Saturday, June 17, 2006

The weirdness this week... Just a couple things... Got some spam this week (nothing new there)... someone asking for money to invest in a mine on Mars. Okay... I didn't know there were mines on Mars... must have fallen through a time warp. See! Spam will still be there in the future. Got a letter from the VA (US Veterans Administration). Haven't heard from them in 20 years (or more). Why? Somebody stole some PC with veteran info on it so they're sending letters to EVERYONE in their files whose personal info MIGHT have been involved. Not sure why they sent ME anything... unless it was historical data that was stolen... 7:08:53 PM    Notes [] What are we watching tonight? - Bought "The Rockford Files" - Season 1 today... it's been a long time since I watched that. It has that gritty early 70's feel to it. I think the word for it is "Realism" -- Jim Rockford certainly isn't a "pretty" detective like Crocket and Tubs. Hadn't realized it was so old (Season 1 was made in 74)... must have seen it in reruns when I was growing up. The few episodes I've watched so far... seem to be very stand-alone. No story arcs. - I've got a few episodes of Dr. Who sitting on the DVR -- maybe I'll finally catchup. And the first episodes of "Hex" (A new show on BBC America -- though I hear it only lasted two season on the BBC -- not sure how many episodes that really is.) - Or maybe one of the pile of DVD's I haven't watched yet... 5:27:15 PM    Notes [] Pushing buttons for fun... not so much for profit. Finally bought myself one of those universal remotes. I was getting tired of having to juggle 3 remotes just to watch tv (cable box, tv, and receiver) or dvd's. An interesting gadget -- a Logitech Harmony 550. You connect to the Logitech web site, enter your device info and they send you a file that is then loaded into the remote via a USB cable. Seems to work... though it'll take me a little while to get it set up to my satisfaction. (It thinks my TV is an older model (I entered the correct model but they must not have that one there so their software went with the closest.) which has a slightly different feature set than mine... so the options aren't quite correct.) First step is done... 1 remote that does 90% of the things I want/use. 5:17:46 PM    Notes []

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