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  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,221
    edited November 2016

    Can you hear me now?

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    just glue some geeears on iiiit

     

    roxburruh has ballads?

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,653
    edited November 2016

    Celebrating my new eyes and upcoming birthday I took a mini-adventure today before the snow falls this weekend.  Drove 140 miles to Corning, NY to visit two museums.  First went to the "Corning Museum of Glass" http://www.cmog.org/ and second (just down the street a half mile) I went to the "Rockwell Museum" http://rockwellmuseum.org/ where they have an interesting collection of mostly old west paintings and bronze sculptures by the likes of Remington and Russell and many others just as good. 

    I love to wander museums but afterwards my feet hurt so bad. sad  Weather was wet & gloomy but I could clearly see the distant hills and trees through the gloom, YEA! smiley  I forget how picturesque the southern tier of NY State can be, even in gloom.

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  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776

    Morning. Looks like spring finally sprung, iz warmish anyhow under a big bright blue sky that seems to go forever

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  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    LeatherGryphon said:
    ps1borg said:
    MistyMist said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Non-complaint:  OMG, I can see stars in the sky again!  They actually are points of light, not lumpy blurs, and there are lots of them!  OMG! smileycrying

    Picked up my new glasses today.  The cataract surgery  last month cleared up the yellowing discoloration, night blindness, blind spots, and intermediate distance viewing.  And now the new glasses give me close vision and far distant vision and fix the astigmatism in my left eye.  I don't have to guess at distant road signs anymore.  The trees actually do have twigs on each branch, I can see the cross-hatch patterning in the traffic signal lights, I can see the little words on street name signs.  I can read the advertisements in store windows while driving,  I can see house numbers on the houses. OMG!  OMG!  It had been so long, that I'd forgotten what it's like.

     

    Cheers!!!

    Hey great, deserves some roses (from our garden)

    Wow, those red ones are as big as cabbages! surprise

    about six inches diameter

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    MistyMist said:

    Good Mornin 

    *waves* :)

  • Stryder87Stryder87 Posts: 899

    Man I hate those stupid phone calls... "We have this great offer.  Let us send you a sample, and if you do nothing, we're going to send it to you every month and bill you automatically."

    Then you have to chase them down and ask them NOT to send to you and hope to hades that they actually put it in their system and stop billing you.

    When did we become a world of automatically opting you in and you have to beg them to opt you OUT?

    baka baka baka baka baka......  angry

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,213
    LeatherGryphon said:

    Celebrating my new eyes and upcoming birthday I took a mini-adventure today before the snow falls this weekend.  Drove 140 miles to Corning, NY to visit two museums.  First went to the "Corning Museum of Glass" http://www.cmog.org/ and second (just down the street a half mile) I went to the "Rockwell Museum" http://rockwellmuseum.org/ where they have an interesting collection of mostly old west paintings and bronze sculptures by the likes of Remington and Russell and many others just as good. 

    I love to wander museums but afterwards my feet hurt so bad. sad  Weather was wet & gloomy but I could clearly see the distant hills and trees through the gloom, YEA! smiley  I forget how picturesque the southern tier of NY State can be, even in gloom.

    ...yeah received a weather alert for the Cascades and passes for up to a foot of snow.   Predictions are for a colder, wetter (possibly even frozen water from the sky) winter here in the Portland and surrounding area.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,213
    ps1borg said:

    Morning. Looks like spring finally sprung, iz warmish anyhow under a big bright blue sky that seems to go forever

    ...I need to win the lotto so I can get a place in the southern hemisphere to travel to for 6 months when winter looms here. Sun sets just after 16:00 now and it's dark before 17:00. Makes me tired. Maybe I have some bear in me as I just want to hibernate.

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    kyoto kid said:
    ps1borg said:

    Morning. Looks like spring finally sprung, iz warmish anyhow under a big bright blue sky that seems to go forever

    ...I need to win the lotto so I can get a place in the southern hemisphere to travel to for 6 months when winter looms here. Sun sets just after 16:00 now and it's dark before 17:00. Makes me tired. Maybe I have some bear in me as I just want to hibernate.

    Yeah, we are into that time of the year I used to hate when I was working,  Drove to work in the dark,  came home from work in the dark

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 102,475
    Stryder87 said:

    Man I hate those stupid phone calls... "We have this great offer.  Let us send you a sample, and if you do nothing, we're going to send it to you every month and bill you automatically."

    Then you have to chase them down and ask them NOT to send to you and hope to hades that they actually put it in their system and stop billing you.

    When did we become a world of automatically opting you in and you have to beg them to opt you OUT?

    baka baka baka baka baka......  angry

    Unless it's a company you aklready have a contract with they surely wouldn't have any claim, as long as you don't use whatever they send you (if they do).

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,213

    ...glad I'm retired as at least I can at least see some semblance of daylight during the winter.  I used to work in a windowless warehouse so it was still somewhat dark when I got there and would be completely dark when I left.

