I’d been meaning to scan this in ever since my San Diego trip, written by my friend Dave’s girlfriend:
I’m a little fuzzy on the exact circumstances, but I believe I gained ‘hero’ status because I agreed with her on some point during dinner that Dave didn’t. Still, nice to be a 5-minute hero every once in a while. 😉
From a ling on Benito Cereno’s blog:
Man, what the hell was I thinking letting this sit on my shelf for ten months? (…and yes, I think that’s a record for being a lazy-ass with my Netflix rentals.) Sure, it’s a feel-good tear-jerker, but man is it a good one. And it’s got rockets! That blow up! And it’s funny! C’mon!
NASA! Rockets! Geeks in the 50s! You know you want it!
*****
Well, we just lost power in the house for about fifteen seconds, but it’s nice to the that the UPS that the server is running on actually works. I should probably remember to install the PowerChute software on the new machine soon, so if I happen to be asleep at, say, 1:53 am, it’ll turn itself off if the battery runs out.
P.S.: Remind me to buy a bigger UPS at some point, so it’ll run on battery for more than 16 minutes.
This clip from the Daily Show (click on the “Video – WMP” link) about Republican Porn Stars made me laugh so hard, I woke up my wife. Enjoy.
No, they haven’t released TiVo To Go for the Mac (and it’s looking less and less likely as the years pass), but I did find this great article on How to decrypt .tivo files on OS X (a pragmatic approach). It does require Virtual PC, yes, but looks to be a good guide on how to easily get yourself up and running with MPEGs from your TiVo on your Mac. I’ll report back once I’ve actually tried it, and have a working path for burning DVDs with said MPEGs, and how to edit out things like commercials before the burn.
I haven’t finished the book yet, but I have to say, if they would just stop inserting supposedly homorous asides every third sentence (one of those cases where they think they’re funny, but they’re not), this book would move a lot quicker, and I would learn more because I wouldn’t be constantly distracted by something […]
