OT: This seems like a good place to note that I am now settled into my new apartment in the Poconos. This morning, the local Wawa was brimming with frat boys here to do Idon'twannaknow for the weekend. Next up, we are expected to be overrun with New Yorkers and Philly-ites escaping from the Pope Crush. I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
Oh, and my internet won't be hooked up until Wednesday, so right now I am subsisting on hanging around McDonald's for free wifi and using my phone as a hotspot. So, sadly, I won't be around much for FOOBALL tomorrow or Monday, though I will try to pop in. Try not to miss me too much I'll be back and as obnoxious as ever for next Thursday's game.
Congratulations on surviving the move! I hope you're happy and comfortable in the new place?
So sorry to hear about the Frat boys. I've heard that if you follow them back to their hive, wait until after midnight when the hive is asleep, pour in several gallons of Kool Aid or Barqs root beer and plug it up, if you come back in the morning the hive isn't active anymore. Something in the chemical make-up of those non-frat drinks messes with their cell signalling and they no longer can function.
I love the new place! When I have bandwidth again, I will pester y'all with pictures. Though I still have a lot of work to do with the actual interior of my place; still about half unpacked & need to paint, though the bed, tv, couch and liquor bottles are in place, so I can procrastinate with the rest, right? (Though apparently the temps are going to dip into the high 40s already one night next week, so I guess I need to figure out where my down comforter is). Also, dealing with the semi-sensory deprivation of not having my satellite tv or internet connected yet.
That said, the neighbors are amazing, really friendly and helpful. One took me to the flea market down the road today to get odds and ends and empanadas, another offered to put up my screen door, and a third offered me weed (and also took a bag of my garbage to the dumpster for me). I'm going to like it here.
Thanks for the advice on the frat guys. I feel like that is going to come in handy, along with the advice I got about keeping the bears away.
Learned a wonderful new term (watching "Veep" on the 3 months of "free" HBO that came with the new Dish Network* setup): "procrasturbation."
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*and if you like to tinker with home networking, Dish has many, many possibilities.
Permanent, though it feels like living in a vacation spot (My apartment is in what used to be a summer basketball camp.) In fact, now my weekend getaways will be running back down to Jersey to visit or petsit for relatives.
Why watch stuff with good visuals on a tiny screen? Yes, you can find most stuff on the internet — a lot of it originally produced or inspired by things made for television. But the term "television" is kind of meaningless. Do you mean just the display? Again, silly, especially for intricate visuals or if you have a hard time seeing small things.
Do you mean the content? Which content? Pretty much everything that is audio and/or visual is available on television, just like on the internet. Why is it bad because it originates there (or doesn't, and is just rebroadcast)? That just sounds like snobbery — and keep in mind that PBS, HBO and others fund a lot of important documentaries (and dramas, and comedies, and..), and tv covers a lot of breaking news in that the internet is a little shaky about (what's the first thing that happens when there's a breaking news story? People post up the local tv news feed). Sure, there is a ton of stuff on the internet, but there would be a lot less if the concept of television went away. Content isn't created by magic, and I do not want to live in a world where Pewdeepie videos are the height of art.
It's still your hated "television" if PBS produces it, even if you watch it on your computer. Cable and dish companies have become a lot more responsive (and cheaper) thanks to the pressure from online stuff. And most people who cut the cord find that going ala carte (getting Sling and Hulu and Netflix and HBO Now and…) ends up being way, way more expensive than just getting cable, at least if you do it legit (granted, using illegal streams or torrents are free, but somebody needs to pay for that content or the content stream will dry up eventually). Dish is giving me the full boat package, including all the premiums and their top tier, plus megaDVR and a free year of Netflix, for $60/mo. You can really get some deals now.
Also, I don't know if you've found this, but where I just moved, FIOS is not available, and all the cable internet providers have monthly data caps. (The same companies provide the tv and the internet nearly everywhere). They get their money from you one way or the other.
I agree with Shel, a TV subscription has its value. Sports, news – esp local content. I went TV-less for 20 years. I also went land-phone-line-less long before it was fashionable. But in the end having cable cost me less than a al carte and gave me more options, and I was glad for the land line and local news after an earthquake.
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OT: This seems like a good place to note that I am now settled into my new apartment in the Poconos. This morning, the local Wawa was brimming with frat boys here to do Idon'twannaknow for the weekend. Next up, we are expected to be overrun with New Yorkers and Philly-ites escaping from the Pope Crush. I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.
