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Fun New Stuff

Monday, April 30 2007, 2:08 AM

More news regarding cool new stuff. My old TV has been going south for, well, like 5 years. It used to belong to my grandmother, and it came to me quite a while ago. It's been getting pretty bad lately, so I decided to take my income tax money and get a new TV. I initially planned to get a new standard definition TV with a digital tuner, but I found a 32" LCD TV (Polaroid 3211-TLXB) on sale for a reasonable price. It's got all of the inputs that I was looking for - VGA, HDMI, and Component. My DVD player doesn't seem to output a good Component signal, so I'm stuck with using S-Video for now. Oh well, I'll live.

[new TV]

I also need to stop going to eBay. The server I bought is working quite well, but my tendency as an impulse spender could easily get the best of me. I already bought two more servers. One is a dual P3 1Ghz with six 36GB SCSI drives that I bought mostly for the SCSI drives. The other is a Quad P3-level Xeon machine with 2GB of RAM. Having a quad-CPU machine just sounded cool. While I was looking through some of the eBay stores, I found an external twelve drive RAID enclosure that would connect perfectly to the dual P3 machine. I shouldn't buy it since I don't really need it, but it would be cool. Someone stop me!

Comments

Phil :: 04/30/2007, 6:33 pm :: Reply

I believe that your only hope is to sell all of your electronics and become a Luddite

Mike Neir :: 04/30/2007, 9:14 pm :: Reply

Somehow I don't see that happening. :|

Matt :: 05/01/2007, 1:36 pm :: Reply

That's a fine lookin' television!

Mike Neir :: 05/01/2007, 3:33 pm :: Reply

Yep.... it's not huge, but the picture is damned fine! I just need to get something that works with the component inputs.

Alex :: 05/01/2007, 3:04 pm :: Reply

That's awesome. And it's about time too. I remember waiting abou 15 minutes for your old TV to heat up when we watched terminator 2.

Mike Neir :: 05/01/2007, 3:36 pm :: Reply

Yep... that TV has been getting worse and worse for quite a while. Now it's retired. Good riddance!

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