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Especially when a certain monkey faced puppy is absent from the equation. I realize now that her walking on my head in order to wake me up to feed her has become an integral part of my morning.

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I wrote a few weeks ago about how we decided to try the netflix online service out. It worked wondefully the first time that we tried it with our new ClearWire service. But it seems that since then our download speeds have not been fast enough to support a streaming movie. Very annoying.
So I am currently near the airport in Portland Or, where I am going to be helping out with tech support for the OR bar exam and I got to my hotel and decided I would try the netflix again from here. The Radisson I am staying in offers free wifi so I crossed me fingers and gave it a shot. And it worked. I watched a documentry about scrabble players. It ran smooth with no issues.
We are going to be building a media server for the house soon. It would be really cool if we could use the netflix on that machine as well as getting the dvds.
Maybe if clearwire upgrades to wimax like they have been talking about their download speed will get better and it could work.

Ok going to bed now so I can be all bright and tech supporty. I am the Site Captain after all (woo hoo I have been waiting for so long for this momentus occaion).

Sleep. Now.

I just found a good reason to boot into the windows side of my machine, and that is the ability to watch movies from Netflix instantly.

We decided to try out the service because why not.  I mean for 8.99 a month you can get dvd rentals AND you can have unlimited online movie viewing.  We were figuring that if we get at least two movies a month that it pretty much evens out to what it would be to rent at Blockbuster.  AND sometimes we like to watch movies on marios computer in bed so now we know that we can use the online service as well to watch those on a whim sort of selections.

Launching into Vista was the worst part of this whole ordeal.  Then when we selected a movie to watch we had to install some netflix software.  That didn’t take too long.  Once the software was installed it really didn’t take that long to start playing, and I could set it to go full screen (which is not that impressive on a 13 inch screen, but not bad when you consider you are watching a full on movie).  It was a little hiccuppy the first few seconds of the movie, but once it got going everything played really well.
The sound on my computer is not that great, just good enough for listening to music when browsing the web, so I plugged some external speakers in and it worked really well.

I have a few trips coming up for work and am very excited about the prospect of being able to watch, what ends up being  on demand type of movies on my computer.  Shit 8.99 is a small price to pay for movies on demand.  I can skip a few lattes a month for that.

I can’t wait until the Linux community figures out how to make Netflix work, OR better yet, Netflix should just add support for Linux and then everyone out there could spend more time watching their movies and enjoying their service than trying to figure out a work around. Although they say necessity is the mother of invention so I am sure that something good will come of it.

I am off to bed.  We watched the Richard Rodriguez Grind house movie and now I am off to dream about having a machine gun leg and shooting zombies.