Giving Thanks (1 comment)
I'm in Boston for the 2006 Usenix Annual Technical Conference. Thanks to the copies of the Bible and the Book of Mormon that I found in my hotel room, my borrowed laptop is staying cool.
I packed a DVD player and some DVDs along with an RF convertor and all the cabling I might need. I was pleased to find that the TV in my room had RCA inputs on the front but disappointed to find that the provided remote control didn't have a button to change the selected video input. I was even more disappointed to find that Ben's Remote Commander (same model as mine) was similarly useless. Thanks to a trip to Home Depot and a pair of pliers, I was able to defeat the physical protection on the back of the TV. As a reward, Ben and I were treated to episode four of Freaks and Geeks.