Wow, what happened to the frequent update concept?
It flew out the window months ago.
So yeah.
As you have all probably heard about, there WAS a Halloween party at my house this past weekend. Some of you may be wondering why you were not informed of the event. This party was NOT MINE. This was an event which is held by my brother and his girl, not by me. The few of my friends who did get brought into the picture were a select few, but I was trying to avoid a few things. The first thing I needed to avoid was people overload. There were already so many people staying over at the house and going to be at the party from Steve's group of friends, that there just wasn't much room left over, nor did we want things to get out of hand. Secondly, there were a couple of people who I was fairly certain would not have enjoyed themselves at this particular party for most of it, based on it being loud music and heavy drinking. This was not your typical Phaser style "DDR, Karaoke, and Flash Animation watching" get together, this was a full fledged, my brother style, party. I do apologize if you're one of those who was not brought in for it, but I needed to keep things under control. I plan on having some other sort of get together in the future, to which all of the normal Phaser clan shall be invited, however it will be difficult work getting people to flow back to Rochester for a weekend, based on everyone moving further and further away from the greatest place on earth (wherever Phaser is at any given moment).
So putting the party aside, what else has been going on since I last updated? Well, let's work a little backwards here.
Monday, I had like 12 groups of trick-or-treaters come to the house to take some candy. A couple of the groups were quite large, like 10 people or something, so there were a decent number of people in total. I ran out of candy just in time, as the last person that rang the doorbell, got the last bit of candy.
A couple of weeks ago, I obtained a new sound system to go along with the projector which was purchased back in September. Finally there's sound as big as the screen (or bigger). Comparing the "size" of sound to the size of a screen doesn't make any sense, but you know what I mean. I also got an equipment rack that looks cool to put all of the things on like the receiver, dvd player, cable box, ps2, computer, etc. The sound is now an Onkyo 7.1 system, which sounds friggen' great with music and movies.
The projector is an Optoma, which is a wierd brand, but the damn thing cranks out 3000 lumens of projected DLP goodness. It has all the inputs you could need, being that it has Component, Composite, S-video, DVI, and VGA. It also has an RS-232 port to uplink to a computer and accept commands straight from the serial port. We haven't programmed anything to take advantage of that yet, but I do have the cable and it is hooked up and working. The screen is a 106" widescreen (16:9) with 1.8x gain. If that makes any sense to you. It's a sweet setup, and it's even useable during the day, just with a little less contrast.
All of this equipment adds up to an assload of cabling that has to run every which way, cable tv, ethernet, 7 speakers, a subwoofer, dvi, vga, component, serial, power, etc. It's INSANE. It's all hooked up, and it's all good, but guiding the cables and making it look good was a bit of a challenge. It's all neat and tidy now, thanks to the brothers help.
IT'S NOVEMBER!?
How did this happen? Time flies. The good part about that is that now my favorite picture from my School Rumble calendar is showing (the November December image). Awesome. That also means that Episode III came out on Tuesday, and it was awesome on the new audio/visual system, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire comes out in Theatres halfway through the month, and FFVIIAC comes out on DVD in America near the end of the month. This is a good month for media.
So yeah.
As you have all probably heard about, there WAS a Halloween party at my house this past weekend. Some of you may be wondering why you were not informed of the event. This party was NOT MINE. This was an event which is held by my brother and his girl, not by me. The few of my friends who did get brought into the picture were a select few, but I was trying to avoid a few things. The first thing I needed to avoid was people overload. There were already so many people staying over at the house and going to be at the party from Steve's group of friends, that there just wasn't much room left over, nor did we want things to get out of hand. Secondly, there were a couple of people who I was fairly certain would not have enjoyed themselves at this particular party for most of it, based on it being loud music and heavy drinking. This was not your typical Phaser style "DDR, Karaoke, and Flash Animation watching" get together, this was a full fledged, my brother style, party. I do apologize if you're one of those who was not brought in for it, but I needed to keep things under control. I plan on having some other sort of get together in the future, to which all of the normal Phaser clan shall be invited, however it will be difficult work getting people to flow back to Rochester for a weekend, based on everyone moving further and further away from the greatest place on earth (wherever Phaser is at any given moment).
So putting the party aside, what else has been going on since I last updated? Well, let's work a little backwards here.
Monday, I had like 12 groups of trick-or-treaters come to the house to take some candy. A couple of the groups were quite large, like 10 people or something, so there were a decent number of people in total. I ran out of candy just in time, as the last person that rang the doorbell, got the last bit of candy.
A couple of weeks ago, I obtained a new sound system to go along with the projector which was purchased back in September. Finally there's sound as big as the screen (or bigger). Comparing the "size" of sound to the size of a screen doesn't make any sense, but you know what I mean. I also got an equipment rack that looks cool to put all of the things on like the receiver, dvd player, cable box, ps2, computer, etc. The sound is now an Onkyo 7.1 system, which sounds friggen' great with music and movies.
The projector is an Optoma, which is a wierd brand, but the damn thing cranks out 3000 lumens of projected DLP goodness. It has all the inputs you could need, being that it has Component, Composite, S-video, DVI, and VGA. It also has an RS-232 port to uplink to a computer and accept commands straight from the serial port. We haven't programmed anything to take advantage of that yet, but I do have the cable and it is hooked up and working. The screen is a 106" widescreen (16:9) with 1.8x gain. If that makes any sense to you. It's a sweet setup, and it's even useable during the day, just with a little less contrast.
All of this equipment adds up to an assload of cabling that has to run every which way, cable tv, ethernet, 7 speakers, a subwoofer, dvi, vga, component, serial, power, etc. It's INSANE. It's all hooked up, and it's all good, but guiding the cables and making it look good was a bit of a challenge. It's all neat and tidy now, thanks to the brothers help.
IT'S NOVEMBER!?
How did this happen? Time flies. The good part about that is that now my favorite picture from my School Rumble calendar is showing (the November December image). Awesome. That also means that Episode III came out on Tuesday, and it was awesome on the new audio/visual system, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire comes out in Theatres halfway through the month, and FFVIIAC comes out on DVD in America near the end of the month. This is a good month for media.