I have a "request for comments" from my more technically inclined friends.

I am in the likely market for a NAS to store and play multimedia. The requirements are that the NAS is headless and administered via Ethernet. It has to be able to store up to at least 2TB and possibly have 4 HDD storage bays. 2 HDD storage bays are OK though for the first ( Read more... )

On Wednesday night Jenn and I watched an episode of Good Eats about puff pastry. In the episode he filled some of the puff pastry with a dessert filling. It got me thinking that we could do the same thing except fill it with the left-over cooked apples and cooked pears that we made for the crepes that I made on Sunday.

I made a lemon-grass phad- ( Read more... )

I always wanted a way to stream audio from my PC and the Internet to any stereo in my living area. The limiting factor was that I didn't want to have an always on PC and the cabling would inevitably become a burden when I wanted to change between local audio and living room audio. Another downside was that media centers like the Xbox 360 were ( Read more... )

It finally happened! I saw Counting Crows live! I tried and tried and tried so many times but NJ and NY concerts sell out so quickly for big name bands that it is painfully difficult to see the acts you want to see.

The concert was great. It was at the PNC Bank Arts Center, which is an outdoor venue. The sun set behind the audience as Sarah ( Read more... )

I'm an active person, and I like to go out and enjoy very engaging sports like snowboarding, rock climbing, hockey and swimming. I also like to visit remote places in the world and hike up mountains, or swim in bio-luminescenct bays at night. For the most part, if I get injured during these activities, I chalk it up to the fact that I was doing ( Read more... )

As requested, here are the photos of the new house... I still need to photograph the basement and the bar, but the rest of the house pics are pretty much from within the first week of ownership. I will follow later with pictures of the house in its finished state after all or most of the painting is complete.


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In the past week and a half since we closed on the house, we've been very busy with painting and cleaning. We were at a point in the last few days where we had most of the food and silverware in the house, but plates, pots and pans in the apartment. Making food was a little difficult ( Read more... )

Five things I love, stolen from sue ( Read more... )

Jenn and I just got back from watching the new Indiana Jones movie. Jenn wasn't too into it, but as an Indy fan, I loved it. We went after spending a couple of hours pouring over the numbers on the HUD-1 statement for the house. We meet with the realtor tomorrow, Friday May 23, at 9:30am at the house for the walk-through. Then we get our cashiers ( Read more... )

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