Doh!, geekin

by Duf Anything and Everything

Yesterday we had a birthday lunch at work.  The food was from Olive Garden.  My entree was big enough that I didn’t need to eat the salad as well so I took the big plastic container with the salad in it and kept it in the fridge the rest of the day.  After work I took the salad and put it up front on the floor of the car.  I put the AC on bi-level and coooold to try to keep the salad as cool as possible.  The long ride home was quite cold but I put up with it in order to keep my Olive Garden salad fresh.  Finally we get home, I pull into the garage , open the door, and go to get out, totally forgetting about the salad.  My foot crashes into it, cracking the plastic and spilling almost half of the precious salad on the floor of the car.  I was not happy.  Well I wasn’t going to have it be a total loss so I pushed the salad that didn’t touch the floor back in the cracked container and then picked the big chunks off the floor with my hands and sucked up the little bits with the shop-vac.  The salad that we had left was good.

I bought a 2 gig SD card for my Treo off Ebay 3 weeks ago.  It just showed up yesterday.  The auction lister didn’t specify that delivery would take 3 weeks from SINGAPORE.  Well anyway, I slapped the card into the Treo and copied Napoleon Dynamite to it.  There is a freeware media player for various PDA platforms called TCPMP.  It is fantastic!  In the past if you wanted to play videos on your Palm you had to run it through an encoder that cut down the frame rate and pixels.  What you got out of it was barely viewable.  With TCPMP you can dump the same DIVX file you would watch on your pc onto your SD card and watch it on your portable device.  The sound and video for the movie was GREAT.  Who needs a portable DVD player for long trips.  Now I can just dump a couple movies onto my SD card and watch them on my Treo!

Last night I remote controlled my office cam from home.  Man it was cool.  There is something about remote controlling something from a distance that is just neat.  I had several of my buddies from up north in there screwing with it as well.  The picture quality with this camera is leaps and bounds above what I had in place before.  Look for yourself.