Apr 24 2006
Cable
Since today (coincidently the 24th) we don’t have cable anymore. We weren’t watching much TV anyway and with the big spending ahead we need to spend our money wisely.
So for my weekly dose of Jack Bauer I now have to rely on BitTorrent. After downloading I move my laptop to the TV room, attach it to the TV and press play. That works excellent and I even have a little wireless remote to control the computer so I can start, stop and rewind. A glass of orange juice, a nice cigar and I’m ready to get all worked up over the stupidity of the writers of 24. It’s getting sillier every season. The president of the US secretly planning a terrorist attack, who could invent such an improbable plot?
Monday, 1 May, 2006 @ 09:47
oooh, tell me more about that remote! i have the laptop hooked to the tv too but i have to get up to pause it, etc.!
Monday, 1 May, 2006 @ 10:15
It’s called the Griffin Airclick USB. It works for Macs and PCs but better on Macs of course. There is also a version for iPods. I bought it at Neologic on rue Ste Catherine (next to the Futureshop) for, hold on, 45 dollars, tax included.
But at least for PCs there are other, cheaper, options as well. But I have a Mac so those don’t work for me.
Friday, 5 May, 2006 @ 10:32
cool, thanks! i will definately check it out! :-)
(it doesn’t take much to make a geek happy sometimes!)
Monday, 25 May, 2009 @ 10:12
Argh! I waited too long and now it’s discontinued! Having lots of problems searching for such a remote, since “remote control” + PC/computer gives me mostly results like “how to remote control a pc from anywhere” (don’t care about anywhere, but from my own couch would be great!)