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Fri, 22 Jun 2007
Group of Lower 48 Motorcyclists Ignore Warning - Drive on Dalton Highway
About two years back, I wrote a short article about a 489 mile long dirt road I drove. Its in the middle of nowhere, with practically no services available, and no destinations along the way. When you get to the end, you end up at a locked gate near the arctic coast, at which point you get to turn around and drive the whole road again.
This article in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner made me chuckle a little bit only because i remember how rough this sucker was in my Ford Escape...I could not even imagine what it would be like on a motorcycle...to say its like driving on a washboard is an understatement. Too bad its for a good cause. They are trying to take a 6,700 drive from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska to Key West, Florida to raise money for the Special Olympics in Georgia.
Bikes take a beating on the Haul Road The good news is, they actually made it, and are on the mostly paved path from Fairbanks to Key West today. Again, if you want to donate money to the 6,700 mile Iron Torch Ride for the Special Olympics, click here. Thu, 21 Jun 2007
What causes those landline "ghost rings" late at night?
Late at night, almost at a specific time, your phone ringer chirps or may even make a complete ring. Pick up the phone, and nobody is there. It does this around 10:23pm at my parents house, and 1:00am at my home. I just happend to be awake at the time to finally confirm that all of these "dreams" of the phone ringing late at night, only to wake up and notice that it isn't, were actually factual. No, hackers are not trying to hack into your house, nor are the feds charging their wiretap batteries. Apparently, all of our lines are subject to routine, automated testing of line quality. A small voltage is asserted on the line, but this apparently is enough to triger hyper-sensitive ringers in newer digital phones. Read the article for an interesting history, suprising awareness, and root cause of the "problem".
Mon, 18 Jun 2007
Thinking about turning in your cable box and signing onto AppleTV? Some have already. But before screaming at the $34.99 season pass for each primetime television show, lets do a little cost analysis. I admit, I do not watch much TV. I looked through the ITunes store and compared it to a list of what is "pretty hot" right now in television. I then compare this to my current Dish Network service. And then finally to a third alternative of using a component such as "EyeTV", which is a high definition over-the-air receiver with recording capabilities. Its about a hundred bucks. Dish Network Satellite Service
AppleTV + iTunes
AppleTV + EyeTV
Even when you take in account the initial one time hardware costs of purchasing an AppleTV ($299), our total still comes short of what I budgeted for satellite television each year. Ultimately, the less TV you watch, the more you will save from not paying for unwanted content. At what point does the AppleTV cost more to own? If you avidly watch more than 21 prime time television series simultaneously or you are just buying broadband internet for the sake of an AppleTV. I think I might buy 2 or 3 television series this year. For past blog entries, check out the archive on the side or click here. |
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