Having 200+ DVD’s ripped into iTunes + ubiquitous Apple TV is proving pretty cool. 1TB+ of content + Apple TV = Watching Return of the Jedi in the background just for fun.
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Eco-Friendly Painting, Safecoat
Tammy has wanted to change some colors in our house for a while. If you’ve been to our place you know we are not afraid of color in any way. Our living room is orange, yellow and red. There are a couple of rooms that she wanted to change and keeping with the green theme she …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Eco-Friendly Painting, SafecoatJoining M4V Files is Painful
I’ve been processing my entire DVD library in the background on my Mac Pro using Handbrake, moving all the content into iTunes so that it is accessible from the three Apple TV’s that are connected to each TV in the house. I’ve now hit a some of the videos that are on two discs …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Joining M4V Files is PainfulRefill Products, Reduce Plastic Waste
Tammy drives a lot of our green decisions in the house. For a long time she’s been using all natural cleaning products. She doesn’t want the chemicals in typical cleaning products in the house, and we all benefit from it. Nearly all of our cleaning products are from Restore …
Keep reading · 2 minutes: Refill Products, Reduce Plastic WasteUpgraded to Handbrake 0.9.3 in the middle of my big DVD ripping project. Presets are all different, hopefully better.
Garage Shelves, Awesome
One of the earliest posts on this blog was a celebration of the installation of 6 inch rain gutters on our house. By the way, those rain gutters have rocked. It seems only fitting that I should comment on the very small project that we had done in our garage that made me just …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Garage Shelves, AwesomeAny suggestions on what to do with a bunch of old laserdiscs? I’m not going to hook up the player, and capturing them to iTunes is painful.
Apple TV 2.2 Upgrade
Upgrade morning. All three Apple TV’s up to 2.2 and iTunes up to 8.0.1. Genius on Apple TV is, genius. Will get much more use on TV than in iTunes. Suspect Apple TV 2.2 has a bug. I keep starting videos and the audio plays but video is black. Hit menu and restart the video and it …
Keep reading · 1 minute: Apple TV 2.2 UpgradeForeclosure Alley
This is an incredibly depressing video of the reality of home foreclosures in southern California.
Amazed to see the guy who paints lawns green.
Via my friend Raanan’s blog.*
Stacking Wood, Exhausted
Today I turned this “fireplace cord” that I got the “special” delivery of the day, about 20% more than I ordered from Firewood.com. Into this, 5 feet in the air and there are two rows deep: And this, for the Big Green Egg Chiminea that is on the way, and maybe to try cooking with …
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