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I'm left with an image of a car. *looks at price* A fantasy car.
I think I'll start over.
WiFi Extender of Awesome
Up until this evening, we've had a problem area on the back patio that due to stone walls, a solid wirelss connection was impossible. Rather than bore you all with tales of unsuccessful, cheap, and nerdy attempts at solving this problem, I'll get right to the solution...
1. Bought a Netgear WN3000RP:
2. Pulled the extender out of the box and plugged it right into an outlet in our kitchen that's about half way up the wall.
3. Waited until I saw a green light and then connected to its broadcasting network using my iPad.
4. The setup wizard popped up automatically allowing me to connect it to my existing network using the same secuity settings.
Done. No PC, ethernet cables, manual IP settings, or headaches involved. So $67 and less than 10 minutes of work later, we now have 100% wireless connectivity everywhere in the house.
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My Vintage CD Player! #notahipster
In the late 1980s while I was still in high school, my (awesome) mom helped make my first proper CD player happen. It was a JVC and I loved it. A lot.
I am once again the proud owner of a JVC XL-V311BK compact disc player. The only difference this time is that it was manufactured in Japan (September of '89) and not Singapore. I've been looking around for one of these players for a very long time and I struck gold last week on eBay. It was extremely well cared for, reasonably priced, and included both the remote and original owner's manual. It arrived today and works perfectly:
Anyone who knows anything about vintage audio hardware will tell you there were better players available at the time. But besides pure nostalgia, there was a reason I've longed to own this unit again. Like many players back then, it supported the long lost magic that is the index.
If you were someone who listened to classical music or like me, loved progressive rock which often contained 15+ minute long epic tracks, indexes made a lot of sense. With a player that supported discs burned with a logical structure containing indexes, you could easily navigate to various sections of a single track.
Rush's masterpiece "2112" for example, is a 20 minute track containing seven parts. With a copy of the original CD release of "2112" and a player like this, the ability to skip directly to Part II: "The Temples of Syrinx" was terribly convenient for a young drummer.
A happy piece of my childhood has returned as something I can definitely make use of as an adult. I'm absolutely thrilled.
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from Ellicott City, MD
Behind Epica's New Video
Check out Simone's blog post about what she had to go through when making Epica's new video for "Storm the Sorrow" here. I find this kind of video production fascinating.
Åkerfeldt and Wilson's "Storm Corrosion" has arrived!
First Single "Drag Ropes":
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from Ellicott City, MD
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from Ellicott City, MD
(Hopefully not the only) 100k!
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from Baltimore, MD
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from Baltimore, MD
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