Mothers Day was months ago, but that doesn’t mean you can’t buy your mom a totally typographic tee
Shirt one in a series of typographic shirts - this one is mostly just because the image of your mom walking down the street wearing this shirt amuses me.
Tagged: merch
I have two TIVO’s, one upstairs, one downstairs - I can easily move recorded shows between the two (pull, not push) - and recently I’ve discovered how easy it is to move recorded shows to my mac, so I can watch it while I pound away at work. I know there are lots of ways of doing this - and that’s fine - but hardly qualifies as FUN, my way requires a browser.
Bam!, you should now be looking at a web interface that show you all your recorded shows - complete with links to download shows to your desktop. The files themselves are in ‘.tivo’ format - which is essentially a MPEG2 variant - playing it has it’s own challenges, it’s one of the few formats that VLC doesn’t play out-of-the-box, I’m sure there’s an easier way buy I toss them into VisualHub, and that seems to work nicely.
Of course the hidden gem in this is that although the files are pretty big (1GB+) if I opened up my router JUST right - my friends could access my TIVO’d content - and vice versa, just a thought - would seem to be a very sketchy use for VPN software too - but that remains to be seen, for right now it’s a curious example of poking at an local network IP while on the phone - which is exactly how I found this.
I’m whipping up a geektoolscript to keep me posted as to what’s ‘playing’ on my tivo, because I can, and because that’s the way I roll.
There are plenty of apps that will let you do this - most notably TivoButler, and Roxio’s TIVO Transfer (which is really excellent).
Yesterday was a rough day, ‘T’ and I had to say goodbye to our dear friend ‘Cleo’ who at 18 years old, was miserable, and constantly uncomfortable - I’m happy that she’s now free of pain, but sad because Cleo still had so much love to give. Rest Well ‘Patent-leather cat’ play with your sister, enjoy your freedom. We love you.
We’re happy to introduce you to piper, our newest little kitty. She’s tiny, but REALLY tall, I’m sure you’ll be seeing more of her - she’s photogenic, and by no means shy..
How do you get to know a person?, I suppose there’s lots of ways, but I have 3 favorite ways -
Here’s where I’m at right now.
Tagged: audio
Must be the weather, but we were visited by a flock of small (and very noisy) birds today (I think they may be starlings) - I didn’t mind the noise, and the cats totally dug it. I’ve never seen them so transfixed.
Tagged: cats
Last week I stopped into ‘Susie’s Hot Sauce’ in New Hope, spent 20 minutes or so chatting with a lovely and knowledgeable women about hot sauce - I went in looking for three things - a garlicky sauce, a fruity sauce and a smokey sauce - she TOTALLY hooked me up.
From left to right:
Ring Of Fire: Chipotle and Roasted Garlic - absolutely amazing, rich garlic taste with the perfect smokey finish - heatwise: 6 out of 10
Blair’s Habenero Mango: Really delicious sauce with a sweet taste and a pretty serious sweet-heat finish - heatwise: 8 out of 10
Virginia Gentleman Bourbon Chipotle Hot Sauce: This might be my new goto sauce, it’s not too-hot, tons of smokey rich flavor, perfect for everyday use - heatwise: 6 out of 10
All great sauces, I’ll be visiting Susie’s again..
Susie’s Hot Sauce
19A West Bridge Street New Hope, PA 18938
1-800-60-SAUCE
215-862-1334
‘T’ spends her weekends working at a no-kill animal shelter in Fairless Hills, PA (It’s inside the PETSMART near the Oxford Valley Mall).
Sadly they have a bunch of loving animals that have been ignored, abused, or discarded - I’m mortified when I hear the stories of these loving and affectionate animals, it just reinforces, my general opinion that most people suck. Stop in, play with a few of the cats - they appreciate the attention, and if you are so inclined, put in a application for adoption (or foster). HFTA takes donations via a PayPal link on their homepage.
Hope For The Animals
PO Box 877
Morrisville PA 19067
Phone: 215-945-6204
‘T’ and I went gallery hopping last saturday, and by chance stopped in at Phillypaws, a impressive animal shelter on 2nd street. ‘T’ spends almost every weekend volunteering at a similar (albeit smaller) shelter so it was pretty interesting seeing the differences. The animals where very sweet, and if I could I would adopt every single one of them. The fellow pictured above, was a real charmer.
PAWS Adoption Center
(Open Mon-Sat: 11 am to 7 pm, Sun: 11 am to 6 pm)
100 N. 2nd Street (at Arch)
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Ph: 215-238-9901
Damn TV! and their never ending marathons, I swear Tuesday will be better…
For your ear(s) enjoyment a very haunting piano cover of NIN’s ‘HURT’ I found on Muxtape.