The discovery this weekend that my tv has a digital tuner that picks up Comcast's HD broadcast (if ABC's normal channel is 7, the HD broadcast is 7.1, as an example) has changed my viewing habits. I used to DVR everything, or watch it through Video on Demand. My Tivo (with its gifted lifetime service) is only a Series 2 and I have no plans to upgrade to HD. And I have no plans to upgrade my cable box to HD; at least, not until they start encrypting the HD digital feed. All of which is to say that I will watch "Lost" and sports in real time now, just to see it in the gorgeous HD.
No. You're missing the point. The design of the thing is functional. The plan is not to shoot you. The plan is to get the girl. If there's no girl, then the plan, well, is like the room.
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Natter 65: Speed Limit Enforced by Aircraft
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
javachik - Feb 11, 2010 12:53:54 pm PST #7940 of 30001
Our wings are not tired.
JZ - Feb 11, 2010 12:56:41 pm PST #7941 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I was about to post something about the flouncer, but... cranky teen? Pfah, not worth the trouble.
And, as noted, I did get the buttons, and I'm hoping to snip off all the others and send them off to you this weekend. All the surviving buttons -- I may be sending you one less than you sent me, because damn but Newport News is totally incapable of sewing a button/hook and eye/frog/clasp/other garment connecting thingie of your choice with any staying power at all. The coat has been shedding buttons like crazy and I've been trying to keep track of them all but it's slightly ridiculous. My needs-mending pile right now is almost exclusively Newport News items with missing or dangling clasps.
The clothes themselves are pretty well made and well sewn, but the clasps are crazy. I swear they're all just tacked in place exactly long enough to last through shipping.
Atropa - Feb 11, 2010 1:02:49 pm PST #7942 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
The clothes themselves are pretty well made and well sewn, but the clasps are crazy. I swear they're all just tacked in place exactly long enough to last through shipping.
This is the exact problem I've had with Newport News stuff, every time.
All the surviving buttons -- I may be sending you one less than you sent me
No worries! I just want to have extra shiny buttons on hand for whatever my next clothing alteration scheme is. I wish lots of vintage buttons weren't so hard to find at reasonable prices on eBay and Etsy nowadays.
tommyrot - Feb 11, 2010 1:10:55 pm PST #7943 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
I have a leather jacket with three big buttons. I think I've had buttons reattached about ten times over the years....
shrift - Feb 11, 2010 1:15:04 pm PST #7944 of 30001
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty
I've printed my boarding pass for Vegas, and finished the two important things that needed to get done. Now I'm twiddling my thumbs until I can set my out of office message.
JZ - Feb 11, 2010 1:19:47 pm PST #7945 of 30001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I had to take up the cuffs of the velvet coat, which involved moving all six cuff buttons. Those buttons? Haven't budged. When I sew a button, by God that button stays sewn.
Calli - Feb 11, 2010 1:37:05 pm PST #7946 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I had to resew the buttons on my winter coat after about 5 wearings.
Jesse - Feb 11, 2010 1:43:56 pm PST #7947 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Due to being unable to resist a good coupon, I bought some frozen potato products the other day. Tater tots themselves were apparently not on sale, but these slightly-differently-shaped but very similar thingies were.
May I just say? YUM.
Atropa - Feb 11, 2010 1:47:17 pm PST #7948 of 30001
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
Whoo! I have a job interview on Monday! Another contract gig, but hey! A prospect of gainful employment!
msbelle - Feb 11, 2010 1:49:51 pm PST #7949 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
mac is a big fat twerpy liar.