A Yankee in Texas

Tonight I was trying to watch a documentary from Netflix, but for some reason it wouldn’t download. So I saw this other documentary called Les Paul – Chasing Sound so I clicked on it to see if it would download. Low and behold it worked. I figured it would be a documentary about the creation of the Gibson Les Paul guitar which in a sense it was, but mostly it was about Les Paul the man and his contributions to music.

Les Paul was a popular musician in the 40’s-50’s, he invented the solid body electric guitar, multi-track recording, overdubbing, and reverb among other things. Music as we know it today would be radically different with out Les Paul. It was kind of cool to see people that I think of as great musicians speaking of Les Paul like someone of my generation might speak of them.

If you are into music or music history I suggest you check out this documentary. If you are a Netflix subscriber you can watch it online with the “Watch Instantly” feature.

– Jeremy

There have been times where I have wondered if I couldn’t just do away with cable and just purchase my favorite TV shows from iTunes.. well the ones you can’t just watch for free online like on ABC.com. I however have to admit that I have never downloaded any video from iTunes. Actually I take that back… I downloaded an episode of some show to test my father in laws video iPod, but I didn’t even really watch it.

I was poking around on iTunes tonight and I see they have the original “V: The mini-series”. If you are too young to remember “V” than I am not sure that you’ll truly be able to appreciate  watching it because it will probably just look like a bad bit of 1980’s Sci-fi. I remember being riveted to my seat while watching it as a kid. It’s basically about aliens that come to earth in search of resources…. with a slight twist. Anyway it’s $10 for the Mini-Series… they also have all the episodes of the TV show for $30.

I  think I will try downloading the Mini-series over the holiday weekend. It would be cool to find a cable to let me watch it on my actual TV. I will have to investigate a solution for that. If all else fails I can watch it on the 22 inch LCD. Turn off the lights and make popcorn like we used to do.

Do you remember those air poppers? They had a tray to melt butter on the top. Wow they still make them! I might have to invest in one of those.

– Jeremy

I used to be a Mac guy, but there was a point in college when I needed a new cheap computer. I had to make the switch to Windows. I hated Windows 98, but XP hasn’t been too bad. However I have been threating to leave Windows behind for a long time, but Linux, while cool, is too much work for my liking and Apple computers were still out of my budget.

Lately the urge to switch back has started to become too much to resist. Last Saturday Nicole and I went to the Apple store. I love that place. I guess I am a sucker for Apples flare for design and styling. I know I am not alone in this. Apple has pretty much based it’s business on making slick looking devices.

When I bought my first laptop 8 months ago I went cheap because I wasn’t sure how I was going to feel about laptops. Now that I know I love them I am more willing to drop some bucks on something as pricey as a MacBook. I realize now I want something with a much larger hard drive, more RAM, and doesn’t run Windows. I think a Macbook is a laptop that will fit the bill and serve me well for several years.

– Jeremy