DirecTV 11 is up and running. Not putting out video yet, but it has 14 conus (national) transponders putting out nice strong signals. At up to 5 channels per transponder, that’s a potential for 70 national HD channels. Plus there’s a full contingent of “spotbeam” transponders aboard, meaning I’ll hopefully get local channels in HD in time for football season. You should see all the excitement over at dbstalk, where geeks from all over the country are sending in their signal readings.
Hey, what can I say? I have no life.
No. What’s that, a Rochester thing? Garbage plate was disgusting? Go figure. Well, Syracuse is in Central New York, but Rochester is over the line in Western NY, and you know how those people are. Bills fans and whatnot.
The way you can tell the difference is in CNY, we say “soda,” but in WNY, they say “pop.”
Wednesday
Business Time
Re ALPHA, :rofl2: pjsauter funny .. Top of the Day :rofl2: .. 🙄 A!I!V!
Speaking of the TV anyone else see Mad Men? PJ? RG?
I was 4 at the time but I remember mom and her :hot: Relaxisizer.
:knit:
http://www.frontiernet.net/~debartsservices/hollywood.html
I love man-men. Best show in many years. Jon Hamm was on Letterman. Only had two minutes ’cause David was drooling over Amanda Peet too long.
In Rochester, it’s not soda’s or pop- only “Pepsi or diet Pepsi” said with a Italian Rochester accent.
I defer to Dave’s judgment. :hubba: I dl’d all of the Studio 60 shows and loved that series.
I have the fist season of Mad Men but haven’t started yet. Hell, my friends and I are only 6 episodes into the 1st season of the wire.
MOURNING REMEMBRANCE ALERT
Kevin!! We need you!!!
Estelle Getty — Sophia, Bea Arthur’s irascible Mother in the Golden Girls has died!!
She deserves a Mourning Remembrance
Comment by RAGING Granny — July 22, 2008 @ 8:44 pm
OK, OK. I was going to post this last night, but a series of thunder-monsoons yesterday afternoon killed our server (aftereffects of the stroke that killed Estelle Getty, perhaps?) and we didn’t get it back until today. Plus I have the day off work, and it rained again this morning which caused the usual roll-over-and-go-back-to-sleep effect.
But here it is, today’s
MOURNING REMEMBERANCE (hey, it’s still morning on the West Coast. And Hawaii!)
Estelle Getty. Actress, vaudevillian, Golden Girl.
There was a rumor that in their younger days, she had an affair with John McCain. This is not correct. It was with his son. McCain was too damn old for her.
She did, however, accidentally vote for Pat Buchanan in the 2000 election, costing Al Gore the White House and causing the world eight years of misery under simian dictator George Bush. So there.
Services will conclude promptly at 3:30, so that everyone can make it to the early-bird specials on time, driving 15 mph in the left lane with the right-turn signal on.
Trust me, I live in Florida, people do this shit.
We will now conclude with a song.
Thank you for being so dead
Don’t know what’s happening inside my head
I feel confused
So do Bea, Rue and Betty White
‘Cause if we threw a wake and
Invited everyone you knew
You can’t see
The biggest gift would be from me
And the card attached would say
“Thought you were already dead!”
Only had two minutes ’cause David was drooling over Amanda Peet too long.
Comment by artnorton — July 23, 2008 @ 10:39 am
I’m not clear on this concept. How is it possible to drool over Amanda Peet too long? Maybe if she asked me to have sex, and rather than take her up on the offer, I just continued drooling. That must be it. :hubba:
Nice job, Kevin.
Maybe Estelle drooled to death at the prospect of having sex with John McCain.
artnorton. :nod: :no: :rofl2: …. … 🙄 A!I!
Move over Jim Earl! Kevin’s takin’ up the slack. :sammy:
Who’s Jim Earl?
He’s your father. :reaper:
The reaper was the closest I could manage for Darth Vader. :tongue:
:sammy: Oh, good thing we straightened that out.
Thank you, Kevin M :love:
:rofl2: :rofl2: You are a genius. I’m sure Sophia Petrillo is smiling down on you and I’m sure all the white haired old ladies in Florida would just LOVE :love: you if they knew you :hubba: . R.I.P. Estelle :priest: You have now been Mourning Remembranced and can truly R.I.P.
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This, too, is very funny — I :love: the JibJab guys :rofl2: :rofl2:
:ear: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaNXy0fFaQk&feature=related
oh, shit! Changes on the blog. They better be worth all the trouble
:ear: Them Changes
These changes are part of the “Guest” writer plan, I guess.
The new WordPress 2.6 version is named “Tyner” :banana:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PukuQPUKfyU
Great local TV story just carried on KWGN about netroots activists ProgressNow.org by reporter Eli Stokols. They were behind the pea-pod, the librarian and the Vietnam veteran who confronted mkkain and his handlers when he was in Denver July 7th. I thirst for the few drops of media coverage of anykind about the left. :40:
I think the peapod, the librarian and the vietnam vet were stranded on an island in an alternate universe teevee show :rofl2:
PBS — Click & Clack’s As the Wrench Turns 8) :rofl2: which I do not usually get to watch… :rofl2: {Al Gore was on last 1/2 hour… 8) )
Now I know why people run away from me
:rant1: