Satoshi’s Wireless Weblog: User Interface is an Art: Harmony Remote. Satoshi has discovered this. BTW, the manufacturer site is “HarmonyRemote.com”:http://www.harmonyremote.com/. “Ludwig”:http://www.theludwigs.com thinks it is great idea and his family actually would use it. The heart of the idea is to be activity based and to guess the likely activities from the devices that you have […]
Day: June 5, 2003
Grace at 35
Grace is another one of the Tong’s who is far older than her chronological age. I’d guess she’s about 35. Recent evidence are what she told me over the last week: * Refrigerator in the Bathroom: “Dad, the water isn’t cold enough in the bathroom, when I grow up, I’m going to have a refrigerator […]
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Physics, Wisdom and Advice for Dad
Albert Einstein Online and “Stephen Hawking”:http://www.hawking.org.uk/home/hindex.html. Now Alex wants to be a physicist having read about both Albert Einstein and also Stephen Hawking. I told Alex that I wanted to _Albert Einstein_ when I was little. Since Alex is really 50 years old in terms of wisdom, he said to me, “Dad, you can’t be […]
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Polar Power Kit
OK, got “Hoops”:http://scbhooper.com an S-720i, but now we need the power output kit. These are harder to find at a discount. Here are some sources listed in order of my confidence in them: * “Colorado Cyclist”:http://www.coloradocyclist.com/common/products/productdisplay2_v2.cfm?PRRFNBR=27091&S=22977,22978,27734,20070,22854,28682,12111,24608,24609,27091,24610,24604,16241,24603,12150. $314 vs list of $349. * “Excel Sports”:http://www.excelsports.com/new.asp?page=8&major=3&minor=2&description=S%2D710+Power+Sensor+Set&vendorCode=POLAR. At the $350 list. These are listed in google page rank […]
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Cassette Sizing
Branford Bike: Campagnolo 10 Speed MK 2 Cassettes. Dave Malcolm and I are going to ride the “STP”:http://cascade.org and he asked me about what cassette in the rear to use. He has an 11-23 cassette and is wondering if he should get a bigger one. Here are some facts, but Well. I’d reco a 12-25 […]
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HDTV in Seattle
Home Theater SPOT! and Dan Kurts. It is still way too hard to get high definition TV. But, I finally can watch it (albeit from my Dad’s house) thanks to Dan Kurts over in Seattle and the good folks over at the Hometheaterspot.com. Amazingly difficult to get it to work. We are back to the […]
