Wonderful Engineering

The other morning I went to pour Cheerios into my cereal bowl, when I noticed there was a Cheerio stuck on the side of the container.
At first I thought, “What a crappy design!  How can a company design their own container to have one of the best selling cereals get stuck?”  The engineers who made [...]

Natural Selection?

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060530/NEWS06/605300322
Is it just me, or does this makes very little sense.  Not the part about people dying, but the part about the city warning people.  I guess I just don’t get the point.  For one, these people are clearly addicted.  Chances are they’re not going to listen to sound logic and reason.  Two, and I could [...]

I’ve been gone for a reason.

I’ll put the ‘boring’ DVR stuff at the end, to spare you.  First up, Xmen: The Final Stand.  What an awesome movie.  Go see it or I’ll take out your knee caps.  The special effects were sweet.  The story was kickass.  They left room for another movie.
I also did well when we played paintball yesterday.  [...]

D to the V to the AAARRR!!

The PVR 500 tuner came today.  Woot!  So I got right to installing it.  Generally things went without a hitch.  All the settings fell into place, and it was surprisingly well documented.  The only somewhat hard part came when I didn’t get any video with live TV, which was kind of big.
Then, I realized I didn’t [...]

Always with the DVR

Today I went to the driving range and made my golf swing much more consistent.  I figured out that I was closing my eyes when I hit the ball.  Keep them open and bam three time better.  So that was fun.
I also got an e-mail from dell and the tuner card will be here on [...]

What a day for a White Wedding

This past weekend was my cousin’s wedding in North Carolina. It was my first time in NC. I found it rather dull. Don’t get me wrong, I had a great time. The wedding was very nice, the reception was fun, the golfing was fun (more later), the place we stayed was nice. What I mean [...]