If you value your free time, just get your HDTV, pay the cable company for all the HD gear, and enjoy. If you are naturally cheap and have weekends to kill, try this. I’m 19-24 miles from all the OTA (over the air) stations in Hampton Roads, and I’ve got a near perfect DTV reception with 10-year-old rabbit ears I put in (not on) the attic. It gets me a signal, but I get signal loss enough to make it unwatchable. I just ordered a ‘best on the market’ antenna to replace it for $60. Sexy over the air HDTV, here I come. All I need now is CNBC over the air (or Vista Media Center Internet TV to carry CNBC) and a HDTV TiVo, and then Cox is out the door….
Monthly Archive for October, 2007
There’s got to be another one. The plot sorta just wrapped up everything in the last 15 minutes like a blockbuster brain-dead movie. No big boss, no flood mastermind fight… no running into the excavated site on Earth, no explanation of why Cortana’s messages in your head were all whacked. Oh well… it was still great fun. Now on to multiplayer for 4 years of replay value. I can only assume the series will live on in another form (maybe the Gravemind trilogy? or a prequel about the Forerunners?).
Was using WinAmp tonight after years of Media Player and iTunes use. WinAmp is so old school I feel like I should also launch PowWow and the Fish Tank Screen Saver just to feel pre-21st century.
So I’m sitting there with my 410 artists freshly scanned into the WinAmp media library (no good visual browser yet) and wanted to play an artist I wouldn’t be tired of in 10 minutes. While scrolling, I realized each artist had a column for total track count. Assuming that your time-tested artists put out more then two albums, you’d keep buying them, and likely have a large collection of songs by them… so one might say your favorite artists are those you have the most music by. One-click sort and this is what I get (reminder this is a combo of my music and the Wife’s, so no bustin’ on DMB or Mayer).
- The Prodigy
- Nine Inch Nails
- Dave Matthews Band
- Shaman’s Harvest
- Astral Projection
- ATB
- Incubus
- John Mayer
- Foo Fighters
- Led Zeppelin
- Santana
Sounds about right. I’ll start playing from the top, problem solved.
Get audible.com, buy the ones below that are on there, and listen. Otherwise read for 15 minutes in morning (when mind is fresh and not drifting off to sleep), or after a Caffeine Nap. If they change you the way they’ve changed me, you’ll be glad you took the time. If you’re in doubt, Google terms like ‘wealthy people read books’, etc.
Rich Dad, Poor Dad. Don’t get hung up on the real estate concept, but focus on the mindset. This is the book that was recommended to me by a friend 4+ years ago and got me started. When I read it I spent most of my spare time working my job and watching TV, etc.. 4 years later I spend most of my free time planning and working toward leaving the job for good.
Mastery. Once you understand the path to it (I had to read it twice), you tend to be calmer and content with the plateau of ‘work’ in getting good at something. Plus, it allows you to draw similarities between your path to mastery of Google hacking and the path of a Ninja, and that’s always fun.
The Secret. I have the DVD and audio, and have listen/watched them a total of 12+ times, and is still on my iPod. I have many big and exact examples of how the law of attraction has worked for me and mine.
Success is not an Accident. Still implementing this one, but is hard core work if you take it seriously. I expect it to give me laser focus on my life goals and projects by the time I’m through it.
Getting Things Done. Don’t just read this. Take a year to implement it. Trust me. Companies may start to prefer it, CNN boasts about it, and heck even Leo Laporte recommends it. After several methods including paper/Moleskine, Outlook, and Remember The Milk, I have stuck with My Life Organized because it’s digital, runs anywhere and keeps in sync, and I can take it with me on my Windows Mobile phone.