Long distance love grows

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Long distance love grows

hehe, I did use SkypeOut a lot when Sherry was in London. Now she’s in Austin and I’m in the bay area, we do A LOT of SMS messages, and phone calls (we both have unlimtied IN TXTs and calls)… She might use Skype more often if I get her a bluetooth headset, I’ve been looking at the HBH-600 on eBay, coz it comes in different colors! I thought about getting a pair of iSight, but it’s been a while since it was introduced, so I’m gonna wait for the next version.

gettin’ naked

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So the hottest thing in the espresso community has been “bottomless”, “naked”, or “crotchless” portafilters. When Sherry packed my espresso machine she forgot to pack my portafilter and my special La Marzocco double basket, so the machines been sitting on my granite countertop and I can’t use them until she brings those with her next time she visits, which is early October.

So, easy solution, ordered a NAKED PF from Chris Coffee! It comes with an LM triple basket, very nice…

Now, what do you call a triple ristretto shot? Like a double one is called doppio ristretto… 😉

Toslink

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So optical > metal… My receiver has 3 Toslink inputs, so I got a Toslink and a Mini-to-Toslink cable from eBay. The Mini (optical) to Toslink is for my Airport Express, it’s pretty impressive that the thing actually has an optical output, it definitely justifies the $99 (I picked up 2 of them at the Barton Creek Apple Store the day after Thanksgiving, that was the only time I’d seen them on sale!!)

Anyway, the Monoprice guy sent me the wrong cable, he sent me a Mini-to-Mini optical cable instead of a Mini-to-Toslink one. I called him up, he immediately sent me a replacement, and asked me to just keep the other cable. Pretty good customer service, which explains his high marks at ResellerRatings.

Today I got my Toslink and RCA+S-Video cables in the mail. I went to hook up the Toslink cable, only to find out that the DVD player I got didn’t have an optical out, so off to Fry’s I went, and exchanged it with a different player. Got home, hooked it up, awesome sound! 🙂 The RCA+S-Video is for my TiVo, I can’t really tell if the video quality is better. I’m used to SAT TV, cable looks like crap to me no matter what.

I’m still waiting for 2 component video cables, and the mini to Toslink cable (I hope Mini-to-Toslink is the same as Toslink-to-Mini, which was what I bought, it should be, light goes both ways)…