Torture Defined

Torture is forcing a tech to sit through an Adobe CS3 install with no options but to meditate on how it could possilbly take this long.

Indy Goodness

Man I can't wait for this movie to be released! Watching the trailer makes me want to take a day off and spend it watching the other 3. If you haven't seen the trailer get outta here and go check it out!

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

the official site is worth a look too, wallpapers from all of the Indiana Jones and bunch of other fun stuff

mmmm beer

Here are some good beer review sites - forget bud and miller there is a world of beer out there.


Beer Advocate - also offers a magazine!

RateBeer - kind of clunky interface but good info

BeerTown

great now I am thirsty.

you're in the jungle baby

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23148063/

While this wasn't the first time someone witnessed the face-to-face act, it was the first time to capture it on film. Surprisingly only 3 primates are known to sex it up in this fashion, all others are too interested in watching the hockey game.

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TheSixtyOne

I am compelled to sign the praises of this site! I am completely hooked on the purpose and function of TheSixtyOne as a place for original music. I don't want to go into a full review of the site because the one person that may be reading this is the person that introduced me to the site. But man what a fresh concept; get points for logging in and use those points to promote the music you like! When that music does well, by being promoted (bumped) by others you get more points, and more points lead to level increases - genius! Just enough of a video game feel that I get that sense of accomplishment!

Great Work guys and gals of the TheSixtyOne! BTW - my profile can be accessed using the link to the right >

D*TV getting ready to unveil CBS HD to Indy market?

I have been a D*TV subscriber for many years and an HD subscriber for the past year or so and I have been generally quite pleased with my service, picture quality etc... As for local channels I am attached to the Indy market which gives me ABC, NBC, and Fox in HD - not bad. The one channel I would LOVE to get in HD is CBS - I mean SEC football, AFC Football, College Basketball just to name 3 good reasons. Apparently WISHtv is LIN station and for some reason ($$'s) unable to reach a deal with D*TV for the HD feed.
I believe that with the looming DTV switch, that actually seems like it will be a real date they have decided to cut losses and deal while it is worth something. Here is why.

Saturday I was bored poking around the channels not really settling on a station and happened to stop on the Sports Mix (ch 105 or close to that). If you are not familiar the mix channels give you 8 channels at once in small windows and you can choose a stations audio by highlighting the window. If you like it you push select and it takes you to the channel. Nice. Well Kevin James was golfing on CBS which caught my interest so I start to listen. I then decide to watch so boom - push select - and what to my wondering eyes but Kevin James in glorious (and it truly was) HD. WTF? check the info, hmm, yep info confirms HD and the station ID is WISH rather than the SD label of IN8 Okay, well check the guide, maybe it was updated and I missed it.. nope no WISH listed just IN8... next step was to restart the receiver and see if I could force a guide update to get the channel, no that didn't work but the channel remained HD so it wasn't just some dark energy fluke.. changed the channel and back lost the feed - not in guide no access

Here is what I learned: the HD CBS WISHtv feed is active and live. I was able to get a sort of backdoor on it due to the mix channel not being a slave to the guide data but rather the best feed for the broadcast displayed - thankfully if an HD and SD feed is available it will default to the HD feed.

Great, so I know that it is out there and accessible so long as a sporting event is on the mix channel but beyond that what is the holdup? I am wondering if maybe the CW feed might also be coming in HD as well.. hmmm..

Worse case scenario, I jinx it all by discovering and pointing out the hole and all hope of WISH HD fades to 480p. :(

J

born again blogging

I decided to change things up a little bit in the hopes of writing more often and hopefully with a little more purpose. With a total audience of 1 person, of whom I choose to call when most things of importance happen what better way to self aggrandize than the opening sentence! Smashing start.


As I muddle through my 30's one of the feelings I wrestle with is the need to do something important or be responsible for important things. Normally a job would fill this void. I would be young administrator with a million things on plate and conferences to attend, instead I sit at a small college help desk waiting for a phone to ring or a biped with a crisis to drop-in. And since I am too poor for the couch and blogging biz is free maybe will this will give me some important outlet. Maybe it'll just be a bunch links to shrimp running treadmills.

"wait and see" he said, "wait and see"