I picked up this for $800. I hooked it up to my intel mac mini (the one that was hooked up to my standard-def tv at the apartment) via a DVI cable. Holy Christ. I can actually read text on the screen. The 89″ screen. The projector is just sitting on my coffee table at the moment – the ceiling mount is on the way.
** paused to post on AVS Forum asking for DT-400 owners in/around Milwaukee **
Anywho, the picture is huge. Makes my 36″ look positively puny…which is ironic ’cause it weighs 216 pounds. Also, while searching Digg for a new TV torrent source, I happened upon ShareTV.org. In short, HD-ish quality on demand with no commercials. Not commercials to skip through, simply no commercials. And seven feet five inches diagonally across. Sweet monkey sandwich.
This brings me to another topic: cable tv. It sucks. Why do I have to pay for five channels I’ll watch and 68 (or more) I won’t? It’s absurd. Alright, I’d get FoodTV, Comedy Central, ESPN, ESPN2, Discovery, TLC, Speed, and Weather. Fine, I’d pay for eight channels I’d watch and 65 I wouldn’t. That’s it. Allow customers to pay a per-channel fee – hell, I’d even go for a graduated pricing scale – and a lot of people would come back to cable. At this point, my next purchase is one of these and one of these. Done. Between over-the-air HD and ShareTV.org, I’ll have plenty of media to view. Now to pick up a couple [more] of these.
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Shame this theme doesn’t show the time I write posts…it’d prove my title. It’s 2 am. It’s 2 am on a Wednesday morning. I’m at work, waiting for various things to finish so I can click a few buttons. I’ve been up since 6 am yesterday. I’ll probably be up through sunrise this morning. The corner meeting room without windows looks like it’d make a handy bedroom in a pinch.
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Being moved is much better.
We’ve got a ton of boxes here, but still no furniture. We’ve been sleeping on a double-size futon mattress that’s on the floor. It’s uncomfortable as hell, but it’s on floor that I (and Melinda) own. We’re paying our own mortgage, not someone else’s. Mwa ha ha. I’m sore. Movers are coming tomorrow to get all the furniture.
I’ve started phase one of my basement project: putting a floor in. Because it’s a basement, it’s already had a little water seepage, and I’m cheap, I decided to go with those square, foam, puzzle-piece-shaped floor pieces. Sam’s Club has 2′x2′x.5″ 8-packs for $19.76. That’s about $0.60 per square foot. I bought 4 packs (since that was all that would fit in a cart) and noted that a pallet of them holds 16 packs. I think I need a full pallet on top of what I just bought to do all the floor I want. The pieces are black on one side and either red, yellow, green, or blue on the other. Obviously, I’m putting the black side up.
Check out this projector. $2370? How ’bout $800? And then receiving a gift card for $80 for making the purchase? Yeah, thanks Best Buy, you guys do have your moments.
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Greg finally made a sql dump of his quote database. He filled it with memorable offensive random quotes – …actually, all three of those adjectives work – from our college years. Really brings back the memories…and the ghost pains. Now I just need to modify the quote db plugin I’m using to enable multiple quote sets – ie. have the redneck ones be quote set 1 while college quotes are quote set 2. Should be pretty simple on the data side (add a column to the quotes table called QuoteSetID and validity table with quote set names, then update the queries to match). The display will be a tad harder – pass a new argument to the display function. The final hard part will be modifying the admin page to allow selecting of the new quote set. Will this ever get done? *shakes magic 8-ball* Signs point to no. It’s good to have dreams, right?
Melinda and I will be moving within a week. Holy crap. Sweet. Crap. I’m all confused.
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While there was minor jubilation at the Green Bay Packers‘ win over the Chicago Bears on December 31, I still noted the bitter taste of the Bears’ playoff berth. I asked God why, why were the Bears, with an inferior quarterback, allowed to continue into the post-season while the Packers, who were due another run at the big one, refused entry? As the post-season progressed, so did the Bears. The Bears stole the NFC championship from America’s team – the Saints – angering nearly the entire country. February 4 came, and the Bears were allowed to taste victory, but only taste. In the heat of the moment, absolution presented itself. The final understanding of God’s plan was realized in the 4th quarter when Rex Grossman threw a touchdown pass to Kelvin Hayden. The issue at hand for Sexy Rexy is that the receiver in question wasn’t wearing a dark blue jersey. Mr. Hayden, in fact, plays for the Colts.
The Lord allowed the Bears to see the promise land, but were then refused in the most glorious way. In the fallout, I foresee the Bears having a new starting quarterback next season. They might keep their respectable defense, but the Bears’ offense will be in shambles. With Favre returning for an astounding 17th season, we could see the Bears’ 15th starting quarterback in as many seasons. Hah.
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Try this on for size.
Oh yeah. Awesome.
edit: For future reference, the permanent link is in the shelf above – right-most column, named “Terminal”.
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