what I’m genuinely interested in. I can’t find the day by day schedule that tells me at a glance what’s on each day. The big charts say “cycling” is on Tuesday, but not what it is. Road? Track? BMX? The cycling schedule doesn’t put it in a grid with all the other events on that day. And the “upcoming episodes” list on the TiVo just lumps it all together in one giant list, HD, SD, repeats, all in one giant wad of programs. Needle in haystack type stuff.

I want the day-by-day schedule broken down into a grid. I don’t care if it’s a gigantic Excel spreadsheet, I’m just sick of a million clicks to find what I want. In fact, what would be really really cool (I mean really) would be the schedule on NBC that links the event directly to the TiVo online scheduling for that event. I might pay money for that.

They took the top 1/3 off the oak tree too, but at least it doesn’t look like the “don’t smoke kids” jaw cancer guy.

The ash:

The maple:

Xcel claims they’re “certified arborists”, but I seriously doubt that.

So surf on over to http://bma-mtb.org/valmontbikepark/index.php and buy a brick.

It’s all fake, but I still can’t help watching. (I have SuperDave to thank for that observation.)

Mostly, I just wanted the opportunity to embed this video. Get out your French phrasebook!

But still, the fucked up USB port problem remains, so here’s something that might help when added to the original hosed USB post.

Enter the following command:
devcon listclass usb

You’ll get something that looks like this:

USB\ROOT_HUB\4&11F0DA81&0 : USB Root Hub
USB\ROOT_HUB20\4&2ACDDB0C&0 : USB Root Hub
USB\VID_0424&PID_2504\5&18F4DAC0&0&5 : Generic USB Hub
USB\VID_046D&PID_0850\5&696507C&0&2 : Logitech USB Camera (Web)
USB\VID_05AC&PID_1291\1FE229394A7FDE4CB14D9142E9CC68A19136DFD1: Apple Mobile Device USB Driver

Try using the id for the “Apple Mobile Device USB Driver” in the script in the previous post. Use everything from “USB” to, but not including the “:”, and the “@” in script is important). It seems to be working for me (so far).