Archive for 2006

Silversun Pickups - Carnavas

My latest music find is Silversun Pickups, which is kinda like The Smashing Pumpkins meets My Bloody Valentine’s classic Loveless album. I like it!

Tommy is ready for the game to start

Go Mavs! Beat the Heat!

Jake’s bilateral surgery is a success!

The implants have been in only hours and he’s already happy. We are scheduled to turn them on June 8.

Xbox 360 for birthday 2006


Welcome the new addition to the family, our Xbox 360, with Project Gotham Racing 3. Everyone but Jake has tried it out. Of course, Jake would just want to try to eat it!

I’ve also got it networked so it can see content from my Media Center PC in the next room, too.

Editors - The Back Room

Now out in the US (so you don’t have to pay import prices like I did) is the debut album from Editors called The Back Room. They get compared to Interpol a lot, but I think they are much better. I just wish they could have played in Dallas on the way to or from SBSW!

New analog clock for blogs

On www.worldtimeserver.com, we just released a new analog clock that anyone could put on their own blog or web site, like this:

new slingbox

My new SlingBox from http://www.slingmedia.com/ is quite cool. It lets me or Meridith watch the tv (or more precisely, the DISH connection) from my office from ANYWHERE else. I have watched Olympics and NASCAR qualifying from my work with it so far.

With my Verizon FIOS at home, I’ve got more than enough bandwidth, so it looks as good at work as it does at home!

I picked it up on sale at Fry’s, BTW…