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Speakman Anystream 10-Jet

At long last, I have found what appears to be the perfect showerhead for a standard type shower. It has taken us about 4 weeks, 3 different showerheads, 1 trip from the plumber, and countless explitives, but it arrived on Friday courtesy of Amazon (have I said how much I love that place?). The model, is the Speakman Anystream 10-Jet …Continue reading →

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Finally, the arrival of Wii Fit

I received a txt page notification from Amazon on Wednesday, the Wii Fit was FINALLY in stock. I quickly replied with “Buy It” and our Wii Fit was on the way. It showed up on Friday and we put it together on Saturday. I have to say this is a pretty interesting device. Trying to find someone who had it …Continue reading →

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Geek Alert – Drobo

While I was in DC this week a new toy showed up. The Drobo is a little data robot that provides you with storage for your movies, music, pictures, or whatever you want to store. Cali Lewis over at GeekBrief goes on and on about these things. A friend from IU, Scott, bought one a couple weeks ago and liked …Continue reading →

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Got a little kick out of this…just Ones and 0s

I got a little kick out of this video that I saw over at GeekBrief. Geoff is no relation Ones and 0s by Geoff Smith from Cali Lewis on Vimeo.

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Post from the iPod Touch

Here is the my first post from my new iPod Touch and the WordPress application. Mark will be jealous.

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Crazy busy week…

So this past week or so has been absolutely crazy busy. This Friday evening is our big summer maintenance period. I have been planning it now for about 6 weeks and getting everything in line to be ready, I think we are finally there. You wouldn’t believe the call sheet I have in front of me…so if you called and …Continue reading →

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Oh InGrid…

As some of you know, my brother is in the midst of a re-model of his townhouse in Washington, DC. During this re-modeling he has been thinking about adding a security system to the house as a general pre-caution. He has one problem, no landline in the house. He utilizes Perceiva VoIP for his home phone (read: “spam phone number”) …Continue reading →

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The Ultimate Gear Bag

As you all know, I am what they call a geek. I have been thinking about this topic for a little bit and was hoping I could get some suggestions from some of my geek friends (*cough* Jim, Mark *cough*). I would certainly welcome any suggestions. So the challenge, put together the ultimate gear bag for your technology needs. Include …Continue reading →

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Seriously bad design – DirecTV OnDemand

This evening Cindy and I decided to watch Live Free or Die, the final installment in the Die Hard series of movies. We noticed that it was on DirecTV OnDemand, so we downloaded it to our HD DRV and sat down to watch it, but got error message 732, check phone line. I thought this to be a little odd …Continue reading →

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Harmony 1000 Up and Running

As a part of the technology upgrade in the family room (a very small part of the over all budget if you can believe it), we decided to get rid of the 4 remotes we needed to control the TV and consolidate into 1. We (read I) decided to go with the Harmony 1000 with the RF extender, so we …Continue reading →

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