Fred ,'A Hole in the World'
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.
adorable. and she is going to kill you when she gets older.
Seriously!
Taking a couple of steps back to the DVR conversation... I'm thinking of getting one. I have no cable and would prefer not adding a monthly expense. Any recommendations?
Is there anything other than (a) from the cable company (b) Tivo (c) have Gud make you one? I don't know.
I'm interested in the Tivo discussion also. They upgraded my original 80-hr. Tivo to a 2-channel Tivo for free when something died inside the box, then I added extra memory. It was great for about 3 months. Then Comcast switched to digital AND did something else to all the regular channels above 32. Now the only thing I can do is watch TV in real time through the Tivo and I had to hire guy to get THAT hooked up), and watch the 300 hours of stuff the Tivo grabbed during the 3 months that it worked. It sucks.
Any Bay Areaistas know anyone who would know how to hook all my stuff up so it actually works? I hear The Geek Squad is a big rip off.
I want to celebrate by buying a MacBook, but even I recognize the irony inherent in that choice.
Take the money you'd use to pay debt, save it until you have enough, then buy the MacBook for cash.
That's probably what I'm going to do, although I also need to build up my emergency fund enough to calm my paranoiac mind.
Not sure, Java--a friend of mine who worked for the cable company came over, tried to make it work, failed, and ended up talking to someone at the cable help until she got it working for me. But mine is an older tivo (DVD-burning, but not two-channel).
If you have an old computer you're a big ass hard drive and a tuner from a homemade DVR. Listings aren't free though, I have to pay $20/year to get them.
Yeah, KO is brilliant. But he knows it, too, damn him. He can spell "Unassuming" but it's not really in his bag of tricks. Although watching him rip Beck's spelling nearly gave me a pedant-gasm. Also, I'm not sure that GB knows what "oligarch" means, either. Not that I'm completely sure, but I didn't free-associate it on national telly like Beck.
If you have an old computer you're a big ass hard drive and a tuner from a homemade DVR.
Ha! I have an old Mac clone and none of the necessary skills.
An old Mac clone probably wouldn't work. Old PCs are more the ticket.
Something like #9 [link] sounds good to me, but I don't know how old that post is or what other options exits.
Also, I'm not sure that GB knows what "oligarch" means, either.
There are plenty of people who would say we already have an oligarchy.