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Books I've Read: The Lost Fleet: Dauntless

So incredibly good. Found from this great Metafilter thread about space combat.

I *think* I would enjoy playing a game based on space combat where you had to take relatavistic effects and the speed of light into account. Where what you're seeing took place minutes or hours ago and you need to act more on prediction than reaction.

Big thanks to my sister Jeanette for the Christmas gift!

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I built an HDTV antenna!*

After fully digesting that we are paying ~$80 per month to Comcast for cable tv, I started looking into alternatives. Since most of what we watch is on the major networks (30 Rock, The Office, Desperate Housewives, Lost), free Over The Air HDTV is a possible replacement.

I found these plans for making an antenna from coat hangers and gave it a shot. I had all the pieces lying around except for the transformer, which I got from Radio Shack for 5 bucks. Initially, I only got a handful of stations, but after putting it on the roof (seen here) and pointing it properly, I get 72 stations.

Unfortunately, this is a UHF-only antenna, and most of the major networks in the Bay Area are broadcast in VHF. Regardless, on good clear days I can pick up all of them, though NBC drops out quite a bit. On rainy days, I lose NBC entirely, Fox is unwatchable, but the other networks remain ok. The local PBS station KQED has the strongest signal of them all, even though they're all broadcast from the same tower (Sutro) at the same power (except NBC, which is a slightly different tower on San Bruno mountain).

I'm going to try a professionally made antenna of this same design with higher gain next, and if that doesn't work I'll need to think about getting a serious one. If you live closer to the towers than I do (< 21 miles) and/or have clear line-of-sight to them, this antenna would work perfectly fine for you.

* An "HDTV antenna" is just a tv antenna. There's nothing special about it. If you have an antenna that received UHF and VHF just fine before HDTV came along, then you already have an HDTV antenna.

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BTW OMG WTF

July-ish!

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Books I've Read: Annabel Scheme

Fantastic. Like Cory Doctorow but without the preachiness and stereotyped characters. Also free!

I wish I had gotten in on the Kickstarter project.

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Books I've Read: The Lost Fleet: Dauntless

I built an HDTV antenna!*

BTW OMG WTF

Books I've Read: Annabel Scheme

Nick

Erin's 30th Birthday Party

Halloween 2009

Levi's King Ridge GranFondo

To the Ocean and Back

Stanford Baseball Game

April '09 Car Crash

Building an EarthTainer

Daddy's Day Off

Connor's Third Birthday

Carmel

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