positive surprises
Mood: happy (somewhat forced)
Posted on 2008-03-19 13:52:00
Tags: politics links
Words: 262

The cable guy said that in houses, you can't do internet and cable off of the same jack like you can in apartments. Indeed, when I tried the internet got slow and flaky.

We have a cable jack on the other side of the room, though, so I was looking at some sort of wireless box like this, but I wasn't sure if it would work with the cablecards or not.

After they didn't have any such products at Fry's, I went to Radio Shack and asked a guy if they had anything. Luckily another guy was working there who was pretty knowledgeable (surprise!) and didn't think it would work but suggested some other things that ended up not working, then said the easiest thing to do would have them just put in another cable jack. This seemed problematic since there's a room above our living room.

But, I saw they had a cable signal booster, so I figured it was worth a shot. Put it in front of the splitter and then the internet went back to working as normal (surprise!). Last night I hooked up the TiVo and the cable cards worked without any fuss. (surprise x 3!)

Cool things:
- If you liked Portal and World of Goo, you will almost certainly like Crayon Physics Deluxe which looks pretty awesome.

- Video and text of Obama's speech on race and his pastor yesterday. It was impressive. (The Onion's take on Obama's campaign)

- The Google Chart API now lets you make maps which is awesome.

- Solving Algebraic Equations Using Regular Expressions - yes!

3 comments

Comment from wonderjess:
2008-03-19T15:39:56+00:00
I read that Slate story this morning -- it looked so amazing! First time I've ever wanted a tablet computer.

Comment from tehfanboi:
2008-03-20T09:58:08+00:00
I played the freeware version of Crayon Physics. Short but fun. I really want deluxe now.

Comment from yerfdogyrag:
2008-03-20T12:23:58+00:00
There's another package similiar to Crayon Physics Deluxe called 'phun'. If you want to see what it can do, you can youtube 'physics phun'.

The water simulation runs a little slow on my linux box, but other than that it's fun to play with.

http://www.phun.at/

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