Doug's Sounding Board

My lovely wife, Nicole for making me swedish pancakes this morning. Mmmmmm…. My parents for sending me the books “Yiddish With Dick & Jane” and “When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?” My Aunt Rita for sending me the DVDs “Gross Pointe Blank,” and “Shallow Grave,” and “Schindler’s List” (when it gets here) Nicole for […]

I started with a few Red Oval Farms Stoned Wheat Thins (my favorite cracker in the world. Then Nicole made me swedish pancakes and cooked up some nice fatty sausage. Then I came to work and I’m having a coke, and I’ve had an Original Cinn. 10:50AM – Another Original Cinn 11:15AM – Another cinn […]

Last night I hooked up the rest of the game systems, including Nicole’s old NES. For the first time I briefly played Super Mario World on the NES. This morning I tried all the Atari Carts, including some I had never played but just picked up at a thrift store. Four were dead but the […]

I have this new projector that is capable of HDTV resolutions. I’m moving where all the A/V stuff lives and that also means moving the game systems. First to hook up is the Atari 2600 and of course I had to test it with a little Yar’s Revenge. Projector capable of displaying better than the […]

I just finished level 9 of the exercise bike. On to level 10.

find your inner PIE @ stvlive.com

There still a little fine tuning on position and such, but the picture is so beautiful, and it’s just projecting on the wall! DVDs look wonderful and you can see stuff even inthe dark scenes. Video games are made to look not as good in some ways now in that it is so sharp you […]

At least for now we are done with the office. The floor is still unpainted concrete but it’s nicer looking and functional again. Later we’ll pull everything out again and put in a floating floor. There was an article in This Old House that made it look pretty easy. It’s also been re-arranged to make […]

This morning I was up early and didn’t have to go to the gym so I decided to hook up the Gamecube to the small tv (the projector is busted). I figured it was about time I tried those bargain bin games I picked up in the past 9 months. First up was Minority Report […]

When I was ripping out the carpet in the computer room and moving everything around I felt fine. The night while my body was resting it was also responding to all the mold and dust in my system and clogging my allergies. Now it’s all draining. On the bright side, did I mention I’m up […]