October, 26, 2004 archives
charity, october 2004
i think this is a self-explanatory one, with thanksgiving and the other holidays right around the corner: los angeles regional foodbank.
unless i forget, i’ll make a similar donation next month to a similar national charity.
sony’s location-free tv is an interesting concept, although fairly pricey right now. i just wish sony would get going and start selling the black projector screens already. i see gizmodo mentions rumors it won’t appear until next summer, and will be priced at around $2000 (ouch!).
maybe i shouldn’t wait. i’m itching to get rid of my television. i guess the question that follows is: svga or xga? the benq pb6200 looks nice, and they’ve got a $200 rebate going until the end of the month.
it turns out that when it rains, my directv reception gets pretty miserable. (not something i had noticed much before — i guess there really wasn’t much rainfall the last 12 months.) thanks to #tvtorrents, i was able to download the shows that my tivo was unable to record. that’s pretty cool. (commercial-free, even. too bad there’s no way the networks will jump on the bandwagon, even with not-commercial-free downloads. they will remain paralyzed by fear of so-called pirates even as they watch their business crumble.)