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I kinda want to buy some of these candles. Everythings better with electricity, except chairs, not a fan of electric chairs, more of a life without parole kinda guy.

Nice, those crazy brits have updated the classic text-based 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy' game. It's been so long since I read the books, or watched the TV show, (never listened to the radio show) I'm sure to get stuck pretty quick. Wonder if the Zork adventures are out there somewhere on the interweb...or that Leather Goddess of Phobos thing...ahh the good old days, when games were on 5 & 1/4" floppy disks.

Somehow I ended up clicking a link to this shelving system. Wonder how much they cost? They would certainly be a lot better than my current cinder block and plywood tv stand set-up.

damn, camera phones suck so hard

jeebus cripes, nevermind, freaking expensive! Cinder blocks aren't so bad.

Just signed up for 6 months of Comcast cable internet for 19.99 a month. I don't think this deal is directly through Comcast. As a non-cable tv customer the price is around 10 bucks more per month, that better be after the first 6 months! The price doesn't include a cable modem, since I prefer to own rather than lease, just ordered a D-Link DCM 202 from ZipZoomFly. The modem has a 30 buck mail in rebate, and free 2-day delivery, bringing it to only $30.50 (after rebate). Gotta have the modem before I schedule the cable install.

Here's hoping my cable internet will be reliable, if it is, goodbye Qwest land-line.

My HD MythTV setup will need one of these VGA to Component converters. DAMN IT! I just know my lcd projector isn't going to be good enough. Why can't I find a cheap hobby? Reckon it's a good thing I got my whopping $136.00 tax refund yesterday.

Hmm, I wonder if I could do this using Virtual PC...Probably won't work on my virtual version of Windows ME.

Burning through Napster's collection, free. Sucky part is you have to listen to the full track.

Why did I think it was the Hauppauge PVR 250 and PVR 350 cards that were going to become illegal? They don't do hi-def. It's cards like the pcHDTV HD-3000 that become illegal to buy starting July 2005. Hauppauge does make a couple of hi-def cards, the oddly named WinTV-HD and WinTV-D. I just ordered the linux only pcHDTV HD-3000, it's on backorder until Feb 20. Gives me plenty of time to finish downloading KnoppMyth and reading this tract from the EFF.

Sadly, my mini-itx mobo may not be beefy enough to be a Myth TV box. The HDTV card wants a 1200 Mhz P4 as a minimum, the mini runs on a 1000 Mhz VIA chip. I'll give it shot once I get the card. At the very least I'm sure the mini would do great as a Myth TV front end.

This hint from Mac OSX hints dot com is a great timesaver. By using it my LinkStation will mount automatically when I wake up my iBook. Hopefully this will prevent iTunes from forgetting where my music folder is located, I'm tired of consolidating my library when I discover iTunes has decided to store my mp3s locally. My laptop drive is tiny, so cut it out iTunes, use the big LinkStation like I've told you to many times already.

My new favorite zombie movie. Shaun of the Dead is great. It's only been on DVD for a few months, became available the same day as Napoleon Dynamite, which I finally saw yesterday.

Can't really call it my favorite. The Evil Dead is my favorite zombie movie. Does Re-Animator count as a zombie movie? And what about Passion of the Christ? I guess Passion wouldn't count because the movie ends before Jesus turns into a zombie. Passion of the Christ is the bloodiest, boringest pre-zombie movie.

Thank you Channel 101! I'm viewing Laser Fart #1 right now, the first two minutes are hilarious.

Can it get any better? Yes!

Had some trouble trying to use BitPim with my LG VX6100. I don't know if this is a Mac issue or what, I had to change the communication setting on the phone from USB to RS232, even though I'm using a USB cable...alls I knows is that the program worked after I changed that setting.

This idea seems familiar...oh yeah, I did this too. the wurst gallery

If only I'd known, I could've been in on this, maybe, if my stuff is up to snuff. Oh well, next time.

Action Figures at Kidrobot. I want these toys! I want to make toys like these! I want to make toys and sell them at kidrobot.com. I'll get right on that.

The helicopter arrived today! I broke it.

I've got to pick exterior colors for my house. Think I'll go with historically traditional ones for a Craftsman style bungalow. Didn't find much searching until I found this Flickr photo set. Some kind of green for the body is what I'm leaning towards. The neighbors on the left have a yellowish house and the guy on the right has a white one. I've got some time to decide because it's way too cold right now to paint.

Did a walkthru of my burned house today. Everything has been stripped down to bare floors and studs. That pic is where the fire almost burned through the living room floor. Keep in mind that there was carpet and another wood floor that the flames ate up before creating those almost holes.

That's what I thought when watching "The Office" earlier tonight. Turns out that hump wasn't the one from Cheaters. It was Kenneth Cole, who happens to look a lot like the hump from Cheaters. Kenneth Cole designs shoes and other stuff that they sell at Macy's. I don't think he confronts people who are cheating on their spouses. Maybe he confronts people who wear counterfeit shoes.

My latest electric bill showed up in my inbox today. It wasn't as good as my Qwest bill where they owe me, pretty good though. Only 21 bucks, compared to the last one before the fire which was over 100 bucks more than that. Almost hate to move back after all the repairs are done, really enjoy these cheap utilities.

It's been almost 30 days since I last slept in my own bed. Don't think I'd want to sleep in it now, probably in a landfill. Thankfully those two aren't allowed in my guest room, or else there'd be hair all over my new MacBook Pro. Should only be three more months of their crap to put up with, "... feed me, pet me, play with me ..."

And, I should find out next week for sure how the whole "contents" thing will work with my homeowner's insurance. Hope that ambulance ride will be covered by my health insurance, picked up my mail Friday and there was a notice claiming that they think some other insurance might cover it because it was the result of an accident. Had to fill out a form, now I get to wait and see.

Got a new bill from Qwest in my email today. They actually owe me 26 bucks. Not everything sucks when your house almost burns down. I guess they owe me because they bill in advance. I got lucky when they agreed to let me out of the two year commitment, but c'mon, I'm not in the house, how can I use their DSL on melted phone lines? DirecTV let me put the service on hold for six months and will give me a free move-in thing, or something. Awesome!

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.