Ikea & Tivo
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Gretchen turned Mom and me onto Ikea a few years ago. We've made a couple of trips to the closest one, in Canada. I actually talked Steve into going to one while we were on vacation in lovely Newark, NJ one year. There were rumors a couple of years ago of an Ikea being built in the Rochester area but no sign of it yet. Probably just as well.
Ikea Hacker, a site where people post their repurposed Ikea products. So it's DIY and Ikea all rolled into one. Hot damn, I say.
In other news, we hooked up our family room Tivo to our computer network a week or so ago. I used some of our Tivo referral points to buy a wireless adapter for my studio Tivo. Now they can recognize each other, which was one of my main goals. (The other is to eventually get rid of our land line altogether.) The reason it's so cool that they recognize each other is that last night, while Steve was working late, I was able to eat dinner in the comfort of the family room, watching a show I'd recorded on my studio Tivo! I don't mind eating dinner in my studio at all, but it's nice to have options.
Back when I had my gall bladder out, we only had one Tivo, which was in my studio. Sometimes I just really wanted to watch the shows I'd recorded, so I built myself a little nest of quilts so I could lie down on my studio floor to watch them. Hardly ideal. If we'd had 2 Tivos and this hot network set-up, I could have watched my studio recorded shows from the comfort of the family room couch.
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If I could make a living floating around the Internet, I swear I'd work 24/7.
Yesterday's lunch hour found me checking in on some of my regular artist blogs, like Claudine Hellmuth. I'd heard her name for years, then starting seeing her on craft shows and checked out her blog. I pop in now and again.
Her blog was featured on Decor8 so I poked around there for a while, barely scratching the surface. One thing leads to another.
Yesterday's lunch hour found me checking in on some of my regular artist blogs, like Claudine Hellmuth. I'd heard her name for years, then starting seeing her on craft shows and checked out her blog. I pop in now and again.
Her blog was featured on Decor8 so I poked around there for a while, barely scratching the surface. One thing leads to another.
Gretchen turned Mom and me onto Ikea a few years ago. We've made a couple of trips to the closest one, in Canada. I actually talked Steve into going to one while we were on vacation in lovely Newark, NJ one year. There were rumors a couple of years ago of an Ikea being built in the Rochester area but no sign of it yet. Probably just as well.
Ikea Hacker, a site where people post their repurposed Ikea products. So it's DIY and Ikea all rolled into one. Hot damn, I say.
In other news, we hooked up our family room Tivo to our computer network a week or so ago. I used some of our Tivo referral points to buy a wireless adapter for my studio Tivo. Now they can recognize each other, which was one of my main goals. (The other is to eventually get rid of our land line altogether.) The reason it's so cool that they recognize each other is that last night, while Steve was working late, I was able to eat dinner in the comfort of the family room, watching a show I'd recorded on my studio Tivo! I don't mind eating dinner in my studio at all, but it's nice to have options.Back when I had my gall bladder out, we only had one Tivo, which was in my studio. Sometimes I just really wanted to watch the shows I'd recorded, so I built myself a little nest of quilts so I could lie down on my studio floor to watch them. Hardly ideal. If we'd had 2 Tivos and this hot network set-up, I could have watched my studio recorded shows from the comfort of the family room couch.
Tivo is way cool, if I haven't said that before. Gretchen, Mom and Dad have also joined the Tivo cult. Every time we get together, one way or another Tivo seems to enter the conversation.
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Labels: Fun Stuff I Found Online
posted by Stefani at 5:38 AM
4 Comments:
I've never been to an Ikea. I wish there was one around here!
I have come to appreciate having HBO On Demand and having Netflix deliver 24 on DVD, so I can imagine how you could enjoy Tivo. (We have a DVD recorder so I suppose I could program it to record stuff but I mostly only record tennis matches that are on when Nancy can't get to see them.)
Tivo Rocks! We have three Tivo units in our house. For two people. Slightly ridiculous, I know.
Ikea Hacker. thanks a lot. Now I'm going to have to start taking my meals at my computer....
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