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Happy New Blogs - January '06
« on: January 02, 2006, 04:41:56 pm »
I guess it's sad that Chris is complaining about his sad old phone which is still newer than mine. I don't even have a SIM. But on the plus side I just used my 1,000th minute. It only took 4 years.

Sadly I'm going to have to agree with Pat that shows overlapping is huge pain in the ass. Although I've never seen The O'Reilly Factor.
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Re: Happy New Blogs - January '06
« Reply #1 on: January 02, 2006, 05:27:27 pm »
Quote from: CortJstr on January 02, 2006, 04:41:56 pm
Although I've never seen The O'Reilly Factor.

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Re: Happy New Blogs - January '06
« Reply #2 on: January 02, 2006, 05:37:28 pm »
Quote from: CortJstr on January 02, 2006, 04:41:56 pm
Sadly I'm going to have to agree with Pat that shows overlapping is huge pain in the ass.

What's worse is when you have stations like TBS that run their programming five minutes later than other stations. Or at least that's how it was for the longest time. Do they still do that anymore, or have they gotten the hint?

Even though Pat's a dick, I wish him luck getting the WPM up over 100. That's no mean feat.
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Re: Happy New Blogs - January '06
« Reply #3 on: January 02, 2006, 05:48:46 pm »
No, TBS stopped with Turner Time a while ago. I'm mainly talking about Alias running until 10:01 thus making my TiVo record Mythbusters at like 1am. Or for about 2 years Fox would start the Simpsons at 7:59 but would still list it at 8 so I'd always miss the couch gag.
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Re: Happy New Blogs - January '06
« Reply #4 on: January 02, 2006, 06:11:21 pm »
They did that on purpose just to fuck up Tivoing/recording people.  It backfired on them, though, as people just stopped watching the shows that they did that with.

NBC was the major culprit, starting shows early, ending other shows early - so much so that they went from being the #1 network to #4 (behind Fox, even) in just one season.

Consequently, they don't do that anymore.

P.S. The spell check wanted to change "Tivoing" to "Diving" - and I think I may experiment for a week by letting the spell check change anything it doesn't like.  It should make proper names more fun!

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Re: Happy New Blogs - January '06
« Reply #5 on: January 02, 2006, 06:56:18 pm »
Using NetZero is so Pat.
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Re: Happy New Blogs - January '06
« Reply #6 on: January 02, 2006, 07:32:25 pm »
Just two months ago my cell phone did weird things and I assumed that SOS was a shortcut to calling customer service.

Same result, and I was pissed too. Why would you not just put '911' there?
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Re: Happy New Blogs - January '06
« Reply #7 on: January 02, 2006, 10:39:54 pm »
Quote from: AlohaDawg on January 02, 2006, 07:32:25 pm

Same result, and I was pissed too. Why would you not just put '911' there?

For the same reason that the 'on/off' buttons on phones never say 'on' and/or 'off'?
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Re: Happy New Blogs - January '06
« Reply #8 on: January 02, 2006, 10:56:08 pm »
Quote from: wombat on January 02, 2006, 10:39:54 pm
For the same reason that the 'on/off' buttons on phones never say 'on' and/or 'off'?

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Re: Happy New Blogs - January '06
« Reply #9 on: January 02, 2006, 11:11:01 pm »
I used to have to manually dial my modem to connect to my SLIP account, long ago.  I don't miss that.  Come to think of it, I don't miss anything about using the Interwebs then, except that ads were Evil and Not The Thing To Do.  I didn't have to modify my own hosts file to turn off annoying looping ads with sound in a game I already pay a fee to play.  Assholes. I also regret not getting a five-digit ICQ number, but there you go.

Currently ESPN is doing that annoying non-specific time thing which messes up my TiVo to no end, but all it really means is that I don't watch the shows I told it to record, which I am assuming is not their goal.  As long as I get Mike and Mike in the Morning properly, I get enough ESPN for any given day, really.  So.

Wow, this must be what it would be like to have a regularly-updated blog of my own!  Mood: Fiendish
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Re: Happy New Blogs - January '06
« Reply #10 on: January 02, 2006, 11:30:16 pm »
At least ESPN has the excuse of not knowing exactly how long a given event will take. Unless they show stuff on tape or show non-event programming in which case what's the point of even calling themselves a sports channel?
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Re: Happy New Blogs - January '06
« Reply #11 on: January 03, 2006, 04:45:45 pm »
Quote from: Hobot on January 02, 2006, 06:56:18 pm
Using NetZero is so Pat.

I agree.  I like the way Blogger was able to get all his "hello"s and modem strings, though.
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Re: Happy New Blogs - January '06
« Reply #12 on: January 04, 2006, 01:07:26 am »
I hope his dog is all right.
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Re: Happy New Blogs - January '06
« Reply #13 on: January 04, 2006, 02:08:46 pm »
So I'm confused. Are the racoons actually sentient and saying things or is Ray just making up stuff they would say? Or did it change halfway through the blog entry? Man, Achewood is complicated.
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Re: Happy New Blogs - January '06
« Reply #14 on: January 04, 2006, 03:54:37 pm »
I suspect raccoons are kind of like dogs:  sentient, but not the sharpest tools in the shed.  All revertin' to primal squeaks.
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