The Owen Family – Jeremiah Owen, Sarah Owen, Brynn Owen

Nerdtacular 2009

Combine a new Star Trek movie, podcast, hundreds of self described nerds and geeks and what do you get? Nerdtacular. The event put on by Scott Johnson who runs Extra Life Radio, consisted of the movie Star Trek, a get together at a nearby park and an out-of-towner barbeque at the Johnson house. An what [...]

Macbook Pro Unibody Arrived…. Already going back….

So my new Macbook Pro arrived and I noticed something I hadn’t seen since one of my 15″ Powerbooks…. bizarre screen flicker at low brightness levels. So it’s going back to Amazon pronto….. hopefully the next one doesn’t have the same issue. If it does I’ll just return it and wait until revision B. I [...]

So what’s going on…

Well as expected the year has been busy although January seems like it has been here forever.  I have been wanting to be able to ride my Vespa more but it’s just too cold in the morning to take it to work so I am looking forward to temps warming up a little so I [...]

Ouch!

So yeah it appears Apple’s upgrade pricing to DRM free would suck the money right out of my wallet! Here’s the grand total if I were to upgrade to DRM free for the tracks I have already purchased:
Yeah not going to happen.

Now that’s fast!

So unbeknownst to me my wonderful friends at Time Warner Cable have upgraded my cable modem speed. So we have had a 10 meg connection with 1.5 up. Well now we have this:

Hey that my friends is ridiculous. Seriously.

This is pretty cool…

Ever wonder what lightning looked like in slow-motion? Wonder no more! Click the play below to wtach the video of it:
 

Home Automation….. Yeah I can turn on my A/C from anywhere!

So I hadn’t been too big on doing any home automation but for some crazy reason I really got a bug about setting up some automation. So this last week or so I have been trying some different solutions and setting up some devices and have finally rounded out the start to my home automation [...]

Beep. Beep. Beep. Beep.

What a way to start the day… Woke up to an alarm sounding in the office. Turns out a hard drive on my media server died this morning. Great. Mark my words that is THE LAST MAXTOR drive I ever buy. Period. This is like the 4th one I have die on me in 4 [...]

About stinking time.

Lost returns tomorrow. After nearly 8 months off which seems like years. Looking forward to watching it with the family, we are watching the premiere at my parents house with all the various siblings and the following week we are watching it at our place. I know why am I going into detail, who cares, [...]