Turns out the AppleTV burns 21 watts when in screen-saver mode and 22 watts when in use, only 18 watts when sitting at a menu. It’s not huge, but it’s annoyingly high for something that has no on/off nor sleep mode switches. Grrr. Apple needs to fix this. Update: As Brian kindly pointed out and […]
More independent music available for free (though they’d love it if you bought some MP3s or CDs as well). This time from the inspirational Gaia Consort. They encourage you to download or stream their music to see if you like it and share it with friends. They love it if you bought it too, and […]
I am a big fan of independent artists and fresh, new music from innovative talent. A friend is helping several new artists get started at NewIndieArtists and they have links to samples of their music and CD Baby and iTunes in case you want to buy some music in either MP3 or CD format. While […]
Notice anything funny about this: gromit:~ snolan$ ls -la /opt/local/sbin total 72 drwxr-xr-x 4 root admin 136 21 Feb 14:10 . drwxr-xr-x 12 root admin 408 14 Feb 11:56 .. -rw-r–r– 1 root admin 0 9 Jan 22:48 .turd_MacPorts -r-s–x–x 2 root admin 35564 21 Feb 14:10 fping In UNIX sysadmin lingo, a “turd” is […]
Newsflash: the campaigns for the presidential term starting in 2009 are over and done. Obama won it by a vast margin on Tuesday, March 18th when he made his “More Perfect Union†speech in Philadelphia. At this point Clinton and McCain are simply going through the motions to save a little face. We should all […]
I am kind of intrigued by the upcoming: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Undead which should appeal to Sutragirl as a vampire story and appeals to me because I loved the original “Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead” and the whole play within a play within a play thing (which reminds me of Being John Malkovich today). […]
I had already decided that my vote was going to Barack Obama, partially as a result of the process of elimination (initially I wanted Wesley Clark, then Evan Bayh or Bill Richardson, then John Edwards. One by one all those candidates dropped out of the race, and I was left with Barack Obama as the […]
Oops – forgot to post about the point of the whole weekend shindig at our house, it was the publishing party for 1381: The Peel Affinity, An English Knight’s Household in the Fourteenth Century (please order directly from the publisher through that link). I am of course already familiar with the material, but seeing it […]
Bob and Liz took us to Silk Road Afghan Cuisine for dinner tonight, and it was excellent. Finally a place that fills the culinary gap left open when Bamyan in Herndon closed. Very good sit-down restaurant with a variety of excellent dishes. Highly recommended, it is located at Lansdowne Town Center, near Virginia route 7 […]
Spring is finally upon us. Sutragirl had to play frogger on the way home last night (the frogs cross Mountain Road in a nightly ritual all through Spring and early Summer). This morning the birds are singing and the flowers are coming up: http://gallery.mac.com/scottdavidnolan#100064&bgcolor=black&view=grid
