{"id":225,"date":"2006-08-06T14:41:20","date_gmt":"2006-08-06T05:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2006-08-06\/225"},"modified":"2006-08-06T14:41:20","modified_gmt":"2006-08-06T05:41:20","slug":"my-visit-to-frys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2006-08-06\/225","title":{"rendered":"My Visit To Fry’s"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\n\nSay what nasty things you want about Fry's<\/a>, and they'll probably be true, but\nnevertheless I must<\/span> say that my visit today to the Sunnyvale location was\nlike a kid<\/span> in a candy<\/span> store. I hadn't<\/span> been to an electronics superstore\nlike Fry's in a long<\/span> time, and there was just so much stuff to enjoy.\n\n<\/p>\n \n

\n\nMy main reason for going was to pick up a cheap<\/span> router. The old Netopia\nR9100<\/a> that Steve<\/a> had given me\nlong ago finally seems to have bit the dust and stopped serving DHCP\nclients. After spending a few<\/span> days futzing with it, I gave up<\/span> and bought\nthe cheapest router I found<\/span> at Fry's, a $49+tax D-Link\nEBR-2310<\/a>, which seems to be a fine<\/span> router.\n\n<\/p>

\n\nFor some reason, Fumie old (circa 1998, Win98) computer couldn't get an IP\nfrom the new one (although before, none of my computers could get an IP\nfrom the Netopia), so I think<\/span> something about it is fried. Sigh. At over 5<\/span>\nminutes per reboot, it's been a horrendously<\/span> long ordeal to try to get\nworking. I tried<\/span> throwing in a new<\/span> ethernet card, but to no avail. Still\nnot working. It wants<\/span> me to insert the Windows 98<\/span> CDROM, which I just<\/span> threw\naway on Friday. We're cleaning the house a lot<\/span> and will throw the compuer\naway at the end of the month when we return to Kyoto, so I didn't<\/span> think in\na million<\/span> years that I'd actually need the CD again. Sigh.<\/b>\n\n<\/p>

\n\nGoing through all the stuff in our Cupertino house (anyone want to buy a\nbunch<\/span> of nice furniture? A nice house<\/span>?) I realize<\/span> that I must<\/span> do something\nwith all the pre-DV home videos we have (VHS and Hi-8). So, while at Fry's, I picked<\/span> up an ADS\nTechnologies PYRO A\/V Link<\/a>, which converts Composite and S-Video inputs\nto digital, and connects to the computer via firewire. At $200, it was\n4× more expensive than many similar products, but it was the only one\nFry's carried that would work with the Mac via Firewire.\n\n\n<\/p>

\n\nI realize now that a fair amount of the cost was probably the Adobe Premier Elements<\/a>\nincluded with it, which itself retails for about $75. Considering that I\nhave<\/span> both iMovie and the full version of Adobe Premier, I don't<\/span> need this\nElements. Anyone want to buy a copy<\/span> of Premier Elements for Windows?\n\n<\/p>

\n\nI also got some computer “games” (learning things) to try with\nAnthony. I've never really tried using the computer with Anthony much,\nother than letting him play with it as an infant (with Baby Safe<\/a>). We'll see how\nit goes.\n\n<\/p>

\n\nI also picked up -- why Fry's carried this, I don't<\/span> know -- a “Hooked\non Phonics<\/a>” kit, as it's about time we got moving with Anthony reading.\nWe'll start with it once we get back to Kyoto.\n\n<\/p>

\n\nI must say that I found the staff at Fry's, who are much maligned for being\nclueless, quite helpful most of the time. They indeed had no clue about a\nproduct<\/span> I asked<\/span> about, but one knew exactly<\/b> where the bathroom was,\nand another knew where the routers were sold. Yes, those Fry's staff\nmembers are on the ball. \/-:<\/b>\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Say what nasty things you want about Fry's, and they'll probably be true, but nevertheless I must say that my visit today to the Sunnyvale location was like a kid in a candy store. I hadn't been to an electronics superstore like Fry's in a long time, and there was just so much stuff to enjoy. <\/p>

My main reason for going was to pick up a cheap router. The old Netopia R9100 that Steve had given me long ago finally seems to have bit the dust and stopped serving DHCP clients. After spending a few days futzing [...]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}