The ‘L’ is for Large
I am finished furnishing my apartment. When I moved in, I knew that I wanted to get a bookshelf, DSL, and a television. Now I have all three.
I realized when I was looking at apartments in March that I would be in the position, for the first time, of having a room which would need a screen. In the dorms in college, I just used my computer. Last year, Darren had a television for the living room. Now, however, I have another room for my computers and no roommates to cover my shortfall.
Yesterday, I bought one of these (a 32-inch LCD screen, in case you don’t care to follow the link). I had fun confusing the girl who was ‘helping’ me (I actually liked one of the other sales guys better, but she was the one who kept hanging around me asking questions). I don’t think she knew what to think of me, especially after I responded to, “Do you have HD cable already?” with, “Oh, no…no, I don’t watch television.” I could just see her trying to figure out why some guy who doesn’t watch television wanted one (movies and computers, of course).
It’s quite nice, of course, but somehow the most geek-exciting thing for me is that the screen comes with an RS-232C port. I don’t have an extra cable right now—my only serial cable is currently the console for my server—but I’m looking forward to having some fun controlling my TV from my computer. The protocol is simple ASCII command/response, and is even fully documented in the manual.
Somehow, my VHS tapes just don’t look so good anymore.
