Dec 27, 2003
"The Wonders and Horrors of Myth TV" or "How to (and not to) Build Your Own TiVo Box."
I'll keep this entry somewhat short, mostly because there's
just too much to pack into one post, but basically here's the Jist. I
wanted to get TiVo for Sara for christmas, but was stopped by a few
things:
1.) The thing is just too damn expensive. It's OK if you just get the
machine, but if you want "service" as well, it's another $15-$20 a month.
The lifetime subscription is better, but you have to lay out a few hundred
up front for that, and if Tivo folds, you're screwed.
2.) We don't have a landline phone, which is the only way Tivo can
download the program guide. (That would be another $33 a month. Suck.)
3.) Although you can hack "DirectTV-Tivo" to work without a phone, it's a
pain in the ass, and my landlord won't let me hang a satellite outside the
building. Something about if it falls it's his liability. Whatever, he
should ban Air Conditioners too then. But I didn't feel like saying that
because I like my AC.
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Dec 18, 2003
There's a Bowling Alley in Port Authority?
Who knew?
Anyway, the place made for one very happening birthday shindig. Check out
the pictures here. As near as I can tell, a great time was had by
all, and it was quite a turnout!
It was a night of oddities, that's for sure. We ended up next to the
least likely crew of people to ever call themselves a league bowling team.
It was watching the cast of "Mystery Men" go bowling. And man were they
SERIOUS about it. So, in homage to the weird cohesion of their team, I
give you detailed descriptions. And some names I just made up. Mind you, I
don't think anyone on their team bowled less than a 180.
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Dec 16, 2003
Dec 15, 2003
When Did MTV Get Cool Again?
Okay... So I remember going to college, and just about 3 days after I got
there, I stopped watching Television. Of course, with that, I stopped
watching that most influential station of our youth - MTV.
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Dec 10, 2003
Lex Vignettes 6
There's not that many places to hide anymore.
It didn't take long to find my first bit of trouble, all things considered. I knew that I was going to rustle some feathers with the stunt I had pulled to get outcity, and that my political grandstanding hadn't made me many friends even when I was incity. But at that point I was just a kid with an oldnet blog - by definition obsolete, reveling in my own lack of relevance to the very culture around me. I was pissing a few people off, sure, but I wasn't a threat.
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Dec 08, 2003
Tis' the Season
Oooooh... Long exposure pictures make for glowy christmas fun!
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Dec 05, 2003
Dec 03, 2003
Lex Vignettes 5
For those of you just tuning in, I am in the process of writing a series
of short Vignettes from what is eventually to be a full length novel. See
the fiction
section for the other Vignettes.. Fair warning - depending on your
definition, these may not be work safe. I feel like slapping one of those
parental advisory stickers on here.
Oh wait.
![[Parental Advisory:
Explicit Lyrics]](/images/advisory.gif)
There we go
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I awoke cradled in my new stripwear, comfortably nestled in its many arms, just outside the gigantic shining surface of the outside of a city node.
It's amazing how wakings can be so symbolic of change. I'd woken twice now unfamiliar settings in the outcity - both times in situations so far different from the staid life I'd lived until so recently. First inside the sleek, silver mobile doctor, feeling rebellious and anxious, and now here, in the waving grass and sun and wind of the wild, feeling calmer than I'd ever remembered feeling.
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Dec 01, 2003
Stumped!
Well, I just finished up an hour and a half of troubleshooting on a
co-workers PC, and for the first time in quite a while, I had to throw my
hat in.
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