The Tentacled Monkey

This is a 7 foot tall, 104 pound dice rolling machine capable of processing 1.3 dice rolls per day. It is really quite impressive… dare I day a thing a beauty?

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Popcorn Hour A-110

For Christmas I got the awesome piece of tech called the Popcorn Hour A-110 Networked Media Tank, commonly known as the NMT. Basically, the NMT is a media device that will hook to your home network and allow you to either stream content from the web straight to your TV. The NMT is also capable of playing media files from an external HDD connected via USB or from an internal SATA HDD that you can add in on your own.

This little guy handles damn near every format that I can think of including Matroska and VOBs with menu support. The NMT will even download torrents to its internal hard drive on its own.

The only down side that I have noticed so far is that the otherwise perfect remote must be pointed directly at the unit for it to respond. Besides that the remote is a high quality Blu-Ray styled remote control.

There is a nice community of people and developers that are willing to help on any problems that you might encounter and add-ons that you might want to create.

Long story short, if you have a lot of media that you want to easily watch or listen on your TV, then this is the perfect solution.

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ANOTHER UPDATE: Well this has just turned ugly. My friend’s NewEgg account was closed today and the order for the laptop was completely voided, then they said that the bank told NewEgg that his account was closed, which was a total crock of shite. So all told there will be no laptop coming, and I likely lost my online order buddy. So thanks for nothing you NewEgg fucks.

This kind of shit always seems to happen to me whenever I want to actually buy something for myself. I am not a rich man by any means and any amount of money over abotu $10 that I spend affects my budget in some manner. So, to trust a company with my hard-earned cash and to be treated in such a demeaning manner is fucking typical of my history of ordering tech. I know it wasn’t my account that was closed and whatever, but it was my fucking money and, would have been, my fucking laptop. I suppose this is just a way for the man to stomp on my ballz and tell me that I shouldn’t be spending $400 on a uber-cheap linux running laptop when I have a perfectly malfunctioning Thinkpad T-23 at home, and gas is over $3.00 a gallon.

Update: Ordering from NewEgg.com has been an exceptionally aggravating process for some reason. I had to order the item twice, cancel both of those and then have a friend buy it from his account. So now the order didn’t start processing until late Friday afternoon. Hopefully, I will have the damn thing by about Thursday of next week.

The Everex VA1500V, the Cloudbook’s big brother, is now available at Walmart.com for $398.00. But this means nothing to me personally since I just purchased this guy from NewEgg.com. They are processing the order and I should have it early next week. I can’t wait!!

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