>I’m certainly excited about PS3 coming out, and so are a bunch of other people. Check out the links above for a few of the more enthusiastic PS3 hopefuls. I won’t be buying one and I’m not as excited as I could be if I could realize the full potential of the PS3. That made me wonder how many people were buying them for themselves vs selling them on eBay. I also wondered what kind of TV they had at home. I’m about to hit the local mall to ask some questions of the patrons waiting in line for their…
>funny that
>I forgot to mention the funny moment from Saturday night.I walked to the store with Jon to go get some cigars, and the guy behind the counter was quite a character. 20 something, he reminded me of a classic highschool character: the big dumb jock. He was large, blonde, and spoke slowly:“So did you hear about Northampton?”“No”“Apparently the power went out… they… they got people looting downtown.”“Wow”“They don’t really think it’s terrorists or anything. I mean… they’re not going to come here, knock out the power then go back over the ocean.”“huh” We were both amazed at the connection this…
>Update
> Not much to post.I’ve been playing a lot of Battlefield 2142, unlocked all the Engineer’s items, and I’m now working on the individual abilities so I can run faster, jump higher… it’s very fun, and I think I’m better at it then BF2, but I’ll attribute that to the new tools. We went to Paul’s party on Saturday, it was fun – I played guitar hero for the first time, and Jon and Heather were back from Cali, so it was good to see them. We didn’t stay all that late, Nicole was tired, and I guess I was…
>What is Deinterlacing?
>Video, the final frontier — these are the voyagers of deinterlacing.It helps explain (far better then I possibly could) what makes good video look good.
>Whew, Is that Gas?
> Never ran out of gas before… I don’t think, but I did today.I was cutting it close. I had 150miles to empty last night before heading down below Hartford to a fun little party at an art gallery. I got home and had 70 miles to emtpy, about average for a trip to work and back, 35 miles either way. I figured that would be enough to get to work and get gas on the way home. I woke up late, sleeping in with a very big hangover headache from the party — got going and the guage was…
>We were watching the 1971 movie Andromeda Strain (based on a Michael Chricton Book) in HD on demand, incredible quality for an old movie. When they’re speaking to one of the patients, they notice a high quantity of methanol and ethanol, they ask him “So you’re a Sterno drinker, eh?” I had to look it up, and while you’re at it, check out the rest of these incredible concoctions: Sterno – Canned Heat Ever need to just hand something in so you don’t get an incomplete? Me neither, but it’s amusing.Essay Generator
>Battlefield 2142 Demo
> The Battlefield 2142 Demo just came out on Friday. It took all day Saturday to download, and finally got a chance to play it on Sunday with Matt. I installed it on both computers and though it was pretty buggy, it was a lot of fun. It’s similar to BF2, less skills, less weapons. Grenades aren’t standard, nor are mines. Assault merged with Medic. The extra items you can unlock are EMP grenade, extra ammo, and I believe mines as well. There are now mechs to drive, and though they’re not quite Mechwarrior worthy, they’re a force to be…
>Fast Cars, Alley Cats…
> Fast Cars, Alley Cats, Aligators… What the Heck?!! (for the robots)2006 Subaru Legacy GT modificationSPT Intake & Heat Shield I installed It was the SPT (Official Subaru Performance Parts) cold-air intake and heat shield in my car on Saturday.I did it, I used tools and everything!! I removed the whole air port, air box and put in the new intake in about an hour or so. It went well, it certainly improves the performance of the turbo. There’s virtually no lag now, and Nicole noted it throws you back in your seat harder as well. It feels lighter, but…
>Oh gee, there goes the domain.
> Every once in a while I like to let the domain lapse to make me realize what it would be like to not have a website.I don’t like it! I tried to get a link, find my auction, and modify a setting on a subdirectory… and couldn’t find anything because the site wasn’t there! Thanks to those who let me know it was down. I was trying to get the domain picked up by a different registrar, but apparently I have to renew first, then transfer. Go fig. I’ll remember that for when I’m actually doing this for customers.…
>Intel Back on Top?
>Oh the woe. I really wanted AMD to powerhouse Intel out… they had their 15 minutes.Again, I was with AMD when they got ahead of the trend back with the K6-2… then PIII came along and whump’d em. They really better come back with some killer technology before I have to build my next PC. Price Speed BUS Cache 64-bit Dual Core Intel 965 2.9 1066mhz L1: 32kb+32kbL2: 4M shared EMT64 Y AMD 725 2.8 2000mhz (HT) L2: 128kb+128kbL2: 1M each AMD64 Y Take a look for yourself:Intel Core 2 DuoAMD FX62
>Ozone Oddity
>I just read this article on the increasing hole in the ozone. You’ll notice at the end it states “The CFCs have decreased since most countries signed a treaty in 1997 to reduce emissions”. This is the Kyoto treaty. A well intentioned agreement between the world powers, of course it actually ammounts to no more then a .7% (I’ll dig up the actual # so I don’t miss-inform) reduction. I just needed to comment on this very large stretch of an aticle. I realize it’s a sensitive subject when people are thinking you’re saying “the environment isn’t worth saving”. That’s…
>XBox 360 Laptop by Ben Heck
>I’m putting this on the main page because this is one of the most indepth conversions I’ve ever seen. This guy knows his shit, and dang if he didn’t do a bang up job. If he could mass market these it would be big, real big. XBox 360 Laptop by Ben Heck
>Windows Vista & URGE
>I installed Vista RC1 last night, you can find the ISO here. You’ll need to be a customer preview program member because it needs a serial #, but if you got Beta 2 when that was released you should be all set. RC1 installed much more smoothly, and has all the features, but is still missing some polish. It was a great preview and it’s usable until 5/31/2007 (I’m assuming release date for Vista?) Along with Vista came URGE, which after hearing the following advertised on Howard this morning, is apparently a new trend in media services – the internet:…
>9 11 2006
>I went looking through my archives to see what I was doing that day. I remembered that I didn’t have a blog at that time. Blogs were still relatively new, and I had just heard about it when I started the year before. I didn’t start one earlier because I felt I just didn’t have anything to say — it just comes when you’ve got an outlet. I really wanted to express myself that day, and didn’t have an outlet, which led me to creating it later in the month. Here are several 9/11 posts which don’t really seem to…
>MapMyRun / Google Earth of Our Bike Ride
> Last month Nicole wrote about the tour de Holyoke:http://www.mapmyrun.com/rss.php?u=65742cafb273e12fc7bb968b5fca065e That’s the link to the RSS for my runs, any trip I take that I can map I will, and the RSS will update, so add that to an RSS feed to automatically get them! You could also go old school “run of the mill HTML”http://www.mapmyrun.com/view_route.php?r=b290555aa918078b42b1001e877c1a8e note, they are both split into two lines, combine them to go to the right site.It’s so I don’t mess up the blog formatting until I can get somewhere to edit the hyperlinks