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,260
    TangoAlpha said:
    DanaTA said:
    TangoAlpha said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    I've found that almost any series gets difficult to watch after 2 or 3 seasons.  When I finally discovered "Heros" I loved it and sucked it up episode after episode until I started finding myself struggling to stay interested.  Recurring villains drive me up the wall.  I'd get the "we've dealt with that one, don't drag me through more of the same" feeling.  The writers struggle to up the pressure, to hype the story, to outdo themselves, and they resort to killing off likeable characters, destroying good relationships, dragging out plot lines, and even jumping the shark.  The series has exhausted its premise.  I reach the point where I think "Sorry, but I'm done with you.  Click."  and move on to another series.  My life doesn't depend of the fates of fictional characters.

    I find it's not so much that the show sucks, but when they start putting on repeats, I lose track of which episodes are "new" and they get lost in the miasma of "already seen that one"... Gets even worse when the show is on several different channels (for example, NCIS & variants are on at leasst 3 channels here, I've completely lost track of what I've seen & what I haven't...)

    Go to the network's website, look up the show, and see the schedule.  They often tell you in the listing what is a repeat/rebroadcast and what is new.  If they're on hiatus, they'll announce when the new episodes will be starting up again...usually.  Lastly, only watch on the main network.  You can find some shows running repeats from several seasons ago...but they aren't on the main network, they're on something like MyTV or one of the other independent channels.  Lastly, do you have cable or FiOS?  If you have a DVR, set a series recording up, and set it to record only new episodes.  I do that.  If it records, it's new...if not, it's a repeat and you haven't missed anything.  Some people like watching repeats, though.  Not me, because I know what's going to happen.  I already have that happen with new episodes quite often, so I really don't like it with repeats.  Diane, though, will sometimes want to watch repeats when there's nothing new on.  She doesn't remember them, anyway, so it's like seeing it for the first time for her.   laugh  

    Dana

    Probably works in the US, but here, outside the "Main 4" (BBC 1& 2, ITV, Channel 4), series record pretty much picks up everything . Old, new, doesn't care (or more likely the station doesn't care in setting it up) And it breaks easily if something goes wrong on one recording, it's done. Even if you subscribe on the stations "email me when we start a new season" list, they don't bother. (I usually discover a show is on around episode 6 or 7, by which time the first few are already gone from the catchup service - assuming you can find it there - the site navigation for people using TV remotes is universally terrible, and assuming it's even on there cos they didn't pay for the catchup rights.

    (I only get about an hour a day to watch TV, late night after I finish work, so pretty much everything has to be recorded or on Netflix)

    I used to watch "The 100", but series record failed after 7 or 8 episodes in season 1 (naturally I was 7 or 8 weeks behind, co the missing eps were already gone from catchup). They didn't pre-announce season 2, at least not anywhere I'd be likely to see it, so I missed everything before episode 10 at which point I gave up on it. That's typical of most shows for me.

    That's too bad.  Sorry.  I would be very upset about this situation.  I like my shows, but don't like to miss episodes.  The way they make everything a continuing story these days, missing an episode can really put you in the dark...into confusion.

    Dana

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,653
    kyoto kid said:
    ps1borg said:

    Morning. Looks like spring finally sprung, iz warmish anyhow under a big bright blue sky that seems to go forever

    ...I need to win the lotto so I can get a place in the southern hemisphere to travel to for 6 months when winter looms here. Sun sets just after 16:00 now and it's dark before 17:00. Makes me tired. Maybe I have some bear in me as I just want to hibernate.

    Definition:  "Southern Hemisphere"  anything below Atlanta.

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    butter pecan ice cream laugh

     

    yoo say pee-can  or  peh-con?

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,653
    edited November 2016
    DanaTA said:
    TangoAlpha said:
    DanaTA said:
    TangoAlpha said:
    LeatherGryphon said:

    I've found that almost any series gets difficult to watch after 2 or 3 seasons.  When I finally discovered "Heros" I loved it and sucked it up episode after episode until I started finding myself struggling to stay interested.  Recurring villains drive me up the wall.  I'd get the "we've dealt with that one, don't drag me through more of the same" feeling.  The writers struggle to up the pressure, to hype the story, to outdo themselves, and they resort to killing off likeable characters, destroying good relationships, dragging out plot lines, and even jumping the shark.  The series has exhausted its premise.  I reach the point where I think "Sorry, but I'm done with you.  Click."  and move on to another series.  My life doesn't depend of the fates of fictional characters.

    I find it's not so much that the show sucks, but when they start putting on repeats, I lose track of which episodes are "new" and they get lost in the miasma of "already seen that one"... Gets even worse when the show is on several different channels (for example, NCIS & variants are on at leasst 3 channels here, I've completely lost track of what I've seen & what I haven't...)

