- Thursday, January 7th, 2010 at 1:42 am
I’m as shocked as you are to see that I’m posting for a second time in 24 hours, trust me.
In case the title wasn’t easy enough to understand; I pose a simple question to you: What was the first movie that you ever saw in DVD format?
Way back in 1997, nearly 13 years ago the Digital Versatile Disc (or Digital Video Disc) was unleashed. DVD players were very expensive, as were the movies themselves. About two years later, my parents were divorced, and my dad had started buying some of the things that he always wanted, but my mom never let him get. One of which was a new computer. A sweet IBM Aptiva, with a BLAZING 300MHz Intel Pentium II processor and 128MB of RAM. It featured both a CD/DVD-ROM, and a separate CD-R/RW burner. Of course this meant a DVD must be obtained, and immediately played on the computer, right?
After a trip to the store, two brand spanking new and surprisingly strange movies were purchased. Twister, and True Lies. After opening the package, inspecting the disc, gawking at the thought that this disc contained a movie, my dad and I watched Twister. On the 14″ CRT display, sitting on kitchen chairs in the computer room. It seems funny to think about now that DVD players have become so cheap and common, but that’s what it took to be on the bleeding edge of technology in those days.
So what about you? What was your first DVD experience? Reply with your answer and/or a link to your post sharing your experience.
Lastly, a bit of related trivia: Twister was the first feature length Hollywood film to be released in DVD format, and the last film to be released on HD-DVD format.
Filed under: blog block, life — Tags: childhood, computer, dad, gadget, life, memories, movie, technology —
- Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 at 4:04 am
I got my Storm for Christmas from my dad in December, and I have been looking for a good case for it since then. I checked repeatedly at the Verizon kiosk in my local Circuit City, but they only had a clunky leather pouch type case that I didn’t care for. I was told by a guy named Matt that there was an official one being produced and sold by Verizon, but it was recalled due to phones falling out of it repeatedly. Clearly not up to par. So I held off until they fixed their issues so I could get a nice clip on style holster.
Anyways, it never came back. So I started reading around the Crackberry Forums and saw quite a few people talking about the Seidio holsters, specifically the spring clip model. They also make a very similar holster that will play nice with your Storm if it’s snuggled up inside one of their Innocase series of cases. So I ordered the case from the Crackberry store for only $24.99. It arrived a few days later, and I’ve now been using it for about a week.
One of the best features, is that it includes a small magnet which makes use of a neat little BlackBerry feature that locks the phone into standby mode which prevents the backlight from turning on while the phone is holstered. This is a great feature for the Storm because the large screen is constantly being depressed in my pocket, which drains the battery fairly quickly. This holster also has a screen inward design, to keep the goods safe, and recessed sides to allow access to all buttons and the charging port. The case is made of a softish plastic that feels a bit rubbery and has a felt-like material on the inside where the screen rests. The clip snaps down firmly on the top edge of the phone with two strong spirngs holding it in place. The swivel clip is fairly low profile and snaps into seven positions allowing the phone to sit in portrait mode or landscape mode (left or right).
Several people (including my dad, who has the same phone; and the clunkly leather case that I don’t like) have said that they don’t think the case looks like it holds the phone very securely, but I disagree. I have bumped into lots of things including the car door, dresser, random stuff at work, and never had an issue. I also dropped it today at work and the cause prevented the phone from ever touching the floor. The small hooks on the bottom corners and the clip over the top edge don’t allow the phone to contact the floor at all. It doesn’t provide a lot of shock absorption, but it will save those nasty dings in the sleek metal shell of the phone.
If you have a Storm, I’d suggest this case as it doesn’t restrict the use of the phone at all like some other cases (like the clunky one) do, and it protects the phone quite well. Seidio has a pretty wide range of similar holsters for all sorts of handsets so check the out if you’re looking for a new one.
Seidio Spring Clip Holster – $24.99
Images copyright © Seidio Inc.
Filed under: review — Tags: blackberry, dad, ftw, gadget, review, storm —
- Thursday, January 1st, 2009 at 4:46 pm
My dad sent me these pictures yesterday. A water pipe broke on the roof of his building and created a seven foot tall chunk of ice. They worked four five hours and managed to get a small corner of it chipped away.
Today they are going to use an ice fishing auger to try and bore some holes through the center to weaken it before smashing it with axes and sledgehammers.
Filed under: life, media, photography — Tags: cold, dad, ice, pictures, weather, winter —
- Saturday, December 13th, 2008 at 3:39 am
I got my new phone yesterday (Thursday), and I loooooove it. No complaints yet, aside from it not coming with a case. Apparently the Vodaphone version shipped with a case, and the Verizon version shipped with the free 8GB MicroSD card. I’ll take the card and buy a case. Click the picture above to see more over at the Surpass forums.
And if you have a BlackBerry, shoot me you PIN number so we can chat it up on BlackBerry Messenger :D
Filed under: life — Tags: blackberry, dad, ftw, gadget, phone, storm, xmas —
- Sunday, September 28th, 2008 at 7:15 pm
There was a brief outage (a few hours) for my site today, it was all my fault. I waited until the last second to renew my domain and Godaddy reverted it to their default parked page. Everything should be back to normal now though.
Not a whole lot of news to report today.. I had the whole weekend off, Saturday Mae and I went to the Como Zoo for a bit, it was surprisingly busy though, so we didn’t stay too long. Didn’t even get a chance to hit up the Conservatory due to a wedding. Lame. After the zoo we stopped home to grab some things, followed by a stop at Target for some garlic bread, and we headed to my dad’s house for dinner. Lasagna plus our garlic bread, and it was quite tasty. We watched some TV while the dinner was cooking, played some Wii after dinner and left there a little after midnight.
It was a pretty early night, followed by Mae leaving around 1pm for work and me sleeping for a while after that. I got up and got the domain issue sorted shortly before Robert got home and starting playing Resistance.
The Twins lost yesterday, as did the White Sox; and both clubs won today. Now as I mentioned previously, the White Sox play the Tigers tomorrow to make up a game that got rained out earlier in the season. If the White Sox win, we play them on Tuesday in a one game playoff to decide who gets first place for the American League Central. If they lose, we clinch the central and go to the playoffs. First pitch is tomorrow at 1:05 CDT, so be ready.
Time to go find some grub.
Filed under: baseball, life, site, twins — Tags: baseball, como, dad, life, mae, twins, weekend, white sox, wii, zoo —