For Christmas this year Santa delivered me a Polk CS2 center speaker for my home theater setup. The orignial center that came bundled with my Onyko HT-R340 had clearly been overpowered when I upgraded the front channels to Polk R50s earlier in the year. This led to movie nights where I had to guard the remote, turning up the volume during speaking parts and frantically scrambling to turn it back down during loud scenes when there was a surprise explosion or some gunfire. The upgrade presented a new problem however, where to place the speaker. Read the rest of this post…
Another year nearly gone, another season finished. No, I’m not talking football this time, but rather kickball. That’s right, organized frickin’ adult kickball! One of every one’s favorite school yard pastimes, but for drinking professionals. In fact, the real only difference between what you remember is you get to enjoy the game with [...]
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This past Saturday marks the official* start of the 2008 college football season. Those of you who weren’t watching the 56-3 lashing of Fort Valley St by Valdosta St. in the highly touthed Division II matchup, that means your season probably officially begins on Thursday around 6pm EST. Cable service provides quite the buffet of games for your enjoyment, and for most, the 7:30pm EST game between North Carolina and South Carolina on ESPN.
The only problem was the game I needed to see was only being shown on ESPN360, ESPN’s online video streaming site. This presented quite a problem since ESPN360 isn’t your typical subscription based website where a user can simply sign up. Instead, it is more akin to a premium cable channel where your provider must first agree to pay to carry the service before it is ever offered to the customer.
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Over the past weekend I was asked to attend a wedding for one of Jennifer’s cousins. Rather than endure the pain and torment that a simple “No thanks” would bring, I caved and ended up driving up to Georgia. While the wedding was rather uneventful (other than being massive and pricey), I had time to sit and think during the 45 minute wait before the wedding began. In between thoughts of ways to escape, I realized that I hated going to weddings, but was left wondering what caused them to have such negative press from me.
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I think it’s time to pop the cork, this site is finally going to get some attention from yours truly. For the few of you who may have visited before, you should hopefully notice that this place finally has gotten a bit of a visual upgrade. Hopefully with the new looks will come [...]
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