Entries from July 2007

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

High Definition

About a week ago Chris (housemate) bought a 42″ HD Plasma.  It’s sexy.  We had a problem though.  While we were hooking everything up and moving things in the room, something bad happened.  We were connecting speakers and there was a pop and the magic smoke was released.  Later that night, we had a ceremony for Chris’s receiver.  And by ceremony I mean we started looking at how to fix it.  What good is a 42″ HD TV without surround sound?  He now has a new receiver and it’s epic.  We have an upconverting DVD player on the way and a Logitech Harmony 550 remote.  It’s gonna kick all the ass.
I also downloaded Digital Video Essentials to help calibrate the picture on the TV.  I think it looks good, but I need a blue filter to truly adjust the colors properly.  Anyone have a blue filter I can borrow?

Thursday, July 26th, 2007

Crazy dream

Yet another one from my warped mind.
This is set in the mostly normal world, but in the winter.  The president gave seemingly important speech to the country and somehow 99% of the people watched the speech.  During the speech, however, a signal was broadcast that brainwashed everyone that was watching.  The brain-job just made people stupid-er, similar to the movie Idiocracy but a tmore severe.  Somehow, before the speech was given I knew that this was going to happen, but couldn’t find anyone to warn them.
I wake up the next day after the speech at an unusually early time in the morning.  It was snowing and the plows were out, so I went outside for some reason.   I guess [...]

Sunday, July 15th, 2007

Did I mention?

Did I ever mention that I got another e-mail from Comcast?  I know this is old, but I thought I’d post it.  I’ll post anything I get from Comcast here.
From: Comcast Network Abuse [mailto:abuse-noreply@comcast.net]
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2007 7:17 AM
To: Comcast Internet Subscriber
Subject: Notice of Claim of Copyright Infringement.Notice of Action under the Digital Millennium [...]

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

More than meets the eye

I saw Giant Alien Shape-shifting Fighting Robots last night.  You may know it by it’s working title, Transformers.  As a kid I saw the show, but I wasn’t a child fanatic.  I didn’t have  the action figures.  I was more of a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Ghostbusters kid.
I was glad that the movie went right into robots blowing things up. and did they ever.  The movie delivered more effects, both visual and audio, than my brain could handle.  The transformers looked totally real and only once did I even think that everything was CGI.  About two hours [...]

Thursday, July 5th, 2007

Pownce

I just got a Pownce account.  Its a site that allows you to share messages, files, links and events with people.  It has a desktop app that runs on Windows and Mac uisng the Adobe Air thingamajig.
Right now its still in beta testing.  I have six invites, so if you want to give it a shot let me know and I’ll [...]

Monday, July 2nd, 2007

John from Cincinnati

Half the dialog doesn’t make sense.The kid that plays Shaun Yost is also terrible…. If he starts getting more speaking lines than the show is going to get a lot worse.What the hell is with this show?