I Dream In Code

I agree with xkcd here (king of the geeks):

I want, for once, someone I can vote for not because I dislike the other candidate, but because I’m proud of mine. Obama is the real thing.

and his final word makes the world a simpler place:

Space is on the verge of becoming an adventure again, Windows Vista is flopping, and Mario Kart will be out for the Wii soon. I think the future will be okay.

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I’m hooked on Coachella… Raconteurs is enough to get me out there.

Audio of the announcement

Friday

Jack Johnson, The Verve, Racounters, Breeders, Fatboy Slim, Tegan and Sara, Madness, Swell Season, The National, Animal Collective, Slightly Stoupid, Mum, Peendulum, Sharon Jones, Stars, Battles, Aesop Roc, Midnight Juggernauts, Does it Offend you yeah?, Minus the Bear, Spank Rock, Dan le sac vs Scrombium pin, Diplo, Adam Freeland, Santo Gold, Jens Tokman, John Butter Trio, Vampire Weekend, Dan Deaon, Architecture in Helsinki, Sandra Collins, Busy P, Cut Copy, Black Lips, Datarock, Proffesor Murder, Reverend and the Makers, The Bees, Porter, Rogue Wave, Modeselektor, American Gang, Lucky I AM

Saturday

Portishead, Kraftwerk, Death cab For curite, Cafe Tacvba, Sasha and digweed, Rilo Kiley, Dwight Yoakam, M.I.A., Hot Chip, Cold War Kids, Stephen Malkmus, Devotchka, Floggin Molly, Mark Ronson, Turbonegro, Scars On Brodway, Islands, Enter Shikari, Calvin HArris, Boyz Noise, Junke Xl, Cinematic Orchstra, Jamie t, The Teenagers, VHS or Beta, Garbon/Silicon, Erol Alkan, Yo Majesty, Little Brother, Bonde Do Role, St. Vincent, Akron Family, MGMT, Institubes DJS, Surkin, Orgasmic, James Zbiola, SEbastiAn, Kavinsky, Dready, The Birds and the Bees, Grand Ole party, New Young Pony, 120 Days, Yoav, Electrick Touch, UFFIE

Sunday

Roger Waters, Love and Rockets, My Morning Jacket, Spiritualized, Justice, Gogol Bordello, Chromeo, The Streets, Metric, Danny Tenaglia, Simian Mobile Disco, Booka Shade, Murs, Dimitri From Paris, Autolux, The Field, Lintop Kwesi Johnson, Les Savy Fab, The cool Kids, Sons and Daghters, Sia, Holy Fuck, Black Kuls, Black Mountain, The Animals, Kid Sister feat. A TRak, Mon Man, Duffy, Im From Barcelona, Manchester Orchestra, Deadmau5, The horrors, Austin TV, Shoout out Lods, Plastiscenes, Brett Dennen

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(exception only for Mom)

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I had a great time at the reddit meetup here in Los Angeles. They graciously bought everyone beer! And they were some of the coolest/geekiest guys I’ve met in a while. Great meeting you all! You are welcome back here anytime. I’ll buy beer next time you are down!

for those who you who don’t know, www.reddit.com is a geek news website as well as regular news. Great people that run things there.

www.drankkit.com - they decided to tour the country and buy beer for their fans (me)

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Yes! Finally upgraded the good ole TiVo to a brand new HD version, records 2 channels at once and has 2 slots for cable cards so I can finally join the world of digital tv. Not that I need to watch anymore tv, but hey, it’s there and actually lowered my cable bill.

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So a CableCard is supposed to make life easier, no cable box, just slide these devices that look like laptop PCMCIA cards into the front of the TiVo and it magically gets digital reception. I asked them, since I am technically savy, to just mail me the card/cards and I think I can do the rest from there. They insisted on sending a technician to install them. I said fine.

Currently, we are starting hour 2 of this technician sitting on my floor, not knowing what to do. He put the cable cards in, called in to HQ to activate them, and is currently still sitting around waiting for my TiVo to update. Personally, I think that since the government mandated that ALL cable companies needed to provide a CableCard for users to avoid a monopoly on the set top box, they purposely make them not work correctly with my TiVo so that I’ll buy their DVR. NO THANK YOU!

I love my TiVo! All cable provided DVR’s I’ve seen are not nearly as user-friendly as my TiVo, and I can schedule shows online, transfer videos to and from my computers, listen to music on the home stereo system and record 2 channels at once. Oh, and I have my lifetime subscription transferred over.

I’m about to take the remote from this “technician”… Just did… wow, I think I got it working. I could be an installer for Time Warner. Seriously, this guy had no idea how to install the CableCard onto my TiVo. He would have sat there on my floor all day.
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I have things to do here, and can’t sit around all day like him and wait for my cable to come up, like blog… Thankfully, I can do that while he’s here. 12:35pm now…

Edit: 1:00pm update… it did not work. The tech took the cable cards back. I told him I thought it was not in Time Warners’ interest to have them work since they want me to buy their DVR. He agreed totally, took the CableCards back and told me to make a new appointment, which I’m not sure if I will do. Now it looks like the regular cable does not work anymore. Starting to piss me off.

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