Since the early days of Tivo Series 1, I have been pining to make improvements to it. Back in the day, I desperately wanted to network the box (no Ethernet back then) through the serial port, add a hard drive, and burn the recordings to a DVD. By the time I studied the procedure and was ready to purchase additional parts — Series 2 hit the market and contained most of those features.

A few years later, I have replaced Tivo with the DVRs from my cable company. While these boxes are more convenient than a Tivo, they are extremely limited and lack basic functions — like a working search.

I have decided that it is time to build a DVR from scratch. This box will extend the standard definition of DVR. It’s a media center. It can record television, burn and rip DVDs, download and stream movies from the Internet, play MP3s and CDs and ”surf” the Web.

I’ll be “blogging” the entire media box building process. I will cover the very first step of picking out the software/hardware through having it up and running and downloading porn.

I guess the question I keep asking myself all these years is “do I need to do this?” Of course not, but then again,  Columbus didn’t *need* to go to the moon.

 Proposed Specs:

• Mythbuntu (Ubuntu Distro running MythTV)
• HTPC Case (Model Undecided)
• DVICO FusionHDTV5 Express, HDTV Tuner, ATSC, QAM, PCI Express
• 2 Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 750GB Hard Drives

1. Pau is back. Lakers are rockin!
2. Just about fully moved in.
3. Dinner at Jiraffe
4. Dear Johan Axelfoot…
5. You are all space roach.

Space Roach (n, adj):

1. A ridiculous creature from outer space that is on earth to destroy the human population.
2. Many humans are known to act like a space roach.

Here are some other known space roach facts:

• The space roach often disguises itself as a democrat.
• A space roach is like a douche bag — minus the cool.
• It is common practice to extend the pronunciation of the word roach (i.e. roooooaaaaach) to convey the extremeness of the space roach.
• More often than not, a Jamaican accent is used when shouting space roach.
• Space Roach has become an Internet meme that has caused parents to have their children checked for Tourette’s.
• Hillary Clinton

I was about to add this word to urban dictionary after a friend suggested I do so. We both had thought I had just coined the term after viewing something on the net that was quite…blumptastic. We wanted to trademark the phrase – as I have done so in the past (horracious). I guess we were too late. It’s nice to see that great minds think alike….and apparently smoke as much master and blackberry og kush.

Found on SpaceRoach