Wednesday, March 31, 2010
So… dying just dying to get rid of cable. Requirements:
- play dvd/xvid/whatever format I want from my PC over ethernet
- control with remote
- easy to use
- internet connectivity for ‘tv’:
– netflix
– hulu? dunno, hulu is kinda ass… so maybe i don’t care about it
– youtube
– cheap
– quiet
So… A PC can almost do this. It has [...]
Wow How to Train Your Dragon was super great! Easily the best PDI Dreamworks movie by far, and I’d say better than all but the best few Pixar flicks. In fact, I’d say it was right up there with the Incredibles, Ratatouille and Wall-E. Bravo. Also the first movie I’ve seen in 3-D, and [...]
Republicans would be fine with an individual mandate to buy health insurance as long as there were no subsidies to help poor people pay for it.
Nature by Numbers. Not too shabby… music could be better:
I like to play a little game called ‘if I do it other people do too’. This is fun to play with political cash donations. If I don’t donate, I tell myself that quite a few people didn’t. And if I do, I tell myself that a lot of other people probably did also. More [...]
Suck Dingle’s Gavel, Republicans:
From Matthew Yglesias, An Influential Idea I Didn’t Get in a Book. Liberals generally kinda know this on a gut level, but generally more in terms of outcomes, rather than the experience of the actors.
Looks like stupid stupak is caving and will vote for health care reform after all. When do we get to trigger the timer until republicans start staying say form of reform this was their idea all along?
Loves me some wordpress. I just deleted 663 spam comments with one line of SQL. Now we’ll see if this Akismet thingy can do half a damn for preventing spam in the future.
Gah tv/tivo is insanely expensive for what it really delivers (basically cable tv is 99% retarded… I almost don’t even know why we have it). I’m even just flat sick of playing dvd discs… I just want to blow my DVD collection into some nice small mpeg-4 format or another and keep it on a [...]