Do you have a HD box from TW? I can press the "#" button on the remote to change the picture size.
Not yet, which would do it -- I'm watching the old-style TV on the new-fangled screen. The idea of paying even more for cable makes me sad.
Mal: Okay. She won't be winning any beauty contests anytime soon. But she is solid. Ship like this, be with ya 'til the day you die. Zoe: 'Cause it's a deathtrap.
'Out Of Gas'
Natter 53: We could just avoid making tortured puns
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Sep 03, 2007 3:53:13 pm PDT #8282 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Tom Scola - Sep 03, 2007 3:55:38 pm PDT #8283 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Not yet, which would do it -- I'm watching the old-style TV on the new-fangled screen. The idea of paying even more for cable makes me sad.
They don't charge any extra for HD service.
Jesse - Sep 03, 2007 3:58:15 pm PDT #8284 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Really? I thought it was like $8/mo more. In that case, I'll go to the cable store next week!
Tom Scola - Sep 03, 2007 4:01:08 pm PDT #8285 of 10001
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
They have a $8.95 "HD extra" package, for 4 or 5 channels that are HD only. But if there's an HD version of a cable channel that you're already paying for, then it doesn't cost any more.
Jesse - Sep 03, 2007 4:01:32 pm PDT #8286 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Right ON, man!
msbelle - Sep 03, 2007 4:08:15 pm PDT #8287 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
house expenses - when I bought, it took basically all my money, so I only did painting in the two rooms I desperately wanted changed (bathroom and kitchen). I painted myself and I think the paint and supplies ran a few hundred. New furniture I bought (couch, big chair) was from Salvation Army and less than $200. 3 New rugs I bought at auction and at cheapo stores $250.
A few years later - water damage which led to wall repair (covered by building), new countertops, re-painting, and one new cabinet - that was 4 or 5 hundred more. Then I hired a wall built for mac's room, I think that was $600.
Now almost 5 years in, I replaced 1 carpet a year ago $100, regrouted shower twice and bathroom floor once ($150), replaced couch ($1000) and replaced cheapo carpet ($150).
The big thing I wish I had done before moving in was re-do the floors. My cats have now stained them in 3 places, but doing them WHILE living in the place is next to impossible. I also don't like the color of my bedroom, but know that re-doing it will reveal plaster work and possibly needing to sheetrock 1 whole wall. scary.
Vortex - Sep 03, 2007 4:12:47 pm PDT #8288 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
or the stray iron left on the bed all day....
or, say, a flatiron . . .
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 03, 2007 4:12:59 pm PDT #8289 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Paint stores must be staffed by highway robbers in the northeast. When I was painting my bedrooms a few years back I spent $84 on paint and maybe $12 on pans and rollers at Sherwin Williams. And had most of a can of paint (out of 3) left over when I was done.
msbelle - Sep 03, 2007 4:17:22 pm PDT #8290 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
well, I was painting over dark colors, not white. So I had to do the full primer, which almost doubled the amount of paint I had to buy.
Sue - Sep 03, 2007 4:19:18 pm PDT #8291 of 10001
hip deep in pie
My paint's been all $24-30 a gallon. I've used some really deep colours so I've had to get two gallons in cases where 1 would have been fine for a lighter shade. (I also like to have extra paint, jsut in case) I'm painting all the trim too, in contrasting colours (it's all painted out the shade of the walls right now) so that's more paint.
The big thing I wish I had done before moving in was re-do the floors.
Me too. I had to do the ones in the bedrooms, but I wish I had done the downstairs at the same time, when the house was empty.