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Sarah planted the flowers in the yard
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Sarah's Fallout 3 teddy bear collection in Megaton.
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cute bunny 2009 Sep 25, 2:19
Irritatingly out of line with what their commercials say, in my area Comcast, under the covers of the national
broadcast digital switch, is sneaking in their own switch to digital, moving channels above 30 to their own digital format. Previously, I had Windows 7 Media Center running on a PC with a Hauppauge PVR500 which can decode two television signals at once setup to record shows I like. The XBox 360 works
great as a Media Center client letting me easily watch the recorded shows over my home network on my normal TV.
Unfortunately with Comcast's change, now one needs a cable box or a Comcast digital to analog converter in order to view their signal, but Comcast is offering up to two free converters for those
who'd like them. The second of my two free converters I hooked up to the Media Center PC and I got the IR Blaster that came with my Hauppauge out of the garage. I plugged in the USB IR Blaster to
my PC, connected one of the IR transmitters to the 1st port on the IR Blaster, and sat the IR transmitter next to the converter's IR receiver. I went through the Media Center TV setup again and
happily it was able to figure out how to correctly change the channel on the converter. So I can record now, however:
- I can only record one thing at a time now
- Changing the channel is slow taking many seconds (no flipping through channels for me)
- The Hauppauge card can't know if the channel change worked. So if it tries to change to HBO (I get it for free with one of the Comcast packages) which is encrypted and the converted won't show,
the channel doesn't change but the PC doesn't know it and ends up recording some other channel.
To fix (3) I need to manually go through and remove channels I don't have from the Media Center. To fix (1) I may be able to get a second IR transmitter, a third digital converter, hook it up to
one of the other inputs on my Hauppauge, and go back through the Media Center TV setup. There's no fix for (2) but that's not so bad. All in all, its just generally frustrating that they're breaking
my setup with no obvious benefit.
digital tv hauppauge mce cable windows media center comcast 2009 Sep 18, 5:52"We recently came across a series of colorfully decorated safety posts at the Standard Hotel in New York." The Knit Graffiti Crew strikes again.
humor knit graffiti new-york nyc cultural-disobediance photo 2009 Sep 18, 5:47Photos of the NYC garbage cubes
humor art trash nyc new-york photo 2009 Sep 14, 4:36Facebook makes a 'Fax This Photo' button but only lets TechCrunch employee's see it... Also, enjoyed the 'Oh my god this guys arm!' AD reference.
humor prank facebook journalism fax photo 2009 Sep 12, 3:55
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Bear Flag wine has a cool label and has the barcode wrapped around the neck of the bottle.
bottle wine bearflag 2009 Sep 12, 3:51
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Wtf? For more see the 'Most Condescending Game Ever' thread on www.boardgamegeek.com/thread/33357
wtf boardgame parkerbrothers careersforgirls 2009 Aug 31, 4:53From Ira as part of The Balloon Project "... took the lo-fi diy map making essentials (portable helium tank, party balloons, and a disposable video camera) to Paris, France, where they launched a
video camera into the sky not knowing where it would go, and created some very unique aerial cartography of the Place de la Concorde.' I'd love to see this run through photo stitching software like
Photosynth and then layered on Google Maps.
map balloon art ira-mowen france paris 2009 Aug 28, 9:12
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Cookies and cupcakes mysteriously appeared in my office. (Actually not mysterious -- thanks Eric!)
birthday chair cookie cupcake 2009 Aug 28, 9:12
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Saw this at the Fremont Market. The tag read along the lines of Veterinary related tool -- three guesses.
seattle wa tool veterinary 2009 Aug 28, 9:12
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James Bond's jetpack found at the Three Lions pub in Redmond, WA
pub redmond wa jamesbond jetpack 2009 Aug 21, 9:01Humorous no reward bike missing signs.
humor bike missing sign photo 2009 Aug 21, 3:31"A woman approaches me and tells me that she's with Getty Images. They're shooting stock photos in the park today, would I be willing to pose?" Then finds her photo on tea, camera ads, Quicken's
website, etc.
humor photo advertising getty via:waxy 2009 Aug 17, 8:39Laughed for this comment on the zombie photo used in the Wired article: 'Funny, the Wired article attribution ... says, "Fake Zombies attacking an innocent driver." I don't know who decided on that
caption, but it made me immediately want to ask 1. How do you know they're FAKE zombies? 2. How do you know the driver is INNOCENT?'
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