As mentioned on Slashdot, check out this article about installing your own home soda fountain. I think this would be really cool if you had a bunch of visitors or a big family. Of course, if you’re a huge loser who lives by himself this probably isn’t realistic.
A pair of Paradigm Monitor 7s and a CC-370 center channel are the speakers, and I was able to get a refurbed Rotel RSK-972 at a decent price for the receiver. Now, as Callahan suggested in an earlier post, I can invite my 3 friends over and we can have a grand ole time.
Actually, speaking of earlier posts, I also picked up a 5-foot LoveSac.
I’m actually surprised Schulte didn’t send me this link with some hilarious comment. I trust he’ll leave one in the comments section of the post.
I’ve been shopping for speakers recently (home theatre-type) and in doing research unearthed what kind of surprised me, but in retrospect doesn’t. Ask most people who dig electronics, or even who just visit Best Buy or Circuit City from time to time what the best speakers around are, and in general you’ll hear “Bose.”
Well, after a few trips to audiophile-type newsgroups, I quickly learned that Bose are generally regarded as cheap, overpriced speakers. This FAQ was pretty interesting (although it’s a bit dated). I’m currently looking at Paradigm, and based on a test listen at a small local speaker store was pretty impressed.
Based on the round-the-clock war coverage and discussion we’re all privy to in the US, there are a few arguments I’d like everyone to stop making, because they’re old and by making them we don’t get anywhere:
“War is bad” – Hey listen buddy, everyone agrees with you. No need to continue describing all the different ways war is bad and how many people die. We get it. We all agree. This is not a sufficient anti-war argument (unless you are a complete pacifist).
“Saddam is bad” – We all agree on this one too. Both sides. Stop making this argument. We all know he’s a brutal dictator. This is not a sufficient pro-war argument (unless you feel we should invade every country with a dictator and overthrow them).
If we can move past those discussions – all agree on them – and move on, I think the discussion would be much more fruitful.
Personally I think it’s misleading that we named this “Operation Iraqi Freedom” because it only causes more and more people to use the above arguments, and miss the real reason we should be going to war (and the real topic that we should be debating) – Saddam’s weapons and their potential threat to us.
So after this story posted by Schulte, I figure at the bare minimum I owe a rebuttal. Now that SubAverage is gone they took down my old rebuttal from when he made the same joke, but it was just these few pictures.
A pretty amazing story which looks totally bogus, but you can’t help but wonder if there’s some possibility it’s true.
“But the fact is, with an initial investment of only $800, in two weeks’ time he had a portfolio valued at over $350 million. Every trade he made capitalized on unexpected business developments, which simply can’t be pure luck.”
Carlssin declared that he had traveled back in time from over 200 years in the future, when it is common knowledge that our era experienced one of the worst stock plunges in history. Yet anyone armed with knowledge of the handful of stocks destined to go through the roof could make a fortune.
Phonescoop.com – a good source for checking out new phones and voice-enabled devices.
QuietPC.com – a neat site devoted to methods of making your PC silent (important if you want to develop your own PVR, or sleep in the same room as a running PC).
Oh yeah, that would be me. What can I say, the commercial looked cool.
Since Slashdot rejected this article when I submitted it to them, I guess I’ll put it here. Sonicblue, makers of Replay TV and the Rio portable MP3 player filed for bankrupcy.
This bums me out, because I really liked how they were antagonizing the media industry with commercial-skip and file sharing features. Coincidentally, part of the reason they went under (as mentioned in the article) is because of all the money they were spending on legal fees fighting battles with these companies. It also seems consumers didn’t demand these features in sufficient numbers, and chose to buy TiVos instead.
I think it will be interesting to see if the build-your-own PVRs take off… like MythTV and Freevo.