Replacing Front Lowbeam Driver side Headlight bulb on VW Golf IMPOSSIBLE
I found it difficult enough to replace the headlight bulbs on my Mazda 5, but this was simply ridiculous.
Don't bother trying. You will certainly get the blown bulb out (with a bit of fiddling), but you will never get the new one back in.
The problem lies in the bulb holder. Once you unlock the thing by turning it counterclockwise, you then have to really wiggle and pull it quite energetically to get it out. It finally pops out after a lot of resistance. To get it back in, you have to align the bulb holder with its space in the housing PRECISELY, then push it back in so that the three tabs on the bulb holder pass through the three corresponding slots in the housing PERFECTLY. You're doing this completely blind, from above, with no more than about 1.5 inches of space to manoeuver in. I promise you, this is IMPOSSIBLE. I'm no slouch in matters like this, and I wasted the better part of two hours wrestling with this before giving up and going to the dealer.
Don't waste your time. Just go to the dealer.
Very disappointed. VW shouldn't make it so difficult to change a lightbulb.
Labels: Bulb, Golf, Headlight, Replace, Sportwagen, VW
Bypass Microsoft Internet Registration with new Computer
I detest the way Microsoft requires you to use an online identity when you are starting up a Windows 10 computer for the very first time.
This means that Microsoft will be following you, very intimately, for the rest of that computer's life.
It should be illegal, but since big tech have bought congress, it isn't, apparently.
However, you CAN bypass the requirement:
You will almost immediately get to a window that reads "Let's Connect You to a Network". It tells you "You'll need an Internet connection to continue setting up your device" (etc.)"
YOU DO NOT NEED AN INTERNET CONNECTION. This is a lie. It's a scam by Microsoft to make you register yourself online, using a microsoft identity and making your machine, and you, doubly trackable.
Simply press Alt +F4. The machine will proceed without internet. You will have to set up a local identity to get into this computer. Don't forget the identity, your password, or the three security questions.
Disable everything else that is offered to you while you set up the computer. It's just tracking software.
Labels: Bypass, Internet, Microsoft, Network, Startup, Windows
WPUNJ English Department Newsletter 2021
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH, WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY, NJ
English Department Newsletter, 2021:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rD5fsP_iD6qJq9_h8xxV5Ll8eVRNKv-q/view?usp=sharing
WPUNJ English Department Newsletter 2019
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT, WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY, NJ
Department Newsletter, 2019:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/147lHhhVwBeHqzgTfnBNicvmixW4YNR58/view?usp=sharing
WPUNJ English Department Newsletter 2018
ENGLISH DEPARTMENT, WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY, NJ
Department Newsletter, 2018:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eeM2FN0f4xpWQiXg4aQrwRFJtvFIqAet/view?usp=sharing
Brexit in a British, Irish, European and Global Context
I also gave a version of this lecture at Bloomfield Public Library (NJ) in Spring 2019.
Labels: Brexit, Brian Ó Broin, NJ, WPUNJ
Medieval Studies and Bogus Identity Politics
Re: " Symbols of Past Used by Right Upset Scholars"/"Medieval
Scholars Joust With White Nationalists. And One Another" ( New York Times, May 5th, 2019).
The very term medieval (Latin for
"middle-aged") is a construct, referring to Europe between the
collapse of the Roman Empire around AD450 and the "Renaissance" one
thousand years later. This thousand-year period is Eurocentric by definition, and that cannot be altered. No
similar collapse occurred elsewhere, nor did any similar Renaissance. The
Europe of this period was overwhelmingly white, Christian, and patriarchal, and
any attempt to redefine that is simply an attempt to remake the medieval period
in a 21st-century American image. This may be culturally commendable, but it is
unscholarly.
The Kalamazoo Congress has tried to
appease cultural relativists by organizing sessions on
medievalism in the modern world, as it did in 2018 with a session including the
paper "Fuck this Shit: How Can You Not Say Something?"
Traditional
medieval scholarship may not be trendy or controversial, but it is worthy,
scholarly, and content-driven. The social-media battle you describe in your
article, driven by trollish demagogues specializing in identity politics, does
not represent it.
Labels: conservatism, dorothy kim, kalamazoo, liberalism, Medieval, new york times, rachel fulton brown
Lecture on Ireland at Bloomfield Library Wed 8th March 6pm
"Celtic, Gaelic, or Anglo-Irish: Which is the Real
Ireland?"
Bloomfield resident Brian Ó Broin, a medieval literature
professor at William Paterson University and a prizewinning Gaelic novelist, traces
the history of Ireland from pre-Celtic times through the series of invasions
that brought Christianity, cities, castles, Gaelic culture and English culture
to this mysterious island nation of North West Europe right up to the modern
day. Using slides and recordings (and maybe even a song or two!) Professor Ó
Broin demonstrates the color, the uniqueness, and the resilience of this modern
European country which sent so many emigrants to America, as Ireland faces the
challenges and opportunities of the 21st century.
Ireland has always been a target of invasion. the Celts
invaded Ireland three hundred years before Christ, completely displacing the
previous stone-age culture whose mysterious structures, like that of Newgrange,
still dot the landscape. Six hundred years of Pagan Celtic culture followed the
invasion, and the tribal warrior culture of that period is still visible in
surviving Gaelic texts such as the Fenian stories and the Táin Bó Cuailgne. An
African-tinged Christian monasticism followed conversion to Christianity, and
the monastic sites of this period are still to be found throughout the country,
marked by their strange cone-tipped bell towers. Vikings saw easy pickings in
these monasteries, and came to raid. They stayed, however, and founded
Ireland's first cities, like Dublin, Waterford, and Limerick. The
French-speaking Normans followed, bringing in feudal culture from England and
France. Finally, the English themselves came, in several catastrophic waves,
and still remain to this day in the six counties of Northern Ireland. The other
twenty-six counties, however, have been a self-governing nation since 1922,
constitutionally enshrining both the Gaelic and English cultures. Ireland is a
member of the United Nations, and has been in the European Union since 1973.
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Labels: Bloomfield, Brian Ó Broin, celtic, gaeilge, gaelach, Gaelic, Ireland, irish, NJ
Rutgers Phonology Project at WPUNJ
Helping out a linguistics doctoral student at Rutgers with her project on Irish phonology.
Labels: gaeilge, Gaelic, irish, linguistics, rutgers, WPUNJ
