Today I am flexing my time from the weekend, so I will get a half-day off! The weather was already shaping up to be beautiful and, incidently, a new version of the MythTV software that I am using was released yesterday! The goal for this afternoon is to get VNC up and running and then […]

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I just got off the phone with my aunt, she spoke with the person from the bank that I got preapproved by. I now have a significant amount of extra homebuying power thanks to my degrees and my good credit history. 🙂 This is *very* good news!

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Last night was interesting… I spent an extra two hours at work with one of the Chinese coworkers of mine doing a code migration. It had come to my attention that I had irritated her at some point during the last one of these migrations because it was done at 12:00 am and apparently her […]

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Angel Style by greymentality Name/Username First Impression from Others Others feel safe and warm inside your arms Your Core You truly want to be human. You sap. Potential to Stray from the Light: 78% Your Weakness You don’t really know your place in the rank thing Your Strength You work undercover. Like NYPD Blue, but […]

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Since I was out viewing a house last night, I didn’t make it to Karate. I got back to my house at about 7:30 or so and we still had to mull over the prospects of the house we had seen. I’m getting that tired twitchiness that accompanies not making it to Karate regularly enough […]

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Last night I scurried home from work a little early in order to see a home that my aunt had found for us. In preparation, I finally called her contact at National City, who proceeded to ask me some questions about my student loans before approving me for not-very-much cash from which to buy a […]

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My aunt just called, she’s turned up yet another house for us to look at. This one is very reasonably priced, just came open, has three bedrooms, a master bath and two stall garage. This thing is so reasonably priced that we will easily be able to save money to build a house while living […]

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Thanks to several kind people on the MythTV mailing list, I have made some progress on several of the issues that I mentioned yesterday regarding my MythTV personal video recorder. Watch Live TV While Recording, Part II It turns out this functionality can be achieved in one of two ways: get a TV that supports […]

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Oh man. I was just asked by one of my Chinese coworkers just asked me for help reading English. I can’t comprehend how funny this is.

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The MythTV PVR is up and running! It has the ability to do most everything a TiVo can do with several added bonuses, such as integrated web browsing, weather, and xmame support! There are still several things that I would like to add to it or change, here is a brief list: Watch Live TV […]

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