Thursday, March 20, 2008

A new tripod


My new tripod finally arrived this week. I ordered it weeks, perhaps months, ago and it finally shipped. It was risky to order a tripod basically sight-unseen with no reviews or anything other than a single marketing picture that was on a number of sites, but for $30 it was a gamble I was willing to take.

Read on for some pictures of the Bogen Manfrotto Modo Pocket 797 'tripod.'

Saturday, March 8, 2008

Automated HVAC

Over the past month and a half I have replaced the Honeywell programmable thermostat that came with the house with a Venstar 1900 programmable thermostat. This is exciting. I don't understand why you are not excited to read more about my thermostat below...