Original
It appears that today’s power failure has well and truly borked my last fully-functional TV-tuner, a VCR. Right now, I’ve got a fully dead VCR; a VCR that catches cable TV but has no sound and can’t play tapes; a TV that doesn’t have a working tuner of its own; and a DVD player that needs some re-jiggering of cords to be able to play sound.
I’ve also got a laptop that I’ve already been using to download TV shows to watch. Monday night’s TV is already queued up on it. About the only TV I /don’t/ get on it is TV-news and the weather channel… and I’m pretty sure I can live without those, and get that sort of info elsewhere.
I’m thinking of using this as an excuse to just chuck paying for cable TV entirely. Can you think of any real reason to keep it (and presumably buy myself some new TV-tuner-capable-device)?
Posted by DataPacRat on June 22, 2010 at 3:04 am under Uncategorized.
Comment on this post.
Original
A few months ago, while I was sitting and reading, a skunk just about ran over my feet; a month ago, a mouse; today, a possum.
Posted by DataPacRat on June 6, 2010 at 10:51 pm under Uncategorized.
Comment on this post.
Posted by DataPacRat on June 6, 2010 at 8:38 pm under Uncategorized.
Comment on this post.
Original
I described my paradox-riddle entry for Draw Muhammad Day in some Muslim forums I participate in. I’ve gotten my very first death threats!
Posted by DataPacRat on May 20, 2010 at 3:10 pm under Uncategorized.
Comment on this post.
Posted by DataPacRat on May 20, 2010 at 12:00 pm under Uncategorized.
Comment on this post.
Posted by DataPacRat on May 20, 2010 at 10:45 am under Uncategorized.
Comment on this post.
Posted by DataPacRat on May 14, 2010 at 12:00 pm under Uncategorized.
Comment on this post.
Original
Test post to see what Google Buzz does with it.
Posted by DataPacRat on February 11, 2010 at 4:10 pm under Uncategorized.
Comment on this post.
Original
I’ve gotten in the habit of avoiding publicly spreading around pictures of myself. I think I’ve found just about the least photographic image possible to represent me online…

DPR logo
Posted by DataPacRat on January 28, 2010 at 8:58 pm under Uncategorized.
Comment on this post.
Original
[link]
… you know, if they actually sold that product in my country, I’d be willing to buy a bottle or two just to try to convince them to keep making that line of commercials.
Man, it must be a trip to watch broadcast TV in France…
Posted by DataPacRat on December 10, 2009 at 4:02 am under Uncategorized.
Comment on this post.