Oh, and my internet won't be hooked up until Wednesday, so right now I am subsisting on hanging around McDonald's for free wifi and using my phone as a hotspot. So, sadly, I won't be around much for FOOBALL tomorrow or Monday, though I will try to pop in. Try not to miss me too much
I'll be back and as obnoxious as ever for next Thursday's game.
Congratulations on surviving the move! I hope you're happy and comfortable in the new place?
So sorry to hear about the Frat boys. I've heard that if you follow them back to their hive, wait until after midnight when the hive is asleep, pour in several gallons of Kool Aid or Barqs root beer and plug it up, if you come back in the morning the hive isn't active anymore. Something in the chemical make-up of those non-frat drinks messes with their cell signalling and they no longer can function.
I love the new place! When I have bandwidth again, I will pester y'all with pictures. Though I still have a lot of work to do with the actual interior of my place; still about half unpacked & need to paint, though the bed, tv, couch and liquor bottles are in place, so I can procrastinate with the rest, right? (Though apparently the temps are going to dip into the high 40s already one night next week, so I guess I need to figure out where my down comforter is). Also, dealing with the semi-sensory deprivation of not having my satellite tv or internet connected yet.
That said, the neighbors are amazing, really friendly and helpful. One took me to the flea market down the road today to get odds and ends and empanadas, another offered to put up my screen door, and a third offered me weed (and also took a bag of my garbage to the dumpster for me). I'm going to like it here.
Thanks for the advice on the frat guys. I feel like that is going to come in handy, along with the advice I got about keeping the bears away.
Yay for nice neighbors. That's awesome.
Learned a wonderful new term (watching "Veep" on the 3 months of "free" HBO that came with the new Dish Network* setup): "procrasturbation."
___________________________
*and if you like to tinker with home networking, Dish has many, many possibilities.
Permanent, though it feels like living in a vacation spot
(My apartment is in what used to be a summer basketball camp.) In fact, now my weekend getaways will be running back down to Jersey to visit or petsit for relatives.
Bring entire theater troupes and sports teams to perform in your living room, like the Amish!
How to do it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BofvfVPFbiM
Why watch stuff with good visuals on a tiny screen? Yes, you can find most stuff on the internet — a lot of it originally produced or inspired by things made for television. But the term "television" is kind of meaningless. Do you mean just the display? Again, silly, especially for intricate visuals or if you have a hard time seeing small things.
Do you mean the content? Which content? Pretty much everything that is audio and/or visual is available on television, just like on the internet. Why is it bad because it originates there (or doesn't, and is just rebroadcast)? That just sounds like snobbery — and keep in mind that PBS, HBO and others fund a lot of important documentaries (and dramas, and comedies, and..), and tv covers a lot of breaking news in that the internet is a little shaky about (what's the first thing that happens when there's a breaking news story? People post up the local tv news feed). Sure, there is a ton of stuff on the internet, but there would be a lot less if the concept of television went away. Content isn't created by magic, and I do not want to live in a world where Pewdeepie videos are the height of art.
It's still your hated "television" if PBS produces it, even if you watch it on your computer. Cable and dish companies have become a lot more responsive (and cheaper) thanks to the pressure from online stuff. And most people who cut the cord find that going ala carte (getting Sling and Hulu and Netflix and HBO Now and…) ends up being way, way more expensive than just getting cable, at least if you do it legit (granted, using illegal streams or torrents are free, but somebody needs to pay for that content or the content stream will dry up eventually). Dish is giving me the full boat package, including all the premiums and their top tier, plus megaDVR and a free year of Netflix, for $60/mo. You can really get some deals now.
Also, I don't know if you've found this, but where I just moved, FIOS is not available, and all the cable internet providers have monthly data caps. (The same companies provide the tv and the internet nearly everywhere). They get their money from you one way or the other.
Permanent disability.
I agree with Shel, a TV subscription has its value. Sports, news – esp local content. I went TV-less for 20 years. I also went land-phone-line-less long before it was fashionable. But in the end having cable cost me less than a al carte and gave me more options, and I was glad for the land line and local news after an earthquake.
And how else is one to watch the 24/7 Vox Pop(e)uli extravaganza?
Thanks, Time Warner!!