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(General) Free Fan 17 Aug 2013 | 07:59 am
On my way home from work today, I passed a Vornado fan sitting out on the street. I felt an urge to pick it up, suppressed it, then gave in, turned around, and grabbed it. When I got it home, as expec...
(General) Atari 2600 Video Mod 16 Jul 2013 | 06:46 pm
I found a video mod board for the Atari 2600 for sale online recently. I brought the Atari home from my Mom's last year around when I was assembling my video game console collection. But I never hooke...
(General) Failed Atari 2600 Mod 16 Jul 2013 | 06:46 pm
I found a video mod board for the Atari 2600 for sale online recently. I brought the Atari home from my Mom's last year around when I was assembling my video game console collection. But I never hooke...
(General) Plumbing Repair 6 Jul 2013 | 12:03 am
I've just executed a (mostly) successful plumbing repair in my Mom's basement. An old water softener, installed by the previous owners and never used by us, started leaking a while back. We cut it out...
(Dreams) Finally, a way to get back at those pesky kids! 5 Jul 2013 | 07:43 pm
I had a whopper of a TV episode idea in a dream last night. The dream somehow involved a mashup of the dean from Community with Bart from the Simpsons. I'm gonna choose to retell it purely as a Commun...
(General) Mom's Decadent Peanut Butter and Chocolate Birthday Cake 5 Jul 2013 | 07:27 am
I'm home visiting Mom for the long 4th of July weekend I took. Her birthday is just over a week away, so I decided to bake her a fancy cake. She picked this amazingly decadent triple layer chocolate a...
(Gaming) Fallout: New Vegas 11 Jun 2013 | 02:54 am
I started playing Fallout: New Vegas this weekend. It has been sitting on my shelf since xmas, when it came off my wish list (thanks Mom!). It's very obviously the sequel to Fallout 3. And also very o...
(General) Daily Installs of DVR Commander for TiVo 21 May 2013 | 05:47 am
Google's Play Store Amazon's App Store Blackberry's App World I published the most recent version of DVR Commander for TiVo on April 5th. I did something new this time: I released on the Amazon and...
(General) Ramp for the Window Perch 13 May 2013 | 03:55 am
I posted last weekend about the window perch I made for my cats. They're enjoying it. But the stool beside it was not enough. So this weekend I added a ramp, which rests on top of the stool for height...
(General) Window Perch for my Cats 4 May 2013 | 11:35 pm
There's a rare few beautiful weeks in New York's spring and fall where its nice outside, and it's nice opening the windows. When I do that, my cats climb up into the jamb of the open window and cram t...
