After 24,000 miles the tires on the 2003 CL Type-S are quite shot. They squeal like angry pigs in all but the most conservative accelerations. They squeal in 2nd gear and sometimes even in 3rd gear. I can’t get a decent run with my nifty G-Meter at all. They made it through winter, but there Read More …

It seems that there is always “just one more issue” in dealing with home theater. I’ve been noticing a lip sync problem between the video image and the audio. It seems there is a video delay caused by something so you hear the audio just before the video image. I played with all kinds of Read More …

So…I had this hum in my subwoofers. I found a wealth of information on how to hunt it down, isolators you can buy to put inline at various points to kill the hum, high quality equipment to kill the hum without hurting the audio quality etc. Then I found mention of something that seemed to Read More …

Over the weekend we got the front frame wrapped in GOM, the speakers installed, the AV Rack installed with equipment in and wired up. There are few things left to be done, wrap the side columns in GOM, touch up some painting with a fine brush, figuring out the rope lighting and some reworking the Read More …

Came across this article while reading Wired yesterday. I’ve always had a blueprint of sorts of what I’d do if I found myself with billions of dollars. There are several things I’d do and one of the major ones, life extension, has been lifted almost exactly from the dark corners of my brain and implemented Read More …

I found an article last night about Tree Climbers International. It looks like a lot of fun. If you follow the link check out the Photo Gallery. They don’t seem to address what happens if you have to go to the bathroom while your up there though….

Quite a bit of progress has been made over the past few days. All painting is done, the acoustical panels and wall sconces are hung. The carpet was installed today and for “game night” we hung the screen and the projector and mounted the base of the AV Rack and hauled the subs into place Read More …

The short that started the new SciFi series that begins tonight. Warning it contains “adult content”. Click on the link only if you are not easily offended. Tripping the Rift mpeg 28megs

I’ve been noticing comment spam recently in my blog. I suppose it was only a matter of time before the spammers discovered this new form of obnoxious behavior. A quick Google search this morning lead me to two MT Plug-ins from the same person. First up is a plug-ins that displays an image with a Read More …

This weekend was another long weekend of Home Theater work. Friday night saw the second coat go on the ceiling and walls. I hate painting textured ceilings. Saturday was an 8:30am – 10:30 pm marathon of trimming, by John, and fiddly bits getting addressed. Sunday, Traci’s parents came down and we hung the new door Read More …