iPhone Car Audio

If, like me, you have tried many FM transmitters, only to be completely frustrated at the lack of audio quality and the frequent station changes required on long trips..I have a great solution for you:

http://www.neocaraudio.com/

These guys sell iPhone car stereo integration kits that integrate your iphone fully into your car stereo system. I might add that I am a complete idiot when it comes to doing any sort of work on cars or houses..but, this was very easy and straightforward to do.

I now can plug my iphone in and have all my music, audible navigation, internet radio..and take hands free calls all over my car audio system.

As a last point, I had a couple tech support questions..and I was able to get a knowledgeable human being on the phone within 3 minutes of my call. I almost passed out from the shock.

Little neck clams

I think this is one of the easiest things in the universe to make, but people ask me for the recipe all the time...so here you go.

Ingredients
salt, pepper
Olive oil
Butter
White wine
Chicken broth
Garlic
Red onion
Little neck clams
Parsley

Proportions vary with the number of clams..suffice to say you want about 3/4" of liquid in the pot before you add the clams.

Over medium-high heat-
Heat pot. Add oil, butter.
sauté onion til translucence
Add garlic.. Toss until you smell it (10-15 seconds)

Add wine.. Reduce by 1/4..
Add broth..bring to a boil
Add salt and pepper.. Lite on the salt or even eliminate if u like. Clams ship with salt!
Add cleaned and Scrubbed clams.
Cover and keep on med-high heat.. You want steam in there.
Cook for at least 6 minutes.. No peek! Check every minute or so after. When clams start to open, remove from heat, leave covered and let sit for 5-10 minutes.

Add chopped parsley

Serve in bowls w crusty bread.


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Effortless Weekend BBQ

Assumption one: you can build a straight up, old school charcoal fire.

Assumption two: you like classic pulled pork bbq

Assumption three: you like grilling.

So..this is my little recipe for staying in bbq all weekend..a little combination grill and bbq, that can be used for a dinner followed by a next day picnic....

So here's all you need to do.

Step one..buy stuff to grill tonight..thats right..anything you might grill over direct flame can fill in here...steak, fish, chicken..whatever.

Step two..get a whole pork shoulder.

So do whatever you would do to prep up the meat for this evening..then...

Carve all the skin and fat off the exterior of the shoulder. We're not having crackling, and its better to get more dry rub all over the shoulder.

Dry rub, with plenty of it, the entire shoulder. Really get in there, and get the rub all over the meat, to excess. Get in there and get messy. its worth it.

Wrap that baby up in cling wrap and put in the fridge for a while.

Get some of your favorite wood for smoking, and soak up a goodly amount (a pint or so) in water.

Have a beer, wait a couple hours, and start your barbecue. Use a chimney. Naptha smells awful and you just don't need it. Get the fire grilling hot, and go to town.

Bring in your meat (hopefully resting in foil) and bring out the shoulder.

Bank your fire to one side of the grill..extreme right or left. Wood chips (still wet) go on top of the coals directly.

Put your shoulder on the clear (no coals underneath) side of the grill. Go eat, take a nap...relax..

About 3 hours later, preheat your oven to 225. Bring in the shoulder..it should have a nice browned bark and be all smokey. Put the shoulder in heavy duty foil in a roasting pan. Put about a quarter inch of apple juice in the foil, seal it up, and go to bed.

When you get up in the morning, take the shoulder out, dump the fat, and rewrap the shoulder in foil. Let it rest an hour or two.

Pull the pork. It will fall apart, and the bone will be clean. You now have a no work dinner for tonight. Sauce the meat up later, buns, pickles coleslaw.....you are all set.

Schiffs first law

Don't be a dick.

This is the golden rule of Schiffs law. It does not suppose you must love your neighbor, or treat others as you would be treated. What it means is to avoid counterproductive efforts that serve your own ego or baser emotions instead of being primarily interested in accomplishing things.

Dicks are more concerned with being right than getting to the right answer.

A dick will argue with someone who they know is right because they're afraid of appearing inferior.

Dicks hold grudges.

A dick is the person who calls out an individual in the middle of a forty person conference call.

Long copy lists for an antagonistic email are one of the dicks weapons of choice.

Dicks are outranged and angry about non problems. Dicks do all the talking and never want to listen.

Everyone is a dick sometimes. Its part of being human. So remember this law, and be less of a dick, starting today.

An iPad, a media server, and lethargy

So I'm lying in bed last night, reading on my new iPad, when it occurs to me that last nights daily show is sitting unwatched on my media server.

Now, my Mac mini media server serves up video to my ps3, but I know it presently will not serve content to an idevice.

And so, the challenge. Configure media server and the iPad to watch the daily show without getting out of bed.

Now it wasn't long before I found the 2.99 airvideo client...got that..but it needs a server component on the media server. Quickly found a remote desktop app, connected to my Mac, downloaded ithe air video server, set it up..and ouila! Daily show. After basking in my general prowess, I realized that it hadn't really taken all that much to turn any idevice into a tv...with a little bittorrent and media server skill...why pay the cable companies for anything but news and sports?

Cable tv's days are numbered...and I'll be doing an increasing amount of my tv consumption away from the big screen..





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