It's all about control

11/19/2008 9:46:01 AM Life Tony Comments

Ponder this -
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/5/9/

Then purchase one of these

This is the Harmony 520 remote.  It's called "Harmony" because that's what it fosters.  It hooks up to your computer through an included USB cable and is really easy to set up.  I have it set up to watch tv with 2 buttons (Activity-->Watch TV) and you can easily switch to DVD (Activity-->Watch DVD).  The remote automatically selects the correct input on the TV, the Receiver, and turns on the cable box.  I set the volume button to run the receiver, the channel buttons to work the cable box, and the play/stop buttons to work the DVR.  Awesome -

Tony

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Tropical Storm Fay

8/20/2008 3:42:06 PM Life Tony Comments

TS Fay has been hanging out right above my house for the last 24 hours and is moving away at <5 mph so it's going to be here a while.  I have sprung at least two leaks in the roof that I can't do anything about right now.  Here are some pictures from my front yard -



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The stuff that dreams are made of

8/6/2008 9:01:12 AM Life Tony Comments

My recently late grandfather is haunting my dreams.  Not in a bad way but not how you'd expect.

The first dream started in his basement when out of the corner of my eye I saw someone.  I turned to take a look and sure enough he was standing there.  I said something like "I thought you were dead" and tried to grab his arm.  My hand went right through it the first time but the second time it didn't and I could feel it.

One problem though - he was old!  91 years old - I asked him "aren't you supposed to be young again in heaven" and he replied "It doesn't really work that way".  That's all I remember about the first dream.

In the second dream I was driving and suddenly he was in the passenger seat.  Again, I tried to grab his arm to see if he was real and he was.  I tried to tell him something but he had very bad hearing and couldn't hear me.  I guess your bad hearing isn't fixed either when you die.  Then we went to the beach and there was a tidal wave.... I don't think that was related -

Dreams are creepy.  If we vividly hallucinated during the day people would think we were on drugs but as long as we're laying down in a dark room it's OK. 

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Office Remodel

8/3/2008 11:48:55 AM Life Tony Comments

I'm on vacation.  I decided to stay home for a week and work on the house.  My first order of business was to put new flooring in the office.  The primary reason to replace the carpet was that this room was trashed and it was the only way I could think of to force myself to clean it.  I don't have a before picture but imagine if hurricane Katrina went through a server room - it was really that bad.

A super huge thanks to my friend Chris who helped me (or umm... maybe I helped him).  I couldn't have done it without you buddy -


I decided to put in laminate flooring.  The desks were to big to move out without dissasembly so I just left them in and worked around them.

And the "after" pictures

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Best Chocolate Cake Ever

7/26/2008 3:55:40 PM Life Tony Comments

My mother has been making this cake for years.  It's from the Gold Medal Flour Century of Success cookbook from 1979 and it's the absolute best chocolate cake recipe ever. 


Download it - Make it - Love it
Tony

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