{"id":114,"date":"2006-07-22T23:15:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-23T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toybox\/2006\/07\/22\/post-369-new-hardware\/"},"modified":"2009-08-08T15:00:57","modified_gmt":"2009-08-08T23:00:57","slug":"post-369-new-hardware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/2006\/07\/22\/post-369-new-hardware\/","title":{"rendered":"post 369 ~ new hardware!"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellpadding=\"5\" border=\"1\">\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" align=\"center\" width=\"33%\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2006\/Images-photos\/xjaymanx_desk03a.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2006\/Images-photos\/xjaymanx_desk03a_th.jpg\"><br \/>\n&#8220;nao&#8221; from the &#8220;mabinogi&#8221; game<\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" align=\"center\" width=\"33%\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2006\/Images-photos\/xjaymanx_desk03b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2006\/Images-photos\/xjaymanx_desk03b_th.jpg\"><br \/>\nanother view of &#8220;nao&#8221;<\/a><\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" align=\"center\" width=\"33%\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2006\/Images-photos\/xjaymanx_desk03c.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2006\/Images-photos\/xjaymanx_desk03c_th.jpg\"><br \/>\nanother view of &#8220;nao&#8221;<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" colspan=\"3\"><b>post 369<\/b> ~ new hardware!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B000204SWE\">Philips DVP642<\/a><\/b> ~ on monday the 17th, got my shipment of this awesome dvd player&#8230; why awesome?&#8230; well, i already have one in the living room (this is my 2nd for the exercise room!) and it plays 80-90% of my AVI files beautifully&#8230; especially my anime AVIs, of course!&#8230; now it&#8217;s only 80-90%, not b\/c of the player, but b\/c of the damn files which don&#8217;t have the correct codecs&#8230; oh well, still amazing!\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/B000BTL0OA\/\">Linksys WRT54GL<\/a><\/b> ~ also on that monday, got my new router!&#8230; now, it&#8217;s been several years since i got high-speed DSL, and my first router (microsoft) did pretty well for a couple years until it died in april&#8230; so my next one was a Netgear; it did okay, some dropouts which i assumed was the DSL, but when i bypassed the router, the DSL was fine!&#8230; so after a few months of this intermittent bullshit, i did my research and ordered the Linksys&#8230; apparently this GL version maintains the stable Linux firmware, while later versions have buggier windows-based firmware&#8230; and already after 5 days, it&#8217;s freakin&#8217; AWESOME!&#8230; no dropouts or delays whatsoever!&#8230; &#8220;the holy grail of routers!&#8221; ;)&#8230;\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000FI6R72\/\">DELL 2007WFP<\/a><\/b> ~ yup!&#8230; on thursday the 20th, i ordered the 20-inch widescreen monitor from DELL&#8230; shipped yesterday! should get it within the week, haha!&#8230; during my research, i&#8217;ve read about the &#8220;color banding&#8221; problem, but with a net cost of only about $60, i figure it&#8217;s worth the risk&#8230; and if it&#8217;s bad, i can always return\/exchange it, right?\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/xjaymanx_2006\/Images-photos\/xjaymanx_desk03a.jpg\">Nao from Mabinogi<\/a><\/b> ~ also on that thursday (i think), got my 9th and newest figure!&#8230; she&#8217;s &#8220;Nao&#8221; from the korean game &#8220;Mabinogi&#8221;&#8230; not terribly expensive, but i was taken by the translucency\/transparency of her clothing, especially the skirt&#8230; damn, that&#8217;s fine sculpting work!\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b><a href=\"http:\/\/xjaymanx.livejournal.com\/2006\/06\/30\/\">Anime-Watching Updates<\/a><\/b> ~ the newest anime gem i&#8217;ve seen is &#8220;kasimasi: girl meets girl&#8221;; wonderfully sensitive, gentle, at times even heart-breaking&#8230; finished &#8220;NANA&#8221; episode 14; finished &#8220;NANA&#8221; manga 3&#8230; tons more to go! ;)\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Goofy Dentistry<\/b> ~ on wednesday the 19th, jen&#8217;s and my visit to our goofy but lovable dentist tiffani, her husband\/receptionist dallas, and her hygienist jana&#8230; we told tiffani and jana about our divorce since there was no need to hide it from them&#8230; they were sad, but we reassured them, that it was the best thing to do&#8230; LOL, but now tiffani and jana want to find and hook up someone with me, haha! ;)\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Madarame Ramen<\/b> ~ and lastly, after taking a closer look at my expenses versus income, i guess i&#8217;ll be having more RAMEN for a while&#8230; with the huge increase in my new mortgage payments, i should be able to shave my FOOD expenses from about $400\/month down to $200-250\/month, which would be a great help&#8230; hahaha, reminds me of the &#8220;extreme otaku geek&#8221; madarame from the hilarious anime &#8220;genshiken&#8221;, who sacrifices food in order to buy pornographic anime and manga! ;)))<br \/>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;nao&#8221; from the &#8220;mabinogi&#8221; game another view of &#8220;nao&#8221; another view of &#8220;nao&#8221; post 369 ~ new hardware! Philips DVP642 ~ on monday the 17th, got my shipment of this awesome dvd player&#8230; why awesome?&#8230; well, i already have one in the living room (this is my 2nd for the exercise room!) and it plays &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/2006\/07\/22\/post-369-new-hardware\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4083,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/4083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.xjaymanx.com\/toyboxx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}