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Tuesday, August 9th, 2011, in
Nerdy ThingsThis past Christmas, I was at my aunt & uncle’s house for our usual family get-together. We wanted to play some Wii, so it was up to me to connect it to their Sharp LCD TV so we could laugh hysterically at family members playing Just Dance 2. Poking around behind the TV, I noticed something strange… composite cables for audio/video. I actually did a double-take because I knew they had a blu-ray player… They [...]
Saturday, June 25th, 2011, in
Random ThoughtsSome companies get it. Social media, that is. They can see something, understand it, and use it to its fullest potential. Some companies don’t get it. When I was out running some errands and grabbing some lunch today, I was reminded of a few of those companies in the latter group. The first example being Bed Bath & Beyond. I noticed they had a foursquare special running. Curious, since I occasionally do find my self [...]
Saturday, May 21st, 2011, in
Random ThoughtsConsidering this was one of the first days that it hasn’t rained here in…. I really don’t know how long, we spent a bit of time outside and just enjoying the weather. Jen probably spent a bit more outside than I did – she had to “work” a little this morning and was able to do so outside. Meanwhile, I washed my car. It was pretty gross from all of the rain and crappy weather. [...]
Saturday, February 26th, 2011, in
Random ThoughtsA dilemma… I want to confirm that Twitter is down – but I can’t get to Twitter! What do I do? I can’t tweet about it and ask other people. I can’t load twitter to see complaints of the Fail Whale appearing. I can’t even see the Fail Whale. I AM DISCONNECTED FROM THE WORLD! Come on Twitter… don’t play these games.
Tuesday, February 22nd, 2011, in
Random ThoughtsLast I checked commercial breaks are for commercials. TV shows are for TV shows. And the two should be mixed as little as possible. Tonight’s example is White Collar. I’ve never actually seen the show, but have at least been curious to check it out. Turns out the show is not that bad… but the product placement blows. I’m fine with seeing specific products casually placed within a show… I expect that. They make money [...]
Friday, February 18th, 2011, in
Random ThoughtsIf you are any sort of car person or care the least bit about your car, there is one daily activity that may make you cringe… parking. Of course, it is not so much the act of parking (even though some people still can’t grasp parallel parking), it is more of those around you that care far less for their vehicles (and yours) to put any effort into parking properly. It’s not hard. There are [...]
Friday, January 21st, 2011, in
Random ThoughtsOr “Why Online Retailers are Way Awesome”… I was shopping for a few little things and thought I’d whip up a quick comparison of what I was looking at. The results, while on the low end of actual cost, are a bit humorous (and ridiculous). I decided to just look at something simple like a set of banana plugs for speaker connections. Surely there couldn’t be too much discrepancy in price for something so small [...]
Saturday, January 8th, 2011, in
The Life of MeNot only is my RemoteDVR issue STILL not resolved (I’ve all but given up)… but now I can’t even enjoy the Showtime Free Preview Weekend and catch up on some Dexter. None of my Showtime channels are working. The FPW is supposed to be from the 7th-10th. Today is the 8th. No Showtime. Figured this would be a good one to go into a chat session for. Surely this would be easy enough for them [...]
Monday, December 20th, 2010, in
Random ThoughtsTake a trip back in time with me… how far? How about a month? Back when I first had to rant on and on about Time Warner Cable’s less than stellar support. What a trip that was. I did eventually get my cable box replaced. Shockingly to me, that did not resolve the issue. It was worth a try, but did not fix a damn thing. And sadly, that only meant one other thing to [...]
Monday, November 22nd, 2010, in
Random ThoughtsI can understand paying more money for access to BluRay discs. That’s fine. I like the BR option and get anything in BR that I can. We currently have the 3 at a time plan and it costs about $23 / month after taxes. That’s not bad considering that some months I’ll go through 8-10 movies if I watch them right away (I do that quite often). Two of those 3 are from my queue [...]
