god hates fags

From a conversation I just had:

(09:30:25 AM) podshane: God hates. Fuck that. I'd rather spend eternity in hell then give myself to something so spiteful and cruel.

RIP Heath.

DVR update (again)

After a few nights of work, this is where we stand. Right now I have a system that boots up and auto-logs in to an XFCE desktop. I can use my remote to start/stop the screensaver, open/close the DVD tray, play and control a DVD through xine, and shutdown/reboot the system.

So it's not totally complete or overly fancy or anything, but I'm pretty damn impressed with it. I've had to recompile a few things and dig a bit into how some of this stuff works. It's been pretty interesting to learn about. I think it's made for a fun project and that's basically what the point has been. Not so much getting a working DVD/DVR machine, but more just dicking around with cool software and cool hardware.

Tomorrow night is my night for getting mythtv setup and configured. My commitment moment will be signing up for the $20/year Schedules Direct TV listing data. When I've done that, I don't see any chance for turning back. I'm hoping it doesn't take too long to figure out, but we'll see. I'm also getting kind of worried about the amount of heat this thing generates. In order to fit my PVR-500 in there, I had to jack the blower from the CPU. That means all of the heat from the CPU is mixing with the heat from the capture card and the HDD and the DVD-RW and whatever else in there is contributing to the heat death of the universe. I need to try dremeling out the blower and putting it back in to see if it helps a bit. If not... well... who knows. Best make sure I back up everything I'd need to rebuild, just in case.

In non-DVR news, I got my official Athene DVD and it was as funny as I thought it'd be. It made for a fun test of the new remote functionality. I'm also considering catching Cloverfield tomorrow. I dunno if that will happen, but I'm stoked to see it on the big screen. It'd cut into my mythtv time a bit (it's a short movie), but it may just be worth it.

DVR update

Finally got all the hardware in for my dvr. Been putting it together for the last few days and finally am at the point of being able to use VLC to watch DVDs. Which makes it a very fucking expensive DVD player right now that I can also use to surf and watch porn on my TV. Yay.

The TODO list as of now is as follows:

1) Install MythTV
2) Setup remote

Step 1 is obviously glossing over a shit ton of work, but once it's done I should be able to stop using VLC for playing DVDs (can't read the fucking menus with that thing) and can get rid of my shit ass DVR from the cable company.

As I'm typing this, I've come across a potential #3. Figure out why, when watching a DVD, the audio cuts out every so often.

Lily Allen

Someone double check this shit for me. This chick can actually sing good, right? My judgment here feels extremely clouded. It's gotta be the accent man. It's gotta be.

Funny story, Hillary Clinton is on cspan right now... so I'm surfing random clips of Megan Fox on YouTube. Strange how that sort of sums up this year's election. I hate to say I'm falling for Ron Paul, but I'd be lying if he didn't come in as a close second to Mike Gravel. It's such a shame the media is doing everything they can to keep both of them out of the race while feeding us people like Clinton, Obama, and Huckabee. It's pretty sick, really.

Happy 2008

The trip just keeps getting stranger.