People, pets, cars, semi-sentient silicon life forms, etc.
- Jun 1981
- Joe Smith marries
Sally Mitchell in Denver, Colorado.
- Oct 1984
- Sally met John at Mile Hi Con (Denver + Colorado Springs).
- Aug 1983
- Chris Hill moves to the SF Bay Area.
- Jan 1985
- Joe and Sally Smith move to the SF
Bay Area.
- Jan 1986
- Punkin's birthday (assumed).
- Jul 1986
- "Howling Mad" Murdock born.
(Fuzzy orange and white kitten.)
- Jan 1987
- Murdock moves from Sacramento to Fremont.
- Jan 1997
- Punkin joins the Hill family.
- May 1989
- John Snyder moves to the SF Bay Area.
- Jul 1990
- Chris and John meet. ("Nyssa" and the stage hand.)
- Oct 1993
- John moves into Chez INWAP, followed by Chris
and then Joe and Sally.
- Aug 1994
- Hot Tub arrives.
- Oct 1994
- Chris inherits Kit-Kat.
John adopts the tuxedo cat.
- Jan 1995
- 2-gig disk moved from Amiga to Sun workstation to bring up
PPP. This is the first step of getting the home ethernet connected
to the outside world. The idea is to register INWAP.COM or INWAP.ORG.
- Mar 1995
- www.inwap.com created.
- Jun 1995
- George (blue Geo Prizm) joins the stable.
- Jul 1995
- Chris and John get married,
change name to O'Halloran.
- Sep 1995
- Geordi (black Geo Prizm) joins the stable.
- Jul 1996
- Amazing Chez INWAP Backyard Web Camera goes online.
- Oct 1996
- Dual tuner DirecTV recorder installed.
- Dec 1996
- www.costume.org created.
- Dec 1996
- Cable modem installed by TCI on the 13th.
- Feb 1997
- www.best.com/~macleod created.
- Mar 1997
- inwap.fremont.ca.us registered.
- Apr 1997
- Ryo-ohki (Geo Metro) joins the stable.
- Jun 1997
- Entropy-reversal unit installed. (window AC)
- Oct 1998
- Chris and John find a suitable house to be Chez Tyedye.
- Nov 1998
- Kit-Kat and Punkin now have two homes to call their own.
- Dec 1998
- Backyard Web Camera returns
(running on a Sun workstation).
- Apr 1999
- Escrow closes; Joe and Sally now own the house.
- Mar 2000
- www.clan-macleod.com registered.
- Aug 2000
- Joe and his satellite dish mentioned in newspaper (Argus, Aug 20).
- Aug 2000
- Murdock passed away.
- Jan 2001
- New kitten, Naomi (born 10/10/2000) joins the family.
- Mar 2001
- Semi-static IP address: cable modem's DHCP changes for the first time in 4.25 years.
- Mar 2001
- Kit-Kat passed away.
- Mar 2001
- Added 30-hour TiVo PVR
(Personal Video Recorder). Discovered
AVS Forum and
TiVo FAQ.
- Aug 2001
- Purchased a cheaper (14 hour) TiVo for the
family room, then
upgraded it to 115 hours.
- Dec 2001
- Excite@Home pulls the plug. After three days with no cable
modem, ATTBI brings up their network.
- Dec 2001
- Punkin achieved her goal to
outlive both other cats.
- Jan 2002
- Chris and John adopt two orange kittens, Autumn and Rusty.
- Nov 2002
- HDTV! Rear-projection CRT; requires an external ATSC tuner. (Forced to watch TV in realtime using rabbit ears) :-(
- Jul 2003
- Ethernet for TiVo; broadband instead of dialup for it.
- Jul 2004
- Toyota Prius, silver.
- Aug 2004
- HD TiVo recorder arrives.
- Feb 2005
- Sally and her TiVo mentioned in newspaper (Argus, Feb 20).
- Mar 2005
- Switched to AT&T CallVantage (VOIP) for local and long distance phone service.
- Jun 2006
- Bigscreen TV attracts feral cats, so we put out food for them.
- Aug 2006
- New kitten, George (born 07/04/2006) brought indoors.
- Oct 2006
- Cable modem's DHCP changes after being static for 5.5 years.
Upgrade HR10 to 500 GB.
- Jul 2007
- Dual-Tuner TiVo replaces Sally's Sony TiVo on Friday the 13th.
- Nov 2007
- DirecTV+ DVRs installed, HR21 = HD, R16 = SD.
- Dec 2011
- Toyota Prius, blue (with reflective gold stipe added) replaces totalled car.