Tonight we had a plan in the instance that neither Sensei Brewer or Sensei Hartman showed up. The cast of characters were few: myself, , McCabe, Erbe, Garls. We decided we would each select a kicking technique and focus on it for 15-18 minutes. Things started out with Erbe, who selected front kick. He did […]

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I’ll finally get around to speaking on my music tastes… 1) Favorite Band of All Time: The Beatles. For most of the same reasons as Dave… their body of work, their constant evolution throughout their careers, the pure beauty of their music. Hands down, no question about it. 2) Favorite Band/Singer of Right Now: I […]

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It only took me fifteen minutes tonight, but I got xine installed for my MythTV, enabling high resolution DVD playback with menus. With this step complete, all features of my MythTV that I have any interest in are working properly. Now I get to move on to the extra stuff that I want to do, […]

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It appears that Darren McGavin also passed away this weekend. He was the Dad in one of my favorite movies of all time, “A Christmas Story”. I actually already thought he was dead, but that doesn’t make it suck any less that a.) he wasn’t, and b.) now he is. Argh!

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It appears that Don Knotts has died. I actually remember Three’s Company when it was on the air (I was four), and I used to watch Andy Griffith reruns before Cubs games when I was younger. I liked Don Knotts. He was goofy and he had one of those truly fun voices. 😛

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As some of you already know, I decided to flex back a half day of the almost two extra workdays that I spent at the office this week. Of course, life being what it is, I didn’t just go home and sit on my butt. You see, last week the handle on my sliding glass […]

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Tonight, after assisting one in the initial stages of converting to MythTV, I got the chance to sit down and play with some of the newly functional features of my MythTV install. One of the coolest features that now works flawlessly is transcoding: resampling a recording to utilize disk space. They’ve added a “lossless” transcoder […]

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As the title says, we had the esteemed honor of training with our very own and . For seperate reasons they both converged on our town this morning and wanted to pick up an extra workout and we were very happy to have them. It was a laid back one for me today… my first […]

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I have been using Listerine for the last few days to rid me of a few aptheous ulcers (I get them frequently, have for most of my adult life). There is something about the chemical makeup of Listerine that makes me feel like I’m going to have a heart attack after about the first fifteen […]

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Tonight I successfully reconfigured the new version of MythWeb. I also set up some access control so only I can bask in its glory… and monitor my own recordings. 🙂 There has really been a big leap forward in reliability of the Myth system with the newest Fedora Core and the new version of code. […]

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