Category: Geeky

Our New “Roomie”

We have a new guest in our home.  He only comes out about once a week.  We like to call him our “roomie” but his real name is Roomba!

We are all very surprised at how well the roomba picks up dirt and debris.  We are even more surprised at how well he picks up pet hair.

The cats don’t know what to think of this new guest in “their” house, but we like him lots.  The operation of the roomba (model 4160) is simple enough a child could do it!  You press the power button, and then the clean button.  When the roomba is done with the area, it simply stops and plays a delightful tune!

Even better, when the battery is low, the roomba will even make it’s way to it’s charging base station and charge itself!  How cool?

A couple of years ago it was all about the dyson, and we tried a friends.  To be perfectly honest, it did not impress me at all.  The roomba does though, especially at half the cost of a dyson!

LML Video Services Revamped

I had a late night yesterday, creating a new version of my business website, LMLVideoServices.com.¬† Please look around, and let me know what you think!¬† I’m all about constructive criticism.

The website is more about information than selling, so please let me know what you think about the information included.

With the help of Editor B, I will hopefully have a better logo as well.  Thanks B!

I think with this version, the site is somewhat professional.  Finally!

Stabilizing The Crude

As many Bloomintonian’s know, gasoline or diesel in this town is crazy.¬† Prices can and often change, sometimes dramatically, numerous times a day!¬† I think those days are coming to an end.

There have been many articles in the local newspaper (The Herald-Times)¬†regarding this issue.¬† They even have a “price watch” on their website.¬† In the end, every article I’ve read regarding this issue states the main reason prices are so high in this area¬†is mainly “greed.”

By simply travelling 20 miles, the price is sometimes up to 20 cents less a gallon.  Depending on travelling habits this could save a fortune.

A couple of months ago, Bloomington got a Wal-Mart supercenter.¬† I have issues with Wal-Mart, but that’s a whole other story.¬† A part of this supercenter is a gas station, called “Murphy USA.”¬† The gas station’s construction was delayed and did not open until last week.¬† In that week, the price of regular unleaded gasonline has dropped $0.12 a gallon on the whole west side of town!¬† On one day alone, they dropped their prices 3 times, with the other stations following their lead.

I am unsure if wholesale prices have dropped, or if it is exactly due to the opening of this new gas outlet.  I do have an optimistic outlook on this though, and hope to see the price keep dropping.

This gas station is on our way home, and it’s now very interesting to see if the price of gas has changed, and how much the change was.

“Danger Will Robinson!”

Do yall remember that line from the TV series and movie “Lost in Space?”

Well that’s what my computer was telling me the other day.¬† I was downloading an update for my IDE controller and having problems the whole time doing it.¬† After 2 days I finally got the update.¬† What happened afterwards is a total PITA though.

After installing I kept getting an error message when trying to load most of the programs I use.  I was essentially locked out of my own PC!  I tried all the tricks in the book to fix this problem with no avail.  So I had to wipe my hard drive and start fresh. Urgh!

I used to do it all of the time, but I had broadband internet access, which makes a big difference.¬† I have spent the past 2 days downloading updates.¬† I haven’t started on the programs that I can only get by downloading them.¬† Acrobat is 20 megs, QuickTime is roughly the same or larger, with my POS modem that will take a day just for those.