Laptops and Cars [UPDATED]

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My laptop hard drive failed last Sunday, which is why I haven't been on-line or posted anything in over a week. It's a company laptop and I had nothing personal or of great value on the drive, but my own laptop died about 2 years ago and I had no need to replace it while this one was available to me. I went through the process of getting the drive replaced and got it back on Tuesday, then had to take time to reinstall all the missing applications. It's actually impressive this was accomplished in 4 days and it's back to normal.

It was an eventful week. Dr. Who is back on Sci-Fi channel, as is BSG, as is the new Sarah Jane Adventures. I finally cashed in my BD massage gift and had months of stress removed from my shoulders. A new Fletcher Hodges started Thursday at the club; I'm taking bets on who will be the first yahoo to post a report about him. My garage door motor was replaced. I lost more weight. Friend Robert was in town for some fun and late night breakfast. Friday was a LONG day at work, plus I learned my lack of taking vacations though the years has resulted in my reaching the maximum accumulation of unused vacation days. I have 20 days of paid leave available. I'm going to take some days off and have fun before I lose earning vacation time.


MythTV

I've been without a Tivo like DVR for quite a while, so I've started planning my MythTV project. A few months ago I tried to be lazy and buy a completed system, but the one place that was making a decent configured product no longer exists, so now I'm going to build it myself. It will have separate server and front-end systems, 2 HD tuners, between 700gig and 1 terabyte of disk space, WiFi, store my DVD and CD collection ripped, and be based on Ubuntu or Fedora Linux. It will also likely use the upcoming Hauppauge HD product


Celebration

This weekend was the annual Celebration Exotic Car Show AND annual Pie Festival AND Disney property control liquidation sale. First we met Elyse at the high school gym for the Disney sale. We bought a few items but there wasn't really anything there of interest to me. Then we walked to meet up with Robert where all the show cars were parked. The streets were packed with people. This is the same car event I use to enter (and win awards) with my Caterham 7 until I sold it last year. There was the same large collection of Farrari's, DeLoreans, Lamborghini's, etc.






I was surprised to see there was also a new entry - a green Lotus 7 like my old car.







The AMC theater had a section roped off where the Star Wars characters, land speeder, and "Back to the Future" DeLorean were set up. The land speeder was on cinder blocks, so I guess it really was not worth much when luke sold it.



This was also where you could buy a VIP pass to join Christopher Lloyd that evening for a Q&A session. Having seen these cars and characters many times before at theme parks I didn't pay the extra $10 to enter. Later on Darth Vader, C3PO, R2D2 and storm troopers came and mingled with the street crowds for photos.






We didn't go to the pie festival. Robert had to leave and none of us were really interested in paying for a buffet of pies. Instead we drove over to TGIF for lunch.

Syndicated 2008-04-20 06:23:36 (Updated 2008-04-21 03:15:02) from Keith