I’ve made some updates and progress on a few projects.
I’ve got the initial design of the media tower I’m planning on building to house all of my living room gear now that we’ve got our screen mounted above the fireplace. There are also a few tweaks to the budget I had for this. Get all of the updates on this project over on it’s project page.
I’ve also started work on the Laptop to wifi photo frame project, details on it’s page.
I’ve got a couple of old Dell laptops that don’t really have the balls to much of anything other than surf the web, and slow at that. This would be a good sack of parts to convert into a photo frame. My thinking is that I can make it a Wifi enabled digital photo frame that I will be able to give to my parents and update with new photos remotely via their wireless network, that I need to setup.
This is going to be based on this Dell 266 running Win98 machine with a Belkin PCMCIA WiFi card. I’ve got no idea what I’m going to be using to run the photo slide show but isn’t that the fun of it?
We had a bird in the basement last week. A few minutes before my alarm was due to go off I wake up and look at the clock. Just as I’m drifting off to sleep again…
*CRASH*
The sound of something breaking. Not a big glass breaking sound, like a cup breaking. The wife and I both jump up and I stalk up stairs. I’m assaulted by a black bird that is flying around the dinning room. It makes a few attempts at the windows so I just open a window and out it goes.
Well just as I’m laying down to try and score an extra five minutes of shut eye I hear flapping and claws on ductwork. “We’ve got another one!” This time in the basement. Some running around chasing a bird with various sacks or bags left me panting and the bird no closer to being evicted.
I then remembered the lesson of the Pitcher Plant. It has evolved to the point where it’s hood is translucent, allowing insects to think they can get out that way. Hmmmmm….. I shut off all the lights so the only light was from two glass block windows. This and a handy laundry basket allowed me to safely get the bird under the basket and then swiftly reach under it and snatch the bird without hurting it.
Sqwack sqwak sqak! Upstairs and out the window with you bird. The theme to ‘Born Free’ playing in my head as it flaps away in the morning sun.
I can’t seem to finish a project before I start a new one. The other day we mounted our screen to the wall above our fireplace in the living room. Since doing this we’ve had to stack up our Wii, DVR/Cable box, and DVD player on a side table next to the fireplace.
I get it into my head that I’m going to design and build my own AV Shelves for the living room and if I’m going to do that… why not build in room for a living room PC?
I’ll be designing it with Google SketchUp and will publish the plans and document the build process over on the Projects page.
Number of votes ‘challenged’ in 2004 presidential election? 3,000,000 (three million votes)
It’s a bit rambling at first but the details that come out of this are startling.
Internal emails accidentally forwarded from Karl Rove with lists of ’suspect’ voters or ‘Caging Lists’.
So what were the problems with these votes? Well many of them showed the same address. Let’s see… homeless shelters… military bases… gee, lots of US voters who all live on a military base? That couldn’t be valid so let’s challenge those votes.
When our economy is going into the toilet some of the people in our government are looking to undermine it even more.
Oh and lord Bush is so out of tune in so many ways…
WOW! I’ve been trying to think of ways to make my short (<10 mile) work commute as fuel efficient as possible. I drive a little Gulf with a standard transmission and keep up with it's maintenance but with gas hitting $4.00 a gallon I may have to start pushing for working from home as much as I can.
The Enertia Bike would seem like the awesome solution to making my commute gas free but at $12,000 base it’s the motorcycle equivalent of the Tesla Roadster. However companies like ZERO MOTORCYCLES are popping up too. I’m wondering if one of these all electric dirt devils can be made street legal? At $7,450 the ZERO X seems much more attainable.
