{"id":1019,"date":"2006-07-24T12:15:41","date_gmt":"2006-07-24T16:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2006-07-24T12:15:41","modified_gmt":"2006-07-24T16:15:41","slug":"sister-internet-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2006\/07\/sister-internet-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Sister, internet, family"},"content":{"rendered":"

Happy Birthday !<\/p>\n

is my sister, she just got a LiveJournal about a week ago after the nagging of family members. It’s amusing to me that having an online journal has become popular enough that family members encourage each other to have them. I still think about how funny it is for me to go to family reunions and learn that several people in my family read my journal – and I didn’t even know they knew about it!<\/p>\n

Now for some photos from last week I never got to post. Between crawling around our basement crawlspace on the hottest day of the year, Michael took some pictures while the Verizon guys were here installing the FiOS.<\/p>\n

\"Verizon<\/a>
\nOne of the two Verizon trucks in our driveway<\/p>\n

\"Hanging<\/a>
\nThey didn’t have a ladder truck, so used a rope contraption to string the FiOS line from the street to our house.<\/p>\n

\"Junction<\/a>
\nJunction box! This is where the magic happens. It’s mounted in our basement and has hookups for internet, television (coming soon) and some sort of digital telephone service they’ll be offering.<\/p>\n

\"UPS<\/a>
\nBattery backup and primary internet FiOS box (I’m pretty sure…).<\/center><\/p>\n

And the FiOS connection has been going strong all weekend, I’m delighted. I spent some time downloading some MST3K episodes this weekend, and was happy to learn that there are a few on YouTube.com<\/a>, just search for Mystery Science Theater 3000. They come in 10 parts, so you can watch them one at a time. I used the Video Downloader<\/a> extension to Firefox to actually download the youtube videos (probably broke TOS for YouTube). It downloads them as .flv files, which mplayer played with no problem, but it didn’t work when I catted all 10 of the files together, d’oh. The quality isn’t the best either, but it’s tolerable, especially since you can’t get these episodes on DVD yet, so it’s still old tape trading.<\/p>\n

The weekend was nice. Saturday we spent with Michael’s family, a nice outdoor event that I managed to enjoy, even if everyone in the family wants us to have babies ASAP (“Ooooh you’re getting married? When are the kids coming along?” *smile, nod, chuckle, screaming inside*)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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