What does he say? Watch their awesome video, which still rocks after 25 (!) years.
I feel a hot wind on my shoulder
And the touch of a world that is older
I turn the switch and check the number
I leave it on when in bed I slumber
I hear the rhythms of the music
I buy the product and never use it
I hear the talking of the DJ
Can’t understand just what does he say?
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The new Netflix partnership with set-top box maker Roku caused a buzz in the geek community and rightfully so: a $100 box that will make Netflix even more convenient than it already is with no increase in subscription costs is a good deal.
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So, the new Indiana Jones movie: is it worth seeing now or should I wait for the DVD?
I’ve heard from one friend. What does everyone else say?
I watched some videos with MythTV last night and tested the commercial skip feature. It was flawless! I’d been disabling this feature because the mythcommflag process puts a load on my measly 1 GHz backend server: enough to make the server unsuitable acting both as a backend and a frontend. As long as I’m using a separate frontend, though, things work just fine. The commercial skipping is definitely worth the extra CPU cycles.
I’m still wowed by this tool. What’s really unique about MythTV is the way it slices up what we used to know as television. Tivo, the trailblazing PVR, gave us the ability to treat a television program like a book: you can walk away from the program and “pick it up” the next time you had time to watch.
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This just arrived in my inbox. Someone obviously didn’t read my earlier post:
From: “Google-AdWords-Noreply” support at google.com
To: markt at blahblahblah.blah
Subject: Your AdWords Google Account is stoped.
My account is stoped. My God, how could this have happened?
Inspired by my MythTV tinkering…
I Can’t Watch This
Weird Al Yankovic
I can’t watch this. I can’t watch this
I can’t watch this. I can’t watch this
My my my my TV makes me so bored
Makes me say, oh my lord
What is this garbage here?
Wanna cover my eyes and plug my ears
It sucks, and that’s no lie
It’s about as much fun as watching paint dry
Lowers my IQ one notch
And that’s the reason why, uh, I can’t watch
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Linux users often like to poke fun at Microsoft Windows for being prone to security attacks. Now the joke’s on Linux users: at least Debian and Ubuntu ones. It seems for over two years these distros were hashing their SSH/OpenVPN and other OpenSSL-generated keys using entropy that wasn’t quite entropic. Thus, the keys are easily guessable – a colossal security mistake.
My friend Mike B. sent me a link to DailyTech’s excellent description of the gaffe. It’s well worth a read.
We certainly made the most of our Memorial Day weekend! Saturday we went on a family sail at Lake Gaston, with even the kids taking turns at the helm. Once it was time to dock, we spent some fun time catching up with the Naylors.
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We took a family bike ride along the greenway and got to the Mecca of greenway riding: Shelly Lake! That’s about 8 to 10 miles away from our house (and then 8-10 back)! It took about an hour each way but the whole family did a fantastic job.
More soon. Nap time now. 🙂
A joke among the family (and nowhere else) is an adaptation of the Muppet Show joke involving talking houses.
“My wife’s not feeling well,” one house says to the other.
“What’s the matter?”
“She’s got the eyeball sting!”
This is uproariously funny to Hallie and Travis (the original punch line is “she’s got the shingles”). I wasn’t laughing earlier this week, though; I had the real eyeball sting. It was some sort of conjunctivitis in my right eye.
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