this video<\/a> has inspired me to try something else.<\/p>\nI plan to do what the guy did in the video, create my own antenna using some household items, some screws & washers and a widget from Radio Shack. I plan on hiding it all, however, behind some sort of sheet metal wall art. A nice wall squid or octopus would look much better than the rabbit ears.<\/p>\n
I’ll start next weekend,* I need to take stuff back to Lowe’s anyway. In the meantime, I’ll think of a pattern and a way to cut everything without shearing off my own fingers. (I can’t help but think of Eric’s birthday grill leg wound…good times.)<\/p>\n
Wish me luck.<\/p>\n
* unless life intervenes.<\/p>\n
UPDATE 1\/18<\/strong>: Life’s intervening somewhat. I bought the sheetmetal and some of the parts, but I don’t think I’ll get to it today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Antennas? Antennae? Whatever. Anyway, with the upcoming digital conversion, I’ve been thinking a bit about the home TV setup. We’ve always had rabbit ears around Stinkbug Manor — and I only scratched my cornea once by walking into on — but this video has inspired me to try something else. I plan to do what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,6,21],"tags":[24,25],"class_list":["post-407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dumb-thoughts","category-gregs-reference","category-stinkbug-manor","tag-dumb-ideas","tag-fun-projects","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7V2xo-6z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":409,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407\/revisions\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lstr.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}