So, now what?
General September 8th, 2004
I know I haven’t posted much, but I haven’t felt inspired. I’ve had experiences I thought would fit here, but I haven’t written them up, or tried and wasn’t impressed enough to push submit. I guess it’s a slump, but I don’t know. I will tell you what I do know. (I will not make this a long drawn out rant, I will not make this a long… too late.)
The last blog entry was dead on. I’ve already had at least three support issues with file sharing in SP2 that was broken across subnets. They usually come in the form “wireless is broken,” or “my printer doesn’t work,” but my blog nailed it. I knew it would. It’s refreshing to have called it like that, but I wish people would have a little more faith that it’s not the network, and it might actually be the way they configured their systems. The network isn’t broken all the time (at least not anymore.)
Happy birthday, EJ. Welcome to the quarter century club, and the land of cheaper auto insurance. Mine just dropped again, and I don’t know if it’s me getting older, my car getting older, or the fact I just bought homeowners insurance through USAA too.
Illini football is good, and I’m pumped about Illinois basketball (whose season ticket order form just came in the mail.) I didn’t get the final four tickets I blogged about back in March, but I’m still going to stick with my Illini all the way through. But, back to football, one down, 6 to go.
The Olympics came and went, and I drank them up like water and couldn’t get enough. The networks satiated me by putting Olympics on broadcast, MSNBC, Bravo, USA — all the NBC networks. But the key thing that made the Olympics even better. TiVOlympics. The games were 8 hours ahead of when they were broadcast, and I was watching them at least 6-8 hours behind. I would TiVo the nightly events, and then watch the previous days events on the TiVo. But it worked out great because I could watch ‘fast swimming’, or ‘fast volleyball’ Steeple chase never looked so cool. In fast forward I could catch way more of the Olympics than I ever could otherwise, and in many cases I could ignore NBC’s overdubbed analysis, which ranged from dramatically excellent (men’s gymnastic all-around,) to frustratingly depressing (diving.) I figure the way everything is coming out on DVD these days, we’ll see the Athens 2004 DVD set by summer 2005. Remember, you heard it here first.
If you want to buy a TiVo, I highly, highly recommend it. With rebates, they’ve dropped their entry level box down to just $99. I get so much enjoyment out of mine, I can’t imagine how people lived without it. If you do purchase a TiVo, when it asks for a referral, tell the mussulma@uiuc.edu sent you. That gives me points I can cash in for a newer TiVo, and other goodies. (They call it their TiVo Rewards program, and call the participants TiVotees. I love this company.)
In somewhat related news, TiVo announces plans to team up with Netflix to, presumably, let you download your DVDs to the TiVo over broadband instead of waiting for them to come in the mail. I think that’s a great idea, and I’m proud to be a part of that someday.
In other referral news, will you Vote or Not? The Hot or Not folks are putting up $200,000 in prize money just for pledging that you will vote. Sign up, register to vote if you haven’t, vote, and maybe win $100k. Be sure to use http://dm2747.voteornot.org when you sign up so I get the referral. See, much easier than that Win a Free iPod MLM trick.
I bought a pedometer this week, and today I’ve only done 7135 steps. According to the booklet that came with it, I should be doing 10000 a day. I guess I need to step things up a bit if I’m going to do 70k steps a week.
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i think there’s an all around slump in blogging … i’ve had lots to say and no inclination to say most of it. in my case it may be related to lack of internet access at home, but who knows.
football was … surprising. i thought they were suppose to suck this year? we didn’t even go into the game, just sat out in the grass and grilled and drank and came up with the newest catch phrase, “I’m not a homewrecker, you bastard.” You have to attempt a Boston accent for the “you bastard” bit though. Walked over to say “hi” but had just missed you, and Stuck was at a wedding (what’s up with that?
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I can decide if I want a TiVo. I think I watch to much TV as it is, but it’s mostly crap. TiVo would fix that problem at least, but then there might be an overabbundance of good stuff. /me ponders.
And in a final note (this will be a short comment, this will be a short comment) I have to laugh that I am not the only one suckered into the pedometer club. I bought one and used it for about a week. More to figure out how far I was walking from work to the car when it was in E14 than anything else. I should dig it out of my desk again.
that should read “I can’t decide if I want a TiVo.”
oops.
You can buy a TiVo and try it out for 30 days without signing up for the service. Best Buy will also take returns, so you’re not out anything to try it for a week or two and see how it becomes the most important piece of your home entertainment equipment.
Spike has been showing CSI like 8 times a day, and I have so many CSI to watch. Yay for syndication.
Heh. 7135. I glanced and thought you had bought one. silly me.
Oh, and go Illini!
Yeah, now if I could only walk Treo 650 steps. That’d be nice. That’s why I need the $100,000. Click my link.
I got my pedometer in an adult Happy Meal from McDonalds. Free with the price of a salad and water. Not that I ate the salad.
I see I’m not the only one drooling over the Treo Ace.
Niet. Not Ace. 650.
Me too.
Pitr, why on earth are you hacking into AOL?
Simple. Am becomink root of all evil.