The home theater project page is posted. I'll still be talking about it in the blog, but you can check there for more details and photos.
Upcoming Projects
The new house is coming together (aside from slight techincal difficulties with the dryer last night … there's no room in the breaker box for another circuit breaker.) There are two geek projects currently underway.
Mach Video
Jay and I will soon be making a trek to Virginia along with the other 2002 LDP's for the LDC3 conference. Along the way, we're going to stick a webcam in the car and take pictures with it about every second. We'll then combine the pictures into a video and you can see what it looks like to drive at about Mach 3 down to Virginia. This sounds kind of dumb, but I've seen it done before and it usually comes out looking pretty cool. I wrote up a program last night to control the webcam and store all the images.
Theater Room
I believe this is the first time I'm officially announcing this. Jay and I will be turning the first floor living room in our new house into our very own theater. Last night we hooked up the projector and planned out the stadium seating. Before long I will be making a separate page for updates about this project so you can follow along if you're interested. If it comes out even half as good as we're planning it should be a sight to behold.
Projector
Announcement number 2! It looks like I'm going to be a couple minutes late so this will be posted under Friday's headline. 
Oh well, you'll just have to deal.
Today a BenQ PB6100 was delivered to my house. After about a month of research I finally settled on this projector. It's the first piece of the home theater project that we're going to start for the new house. Don't worry… we'll have a full geek project page documenting the whole thing. It's going to have everything… inclduing stadium seating!
Asteroids
Ed and Chris hold the title as the first outside people to try out the arcade machine. From their reactions it seems the machine is a resounding success. Here's a short video so you can see it in action. What about the rest of you? Get over here and play it!
1941
Tyler and I beat "1941 Counter Attack" last night. Only 1999 games left to beat on that arcade machine. "Oh man, I died again." "Well hit the coin button and continue." "Oh yeah… this is so sweet."
Arcade Machine
After a year of talk, the arcade machine has finally come to life. Last night I got the controls wired and installed on the machine. The only tasks left now are just for touch up. All the main functionality is there! Feel free to come by any time to check it out. One of these nights we'll have to have an arcade game tournament instead of Halo.
Lunch At Home Depot
Where did I eat lunch today? Home Depot! I had to pick up a few more things for the arcade machine and I've got class tonight so I can't do it on the way home. That makes 5 trips to Home Depot and 1 to Lowe's in the last 4 days. I'm predicting a finished arcade machine by this time next week.
Arcade Machine Project Page
The arcade page is up and running. Be sure to check it out often!
Rheems
The arcade machine is here! Swarna and I made the 200 mile round trip out to Rheems, PA to pick up the arcade cabinet. We were riding in style in our Chevy minivan that I rented from work. I ended up getting an old Asteroids cabinet. So now I have the cabinet, the computer, and the games. All that's left is getting the keyboard emulator here (it's on its way from England) and ordering some more joysticks and buttons. Those things and a few trips to Radio Shack should produce some gaming fun! I'm going to put together a project web page with photos and information so you can keep up to date on the project if you're interested.
Arcade Cabinet Search
Arcade cabinet update! I've located an arcade cabinet for sale out in Rheems, PA. I've rented a minivan and I'm headed out there on Friday. Anybody wanna go on a road trip?