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So, after a little bit of searching and a whole lot of luck, I have found a beatmania cab for cheap… really cheap… Now that it has made it home, it is time to start cleaning it up.

Normally, I would post a bunch of photos of the cab, but since it is pretty nasty looking at the moment, I will leave it with a marquee snapshot and a brief list of what needs work.

To Do:

• Pull the entire cab apart and give it a good cleaning
• Replace microswitches for all the keys/buttons
• Clean the two turntables
• Tweak the monitor (some of the color at the top is off)
• Fix the sub light (assuming one is in there… it looks like one is wired in)
• Clean/repair burn marks from all the smokers
• Restore metal trim
• Upgrade to newest 5 key mix (if at all possible)
• Scan marquee for The BemaniArt Project
• Dump disk image of HHM:CM2

Apart from the dirt and the burns on the outside of the cab, most of the art and the game itself is in great shape. I look forward to being able to place this next to my DDR machine for a good Bemani combo… Now I just need a pop’n, drum/keyboard mania and a few others….

What’s Left:

New arrow bracket screws
New powder coat on the stage and bars
Repaint and refinish cab/marquee
Replace pad decals and select cab decals
Replace bar pads
Polish metal stage surface
Replace stage screws with original type screws
A few other misc items…

Here is a snapshot:

New Arrows!

Did you ever go outside on a lovely day like today and just look up at the sky and admire the sun and the sky for what it really is? The marvel of wonderment it provides us with….

Did you ever grab at the grass and feel it… enjoy the cool feeling of the earth in your fingertips….

The earth is a wonderful place.

I plan to use this space as a place to drop thoughts into the expanding universe of digital mayhem we call the Internet. I don’t expect my posts here to matter all that much or to even be seen by more then a handful of people but never the less I will write them. Expect updates to be few and far between and many lacking in substance. I have no urge to prove I am right in the political races or to argue back and forth over things with closed minded people of any persuasion. This is my digital happy place to post projects I am working on and let my mind drain a bit.

In order to start things off in a lighthearted way I am going to do something I would normally not bother with. Post a video that features many of the Internet memes that we have all seen fly by in the last few years. See how many you can spot and let me know in the comments. Oh, and no cheating by looking them up on the source website. Trust me, I will know.

Internet Meme Scratch Attack from jamiew on Vimeo.

Stay tuned if anyone is bothers to check.