I chose to become a paying customer of Dish Network rather than one of DirecTV specifically because of DirecTV’s questionable anti-piracy tactics in which they accuse innocent people of stealing their signal, and then extort $3500 out of them to prevent legal action against them. Now one of DirecTV’s own former bounty hunters (also an…
It may not be THE DeLorean from Back to the Future, however it’s probably the best replica you’ll ever see.
Leo Laporte is back on TechTV! Apparently TechTV sweetened the deal after viewers complained. Leo and The Screensavers/Call For Help really carry that channel, in my opinion.
The “High Quality Team” has put together a collection of high quality PDF scans of NES and SNES game manuals. You know…in case you forgot how to play the games or something.
Tiki Oasis 4 is coming to Caliente Tropics. I really wish I had enough money to go, but I don’t. More and more I’m having these urges to return to Palm Desert. I really like it out there, and I can’t explain why. The last time I was there I got engaged! Maybe it’s the…
If everyone in the world lived like me, we would need 7.5 earths to support us all. Thus sayeth the pseudoscientist hippies over at myfootprint.org. My ‘footprint quotient’ was 33 acres. If I could get myself to a point where we needed 10 earths, I bet I would have a pretty sweet life.
Tammy and I flew up to Davis for the weekend to visit my brother and his girlfriend, and to check out Picnic Day. I had never been to Davis before. It’s definitely a college town. I think my four years at Cal Poly definitely didn’t give me the ‘typical college experience’ with the parties and…
Khaaaaaaaan!
Is your Tivo running a little slow? The CacheCard can improve its performance quite a bit! It’s $99 though, and you have to provide a 512MB stick of PC133 memory to make it work… I don’t know if I’d be willing to pay that much just to get more responsive menus.
Relating to my previous post, how would you like a free subscription to Residential Architect magazine? Be sure to tell them you’re a construction professional, otherwise they’ll try to charge you 40 bucks!