Weekends

Last weekend was a blast. 80s night on Thursday was packed, because Hell was closed AND the Diesel Boy fans were still there. Club Fetish on Friday was pretty cool, convinced a friend to un-hermit and hang out for a while (note to self: Majestic is not an option after RHPS lets out). Then I went to Nashville for a party Saturday night, which was a whole lot of fun. Got to talk to a lot of folks that I haven't seen a lot lately, cleared up some misunderstandings. Actually got homesick for Nashville, but only a little :)

This weekend is Play On Con. You should all come to Birmingham. Cookouts, gaming, and parties.
I need a ride out there as early as possible on Friday, and a ride home Monday late morning. I also have a bed to share. Could trade bed for ride, if that's a good fit for someone, or just split gas on the ride and rent out the bed, so let me know if anyone wants to do one or both of those.

Windows Media Center

So, I finally got to sit down at the home theater of a Microsoft fanatic, hoping to finally see the good in their media experience...

10 minutes later I had figured out that there is no way to stretch SD television to fill the screen, and that the software is somehow magically able to produce thumbnails for videos that it claims not to have the codec required to play (which, btw, was 80% of the videos I tried to play, in various containers and formats, from his own network file server).

There was maybe a 80 chance I was not going to try an X-Box 360, or a Windows MCE machine, as my home theater machine. Now it is 100%. That leaves plenty of alternatives... Boxee and MythTV here I come!