This Is 700
My extra amount of sleep last night was very well received as I woke up this morning 30 minutes before my alarm was even set to go off. I used to do that all the time my freshman year (in fact, I think my alarm woke me up once that entire year), but I also went to sleep at 11:00 on a regular basis then. Even with my earlier classes this semester I’m still happy with my schedule, and I haven’t really had any mornings where I’m so tired that I don’t even want to get up and go to class.
My dad has tasked me with another money spending venture; this time, he wants me to set up a way for him to watch all of the recorded shows out on our file server on the TV in my parents’ bedroom. I basically have two options here, each with it’s own set of pros and cons. On the one hand, I can build a very small, fanless computer using a VIA chip that should have more than enough power to do the SD decoding (since none of the files are HD nor is the TV in there). On the other hand, I could mod an original Xbox, put XBMC on it, and access the files that way. The Xbox way is cheaper (even though I have one, I’d buy a used one and borrow what I needed to do the mod from a friend that has done the same thing), but the computer way gives me finer control over the features. Decisions, decisions…
Oh yeah, and while I don’t think it really needs to be pointed out given the title, this is my 700th DG post! Aside from just being a really big number divisible by 100, there’s nothing all that special about it. I guess you could say that I broke my previous record of 699 DG posts, but that just seems way too trivial.