The Weather and the Calendar Need to Communicate
It’s April 6th today, and I was miserable at the baseball games today due to the fact that the temperature outside thought it would be a great idea to pretend to be January. I had a long sleeve shirt, pants, and a jacket, but I was still freezing outside. The wind made it even worse, so I went and sat in the dugout for the majority of the two games in order to minimize its effect. All I have to say is that it better be a whole lot better by Wednesday, so I’m puting out a bounty on the weather. (We lost both games, by the way.)
I set up our new remote for upstairs and will be hooking up the computer sometime later this weekend for the trial run of a HTPC. The second most idea setup gets quite complicated (the first involves Cablecards, but that’s highly unlikely to happen) with analog cable tuners, digital cable tuners, and/or ATSC (digital OTA) tuners all being used along with probably controlling a set top box, but this version is just a single analog cable tuner to record basic stuff and maybe start showing my parents how to use it. When my grandfather was here last weekend, he told me that one of my selling points should be the reduction in complexity that doing this should being since everything will get simplified into one remote and create one “system”. Not sure when/if I’ll play that card since simplicity is in the eye of the user, but hey, whatever gets my parents to pay for it works for me. :)