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Too bad when I was a kid there wasn't a guy in our class that everybody called the "Cricket Boy", because I would have liked to stand up in class and tell everybody, "You can make fun of the Cricket Boy if you want to, but to me he's just like everybody else." Then everybody would leave the Cricket Boy alone, and I'd invite him over to spend the night at my house, but after about five minutes of that loud chirping I'd have to kick him out. Maybe later we could get up a petition to get the Cricket Family run out of town. Bye, Cricket Boy.Jack Handy
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Refurbishing Our Entertainment Center
One of our “really want to do” projects around the house last year went uncompleted. It wasn’t until this past week that we finally completed the modification of our built in entertainment center from a 4:3 (i.e. “old school”) TV … Continue reading
Is Hulu the Future of TV?
One of the hottest sites on the web these days is Hulu.com. Founded in 2007, it provides TV shows and movies for free on their website in return for time watching their commercials. Although this sounds very familiar to the … Continue reading
Netflix Arrives for Vista Media Center
Good news for families (like ours) that use VMC (Vista Media Center) in their living room (or I guess anywhere you watch TV). Over the next 48 hours, Microsoft will be rolling out a new plug-in for their software that … Continue reading
Are DVRs Just Collecting Dust?
This article on the Economist brings up some very surprising numbers on DVR usage. Ten years after the introduction of the digital video recorder (Tivo being the best known), about 29% of homes in the U.S. have one (according to … Continue reading
Giving Netflix a Try
With the release of the new XBox Experience (NXE) on Nov. 19th, Microsoft also released a Netflix Instant Watch software module. With this new piece of software, XBox Live gold subscribers that also have a Netflix account are able to … Continue reading