That’s right, bitches! Ive got a badass new pic! And i fixed my FDD!
The pic is actually a school picture- there is this option where you can get a copy of your image on a disk. The pics came out today, and mine was pretty good! Since I dont have my dcam yet (damn it all!) and my sisters scanner locks my system (damn it all to hell!) this was really my only way to get a new pic of myself. Fortunate that it turned out so good! In order to get this new image onto scorp, I had to fix my FDD.
Yea, so, my FDD has been non-functional for the entire life of ScorpII. I guess I zapped the drive when assembling the rig, or maybe I had it in wrong or something (entirely possible, since my FDD cable isn’t keyed with a notch, and I wasnt sure about whether or not to reverse it, because it was an old cable and an old drive.) Its wierd, though, because it worked well enough with my boot disk when I was first working on ScorpII, and it worked in ScorpI. At first, I really didnt care, because I was so happy to have my rig working at all (see the still-yet-to-be-written Scorpion II column about that.) A little while after the rig was working, I decided to try to fix the FDD. I had 5 floppy drives (I didnt know which ones worked, or if any worked,) 2 FDD cables (do those work?,) and 2 different orientations of cable to worry about. Long story short: I couldnt get anything to work! What a bummer! So, after a few attempts to fix it over the last few months, i finally got pissed off last week and decided to fix it once and for all. After some testing, I was able to find one that worked (actually, the only one that worked.) I thought that i’d fixed it. But alas! It was a funky old drive, so it wasnt made right to fit inside of a modern case- the built-in floppy-front on the bezel had a button that didnt contact the drive, because the button on the drive is flat (the plastic-cap button slides into it.) I put on the plastic-cap tab-like button into the drive and put it back into the drive cage. It worked! The disk would go in and eject properly. So i fired it up. But, damnit, it wouldnt read! I took it apart again, and the drive worked fine! After a few days consideration, I decided that the problem was the position of the drive in the cage, as it related to the bezel. It was too far back in the case, so when you put in a disk and tripped the mechanism that lowers the disk into the reading platform, it didnt go all the way down, because part of the disk was still sticking out of the drive, over part of the bezel. It wouldnt lower into the mechanism properly. It was a type of jam, and very unfortunate, because it was such a minor one. It was too far back in the case, because that button-tab was too long! A few days later (today) I finally got my lazy ass around to fixing it. I was gonna grind down the button-tab or something, but in the spirit of ghetto simplicity, i just bent part of the metal on the drive (the flat part, onto which the button-tab connected. It was parallel to the ground. I used some pliers to make it horizontal 
) Success! I put it in and sure enough, it works! After months of a bunk drive, i had finally fixed it!
So, I got the new image onto my system without a hitch. It looked pretty goddamn good! When i showed it to Snake, he decided to touch it up a little. Now the picture is the most badass representation of Quelog yet created by man or machine! Congratulations and thanks to Snake! Head on over to my Bio page and have a gander.. if you’ve got the balls..
