Monday already?
Its ok I did absolutely nothing all weekend, as long as you don’t count the offline Exchange database defrags on Saturday morning. We sat on the couch all weekend and got caught up on TiVo. We finally watched the remainder of content on our old TiVo that was backed up from Dominican Republic then finally moved over to the new HD TiVo. If times weren’t so tight right now I would upgrade to CableCARD, but that may have to wait a bit as I recently put us further into debt.
I guess it was Thursday night after a couple of beers we decided to go buy a new TV. James being the instigator that he is pointed us to one particular set that just so happens was on sale at Circuit City, and they had a great deal on financing. So here is our new set:
So we bought the Sharp Aquos LC-52D64U – 52in LCD. Yes we didn’t need the additional debt right now, but damn is it a nice looking TV when you are pumping HD quality content through it. I downloaded some 1080p HD trailers to play through the Xbox 360 and they look amazing, SD content off the TiVo, not so much. Playing Assasin’s Creed in 1080p is hot hot hot.
Check out this link to see it in action hooked up to some guys Computer at full resolution: AVS Forums
And here for the full spec sheet: SharpUSA.Com
This TV has a 4ms response time, which means no streaking or blurring during fast motion scenes or gaming. I will be happier once we have some true HD content to push through it though, but until then I will get my fix by gaming on it.
We picked up about 6-7 inches of snow on Friday-Saturday, and I think we are supposed to get even more late tonight and tomorrow. James and Lana went skiing this weekend, as I understand it they received 18-22 inches in the resort areas, so I’m sure that made for good skiing, just maybe not so good road conditions to those areas. They will be back sometime later today.
We also scheduled a dinner tonight at the Melting Pot as a way of congratulating ourselves on nearly finishing up this new Exchange environment that we have been working on for the last two weeks. Thank you Corporate AMEX, HP is footing the bill tonight. But up to this point we have everything deployed that we have the information for. So now we are mostly on clean-up duty.
Here is a funny pic Justin sent me the other day. I laughed quite hard. And btw since when are 12 year olds allowed to drink?