    Go to the network's website, look up the show, and see the schedule.  They often tell you in the listing what is a repeat/rebroadcast and what is new.  If they're on hiatus, they'll announce when the new episodes will be starting up again...usually.  Lastly, only watch on the main network.  You can find some shows running repeats from several seasons ago...but they aren't on the main network, they're on something like MyTV or one of the other independent channels.  Lastly, do you have cable or FiOS?  If you have a DVR, set a series recording up, and set it to record only new episodes.  I do that.  If it records, it's new...if not, it's a repeat and you haven't missed anything.  Some people like watching repeats, though.  Not me, because I know what's going to happen.  I already have that happen with new episodes quite often, so I really don't like it with repeats.  Diane, though, will sometimes want to watch repeats when there's nothing new on.  She doesn't remember them, anyway, so it's like seeing it for the first time for her.   laugh  

    Dana

    Probably works in the US, but here, outside the "Main 4" (BBC 1& 2, ITV, Channel 4), series record pretty much picks up everything . Old, new, doesn't care (or more likely the station doesn't care in setting it up) And it breaks easily if something goes wrong on one recording, it's done. Even if you subscribe on the stations "email me when we start a new season" list, they don't bother. (I usually discover a show is on around episode 6 or 7, by which time the first few are already gone from the catchup service - assuming you can find it there - the site navigation for people using TV remotes is universally terrible, and assuming it's even on there cos they didn't pay for the catchup rights.

    (I only get about an hour a day to watch TV, late night after I finish work, so pretty much everything has to be recorded or on Netflix)

    I used to watch "The 100", but series record failed after 7 or 8 episodes in season 1 (naturally I was 7 or 8 weeks behind, co the missing eps were already gone from catchup). They didn't pre-announce season 2, at least not anywhere I'd be likely to see it, so I missed everything before episode 10 at which point I gave up on it. That's typical of most shows for me.

    That's too bad.  Sorry.  I would be very upset about this situation.  I like my shows, but don't like to miss episodes.  The way they make everything a continuing story these days, missing an episode can really put you in the dark...into confusion.

    Dana

    That's why I'm learning to love NetFlix.  ($10/month for internet streaming and/or $10/month for DVD delivery) Sure they don't have every show (yet) but it makes watching a series in order reliable.

    I'm beginning to believe that broadcast/cable TV as we've known and loved/hated it for years is on the way out.  $100/month is ridiculous and you still get 35 to 40% commercials nagging at you.  sad  However, with all the commercial breaks it does reduce the strain on your bladder. surprise

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    ps1borg said:

    Morning. Looks like spring finally sprung, iz warmish anyhow under a big bright blue sky that seems to go forever

     

     

    86F!!  pina collada degrees

  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,602
    MistyMist said:

    butter pecan ice cream laugh

     

    yoo say pee-can  or  peh-con?

    pi-CON

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,653
    edited November 2016

    "Pi-CAN"

    But if you think that word is troublesome.  Try the name of the town in Florida called "Micanope".  It's even worse than the struggle with "Kissimmee, Florida".

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  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,602

    How do you pronounce Peabody, and are you from Massachusetts?

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,260

    I am from Massachusetts, but I don't pronounce things like Bostonians pronounce them.  For example the town Billerica...for some reason they omit the e and pronounce it Bill Ricka!  I still don't understand that one.  Oh, well.  indecision

    Dana

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,213
    LeatherGryphon said:

    "Pi-CAN"

    But if you think that word is troublesome.  Try the name of the town in Florida called "Micanope".  It's even worse than the struggle with "Kissimmee, Florida"

    ...can't be any worse than "Puyallup WA."

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,221
    DanaTA said:

    I am from Massachusetts, but I don't pronounce things like Bostonians pronounce them.  For example the town Billerica...for some reason they omit the e and pronounce it Bill Ricka!  I still don't understand that one.  Oh, well.  indecision

    Dana

    Do they say Am Ricka?

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,213

    ...well locally the biggest city in Wiscansin is called M'waukee.

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,221

    Ankle paining me, keeping me awake. Sad, missing my parents. Sigh...

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited November 2016

    Well we got Gnowangerup (W.A) , Patchewollock (Vic) and Tuggeranong (ACT)  but my favourite is Yooragoodadoo, a kinda flower sometimes called a Desert Pea or Swainsona after some guy who'd never seen them before back in the day

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  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    MistyMist said:
    ps1borg said:

    Morning. Looks like spring finally sprung, iz warmish anyhow under a big bright blue sky that seems to go forever

     

     

    86F!!  pina collada degrees

    our turn for tropical flavour goodness :)

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    edited November 2016

    how do they derive Peggy from Margaret?
    Dick from Richard?
    Jack from John?
    is Tammy a nickname for somethin?

    who was HumptyDumpty?  

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    is rain coming?  my bones feel ache-E

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    ps1borg said:

    Well we got Gnowangerup (W.A) , Patchewollock (Vic) and Tuggeranong (ACT)  but my favourite is Yooragoodadoo, a kinda flower sometimes called a Desert Pea or Swainsona after some guy who'd never seen them before back in the day

     

    yabba dabba doo? 

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