sadly and happily I post for my late Aunt. Kathleen Meyer sadly because her daughter and parents (my grandparents) should never have to deal with things like this. However as sad as loosing family can be Kathleen went to heaven, I told her yesterday that when I get to heaven that we would dance together, she smiled. Something people have a hard time dooing in the last few hours. Im glad I could give her a happy thought. The next thing I thought of was how weird it was, a paper I read while sitting around was about the last hours of a person. It talked about how someone would hold on till they felt like they could let go. Dealing with unfinished business. After we talked with my aunt yesterday (being the last of family to do so) she died a few hours later. Its one thing to read it, quite another to experience it. I will miss the paper fights on Christmas, help god keep a eye on me I can use all I can get. I love you and see you soon*

Kathleen and Daughters Megan and Laura

Live – Lightning Crashes

*soon, when you live in eternity, a life on earth of 80 years is soon.

official RANT:

part two in my AV rant about people buying crap for home theater. Gold plated digital cables. I just bought a 7.99 HDMI-DVI cable on ebay. the same cable from radio shack is $170 tell me what is wrong here. I know its that some AV geek out there is touting to all his friends that he is running monster cable on his equipment makes his system better. well its crap. total crap. lets look at the analog reason first. Take the normal joe. he has equipment he bought at best buy, or magnolia. they sucker him with gold component cables that hook up to a dvd with polished steel connectors. hrm. tell me people where is this 200$ cable helping. its not, until you start spending more then a car on your system.

But thats not my real rant – my real rant is with gold plated digital. whats the idea of digital people? lack of RF interference causing disruption to your signal. Digital has ‘no’ RF disruption in AV so why do you need a gold plated cable to help prevent the RF loss on the connectors? YOU DONT its a dumb idea the dumbest actually and people are making millions on your stupidity. today starting now. never buy a cable at a store unless your in a pinch. EBAY every cable you ever need. seriously people.

how about gold plated network cables… the same dumb idea applies. dont forget that your NIC is made of cheap ass silver-lead traces. I have hooked up a DS3 with good old copper and guess what never had a problem. %99.9999 uptime

what about gold plated optical? when is optical going to get the gold?

yes every blog in the world has this link but its worth it

http://www.apple.com/macosx/bootcamp/

 review http://news.yahoo.com/s/pcworld/20060406/tc_pcworld/125325

damnit i didnt wanna buy this now. guess i will be.

I have never liked Bose ever. here is a nice write up on the topic

http://www.hometheaterblog.com/hometheater/2006/03/what_about_bose.html

I also dont like any sound equipment labled consumer sony. (AKA if its not more then you want to spend its china-crap) or if best buy would consider reselling it.

for some reason i have a extra netflix right now I dont know if this is part of the class action (I choose not to take part in it) either way, check your flix!

some moron at Thoshiba thought it would be nice to light up the front of the SD-4980 DVD unit with a bright blue LED. Thats nice, I came to watch a movie not be distracted by your annoying DVD player. So as lame as this hack is, its a hack all the same. I haven't posted any hardware-mods for a while and I read on digg all the time how people get credit for putting a laptop HDD in a NES Game and thats lame. This is at least useful. idea is easy open it up and chop out the blue LED’s (red arrow) I included a picture for the fun of it.

A simple yet needed hardware hack for the Toshiba SD-4980 DVD Player

Ok finally got the crappy verizon DSL up (its not that great) did you know they block ICMP traffic?! 1.4/380 and its slower then my 512/512 i think they packet shape. i need to find out what is going on.

the moment you waited for so long. new place pictures. i took them quick and they are messy. but they are pictures. have a nice day.

I should get Internet at home today. So I can soon get pictures of the new place up.

I did just get cable and NASCAR in HD with 5.1 is awesome