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UtterlyBoring.com is produced by Jake Ortman (e-mail, resume), a 33-year-old dad, percussionist, sysadmin, Web developer, IT consultant and jack-of-all-trades geek, living in Bend, Oregon. He created this so that his expensive journalism and technology degree isn't getting totally wasted. In addition to editing this site in his free time, he is the service manager at Weston Technologies. He has LinkedIn and Facebook profiles if you're trying to stalk him. He will not be posting on Twitter.
Opinions and comments on this site are the opinions of the author, not the author's employer, family, friends or pets. This site is powered by Movable Type and is hosted by orty.com. Since December 1st, 2002, there have been 6463 entries. Visitors to this blog have posted 21009 comments. If you're reading this, you have too much time on your hands. |
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Turn Off Any TV With A KeychainIf their Web site wasn't down, I'd order one of these (OK, they're probably expensive, but I'd at least like to check it out). It's a key-chain attachment that contains just one button. When you press that button, it spends over a minute flashing out 209 different codes to turn off TVs, the most popular brands first (generally, the codes for turning off a TV are the same as turning one on, so this will work for that, too). Full story. 5 CommentsNeil T. said on 10/21/04 @ 12:16 PM:They're $14.99 plus $5 for postage (visited the site before it went down). Not bad value, considering the 'god' factor you'd get by being able to turn off any TV you liked - a bit like a Bruce Almighty of TVs :) Jake said on 10/21/04 @ 12:50 PM: Actually, that's not a bad price at all. Beats carrying around a universal remote and a whole pile of codes. Rob said on 10/21/04 @ 01:22 PM: I like the idea of being able to go into a restaurant and turning off all the TV's so that I can actually have a conversation at a normal volume level. Not to mention the entertainment value of watching staff trying to figure out what's going on. Jesse Thompson said on 10/22/04 @ 12:23 AM: Statisticly, I wonder how long it takes on average to get a tv turned off? It might be a little weird to sit there for a full minute holding down this button :) Jake said on 10/23/04 @ 08:15 PM: To my knowledge, you hit it once and it starts cycling through the codes, so it's not like you have to hold it for a minute. And even if you did, the most popular codes are in there first, so it wouldn't be like you'd hold it down the entire time. Post a comment |
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