Granted, a life where nothing interesting ever happens can be a bit boring at times. Since then, however, he has learned at least two things: 1) the ECM is the central computing system that controls pretty much everything in the car, and 2) replacing an ECM will cost at least $2,000.Īnyway, if you’ve been busy trying to think up ways to make this Scripting Guy’s life more interesting, well, thanks but no thanks. The Scripting Guy who writes this column doesn’t know much about ECMs he didn’t even know what ECM stood for. The preliminary diagnosis is that the car has a broken ECM. Talk about a single point of failure, huh? Unfortunately, though, an engine that no longer works is about all it takes to bring a car to a dead stop. And before you ask, yes, the radio, the power windows, and all the other electrical stuff continued to work just fine it was just the engine that no longer worked. Pulling out of the grocery store parking lot the engine suddenly stopped running and would not restart, period. One moment the Scripting Guy was driving along without a care in the world, the next moment he was driving along without a car in the world.
If there’s any solace to be taken in having a dead car, at least there’s this: the death was quick and painless. Therefore, he would say this: his car just plain died. So what did happen? Well, if he owned a Rolls Royce, he would say that his car experienced a “failure to proceed.” Surprisingly enough, however, the Scripting Guy who writes this column doesn’t own a Rolls Royce. And, as it turns out, interesting things aren’t always all that much fun. So guess what? Shortly after finishing the column something interesting did happen to him. In yesterday’s column the Scripting Guy who writes this column bemoaned the fact that nothing interesting had happened to him in a long, long time. To begin with, the Scripting Guy who writes this column would like to say just one thing: never mind. How can I extract just the lines that are printed in red? Hey, Scripting Guy! I have a huge document that features occasional lines printed in red.
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