If I Could Take it With Me

In the past humans were buried with items, or people, that might be of use to them in the afterlife, or were among their favorites.

My Logitech Harmony One universal remote is coming with me.

I'm in the process of upgrading my home AV setup - moving to a true HTPC system - with all the lovely PITA issues that come along with mucking about with hardware setups that have been in place in a room and your habits for years.

But plug the Harmony into the USB cable and you can change its settings via a pretty nice web page interface. It's lovely. Now, if I could find the genius who designed my Sony CD player remote with no on/off button...

Dropping Things from Space, the Final Frontier

I'm not going to thump my chest for an American company doing cool things related to an American product, because there are one or two other places on the planet that could have paired the same things. Well, maybe a little chest-thumping.

More importantly, the cool factor of testing your iPad protective case by DROPPING IT ONTO THE GROUND FROM SPACE (even just weather-balloon-popping space), is just too nifto-keano.

Talk about resetting the bar:

"Hey Bob, nice holster you got there. Have you DROPPED IT FROM SPACE yet?"

"Well gee, Winston, I don't that's really a relevant test of -"

"Later, loser, I'm going to go buy some shoes that somebody DROPPED FROM SPACE."

"Oh yeah, well that's just fine, dickweed! Dammit, gotta get me a damned weather balloon and a spare .38, -grumble-..."