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Saturday, March 11, 2006
Building a Home Theater PC (pt1)
This note shows my latest project, building a Home Theater PC. This device will sit with the stereo, in the living room. I am going to rip all of my CD music to this box and use it as a jukebox. We'll also use it to play Internet Radio and for ripping and playing DVD movies. I will be putting all of my pictures on this PC. The PC has a 64 Bit AMD 3800 processor, 3 WD 250 Gig drives configured in a RAID5 configuration (that assures that a loss of any single disk will not result in any lost data.
The case looks like a Stereo device (click on a picture to enlarge it)
This is the motherboard. The AMD processor is snapped into it's socket in the center of this picture
Here is the Motherboard in place with some of the connections in place. Because so much is packed into a small case, cooling is a big deal. there is an 80MM fam up in the front and 2 60MM fans in the back.
The case looks like a Stereo device (click on a picture to enlarge it)
This is the motherboard. The AMD processor is snapped into it's socket in the center of this picture
Here is the Motherboard in place with some of the connections in place. Because so much is packed into a small case, cooling is a big deal. there is an 80MM fam up in the front and 2 60MM fans in the back.
Girl Scout Cookie Time!
Today we went to a Volunteer Fair at the Town Building in Issaquah. Sue met the quintesential Girl Scout (pictured center with about a zillion badges on her vest) and bought our annual cookie allotment. Mmmmm, Samoas :)
Sunday, March 05, 2006
The Car Ferry
Sue and I took a road trip around the end of Puget Sound yesterday, with a return trip via the Car Ferry. 
The boat took us from Bremerton into downtown Seattle. Ferries are a pretty common way of getting around this area. For our ride, we just pulled into the pier, paid our $10 and waited to drive onto the boat. The ride was about an hour long and wound in and out through the sound. Sue hung out in the car. It was a beautiful day with great views of Mount Rainier and the city of Seattle:
The boat took us from Bremerton into downtown Seattle. Ferries are a pretty common way of getting around this area. For our ride, we just pulled into the pier, paid our $10 and waited to drive onto the boat. The ride was about an hour long and wound in and out through the sound. Sue hung out in the car. It was a beautiful day with great views of Mount Rainier and the city of Seattle: 
Friday, March 03, 2006
A wonderful day in our neighborhood
Today was a nice sunny day in Washington. I thought it would be nice to start to record some of the daily life to help our far away family stay in touch with things around here.
This weekend, I'm going to get a few things done. My prediction:
- Get a few mile hike in
- Ride my Bike
- Get to the Gym
- Drive a bucket of balls
- order parts for a media center pc to build
- Write a letter in french to my nephew/pen pal Aiden
- Look into New York travel
Let's see how many of these things get done :)
This weekend, I'm going to get a few things done. My prediction:
- Get a few mile hike in
- Ride my Bike
- Get to the Gym
- Drive a bucket of balls
- order parts for a media center pc to build
- Write a letter in french to my nephew/pen pal Aiden
- Look into New York travel
Let's see how many of these things get done :)
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