I’ve got a 4pm reservation at the Hollywood Tower Hotel tonight. I’ll let you know how it goes tomorrow!
Archive for April, 2004
LikeI chose to become a paying customer of Dish Network rather than one of DirecTV specifically because of DirecTV’s questionable anti-piracy tactics in which they accuse innocent people of stealing their signal, and then extort $3500 out of them to prevent legal action against them.
Now one of DirecTV’s own former bounty hunters (also an ex cop) is filing a suit against the company over these very same policies.
The lawsuit claims the company knew that between five and ten percent of their targets were innocent. After a time, Fisher “fully realized the end user campaign was an elaborate extortion racket,” the lawsuit alleges. “The letters were full of lies or misrepresentations and the investigators were required to coerce people into paying money for stealing services when we had no proof whether they had done so or not.” Fisher resigned in October.
It may not be THE DeLorean from Back to the Future, however it’s probably the best replica you’ll ever see.
Leo Laporte is back on TechTV!
Apparently TechTV sweetened the deal after viewers complained. Leo and The Screensavers/Call For Help really carry that channel, in my opinion.
The “High Quality Team” has put together a collection of high quality PDF scans of NES and SNES game manuals. You know…in case you forgot how to play the games or something.
Tiki Oasis 4 is coming to Caliente Tropics. I really wish I had enough money to go, but I don’t.
More and more I’m having these urges to return to Palm Desert. I really like it out there, and I can’t explain why. The last time I was there I got engaged!
Maybe it’s the cleansing heat, or maybe it’s the feeling of isolation that I get out there that makes it so attractive. Or maybe I just associate ‘Palm Desert’ with ‘vacation’. I just seem to have such a great time when I’m there. I sure do miss it. Just a quick weekend at some cheap hotel out there would probably make me happy.
It’s weird how I’m jonesing for a vacation so soon after my last one. Our two week honeymoon was only seven months ago!
If everyone in the world lived like me, we would need 7.5 earths to support us all.
Thus sayeth the pseudoscientist hippies over at myfootprint.org. My ‘footprint quotient’ was 33 acres.
If I could get myself to a point where we needed 10 earths, I bet I would have a pretty sweet life.
Tammy and I flew up to Davis for the weekend to visit my brother and his girlfriend, and to check out Picnic Day. I had never been to Davis before.
It’s definitely a college town. I think my four years at Cal Poly definitely didn’t give me the ‘typical college experience’ with the parties and the drinking and the fraternities and whatever. Cal Poly was more of a commuter school that pretty much died on the weekends because so few people lived on campus or near it. But I had a good time there.
It was good to see Kyle again too. He graduates in June, so we’ll be flying back up there again before too long!
Is your Tivo running a little slow?
The CacheCard can improve its performance quite a bit! It’s $99 though, and you have to provide a 512MB stick of PC133 memory to make it work… I don’t know if I’d be willing to pay that much just to get more responsive menus.
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