This week, the large brown lumbering vehicle made its customary journey to my homestead. Upon arrival, the humanoid occupant emerged, also clad in brown (yet with the odd insignia "U.P.S." emblazoned on his cloak). After the usual paperwork negotiations and a shout of "Utini!", the brown vehicle lumbered away and I was left with my new droid.
"Porter-Cable 7812", as it is called, should work out just fine. And if this droid does work out, I think I'll transmit my application to the Academy this year and… well, maybe next year.
It sure is nice to have a real tool-triggered Shop Vac in the house for a change.
The always useful 511.org web site has a new feature: A web page where you can calculate your average out-of-pocket commuting costs. I just did these calculations myself a few weeks ago, and reached the same conclusions as the 511.org calculator. My commute costs me about $22 a day. Sheesh.
Did you see the Moon and Venus in tonight's sky? Even through the Bay Area haze… wow.
Now that my 2nd gen iPod nano [ipodnanoreviews, nano2bass, ipodnanomachrone, nano2greviews] comes with me just about everywhere, I've decided to remove the OmniFi DMP1 [omnifiaudia4, omnifigroup] from my car and use the nano instead. I have a line-level audio jack available in the car, but I've had a heckuva time finding a line-out adapter for the nano, let alone an elegant way to store the nano when it is in the car.
Luckily, Griffin released an updated version of their TuneFlex AUX adapter specifically made for the 2nd gen iPod nano. The TuneFlex sits in the car's lighter socket, and has a flexible arm with an iPod dock at the end. There is a line-out jack at the base of the TuneFlex. This thing works perfectly. The flexible arm never moves when the car is in motion, and the sound quality of the line-out jack is much better than using the headphone port for line-out duties.
The new Griffin TuneFlex AUX is highly recommended.
Imagine my surprise when I opened the box for my new Buffalo WiFi bridge ![[B000BNDEZY]](http://www.mikeyp.com/css/external.gif)
and found this:
That's a flat cat5 cable. I wonder if they are trying to coin the term "untwisted pairs"?
Actually, as I look closely and skim my fingers over the cable, I think the pairs are still twisted. But… I think I'll stick with good old round cat5.
