Author Archives: tracey pooh
made my own heat duct “reducer” today — for $25 in only two hours!
Using a 24″ x 36″ sheet of (intended for ducting) sheet metal (~$10) and rivet tool + rivets (~$15) I was able to take a 14″ x 8″ opening and create a 4″ deep reducer down to a 14″ … Continue reading
new “php-htm-mode” for emacs — intermixed PHP, HTML, JS, and CSS using multi-modes
I finally formalized, cleaned up, and packaged up my current emacs editing setup for files with intermixed PHP, HTML, JS/javascript, and CSS code all in the same file. It uses an existing but rarely used technique called “multi-mode” and sets … Continue reading
Morgan Territory Motorcyclin’ — 85 mile east bay loop around Mt. Diablo with Honda CB400A “decaf”
After months of work, Russ finally gets his Ninja 600cc working! Hunter, Russ, and I celebrate with an 85-mile day trip during the three day weekend around Mount Diablo, through the legendary Morgan Territory. Ridden over: Oakland, Canyon, Moraga, Lafayette, … Continue reading
today I did my first oil and oil filter change, ever! (Honda CB400A “decaf”)
Russ and I changed our motorcycle’s oil and oil filters today. This was the first time I’ve ever changed oil in a vehicle — I guess it sort of was a life goal I figured I’d never get around to … Continue reading
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How to turn Time Machine from disk with many partitions to single partition (logically “extending” Time Machine partition)
The high-level answer is: use macosx Disk Utility make a .dmg of Time Machine partition (to another disk) wipe out disk restore .dmg extend partition to full size (or whatever size you want) of disk Detailed steps: backup one … Continue reading
simple way to make h.264 mp4 web and iOS/mobile playable video mp4 files for linux and macosx using ffmpeg
Greetings video geeks! At my job, I’ve updated the process and way we create our .mp4 files that are shown on video pages on archive.org It’s a much cleaner/clearer process, namely: I opted to ditch ffpreset files in favor of … Continue reading
decaf 1978 honda CB400A running and instruments working
Here’s a short video mid-way through a 50-mile day of canyons and twisties. Fun! The “idiot lights” are working (still have to get the dang neutral light to turn off when in gear, but otherwise good 8-p) and now you … Continue reading
decaf – CB400A reassembled and on the cruise
Everything is working again with my greatly streamlined instrument cluster is in place! (Well my LED “idiot light” for “neutral” is always on now so one last adjustment/fix sometime soon!)
honda CB400A — fixing turn signal and neutral LEDs (to new speedometer)
Whups, my new speedo’s turn indicator LED was only going on when left signal was running. Thankfully, found this post on hondatwins that mentioned the orange and light blue bike lines were actually active lines for when left or right … Continue reading
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decaf 1978 honda CB400A speedometer and instruments replaced!
OK, so I sorted out all my re-wiring and was able to replace my stock honda huge instrument cluster with a much smaller and streamlined single mini-speedometer with four instrument lights combined in it. I used a CB400A wiring clymer … Continue reading
decaf honda CB400A replacement/consolidated speedometer ordered!
Going with Dime City Cycles nice mini speedometer mini speedo at Dime City Cycles I’ll get my hands dirteh and post progress and/or pics as soon as it comes in!
replacing CB400A instruments to smaller cafe racer style
Today I did much more than I thought I would — I pulled out and disconnected all instruments and relocated the ignition/key switch. The plan is to combine the current speedometer/odometer with four of the seven indicator lights (neutral, high … Continue reading
decaf! Honda CB400A automatic cafe racer. I’ve been a bad girl today….
Today Hunter helped me inspect, test-drive, buy, and drive 100+ miles home from a mom-n-pop custom bike modifier in California’s central valley. We avoided the 5 and all freeways and started out with about an hour of “country roads” and … Continue reading
Friday beer options
Shuttle Endeavour flies by us by Golden Gate today *twice*
Luke Battling Darth — ASCII green
luke battling darth famous painting by ralph mcquarrie to ascii by “jp2a” pkg and de pooh (and now green/black — these things are important
convert yuvj420p to yuv420p (chrome playable!) mp4 video (eg: canon/nikon video)
hooray! found a nice (video lossless, best i can tell) way to convert the video from cameras like my Canon ELPH SD1400, which is *already* h.264 video + PCM mono audio to a new mp4 container with aac audio. that … Continue reading
