Author: Brett

Announced at CES this week: HomePlug® Powerline Alliance Announces AV2 Specification for Next-Generation Broadband Speeds over Powerline Wires I’ve been waiting years for this to happen and can guarantee I’m about 300% more excited about it than you are. It bumps the HomePlug spec up to gigabit speed, AND all of my 200 Mbps AV…

I’d been on the waiting list since October, so when I finally had the opportunity to order a Nest thermostat, I jumped at the chance. It arrived Friday. Before doing anything I disconnected the heater/fan from the power and killed the breaker to the air conditioning condenser. Check out this business. We’ve been in this…

This exact same scenario almost happened when Tammy and I started watching season one of BSG years ago. You can’t watch just one.

How did this even happen. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSXO6XG5irU&feature=youtu.be&t=9s

Surprise bird swarm. It’s one of those things that nature throws at you and leaves you speechless. If this happened to me I would have freaked out and flipped the boat.

Well, this is beautiful. Bill Evans on piano, Chuck Israels on bass, and Larry Bunker on drums. Skip to 1:50 to get past the intros and get to the good stuff. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvFwDQNGoSk

Huell Howser donates life’s work to Chapman He didn’t attend Chapman [University], but he says he likes the feel of the place; digitizing and assembling his thousands of hours of programming there, he said, seemed like a good fit. … His donation to Chapman will include 20 years worth of shows, papers, memorabelia and 1,800…

A few weeks back I was a groomsman in my brother-in-law’s wedding. They had a great videographer. cherise + anthony wedding trailer from ElmanAdam on Vimeo.

Behold – one of the best video game commercials ever made. I don’t recognize all the characters, but the ones that I do are spot-on perfect. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdWkKKSckNk

The OC Register is giving up on Pluck and will soon switch their commenting system to use Facebook logins. That also means that there will be no more anonymous comments on stories, which is one of the best parts of ocregister.com! I think we can all agree on that. I am disappointed.