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Okiedokie so far…
First things first: My Weakknees.com 1 terrabyte hard drive arrived almost a week ago, so I got that out and installed it in a jiffy. No problems there. I was multitasking on hold with Tivo to get my Lifetime Membership transferred. While juggling the Torx screwdriver and my iPhone with Tivo, I discovered that my credit card was missing. Last seen in the hands of my chinese food delivery dude who forgot to give it back to me last night. So I used the landline to call them to see if they would give it back to me. They claimed I lost it and had I checked my front pockets. Ya. Whatever. While continuing to hold for Tivo, I called the bank to get the card fraud checked, shut down, and reissued. No fraudulent charges at least.
Finally got through to Tivo and got the membership transferred, and finished up the hard drive install. Realized I forgot to order an HDMI cable online for cheapsies, so ran down to BestBuy against my longstanding boycott to grab one. Discovered that the cheapest HDMI cable they sold was $50 bucks, and went up to about $130 after that. No thanks, motherfuckers. Thanks for reconfirming how hard you suck. Will make due with RCA audio and component video for now, and one of the roomies will pick one up tomorrow at Central Computer for about $14.
Anyway, back at the ranch, I have an HD TV (Sony Wega tube) but have never HD’d anything since I had an old Sony Series 1 Tivo. Just plugging the new Tivo HD in was a remarkable experience. Sooo smooth and pretty. Yay.
I don’t have my multi-stream CableCARD thingum yet, which is essentially a PC card that plugs into the front of the box, replacing the cable box and giving me dual-tuner HD capability. That arrives thursday (along with an “installer,” who, by all blog accounts, will not be able to get it working, will blame my Tivo, and leave without fixing it. I will have to schedule a few more visits and spend 20+ hours on the phone with Comcast. Crossing my fingers I am a lucky one). Without the CableCARD there is only so much setup I can do.
The CableCARD will cost an additional $2/mo or so, but I’m losing the cable box rental of $7/mo, so I net ahead. Since we already have the orgiastic top cable package, the HD is already covered once the card arrives.
Heroes is recording on the old box as I do the setup and type this, so I didn’t install even the basic cable into the new box. Just trying to get as far as I can without with the interweb connection.
The lineup setup process is different than the old model. Rather than asking for my cable company name and giving me cryptic choices like “basic extended rebuild” it simply asked me if QVC was on #36 (yes) then it claimed to know all it needed to know. WIthout the CableCARD it assumes I have basic 80 channel cable, so I am unable to start setting up my season passes in advance of the cable “installer.”
The remote setup worked like a charm this time. Having a newer model TV this round made it easy. Power, volume, mute and even TV input source worked on the first code. Hurrah. I am currently without an audio receiver, so will have to wait for that setup for a bit.
I am amused and frustrated to see that Yahoo! Photos is prominently displayed as the first item under the “music photos & more” menu, since Yahoo! photos went away a few months ago. Boo. Y! Weather and Traffic were relatively easy to setup after very painstakingly entering my Yahoo! ID and password—not a fun task using the idiot 1-letter-at-a-time-using-the-remote method required by the tivo.
There’s also the nifty new Podcaster feature. Yay. It won’t seek the feed when you send to any old URL though. Boo. Typing in a phobos.apple.comblahblahblah URL is too much to bear. I found something called Galleon, which will supposedly grab all my iTunes podcasts and transfer them to the Tivo HD using TivoToGo… which doesn’t work with the Tivo HD or Series 3 yet. Boo. Rumored to be coming in November.
And I amused myself for 10 minutes playing “Wordsmith” (aka Scrabble) and SameGame (aka Bejeweled LE).
More setup notes after my CableCARDs arrive and I can start making it do real DVR things.
Sphere: Related ContentWhen I started at my last job I bought a video iPod and started subscribing to a bunch of podcasts. I started listening to:
- Fox and the city (which referred me to)
- Yeast Radio (which referred me to)
- PNS Explosion (still a favorite, which referred me to)
- The Daily Purge (still a favorite, cohosted by Rob Lindley who also cohosts)
- How Much Do We Love (the primary hostess being Sara)
Then, seemingly randomly, I got an e-mail from Sara asking me why she found pics of a particular corporate christmas party in my flickr stream. Because she was ALSO at that same party, and she is friends with a coworker of mine.
Shortly after that was the next year’s corporate holiday party, and we decided to meet up, drink, and have a fabulous time. We have since hung out a couple of times and are becoming friends.
The internets are a strange and wonderful series of tubes.
Last night she invited me to her new place, and she cooked a fantastic meal: NY Strip Steaks, broiled beets, baby broccoli, fresh corn, and a yummy blue cheese sauce to schmear on anything that would hold still. Even better I got an EXCLUSIVE SNEAK PEEK of the winner of her recent Summer Cocktail Recipe Contest, which I am simply not at liberty to divulge, but I can report was de-effing-licious. I brought the liquor portion (inexpensive vodka, but the bottle was super cute and she loves her some touch-of-fancy, done and done), ice, and mixers.
We also watched the latest very “meh” episode of So You Think You Can Dance, which is normally entertaining, but not so much last night. Almost all of the dancing was underwhelming, yet the judges were screaming and hooting and gushing like I have never seen. We were both wondering if we would have enjoyed it by ourselves, but I am pretty sure that’s not the case. Neil didn’t even take off his shirt to redeem himself. Meh.
Thanks goodness for dessert, which was her fresh made plum cobbler–with plums she plucked from her backyard–served with vanilla whipped cream. That was a nice finish.
Thanks for a wonderful evening, Sara!
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… found on thedailypurge.com’s blog. J Michael and Robbie do a highly entertaining podcast.
Sphere: Related ContentLast night my friend Sara and I went out for drinks, dinner, and random stuff. The original plan was drinks, but as we solidified plans it ended up into mani-pedis with a couple of her other friends who were neat people, then on to drinks which ended up being tapas. We had a lovely evening.
One o the conversations was her enjoyment of Cash Cab. I’d never heard of it, and didn’t entirely believe it when she told me. As I work from home today, Cash Cab came up on the toob, and I em enjoying it immensely.
Sara has a fabulous podcast with her friend Rob. It’s called “How much do we love…” and it’s the best and funniest podcast out there that isn’t generally mean spirited or nsfw. Check it out.
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“Throughout our time in office, the president has selected judges who understand their role in the constitutional system,” Cheney told the Federalist Society. (Read more…)
PODZINGER looks inside the audio of podcasts to find, and then highlight, your search terms enabling you to quickly filter through multiple podcasts. Enter a search term above or select one of the sample search terms below to unlock the information inside podcasts.
Haven’t tested the audio shiznit because it requires IE and Real (ew, and ick)… but it provides transcripts. How freaking cool is that?
Sphere: Related ContentI recently discovered an awesome, addictive podcast called Fox and the City on the new Yahoo! podcasts site. It’s the work of a poet/comedian/artfag named Ragan Fox, and I highly recommend it. It spans news commentary, queer issues, politics, and lots and lots of general offensiveness and fun. Ragan’s site is Raganfox.com.
He occasionally has a guest named Rachel Kann, and they do great show together. They have spun off a new show called Eat Bird! that features the two of them doing their general snarkiness. The most recent episode (Eat Bird! Episode 6) was a Rachel-only show. The first half was more or less repulsive (read the episode description), but near the end she plays one of her songs - a spoken word piece that fucking rocks. Rachel’s site is Inspirachel.com.
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