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?

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 [...]