Rants, reviews and comments on life.
Posted in Weird Thoughts on Nov 29th, 2006
Tonight on my way home, it was dark and rainy. When hanging a left on a street, I had a hard time seeing a pedestrian wearing all black crossing the cross-walk. This made me wonder “On average, are Goths more likely to be hit by a car on a dark night?” This could also apply […]
Posted in Media Center on Nov 28th, 2006
Recently, I have started looking for way to capture HDTV from my satellite system to my media center pc. Unfortunately, after much googling I have been unable to find any solution which will work with a media center pc.
Options I have looked at so far
Tuner card which can be directly connected to the dish. […]
Posted in Life on Nov 20th, 2006
Kristin now has a blog of her own. Hopefully this will mean that she will stop pestering me for her own blog, and stop trying to take over mine. Her blog can be found at http://www.darrylmccutcheon.com/kristin/
Posted in Rants on Nov 20th, 2006
Kristin has been excited this year about getting a xmas tree to put in our house. We have decided that we will attempt to get a potted xmas tree, so that we can plant it in the spring, providing that it survives Kristin’s loving care. However, Kristin has taken the responsibility of decorating the tree. […]
Posted in Life on Nov 20th, 2006
Friday night, I bought a ceiling fan on sale at home depot. The model of the ceiling fan is called the Cessna and it is huge. It has two sets of blades a top set which are 60″ across, and a counter-rotating set 52″ across. Below is a picture.
I installed it in […]
Posted in Media Center on Nov 15th, 2006
Recently I have started to burn some recorded tv shows to dvd using Nero. Most people can use the Sonic plugin which optionally comes with media center to accomplish this task. However, my media center pc which is sitting in the basement does not have a dvd burner.
My technique for burning tv shows to disk […]
Posted in Life on Nov 12th, 2006
As you may know, I took off last week to go on my annual deer hunt. This year, Dad was able to see two different deer on Monday and Tuesday morning, but unfortunately missed both. The first deer he missed was about 150 yards away and we figured it was because he hadn’t touched the […]
Posted in Rants on Nov 12th, 2006
Now that it is the silly season, I have found that I am going ever impatient with people being in my way. Seriously, I went to the grocery store tonight after I got back from the middle of nowhere and everywhere I went, some stupid ijit was wheeling their cart blindly into the aisle and […]