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This site, and all similar endeavors, are dedicated to my dad, who always encouraged my growth as a techie.

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Samuel Truman Cornelius

July 23, 1945
December 16, 2007

problems with LaserDiscs and HDTV

Watching Laserdiscs in the Digital Age
great, detailed, new(!!) article by Josh Zyber on dealing with the problems trying to get laserdiscs’ analog video to look good on modern digital monitors…
wish we had had this article when we went shopping…

in our case (large-ish, much loved laserdisc collection and seven players; less than a hundred DVD’s and . . . → Read More: problems with LaserDiscs and HDTV

great geek/techie bumper stickers

http://www.jinx.com/scripts/stickers.asp?affID=-1

some of the best are..

Social Engineering Specialist
because there is no patch for human stupidity

stop laughing.
computers are cool now.

talk nerdy to me

this is NOT my boyfriend’s computer

it is pitch black.
you are likely to be eaten by a grue

i was young, i needed the gold pieces

that last one reminds me of something i have been saying for years: . . . → Read More: great geek/techie bumper stickers

Ten things that Microsoft and TiVo must each do to win the living room

http://features.engadget.com/entry/1882345133499767/

there is much to agree with in both the article and the comments thread…

as an added bonus, there is a great anti-microsoft rant in a user comment…

among the highlights:

If you told a stranger to Earth what they get away with on the desktop, they’d think their babelfish . . . → Read More: Ten things that Microsoft and TiVo must each do to win the living room

sexiest sci-fi babe ever?

great debate going on over in a fark thread about it, with plenty of evidentiary pics :)…
(needless to say, being fark, and being fark’ers discussing women, the discussion gets a little raw at times, you were warned…)

the article the thread is about strangely declares jane fonda’s barbarella the honor…

personally, my first choice would have to be . . . → Read More: sexiest sci-fi babe ever?

insidious_plots

i found myself explaining the other day why i use this screen name (and now domain name) and it was not the first time and i find it useful to blog things like that so next time i can save my breath and just point…
however, i am not going to fully explain, i have a lot . . . → Read More: insidious_plots

new pics uploaded

took quite a few in this last visit to my parents’ house, and uploaded some that have been sitting on our camera for awhile…
so, the new ones are in photos/2004-aug, the older are in photos/2004-mayjune, and photos/2004-july is going to stay the way it is, with just four pics in it (from the dead body in . . . → Read More: new pics uploaded

Splinter Cell rocks!!

that is all…

(available on pretty much everything, PS2, XBox, GC, PC, even GBA, and more, though i have only tried the ps2 and gc versions…)

update: link probably doesn’t work… (dammit, cjayc, make your . . . → Read More: Splinter Cell rocks!!

our laserdisc wishlist

well, since we no longer have the amazing laserdisc market in dfw to go and hunt down new treasures, i have finally gotten around to putting our LDDb.com wishlist to use…
the lddb (laserdisc database) is truly well on its way to being the definitive source for ld info and we have had our collection listed there . . . → Read More: our laserdisc wishlist