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It is awesome! And it was pretty cheap. It's a Philips DVP642, got it off Amazon. Does component video, progressive scan, plays Divx, and can be region unlocked. Bought it because it does progressive scan and component so I can use it with my dying projector, gives a much better image than my Playstation 2 with a component cable, and it's quieter than the PS2.

Turns out not so awesome, takes a long time for it recognize the disc, often it'll spend 2 minutes analyzing (sp?) and say "no disc". But when it does see the DVD the picture is grand.

Damn it, this DVD player doesn't work. I reckon the laser is out of alignment or something like that. I'll be calling support soon.

Burned a bitorrented version of "Thresold" to cd and it plays fine. Why won't it play the DVDs I own...maybe this device wants me to be a pirate....

Tried to make a warranty claim online, said I was out of warranty. Wrong, just got it, making a further claim via email. Bastards, no wonder my wrist hurts so bad.

I'm pre-approved for up to $20,000 for a car loan at my credit union, not happy with the interest rate above 7 percent. I was thinking about looking for a car, so I looked for financing first, but that interest rate blows, gotta think about it. That pre-approved rate is good for 30 days, no rush. What I really want is a Mini Cooper, or some other small car, VW Golf, Toyota Matrix, Scion Xb, or a hybrid...or a diesel to convert to biodiesel...

Might be able to get a 2005 VW GTI at a good interest rate ... find out tomorrow, I doubt it, think the dealership is setting me up to get screwed. Better break my fingers tonight so I can't sign anything when I meet the salesman.

Watching this almost interesting show about an alien invasion. Really cool thing is that the main character has a french bulldog as a pet, she calls it "Monster". Cute. Dog doesn't get much face time on the show, but damn those frenchies are cute! She had it wear a harness instead of a collar when she walked it, she's kind. So maybe she'll be kind to the invading aliens...CBS.COM.

Sweet! Free World Dialup and Broadvoice users can call each other. From FWD to BV dial **282 Area Code + Number (works). From BV to FWD dial 011 0 393 FWD number (don't know if it works, all phone batteries dead). Here's a link to a Voxilla forum post about doing this kind of "peering" stuff.

update: the BV to FWD thing doesn't work, however, if you have the ability to add a custom dialstring to your VOIP device you can make it work, maybe. I'm still experimenting. I need to memorize my FWD number, so I'm going to type it here a few times, 699064, 699064, 699064, 699064. Ah ha! If I use STUN settings BV to FWD works fantastic. Here's the dialstring I'm using (*xx|#xx|[3469]11|0|00|[2-9]xxxxxx|1xxx[2-9]xxxxxxS0|xxxxxxxxxxxx.|<#:>[x*][x*]x.<:@fwd.pulver.com>) I'm sure all of this makes no sense to people who aren't messing around with using the internets to make regular and irregular phone calls. To call myself from BV I'd dial #699064# Somehow that dialplan will end up dialing 699064@fwd.pulver.com and then I can talk to myself until my cordless phone batteries die.

It was way too easy to set up the second line of my Sipura thing to use FWD. I was thinking about putting an indicator on this site, but it would always say I'm online, what's the point? Anyway,


That's the thing I would've put on the right hand side somewhere. It sez I'm online doesn't it? I'm probably not online, feel free to leave a voicemail if you like. Man I gotta clean that junk on the right side up, makes no sense. I don't have any categories...

I'm inspired to post this because of a Google ad on my site. GNmagazine.org is buying ads saying "Why did God create clean & unclean meats?". Maybe it should be "Why did FSM (Flying Spaghetti Monster) create clean and unclean meatballs?". My punctuation knowledge is crap. Do I need a period after a quotation? Bahhh, praise pasta.

I really have to mention that the pig on the plate graphic on their site is messed up. Why does the plate cast a shadow and the pig doesn't? Is it because pigs are "unclean" and therefore don't cast shadows? Where are the pigs hind legs? There's no way that pig can stand totally on that plate. Is the pig balancing on it's front hooves? I call bullshit on all of your beliefs. Please to be commenting gnmagazine.org.

Turns out my huge electricity bill last month must've been a mistake. Didn't ever challenge it, nice folks there at Avista. I paid it like a good boy, now I have credit due me. Leaving all my lights on, fridge door open, hot water running, until the credit is gone.

