This past weekend I must have thought “I need to remember to blog this” at least ten times. Now I find myself with some spare time and I can’t remember a damn thing. The only thing that sticks in my mind was that dumbass dance I was doing at B-Town for like five hours straight. Why Lauren let me continue I have no idea. I told her she lost the cool contest cause if I remember correctly she was doing too; only sober. Friday night I definitely took the crazy train to bizarro town. Every once in a while I’ll totally lose my mind and start to think that the funny stuff that goes on inside my head is also funny to other people (ergo the B-Town dance … and for those of you not out Friday night, picture the worst rendition of the macarena you’ve ever seen). Oh! and did I mention bizarro town has an official anthem? It’s called Somebody Told Me by The Killers. I’d say that maybe three times a year you’ll have the serendipitous occasion to hear me sing it at the top of my lungs. Man do I love to drunken sing that song. My latest attempt even won me an award. For the rest of the night I proudly wore a sign that read “Tonight I’m Duffy.” Ugh, and I even wore it over to the firehouse. What the hell was I thinking? That’s the crazy thing about bizarro town … the village idiot becomes my hero and I proudly bear his name. But yeah, I had a really good time  :)

Other randomness:
1) Paris Hilton doesn’t change facial expressions
2) I hacked my TiVo last night to expand the recording capacity from 60 hours to 245 hours. What a fracking mess that was. A project that should have taken me two hours ended at 4 AM; which was six hours after I started the whole misadventure. I’ll post more details later, but for anyone considering the same project DO NOT FORGET THIS: a) You cannot use mfstools to do a TiVo backup to an NTFS formatted drive and b) Do not let your cat lick the power supply of your opened TiVo.
3) When it comes technology, nothing is ever easy for me. Its the simplest things that create the biggest roadblocks. Like I’m the guy who is always one outlet short on his power strip because fate loves to torture me. I set out Saturday with one simple goal: Download Pirates of the Caribbean and watch it on my TV. Step 1: burn said pirated movie to DVD. Problem: the movie doesn’t fit on a DVD without a lengthy re-encoding process. Step 2: dig up that old analog video to composite video cable and run the movie off your laptop. Problem: The cat has chewed through the cable. Step 3: dig up that old analog video to S-video cable and run the movie off your laptop. Problem: The cat has chewed through that one too. Step 4: Locate a hacked copy of XBOX Media Center and then FTP the damn video over to your XBOX and play it from there. Five hours later, success. I could have probably done it a little faster but I was hacking my router at the time and was without internet for a while (which makes it really hard to download things like XBOX Media Center)
4) I hacked my router this weekend. Note to others considering this: DO NOT UPGRADE YOUR LINKSYS FIRMWARE VIA FIREFOX. I had to sweat it out for a good five minutes while thinking I bricked my router; but in the end everything worked out. I’ll post more about the process later, but I mainly did it so that I could run a DHCP server and still tie specific IP address to specific MAC addresses. I never want to see the Applications and Gaming screen of my Linksys router again. That and it’s fun to turn your $60 router into a $600 router.
5) Sorry for the haphazard post today. I’m trying to make a 5:00 dart appointment. Maybe I’ll come back later and pepper with some links. Or maybe not. I’ll be lucky if I even spell check this mess.