$150 > $23.98

Intel's $150 HDMI Stick Turns Any TV Into a Windows Desktop

What this article doesn't address, and the question that Intel hasn't answered yet, is why I should spend $150 on a low powered PC that hooks up to my TV when I can buy a twenty-five foot HDMI cable and a Thunderbolt to HDMI adapter for a total of $23.98 and hook up the Mac Mini I use as a media PC to my TV, using my bigger at home TV as a second monitor.  Why should I spend 625% more than is necessary to buy something superfluous that only makes me look like a more bigger nerd than I already am?

Expanded Limited Options

DirecTV contract punishes HBO if streaming-only gets too popular, sources say

Here's hoping that HBO's streaming service is a big success.  Maybe it'll lead to HBO not costing so damn much, and I can finally afford it on a regular basis.  Maybe not.  Maybe I'll have to go back to paying for everything.  I might not have any other options.

The Pirate Bay Raided By Police, Site Down

Project Steal A House

Now that I have great motivation for pursuing Project Buy A House, I want to accomplish this goal in an expedited manner.  One of the ways that I can accomplish this is through illegal means.  There are any number of illegal options that I can pursue, but I want to pursue an option that has little to no risk and involves a certain level of technical knowhow.

Crooks Have Started Rooting ATMs to Steal Cash

And, with minimal digging, I'm sure I can find instructions.

Questioning The Curve Again

Sony's First Curved 4K TV Takes a More Subtle Approach

Again I ask why do we need curved TVs?  Why?  So a guy can have a TV shaped like his dick?  WHY?

Found Questioning

Recently Ask.FM has seen an uptick in popularity.  With such internet dignitaries as skie and Rob Roberts joining in on the craze, I thought I would as well due to me being a lemming.  However, rather than joining Ask.FM, I thought I'd go about answering question from the internet in a different fashion.

Found poetry is a real and legitimate form of poetry, even having it's own Wikipedia entry.  Writers who engage in found poetry find examples of combinations of words that are in their environment that they find to be significant.  Sure you can question whether found poetry is truly creative, but people who bring up questions like that are rarely able to see the gentle beauty in everyday life.  Also, those people suck.

So I've decided, rather than solicit question from one source, to scour the internet looking for question that I can answer.  Sure these questions may not be directed toward me, but questions rarely are.  Okay, here goes.

Would You Have Sex With a Robot?

Yes.

Project Buy An Big Ass DVR

As a part of Project Buy A House, I've been looking at how different things will impact my budget.  This includes increased gas consumption, the cost of living in the places I'm looking at, how much it costs for an escort to visit your home, and the price of cable television.  It's not that I'm displeased with my current television service, it's jut that I'm displeased with my current internet service and many of the services in my area bundle TV and internet together for the purpose of making it more of a pain in the ass to switch.

I don't have Google Fiber in my area, yet, and the biggest provider of high speed internet in my area is Comcast.  Sure I could look into UTOPIA service, but I'd like to not limit where I want to buy a house to the extremely limited are where UTOPIA is available.  I could go with CenturyLink, but that's what I have now and I've already annoyed the people who follow me on Twitter bitching about it.  So, Comcast it is, but, as the responsible adult that I would like people to think I am, I don't want to know the introductory rate that is shown on the Comcast website for bundled cable TV and internet service.  What I want is the rate that I will be paying after the year long introductory rate.  Thankfully there's a service for that.

One of the things that popped up on my screen was a live customer service popup talk thing.  The person on the other side of the live customer service popup talk thing seemed to be very cheery and helpful as most people who are paid to be cheery and helpful are paid to be.  I asked the customer service person on the other side of the live customer service popup talk thing what the price of the particular service offered by Comcast would be after the initial introductory rate.  The response from the customer service person on the other side of the live customer service popup talk thing was what was my current address.  I replied that I was looking for to get into a new home, that I didn't know where that new home was going to be, so I didn't have an exact address, but I did know the general area of where I wanted to live.  Apparently that was a problem.

Why do I need to know where I am going to live in order to know what the price of Comcast's bundled internet and cable television service is going to be after the introductory rate?  Why isn't that information available on their website?  And why couldn't the customer service guy on the other side of the live customer service popup talk thing just give me that price?  I am trying to live within a budget, and the price of cable TV and high speed internet will factor into that budget and affect the monthly mortgage that I am comfortable with paying.  Why should I have to be already committed to knowing what house I am going to buy before know the price of Comcast's bundled service?  Man, I really wish I had another alternative that I was comfortable with other than Comcast that I can contrast this with.

Verizon's Quantum TV DVR Records up to 12 Channels at Once

Unfortunately, I can't have nice things, like Verizon's ultra-fast internet and TV with a motherfucking big ass DVR that can record all of the things at once.  Sigh.

Project Build An Awesome Model

During my long and arduous pursuit of Project Buy A House, I have often thought about what I would do with the increased amount of space that my potential new home will undoubtedly have.  One of the ideas that I keep on coming back to is constructing my own general media library.

The concept of having a room set aside for the many geeky thing I have accumulated is an idea I stole from Orange Lounge Radio host Dark Sakura.  However, unlike Jamie's much vaunted vault, I want to throw all of the various kind of geek related stuff into one room.  This includes my music, movies, manga, books, magazines, tech, and other things parents usually tell you to get rid of.  My dream is to have various shelves with various kind of media all meticulously organized by name, media type, and whether or not I have actually read/listened to/defeated that particular piece of media.  I'd also like to have a giant sofa, or perhaps a Lovesac, that I can lounge on for hours on end as I consume the media I have accumulated.  This idea of construction a general media library is so entrenched in my mind that I don't think that there's anything that can get me away from it.

OMFG!  ME WANT!  ME WANT!  ME WANT!  ME WANT!  ME WANT!  ME WANT!  ME WANT!  ME WANT!  ME WANT!  ME WANT!  ME WANT!  ME WANT!  ME WANT!  ME WANT!  ME WANT!  ME WANT!  ME WANT!  ME WANT!  ME WANT!  ME WANT!  ME WANT!

Then What?

This article on Gizmodo contains step by step instructions on how to install the newly released beta of SteamOS.  The instructions provided are fairly idiotproof, and, as a tech moron, I know things that are idiotproof.  In fact, I could have installed SteamOS this morning just to play around with it.  There are two reason why I haven't.

Reason one is that I don't have a spare computer laying around that I can play with.  Sure I could use the PC Laptops laptop that I still have, but, given it's state of disrepair, I kind of don't want to play with it right now.  Sure I could use the netbook that I have, but I only use that for when I go to hotels and bittorrent a fuckton of music via the hotel's free unsecured WiFi.

The second reason I haven't installed SteamOS is that I don't know what to do with it.  Sure the instructions in the article explicitly tell me that I can play games via Steam on SteamOS, but, since I'm exclusively a console gamer, I need something else to do with this operating system.  Yes, I could engage in investigation to discover what else I could do with SteamOS, but I'm lazy and I want to be told exactly what I can do and how, hence the reason the I need idiotproof instructions.

Therefore, I'm going to wait untill more people find more things to do with SteamOS before I download and install it.  Then again, this may be something that stays on my To Do List for many years to come, right next to paying off my credit card debt and exercising.