I wonder what goat meat tastes like...never had it...google ads make me hungry for goat meat...goat jerky...goat steaks...goat au gratin...goat stew...goat pancakes...

This is the traditional Jerry Lewis MDA telethon weekend. He's gotta be pissed off because of Katrina's aftermath. Larry King is doing a mini-telethon on CNN to benefit the victims of Katrina called "How You Can Help". Well maybe he's not pissed because the telethon doesn't show up on TV I can see until 9am Monday. At any rate, I'd like to think that Jerry is upset that a hurricane is stealing some of his thunder.

Do pugs ever stop shedding? Sheesh, hair everywhere. Staying at my folks place for who knows how long and they've got a couple of pugs. I would think that in the cold weather they'd keep as much hair as possible. Maybe when it gets colder.

iPhone glass replacement kit showed up today. The glass in the kit was broken. Shoot.

Dummy at work told me that today. He voted, but didn't vote for president, just local elections. All because of the electoral college system we have, his lame state of Idaho only has 4. He claims that he hates the electoral college system and would rather that the popular vote would prevail. Hey dummy, you didn't vote for president, so yours didn't count period. Obama won the popular vote as well.

The movie still sucks, but it looks a lot better in Blu-Ray. I will say that you can sort of tell the bad guys from the good guys in the higher def version. Viewing the DVD version I couldn't really follow the action, or tell which robot was which. To be honest I was catching up on email and stuff during the heavy CGI scenes. Just wanted to see what's her name in a belly shirt and short skirt in high def.

I've seen that people take credit for my work. Not difficult work, took me 15 minutes or less to do it, squeezed it out before I left on Friday. Emailed the result of my work to the coworker that requested it. Subsequently read an email where that coworker claimed that they created it, they may have edited it, but don't take full credit. Just gives me more reason to hate on folk. This particular coworker couldn't have created it ever. Best to move on if able. Will be with some folk this weekend that might have some options.

It's obvious. Why even debate it? If you look at Kristen Wiig's nose in "Walk Hard" and how it looks on the most recent episodes of SNL, it's clear that she had a nose job. I personally think she looks better.

WTF does "opposed defending marriage" mean? Does that mean he or she thinks homos should be able to get married? Fucking christians need to learn that America isn't a theocracy yet. Are there any non-religious congresspersons or senators?

I just bought a new glass screen and tools to replace it off eBay. Shit is coming from Hong Kong. Why do they call it 2G? That 2G stuff confuses me. Anyway, even if it's the wrong size it was only around 14 bucks. Isn't the 3G iPhone the second generation? They claim it fits a 4 gig iPhone, so that would be a first generation iPhone.

A local company can replace the busted glass screen on my iPhone for "... $65 (parts), $10.88 Shipping, and $35 labor...", so hmm, math, let's see 110.88. Cheaper than sending it back to Apple. Too bad I don't have some other phone lying around I could put the sim card into during the repair time. They say 5-10 days turnaround. Would they need to have my iPhone the whole time? Need to find out what it would cost to get out of my ATT contract. Then go T-Mobile and G1, depending on what it costs to dump ATT. Although, I'm liking an App on the iPhone called GasHog that helps you track how many miles per gallon you get, and what the fuel costs per mile.

That G1 looks goofy, has no standard headphone jack, doesn't play video, not truly open thanks to T-Mobile, has a 2 year contract like ATT.

Fuck it, I'm stuck. Maybe I'll get the 3G iPhone instead and sell the busted one to help offset the cost. I'll have to make sure to take blurry pictures of it.

It was very easy to setup the first 3 times. Why 3 times? Well, I'm trying to use Boxee on it and that requires some work, not really, but I tried it over again when samba wasn't working. Still need some work to get samba shares to load. All the iTunes stuff works great, I can stream any media in my iTunes library fine, movies I've bought, podcasts, music I've bought. What I really want is samba shares to work. That will involve some ssh and ftp work. NitoTV may be the answer. Not a novice to ssh or ftp so I'm not scared about it, just too late in the day to tackle it tonight.

BTW: Never knew I could boot from a USB card reader.

BTW 2: The 2.2 Apple TV update included 1080p.