The Coffee Roaster's Club (No De-Caff Allowed) and Random Discussion for TPBM (28)

Skrim17 wrote in post #8487751
We have to use the HD channels, don't see a difference unless it is broadcast in HD. On those channels the picture is almost 3D.

I guess I need to call Time Warner, then. I've seen how HD TV looks in other places, but I just ain't getting it here, no matter what signal/connections I use.

short5 wrote in post #8493492
I am sickened and sit here with heavy heart seeing the news they released Abdelbeset Ali mohmed al Megrahi from a Scottish prison today. This is one of the terrorists that murdered my best friend, before his 20th birthday, and only a couple days before Christmas, by blowing up Pan Am 103. He was released on compassionate grounds because he has terminal cancer. A brutal beating and a bullet to the back of the head is the only compassion he should have got.
http://www.cnn.com …ckerbie.bomber/​index.html

It sure would be nice if courts were a little more consistent... Susan Atkins' family has been begging for her to be released for about a year now, also because she's dying of cancer. At least in her case the courts haven't become terminally stupid. Yet...

theague wrote in post #8493954
Am I the only one that sees, Content Protected by Owner?

Nope... Grrrrr!!! Drives me up a wall when I can't see a photo just because I hadn't checked a thread in the past few hours.

I never take any of my photos down. I've even been going back through several of the older threads, where a change of service providers killed some photo links around 2006, and editing my posts in them so the photos still show.

thomascanty wrote in post #8494117
I never take any of my photos down. I've even been going back through several of the older threads, where a change of service providers killed some photo links around 2006, and editing my posts in them so the photos still show.

I'm the same...

are you saying you're a wet dog Pete?

Pete wrote in post #8494129
I'm the same...

http://www.the-aperture.com/EE/photos​/normal/IMG_2392.jpg

You got a dog?!? Congrats!!!

thomascanty wrote in post #8494117
I guess I need to call Time Warner, then. I've seen how HD TV looks in other places, but I just ain't getting it here, no matter what signal/connections I use.

We had to get a whole new box that would receive the HD channels, no charge, but a new kind of cable box.

Tspin update, he ADORES his scratching post and was asleep on one of the perches when my husband left this morning!

Harm wrote in post #8494148

It's an OOOOOLLLLLDDDDD joke...

Pete wrote in post #8494129
I'm the same...

Pete, I usually like your stuff, but I am not sure about this one, I think it is rather derivative as I am sure i have seen very similar images to this one ....... several times in fact

Skrim17 wrote in post #8494147
We had to get a whole new box that would receive the HD channels, no charge, but a new kind of cable box.

We had to get a big huge box put into our closet (well hidden above the door) when we upgraded to fibre-optics....but the HD channels are fantastic, esp on a large flat screen!

*edit* then the set-top box had to be replaced to recieve HD channels too, also a little router thing to convert the signal*

Skrim17 wrote in post #8494147
We had to get a whole new box that would receive the HD channels, no charge, but a new kind of cable box.

I don't think that's my problem. My DVR records HD. They take up a whole lot more space than non-HD, anyway!

neil_r wrote in post #8494156
Pete, I usually like your stuff, but I am not sure about this one, I think it is rather derivative as I am sure i have seen very similar images to this one ....... several times in fact

Really?

Zane: I don't know what to say, I'm very sorry, it's terrible that justice isn't being given and my heart goes out to your friend's family and friends

Becky N wrote in post #8493915
TIF oh TIF did you click the link last night for the Airfest? It appears we will be shooting both days. LMK if you are coming down.

I'll let you know, I'll talk to Brian tonight!

neil_r wrote in post #8493936
We flew to Bangalore this morning (My favorite city in India) We are staying in the Oberoi Hotel which could not be any more in the center of town if it tried (Right on the MG Road (every Indian city has an MG Road at it's centre "Mahatma Gandhi Road")) Having said that this is the view from the balcony.

*contented sigh* so beautiful

theague wrote in post #8493954
Am I the only one that sees, Content Protected by Owner?

Sorry, there was a huge mistake in it... I had to go back and fix it so I put the new one in the gallery and took the bad one down...

http://gagliardi.zenfo​lio.com/img/v0/p100289​3331-5.jpg

Skrim17 wrote in post #8494147
Tspin update, he ADORES his scratching post and was asleep on one of the perches when my husband left this morning!

Oh, and... He'll have that thing torn to shreds in no time!

Years ago I bought one of those giant trees (when they weren't outrageously expensive) that went floor-to-ceiling. My cats loved it, and it took them nearly two decades to completely destroy it. Tupper, even when he weighed more than 30 pounds, regularly dived off the top platform, from near the ceiling, to the couch three or four feet below. Don't worry about them jumping off and hurting themselves...

I finally trashed that tree when I moved to Palmdale two years ago. I replaced it with a much smaller cat tree (that cost me more than twice as much as the old one did). It's since been shredded too, but Tupper and Crystal are almost always sleeping in/on it somewhere every morning when I come home from work.

Ever have one of those totally embarrassing "Ah-Ha" moments? Well, embarrassing may be a bit too strong, but Doh!! definitely. I just had one.

Every once in a while Firefox would switch to a mode where a circle with an up and down arrow would appear and I could use the mouse to scroll up and down and sideways. It's very handy but I never quite found out what the trigger mechanism was... until now. I thought it was scroll speed, timing, extra sensory, whatever. Well, today I figured out that there is a button build into my scroll wheel and I could just press the scroll wheel and it would toggle modes... DOH!!!

^ RTFM (LOL)