I had some time over the holiday break to “geek out” and get some things done I never seem to have time to do.  One of the things I finally got around to was connect Boxee to my living room TV.  You may have heard about the Boxee Box which was recently released by D-Link and sells on Amazon.com for $199 at the time of writing.  I’m running the Boxee software which is based on an open source platform on my Linux box at home but it also runs on Mac and Windows computers as well.  So long story short you don’t need a Boxee Box unless you don’t want to mess with running long cables from your PC to your TV or if you don’t have a decent graphics card and processor.  The video review above takes you through the entire Boxee experience and so far I am in love with it (was up until midnight watching Revision3 shows).

Christina made me chocolate chip pie which is my all-time favorite dessert (besides ice cream) for Thanksgiving.  Colonel Sanders had his finger licking good chicken but the Person family has its chocolate chip pie.  It isn’t very open source of the Colonel to keep his chicken recipe all to himself.

I’m going to fill you in on this incredibly good dessert so you and your family can also enjoy it:

• 1 Cup Milk
• 20 Large Marshmallows
• 1/4 tsp. Salt
• 1/2 Tsp Almond Flavoring
• 1 Cup Whipped-Whipping Cream
• 1/2 Cup Shaved Unsweetened Chocolate
• 1 Baked 9″ Pie Shell

Heat milk & marshmallows and stir until marshmallows dissolve.  Add salt & flavorings.  Chill, fold in whipped cream and shaved chocolate and enjoy!  OK so sharing is caring, what family recipe can you share with me (and the world)?

I’ve been messing around with Instagr.am a new iPhone app that applies filters to your pictures.  I didn’t have my favorite camera with me for Thanksgiving but I did take a few pictures with my iPhone.  I got a little carried away with Instagr.am didn’t I?

This won’t be the most exciting post in the world but I am having a great day geeking out which I haven’t done in a while.  I got caching working on the server this morning so I can really take advantage of my faster web host.  I got some CSS issues cleaned up which I’ve been wanting to do and things should load much faster now.  I’m also doing some cache preloading which is a little taxing on the CPU of the server but it is interesting to finally be able to get into the details of my site with my new virtual.  See, I told you this would be a boring post but I’m loving this stuff.

UFC star George St. Pierre’s cubicle at ESPN.