Got the new TV last night ... well, it's not so much a TV as a
giant computer screen.
It's a 37" Sharp LCD/TFT display. It will do 1280x768 resolution,
and can also do a side-by-side screen from different input sources
(computer, tv, dvd, etc).
So far...
Here are two stories for the archives....
Sometime in 1995 when I was living on Orange Ave in Costa Mesa
with Ryan and Mike, I witnessed a great lightning storm.
It was around 9 or 10PM at the end of a mostly normal, warm, clear
Orange County day. I ...
Since we got our new furniture, including home made TV
stand, our glass-and-metal coffee table is sticking
out like a sore thumb. It's cold, heavy, and hard --
especially when you hit your shin on it late at night
with the lights off. Also, there's no pl...
I was working on our coffee table replacement over the
weekend and needed to taper some 3x3 legs I had
laminated from 1x3.5 stock earlier in the day.
Previously I had used a home made jig I put together
around six months ago. It was flimsy and inaccurate...
Thanks to all who came on Saturday to our house for
our birthday get-together.
It's always a great time to have the place filled up
with friends -- everything just works out.
Pauly and Ghizal drove up from San Diego/LA for the
event. you guys are good...
At long last ... the TV stand is finished, installed,
and operational.
we were waiting until we got our new furniture to make
sure the stain/finish on the tv stand matched.
i put the final coat of polyurethane on last night
(note to self: using a brush...