Monday, June 28th, 2004
HDTV Over-the-air Receiver and Antennas
Since moving to Arlinton Heights, I’ve been trying to get HDTV over the
air. The experiment didn’t succeed — I could only get 3 channels (WGN,
ABC, and PBS). Without FOX and NBC, it wasn’t worth it.
However, when a channel did come in with HD content, it looked
awesome! The nature specials on PBS were very clear and in widescreen
high-definition (you could really see that bobcat fight the snake).
For the record, I used a Motorola HDT-100 high definition
television receever on an open-box deal from Circuit City (for $270). It
worked well, but had to be returned in the end because …
… it turns out I live on the wrong side of the apartment to be able to
receive signals from the Sears Tower and Handcock building in downtown
Chicago. I did have some luck with the Gemini Silver Sensor UHF antenna
— it’s very directional and helped with the multipath problems caused
by the signals going through my apartment building. A good website on
general antenna info (for dummies) is here.
Also, antennaweb.org is a great website. You type in your
address and it can tell you what direction all the TV stations are from
your address and then recommend an antenna type.
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Monday, June 28th, 2004
Seein Cubs/Sox at “The Cell”
This weekend, I had my first chance to see US Cellular Field — it was
the Cubs vs the Sox. Although the Sox won, it was a beautiful
day for a game. After the game, we walked through the Taste of
Chicago for some yummy eats — fried okra and a steak taco were
my favorites.
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Friday, June 18th, 2004
We should contact Dr. Huggins
I think we should get in touch with Huggins to find out how to
replace the broken link to the windows code from Steve an I’s
OFDM project.
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Friday, June 18th, 2004
My Brother Got Married!
Can you believe it? Arik married Laura Hanson, a wonderful young lady, on June 4, 2004. It was a great time! See my dad’s photo collection.
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Thursday, June 17th, 2004
Relocated to Arlington Heights
For those who are interested, Amanda and I are moving to an
apartment in Arlington Heights this Sunday. We got our keys and
checked it out today — it was quite nice! This is our intermediate
place to live while our condo back in Evanston is built.
Our new address:
299 N Dunton Ave Apt 604
Arlington Heights, IL 60004
Phone number (effective Monday):
847-577-8563
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2004
Kris got a job!
Congrats to my friend Kris Classen on putting that law degree to use and
getting a new job at the Appelate Court of Illinois in Richmond,
IL. He’ll be working for Jack O’Malley.
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Tuesday, June 15th, 2004
Link on Mac OS X Hints
I was excited to have my simple hint posted at macosxhints
today. It’s just a convenient way to quit Mail.app remotely so that I
can check email using pine.
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Tuesday, June 8th, 2004
Markdown with cat and open
To concatenate head.html, tail.html files and auto-open result
Tack on another command (cat) that concatenates the text from the header, stdin, and footer. Then open the result in your default browser. E.g. (should be all on one line):
% perl Markdown.pl foo.text | perl SmartyPants.pl |
cat head.html - tail.html > foo.html; open foo.html
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Monday, June 7th, 2004
Recursive Posting
Since Steve introduced my blog, I posted a response, and then Steve responded
to the response, then of couse I had to add the obligitory recursive post in response.
Steve’s use of iBlog & .Mac does seem quite simple for setting up simple useless blogs :)
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