Back before I boarded this leg of Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride and became a custom installer, I was a golf professional. (There is definitely a correlation here beyond just a walk down memory lane, so bear with me.) I worked at a couple of public courses before landing at a very private club in the Bay Area for about five yea

I did a major car trash clean-up the other day, and I stumbled across a dusty old binder in my trunk. It was left over from the last time that I had to go and perform a Runco CRT calibration and it contained all of my notes for dialing knobs, turning switches, bullying phosphors, and making a three-lens RGB projection

To salt one's game: To publically insult or demean someone even if it's unintentional, especially when they're around someone they're trying to impress – Urban Dictionary   Big jobs are tough enough to come by these days, so when that supposed “sure thing” falls into yo

If you’re a Control4 dealer – as I am – you received an e-mail earlier this week from Glen Mella, company president and COO, titled ominously enough, “A Letter from the Control4 COO.” Not often is a missive sent to a manufacturer’s dealers from so far up the mountain, so I opened it and started reading.   And, I must

Remember those crazy deals that you’d hear about back in the Reagan-licious 1980s where European countries were apparently so starving for the U.S. Green that they would practically PAY you to come over and pick up a car. “Ja! We have terrific car deal! You buy car, we fly you to Deutschland. We put you up in fine-q

Philips recently announced that it is closing the doors on its Pronto remote control division. Distributors will be able to place orders through the end of November – or until inventory runs out – and Philips will honor all of its warranty obligations. The Pronto remote certainly will continue to exist in the marke