though they only keep new episodes up for so long.
Due to my compulsive nature, that will not be a problem.
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'Trash'
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Steph L. - Sep 14, 2014 6:10:32 pm PDT #24102 of 25496
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Sean K - Sep 15, 2014 10:07:27 am PDT #24103 of 25496
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
So.... Adventures in stud finding.
I picked up a rare earth magnet stud finder and hung it on a string, per Gris' suggestion. This *seemed* to work! I ran it along the wall, and it seemed to find a nail or something, and there seemed to be a consistent line up and down. So I drilled.
Into empty wall.
So I tried it again, and again seemed to find a stud about a foot away, so I figured this was the actual stud this time. So I drilled.
Into empty wall.
At that point, I just pulled out a wire hanger, opened the hook slightly, stuck it into both holes, and discovered the stud was precisely in between my two bad holes.
So, now I have my TV mounted to the wall. And several holes in my wall. That are mostly covered up by the TV. Mostly.
-t - Sep 15, 2014 10:13:52 am PDT #24104 of 25496
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Tricksy wall. Glad you got the TV hung, anyway. When I had walls like that I just gave up.
Gris - Sep 15, 2014 10:44:34 am PDT #24105 of 25496
Hey. New board.
Ha! Sorry, Sean. Maybe there were some finishing naiks or something? Plaster is bad.
Ginger - Sep 15, 2014 10:48:45 am PDT #24106 of 25496
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The facilities people at the last place I worked were seriously incompetent picture hangers. Every picture on the wall had four or five holes behind it.
Maria - Sep 15, 2014 10:55:13 am PDT #24107 of 25496
Not so nice is that I'm about to ruin a Friday morning for a bunch of people because of a series of unfortunate events and an upset foreign government. - shrift
You don't want to see my walls. There's lots of spackle and sanding in my future.
Someone please tell me I don't need a Macbook Air. I have two laptops and an iPad Air. But it's really pretty and shiny, and an open box deal.
NoiseDesign - Sep 15, 2014 12:01:33 pm PDT #24108 of 25496
Our wings are not tired
I love my MacBook Air, so I'll be an enabler and say go get it!
Connie Neil - Sep 15, 2014 12:04:58 pm PDT #24109 of 25496
brillig
I confess I haven't looked at the various jacks on my TV, but would a standard network cable be sufficient to plug my laptop into the TV to watch things from the laptop? Would that be different if I was trying to run the Internet to the TV?
Gris - Sep 15, 2014 12:30:44 pm PDT #24110 of 25496
Hey. New board.
Network cables generally don't carry audio and video. You would need a cord specifically designed to carry video. If it's a fairly modern laptop it probably has an HDMI or Mini Display port output; running from that to your TV simply requires the right cord. What's the make and model of your laptop and TV?
Connie Neil - Sep 15, 2014 12:41:40 pm PDT #24111 of 25496
brillig
TV's a Visio, a few years old, laptop's a Dell. I'll see if I have an HDMI cable anywhere about. It's been hooked up to the TV before, I just have to remember how.