July 14, 2003

Apex and TERK
I have an Apex AD-1110W DVD player. It is a piece of crap, but it was cheap. I just bought a TERK "mini" modulator to connect the DVD player to the TV, which lacks RCA jacks. The modulator is also a piece of crap, and doesn't work: the circuitry backing its RCA jacks doesn't have enough gain to feed a television. This despite the fact that feeding video signals to a television is its sole function, it being too fragile to serve even as a doorstop. Argh!!
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Brits on Dean
From across the pond, an extreme outsider's view of Dean. The article's highlight is the following:

But that is the nature of politics in New Hampshire, a peaceful prosperous state with the jarringly inappropriate motto "Live free or die". Through historical accident, the place has become a crucial early hoop the candidates have to jump through and survive if they are to get a shot at the presidency. Consequently, contenders for the most powerful job in the history of the world have to spend weeks courting the state house by house, schmoozing voters in their own back gardens. It is an odd arrangement - a bit like giving Northumbrians an early say in who becomes prime minister.
No more politics for a while, chump.
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