A lot when you are a LOST fan. The sixth and final season of the show starts in less than 7 months and now news comes that instead of just 17 hours of island madness we will be treated to 18.
If my guess as to when the sixth and final season of TDTVS starts is correct there are only 206 days to go. See more like this over at Springfield Punx where the author has just finished up a week of Ghostbuster characters.
Even better than Simpsonized characters is the Wrong Side of Art, a sight chock full of high-res scans of movie posters, specializing in ones from Horror, sci-fi, exploitation, cult, trash, B-movie posters. I linked to the gallery instead of the home page because some of the posters are NSFW and there are a few on the front page right now.
Jump At Your Own Risk – Posted at the entrance to Crawford Fences where the kindly caretakers have placed stacks of large logs at intervals in a clearing for the horse riders to jump over. (03/09/08)
When we got home I averaged out the coordinates of the cache and then checked them against existing caches and decided that it was too close to a couple. One was about 1200 feet away and another was just 800 feet away. The legal limit is 500′ apart so technically it is alright, but I decided not to publish it. We really want to put some in a part of the woods where there are no caches at all yet, so next weekend we are going to move this one over there and probably plant a second one that we almost have ready over that way too.
Buddy Mark was going to the local Drive-In tonight to see the new Transformer movie. To get a good parking spot I told him to leave early because for popular first-run movies there the place really fills up fast.
If he followed my advice he left before the end of the Braves – Red Sox game today. And if he did, he missed the FRS’s very own Transformer smash the hopes of the Atlanta team by pitching the bottom of the ninth inning in typical Papel-Bot fashion.
A few years back when I started listening to the FRS baseball games on the internet I complained that it was weird when between innings there was silence instead of the usual radio commercials. That was only the first year, ever since then I have been getting the Boston radio station’s local commercials. Normal.
Tonight the Sox are playing the Braves and the game is on something called the Peachtree TV. My local cable company doesn’t normally carry Peachtree, but because of the big Braves fan base they do show the baseball games on an open channel. I don’t know if it is contractual or what, but during inning breaks we don’t get commercials We get silence and sometimes a black screen, but mostly the video is of the infield and the silent tableau of players trotting to their position, which an occasional vertigo inducing zoom in to a close-up of the second base bag.
On radio it was weird, but on TV it is even weirder.
John Smoltz pitched his first big league game in over a year and he relearned mowing ’em down in the minors doesn’t always transfer well to the majors. He gave up 5 runs in the first three innings and was pulled after five. Hopefully it was just stage fright on opening night and he can do better next time.
Last night I could only listen to the baseball game through my right ear. No, it is not another flu symptom, the left computer speaker wasn’t working. I reseated every connection with out any success, but I did discover that it you pushed on the volume knob just right while turning it the left side would start to work. Tonight that trick sort of worked as now it seems like the game announcers are coming from somewhere right of center. I guess this weekend it will be back to Staples for a set of computer speakers.
The way things are going, it might be a good idea to do a data back up…
Ten days ago our trusty 6 year-old Dell 1800FP monitor gave up the ghost. We immediately went out and bought an all-the-rage wide screen monitor to replace it.
Now I have this big ol’ dead 18.1″ LCD monitor sitting on the floor here and I stub my toe on it every time I pull my coat off the rack by the door. You can’t just chuck these things out anymore because you will be ruining the planet for future generations. You have to wait for the twice a year electronic recycling day and then you have to pay for the privilege of them taking it off your hands.
A quick check of eBay shows that a working version of this monitor is worth anywhere from $60 + shipping to $100 + free shipping. A Google search for “dell 1800fp repair” leads to a bunch of forums talking of blown power supplies and not surprisingly eBay with said power supplies for sale or repair.
I disassembled the monitor and pulled out the power supply. On the back of the connector from P/S to the control board it lists the output of each of the pins. I plugged the power cord into the wall and with my cheapo multimeter checked for voltage. Nothing. No +5VDC nor anything where there was supposed to be +15VDC.
Should I, A) pay $25 where I send in my power supply, it gets repaired and then sent back, B) spend $45 and just buy a refurbished P/S or C) put the monitor by the curb and hope someone comes along and picks it up?
A couple of pertinent pieces of information. I really don’t need the the repaired monitor, there is no space left on the computer desktop for dual monitors nor do I want the hassle of selling it on eBay.