Over vacation, I read the Prince of Nothing trilogy by R. Scott Bakker. Meh. It was OK, but didn't knock my socks off.
As is evident from my other lame book reviews, I'm a very shallow reader. I pay attention to the dialogue and plot, but most literary subtext sails right over my head. One of the main characters is sort of kung-fu jesus, and manipulates the others by his philosophical ramblings. I don't have the patience to read and re-read his dialogue to parse the ultimate meaning.
If I want Kung Fu Jesus, I'll re-read Lamb by Christopher Moore.
Saturday, July 08, 2006
Wednesday, July 05, 2006
*&@!#&$! dish network
We took a week off for my wife's family reunion, and expected TiVo to continue making us its obedient servants. Oh, how we adore the TiVo.
The TiVo controls one of our Dish Network receivers via IR. Sometimes (1-2 times a month), the message gets garbled and the channel is switched to the wrong channel. Annoying, but usually not too bad. But, if the channel is accidentally switched to a channel to which we don't subscribe, the Dish Network receiver pops up an error message that you must leave via pressing the up/down channel button. TiVo sees a signal coming through and happily records it.
Guess who had ~20 hours of the same damn error message recorded when they got back from vacation? Craptastic!
The TiVo controls one of our Dish Network receivers via IR. Sometimes (1-2 times a month), the message gets garbled and the channel is switched to the wrong channel. Annoying, but usually not too bad. But, if the channel is accidentally switched to a channel to which we don't subscribe, the Dish Network receiver pops up an error message that you must leave via pressing the up/down channel button. TiVo sees a signal coming through and happily records it.
Guess who had ~20 hours of the same damn error message recorded when they got back from vacation? Craptastic!
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