Holy crap it’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything here. And apparently it is going to be a little longer still…
Today I installed Ubuntu 10.10 on a virtual machine using VirtualBox on my Mac and I have to say Ubuntu is coming along nicely, but that’s not what I wanted talk about. In the process of playing with Ubuntu, I noticed that VirtualBox has a seamless mode, which seamlessly integrates the OS of virtual machines into the host OS. How exciting. It’s the equivalent of VMWare’s Fusion and Parallel’s, um whatever they call that option on their product. Anyway, it’s way cool and I know what you are thinking. You’re thinking no it’s not. But you are wrong. It is seriously cool. I have Ubuntu applications floating around on my OSX desktop for crying out loud!!! They are all just meshing together into one big happening and it’s freaking me out man!
Sure, the technology has been around a long time, but now it’s in open source apps and that spells free.
Road trip!!! This is a stretch of Route 66 that I had never been on before so I thought, why not go on it. And here are the pictures.
Our TV, after years of service, rolled over, emitted a puff of smoke, and croaked before our eyes. This led to purchasing a new TV and, honoring the American tradition that bigger is better no matter what the subject or circumstance, we decided to buy a TV that would not fit into our current entertainment unit. So, being ridiculously handy to have around at times, I decided to alter our current unit from TV holder to TV stand.
After removing the front doors, taking out the drawers, and dragging the whole thing into the garage, this is what I started with:
The next step involved sawing that sucker in half using my trusty jigsaw.
Then I took the top half, flipped it over and beat the sides out of it using a rubber mallet, leaving me an upside table of sorts.
I followed that up with cutting the remaining crap off with a hacksaw, leaving me with a few scattered pieces of wood.
Having successfully extracted the very top from the rest of the top half, I slapped it on to the bottom half and secured it using some hinges from the now useless front doors. This stroke of absolute genius later allowed me to easily connect all of the wires to the various electronic components.
Only a few short hours after starting the project, I added some finishing touches, loaded it up with stuff and VIOLA!!! The shortening of my entertainment unit. Hehe, that sounds dirty.
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