Episode 971
November 30, 2009 Seal Shield Wireless
You can see the flexible LED-backlit Seal Flex Glow keyboard in Dick's write-up for today. For the wireless Silver Surf Keyboard and Mouse, here's a picture.
Seal Shield Silver Surf
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TWiT on Roku
Dick got the new wireless-N Roku box for Christmas from Leo, although he is disappointed that Dane Golden, who visited Dick in New York, didn't bring along an East Coast Mustang for Dick. Some TWiT shows are now on Roku as downloadable videos, and the firmware update is gradually being rolled out to existing Roku boxes. In due course, the TWiT network will be available as live streaming.
Salad Crunching
Alex Lindsay has lost 45 pounds since using the diet prescribed by Nutrisystem, which he reckons is about $83 per pound of weight lost, for his Basic Plan. Leo is going for a more expensive plan, the nu-kitchen Fresh, for chef-prepared food which will be Fedexed to him once a week. Does it mean that instead of munching a fresh salad, Leo will be crunching a frozen salad? Sadly Leo has chosen Thursday for his weekly delivery. He should have chosen Tuesday. Then they could play "What's In the Box?" while recording the Daily Giz Wiz.
A Tweeting Tractor
Steve Tucker, a farmer in Brandon, Nebraska, heard Dick and Leo talk about meeting half-way across America to do their shows, has worked out that that would be right in the middle of his wheat fields on his 4000-acre farm. He is offering them full facilities to do the shows, including portapotties, extension cords and generators. His 14.4-baud modem may be a little wanting and he advises Leo to bring his own internet connection.
In truth, Steve is very well connected on his farm, and has a GPS-guided, auto-pilot tractor where he tweets (Tykerman1), and listens to the Daily Giz Wiz. He has even appeared on CNN to talk about his technology-laden farm. You can watch the video at CNN.
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