No power in Mobile Tech Manor!
Oh No! The final live American Idol is on and the power just went off in the neighborhood. It has the earmarks of an extended outage, too. Booooooo!!
May 21, 2008
RECENT STORIES:
Comments
Categories
- Android
- audio stuff
- blogging
- CES 2006
- CES 2007
- CES 2008
- Coffee Break
- Computing tech
- cool stuff
- ebooks
- Freeware of the Moment
- from the heart
- from the heart- complete chronicle
- Hurricane Ike
- Hurricane Rita
- iPhone
- jkOnTheRun Audio Edition
- jkOnTheRun contests
- jkOnTheRun Mobile Media Edition
- jkOTR Reviews
- jkOTR stuff
- local muse
- local stuff
- Mac
- misc
- mobile tech
- Mobile Tech Manor
- MoTR Podcast
- netbooks
- Notebooks
- off topic
- OneNote
- Origami
- OTR with Tablet PCs Podcast
- pda
- personal type stuff
- places I visit every day
- pocket pc
- podcasting
- polls
- productivity
- Reader gear
- Reader Questions
- Samsung Q1U-P
- Skype stuff
- Smartphones
- sony U-50/70/71/750
- Sony UX Micro PC
- tablet pc
- TabletPC Show podcast
- techADDICTION podcast
- This week on jkOnTheRun
- ultra-portables
- UMPC
- Web
- Windows Mobile
- you gotta be kidding me
jkOTR Mobile Media Edition
RSS and Mobile-Friendly View
Sponsor Gallery
Recent Comments
- Enemy on jkOnTheRun review- Blackberry Storm, yes it can cut and paste
- AnnaBannanna on MSI Wind gets the Vista Ultimate treatment
- kentaro on jkOnTheRun review- Blackberry Storm, yes it can cut and paste
- ubiquityman on jkOnTheRun review- Blackberry Storm, yes it can cut and paste
- Kevin G on Run your MacBook without a battery and throttle the performance
- Philip Ferris on FolderShare becomes Windows Live Sync. So what about Live Mesh?
- Mike Powell on Run your MacBook without a battery and throttle the performance
- Anna on MSI Wind gets the Vista Ultimate treatment
- xedden on Teleport shares one mouse and keyboard across multiple Macs
- Mark Roddis on FolderShare becomes Windows Live Sync. So what about Live Mesh?
Contributors
Awards
 |
 |
 |
 |
Powered by TypePad
Member since 05/2004
Member since 05/2004
Copyright Notice
Copyright 2004 - 2008 by Giga Omni Media, Inc. All rights reserved. The content in this RSS feed, as well as the content presented on the web pages of the blog, is provided for your personal non-commercial use only and may not be republished in whole or in part without the express written or verbal consent of the publisher. All rights are reserved.
If only all television came via the web aye?
Posted by: Patrick | May 21, 2008 at 07:42 PM
Hey James don't worry, you can always access Kevin's Sling Box using your AirCard.
Posted by: HG | May 21, 2008 at 07:54 PM
My replacement AirCard will arrive tomorrow morning. :(
Posted by: JK | May 21, 2008 at 08:22 PM
Kelly Clarkson wins.
Oh ... wait.
Posted by: Mike Cane | May 21, 2008 at 08:24 PM
Is it the ants that took out the electricity? Maybe they heard how many delicious electronics you were hoarding and intend to make a feast of it.
Posted by: Ricky B. | May 21, 2008 at 08:25 PM
It's gotta be those darn ants from the Orient! Bunch of geek ants, they are..
Posted by: PJ | May 21, 2008 at 08:38 PM
David wins!
Posted by: Pam T. | May 21, 2008 at 08:48 PM
The power came back on in time for us to see the end of David Cook's winning song. Bummer (that we missed the show} but Cook is pretty good.
Posted by: James Kendrick | May 21, 2008 at 09:17 PM
Tsk tsk, you watch American Idol...
Posted by: Mitchell Oke | May 21, 2008 at 10:07 PM
JK, don't you have a USB tuner for your notebook(s) so that you can watch it there? Or is it too unpractical?
I can, at least with the digital terrestrial network (DVB-T), watch TV virtually anywhere using a USB powerered antenna and a USB tuner connected to my notebook, which is kinda cool. :) (The antenna: http://www.terratec.net/en/products/Cinergy_Antenna_One_1676.html )
Posted by: Filip Norrgård | May 22, 2008 at 01:07 AM
Dude...this is one post you should've held on to...
"Think twice...post once"
Posted by: Someone Who Does NOT Watch American Idol | May 22, 2008 at 01:20 AM
You watch a program about lazy Americans? Some people will watch anything if it's in HD!
Posted by: John in Norway | May 22, 2008 at 04:44 AM
Why all the hatred and condescension? Because YOU don't watch American Idol, why the need to be so condescending to those who do? So what if it's not your cup of tea? I'm sure there are things you enjoy watching/doing that other people just aren't going to understand. Diversity, differences of opinion and taste... those are good things, not something to be ridiculed. As for AI being a program about "lazy Americans" that's just ignorance. Love the show or not, those contestants work their butts off.
Posted by: Why all the hatred? | May 22, 2008 at 06:42 AM
John is probably upset by the fact that the time slot for a favorite cooking show "A Thousand and one tails - an odyssey in the preparation of Lutefisk" - was taken over by American Idol.
I'm told by many of my friends out Nor-way that it's a sore subject of much bitterness.
But hey, we cling to HD, gadgets and Idol, they cling to rotten fish soaked in lye - who's to judge?
Posted by: Brian | May 22, 2008 at 07:04 AM
You're so gadget focused and yet you don't have a backup generator? I'm disappointed in you ;)
We lose power quite often here so I got a whole house generator installed with automatic transfer switch - the power goes out in winter and while all the neighbors are looking for a hotel room I am nice and comfortable.
P.S. I blame the ants too.
Posted by: Mark Mitford | May 22, 2008 at 07:20 AM
Hey, I was kidding guys! It was a play on words. idol (idle) - lazy. Get it? Oh well, maybe only true English speakers got it.
As for that fish, I tried it once. The secret is to drink lots of akvavit in between bites. It's still disgusting though.
Posted by: Johh in Norway | May 23, 2008 at 04:36 AM