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Fast Food Ice Dirtier Than Toilet Water!
It is ironic that I read this today after watching Super Size Me last night. If you haven't seen it, do so. It is an interesting commentary on the state of the American waistline and overall health. Not that I eat fast food much anyway, I think it will be quite a while before I brave that one again.
I have a habit of not turning the alarm completely off when I get up in the morning. It helps to make sure that I am up and moving before I actually turn it off. It also leads to the alarm going off when I am in the shower on a somewhat regular basis.
Last week, it happened again. I was just getting out when I heard it go off. EJ heard it too. Then I hear him say " OH NO! Broken!!". He ran in the bedroom and started messing with the clock. Somehow, he figured out how to turn it off. It was so funny to see him come out of the bedroom, walking like he was 10 feet tall and bulletproof. When he saw me, he looked up with a huge smile on his face and said, "Fixed!" It was great, and funny. Gotta love him.
The second headline says it all. Poor students lose out on college aid? And that is news? bwahahahahahahhaha
I picked up a MCE laptop (HP ZD8000) last month. In that time, I haven't had the time to use the MCE nearly as much as I have used it as a laptop. That being said, I have a new found appreciation for the serial port on the back of my reciever (Yamaha RX-V2300). I have begun to do some digging into writing a plugin to control the reciever. For example, when I play a rock song on MCE, why should I have to set the reiver for the correct input and sound field, when a plugin can do it for me? Taken a step further, aren't there other recievers that offer similar connectivity? Going with that premise, writing a plugin should be done in two parts, the plugin itself, and the driver for the reciver. It seems like there will be a fair amount of abstraction done in between the two pieces to account for what I can imagine would be significantly different levels of functionality with other recievers. Nevertheles, attempting to code this out seems worthwhile for me, and maybe for some others as well.