For about 2 years I’ve been periodically going into Spin Doctor Cyclewerks, my local bike shop, and looking at a bike that I thought would be a great addition to my morning commute. In late June I went in one last time, and Greg, the owner, told me to just buy it already since its [...]
Category Archives: Entertainment
Who is driving? OMG, Bear is driving! HOW CAN THIS BE?
7/24/2010 – 7:17 am
From CNN: Story said the bear was probably drawn to a peanut butter sandwich left inside by his 17-year-old son Ben. He said the family didn’t realize what was going on until deputies arrived and the neighbor came back and called them. By then the car was no longer in the driveway. Incredulous, Story, his [...]
More than meets the eye!
7/15/2010 – 8:49 am
photo credit: jquiz In news that disrupts major portions of my life, there’s this happening: Robots in disguise will likely alter your commute for the next few days as filming for the third installment of the Transformers film franchise takes over the Magnificent Mile. Michigan Avenue between Wacker Drive and Ontario Street will close Thursday night [...]
Tivo2Podcast update
3/14/2010 – 12:41 pm
I’ve made a few updates since my last release a few weeks ago. I thought I’d toss an updated version out there. What’s new in this version: Duration is no longer hard-coded to 32:00 and actually reflects the duration of the show The script will attempt to find the TiVo via Bonjour/mDNS/ZeroConf/DNS-SD/whatever unless passed a [...]
TiVo -> Video Podcast
3/4/2010 – 11:15 pm
Previously on “You can imagine where it goes from here”: We released a script to download stuff from the tivo, and then made some improvements to it. After two years of saying I was going to fully automate the process of downloading and transcoding shows for my iPhone, I finally got off my ass and [...]
Book review: Dead Until Dark
11/7/2009 – 2:34 pm
Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris My rating: 4 of 5 stars After thoroughly enjoying the HBO series True Blood for two seasons I decieded to give the Sookie Stackhouse books a try. (This worked well for me in reading Kathy Reich’s Temperance Brennan books after watching Bones.) The first season of the show is [...]
In defense of the AppleTV
11/2/2009 – 2:21 pm
Last week the 3.0 software update for the AppleTV came out. On-line there was a lot of grousing about it, and that has inspired this post. The Roku SoundBridge that we had in the family room was taken out by Thor. We didn’t realize how much we liked having a digital music player there until [...]
206 Bones
10/4/2009 – 9:30 am
I’ve been neglecting the blog of late. I haven’t really had much to say that the 140 characters of Twitter hasn’t taken care of. However, since I took the time to write a book review on GoodReads, I thought I’d share it here too. 206 Bones by Kathy Reichs My rating: 4 of 5 stars [...]
LOAD “:*”,8,1 (yes, I know I’ve used this title before…)
7/29/2009 – 8:27 am
On the Edge: The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore by Brian Bagnall My rating: 4 of 5 stars Some of the reviews I read of this book lead me to believe it would be more focused on the business side than the technology side. I was presently surprised that I felt it was 70% [...]
iTunes keeps syncing the same 44 songs OVER and OVER: SOLVED!
7/15/2009 – 8:50 am
Right as OS 3.0 came out iTunesfor the iPhone and just after the latest version of iTunes was release a problem sprung up for me. Without making any changes to any of my music files, iTunes would resync the same 44 songs to the iPhone on every sync. I finally had some time to track [...]
