HDMI and DVI

When I got my new LCD TV, it was all hooked up the installation team.  So, in essence, I did nothing.  Well, I drank, but that doesn’t count, does it?

Anyway, so yesterday after the football games, I am thinking that it would be cool to be able to surf the Internet during boring parts of football games.  I could hang out during the game and check stats on my big screen LCD instead of my little laptop screen.

So, laptop in hand I started looking for the best way to connect laptop to LCD TV and found out that it may not be as easy as I thought.  Apparently, there are many ways.  In this article I discovered that there are several ways to accomplish this and did not know which was right for me.

VGA, HDMI, or DVI?  Well, I found this good diagram on what is the difference between dvi and HDMI because apparently DVI and HDMI are the way to go for connecting your laptop–each of these are better than VGA.

Unfortunately, my laptop had no HDMI and I wish it did because the main difference between DVI and HDMI is that HDMI supports sound AND video.  DVI does not.  However, both provide smooth video.

Thus, in the end, I hooked up my laptop via DVI and did sound through the speaker jack into my stereo. 

Now, my laptop is fully connected and I can surf the Internet during ball games

Wii Be Workin Out

I don’t have any glossy photos of myself for you to look at.  Why?  Well, my name’s Chug and I like to do just that.  Beer, Food, you name it, I’m chuggin it. 

So, as the New Year approaches, I am gonna get fit, and I am gonna use Wii Fit to do it.  I just bought this thing and had no idea that is one of the Top Wii Games available.  It is so much more fun that the gym.

Last year, I tried the gym and I went for 2 weeks.  And that was it!  Do you know how much I paid for the gym?  $50 a month.  Sh*t, that’s one Wii Fit.  For the year, I just saved $500 and the best thing about it…I am now actually working out. 

What do you think of that? 

Oh, I’m still chuggin everything in site but I am trying to make it healthier chuggin.  Wii Fit directs me where I need to be.  Wii Fit tells me what I should eat and what I need to do to get the calories burnt off from what I eat.  It makes the calculations so simple.

I heard someone describe Wii as Wii Tastic because they love this thing so much and I am inclined to agree.

The Wii simply rules with video games and now it is getting me in the best shape of my life!

Cool Christmas Stuff

Christmas is about family–check! Got that.

But do you know what else it is about?  Getting awesome gifts and giving awesome gifts.  There is nothing that makes me happier than buying gifts that I know people will love.  I also buy lots of gifts for myself because I know my family won’t shell out the big bucks for me. 

Thus, I have to do it for myself.  I am looking at two special gifts for myself this year.  I put these two gifts up there as cool Christmas stuff and perhaps the Best Christmas Gifts this year.  They are the:

1. Amazon Kindle:  i will buy the 9.7 inch.  This thing is a revolutionary device and, as an avid reader, I have to get one.
2.  LCD TV.  There are so many great deals right now that Christmas is the must time to buy.

I am living for Christmas because I think that it is simply the best time of the year.  Do you think so too or does it stress you out?