Monthly Archive for June, 2009

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Going to Satellite TV? Make It Direct TV and Let Me Know.


We changed from Dish Network to DirectTV when we had St. Todd DeCubbville install our BATV. I actually made the decision based pretty much on price. We got a good price with some free premium channels for a few months free.

But now that we have it, I’m finding that DirectTV is a lot better than Dish Network. We can’t get HiDef on our local network affiliates. Insight Communications, our cableco, just couldn’t figure out how it could be done via Tivo, DirectTV, or their own damn cable.

Actually, the cable guy didn’t even know what Tivo is. Serious. He. Didn’t. Know.

Anyhoo… when the U.S. Open was on NBC, we lost the chance to see it in HiDef. Once you have seen HiDef you know how I was suffering.

BUT: DirectTV had an interactive channel for the U.S. Open (maybe you have seen the commercials for some tennis tournament coming soon?) So I had a choice of four HiDef options:

  • four screens at once
  • hole #17
  • featured pairing
  • golfers in depth (features)

The other advantage is the DirectTV DVR records about a tritillion hours of programming. I think Tivo will only record 8 hours.
Plus I could get the leaderboard anytime I wanted, and some other cool junk.

If you are getting satellite television, or would would dump Dish Network for something better, Direct TV will give you $100 off. If you use my secret passcode: 82408932… then I also get $100.

Help fund the Going Like Sixty Dinking Around Foundation. You get $100, I get $100.
All God’s chillen’ get $100.

Buy Direct TV – use this number 82408932.

Give them your DIRECTV account number and tell them to order online at directv.com/refer or by calling 1-800-507-4045. They must have your DIRECTV account number when they order.

And thank you for your support.

The Best Animated Gif You Will See Today

I know Geeky Animated Gif day is usually on Monday, and it will be there. Perhaps this will be the launch of All Animated Gifs All The Time.

Check out the Michael Jackson funeral rehersal via ChrisSpags.

moonwalkingcasket

I get so confused: I Like BoA, Hate BofA, Like Boas


BoA is a Korean pop artist.

If you think you will hate BoA because I said “pop artist”, give her music a listen. I like it.

If you thought I was talking about BofA, welcome to my world.

I think you will be hearing more and more about BoA on US Airways. No, the real US Airways, the air — radio.  Not US Airways the airplane company that BofA, the bank,  invested in.
BoA Kwon has had 11 straight #1 hits in Korea.  She seems like a pretty likable pop star and her English is better than most American raised pop stars.
But in my RSS reader feeder, when BofA pops up in a headline, I tend to think BoA and then boa which reminds me of Nancy’s gang of friends who wrap their cleavage in boas.

If I ran BofA, I would hire BoA and put her in boa on a boat, to do commercials.

Confusion Rains, Reigns, Reins.

BoA – Eat You Up & Looking Who’s Talking [live]

Mark Sandford Needed A Map! Yeah, Miss South Carolina Teen Had It Right. We Need More Maps of the Appalachian Trail.

Remember Miss South Carolina Teen 2007? Of course you do.

I think she is now working for South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford - in his press relations office.

“Some people out there in our nation don’t have maps”

Apparently Miss South Carolina teen thought the Appalachian Trail was someplace in South America and she advised Gov. Mark Sanford to say he was out walking in the woods – the Appalachian Trail.  (Yeah, wood was involved.) Because…

“Some people out there in our nation don’t have maps”

I love what Anderson Cooper wrote:

But I am a writer and we writers are always looking for good excuses. Oh, my article’s late. Sorry, I was “hiking the Appalachian Trail”. Oh, forgot to take the trash out. Couldn’t. I was “hiking Appalachian Trail”. I didn’t sneak out to buy a box of Krispy Kremes. Oh, no. I was “hiking the Appalachian Trail”. Didn’t get my (fill in the blank here) in on time. Well, you know, I was “hiking Appalachian Trail”.

And, of course, this will now be also known as the Argentine Booty Call: “hiking the Appalachian Trail.”

No cracks about how secret negotiations to bring a rare Argentinian puma to the Columbia Zoo were disrupted by a cougar. No gags about a South Carolina education that blurred the difference between all those “A” countries (Argentina, Appalachia, Alaska, etc.). No assertions that he was looking for political tips from the corpse of Juan Peron, or that he visited the Falkland Islands to study how he might defend his state from an invasion by Tennessee, or that he became a desaparecido, another of the forced disappearances that characterized the country’s Dirty War of the 1970s.

You want to see a picture of María Belén Chapur or Shapur? So does everybody else. She has been on the top of Google search for hours. Think you can’t remain anonymous on the innerweb? María Belén Chapur has done a magnificent job of avoiding having her picture posted online.

Somebody thought they had María Belén Chapur, and even connected it to where she worked. But that was all a foul up.

I love this stuff. FoxSnews identified Governor Mark Sanford as an (D) for a while, just like they did the many times before:

  • John McCain – Democrat
  • Joe Lieberman – Democrat
  • Arlen Spector – Democrat (when he was still a Republican!)
  • Mark Foley – Democrat

“Media Matters also caught Fox listing a Democratic strategist as Bush’s head of FEMA — because his name happened to be Michael Brown. Oh, and we can’t forget the time they announced Rep. William Jefferson’s indictment using footage of Congressman John Conyers. They apologized to their audience, but never to Conyers personally.”

Just love this stuff!

It Apparently is Dog Week in Bloggerville

  1. Rhea put up a pic of her little smoochie pooch.
  2. Dogtime added a “Save a Dog” Facebook App.
  3. Cityfile says dressing your mutts for wedding is nuts.
  4. Nooter the Dog has gone philosophical: interpreting popular “dog” sayings.
  5. the words: let sleeping dogs lie
    what it means: leave a message, im having my nap

  6. BoingBoing has camping gear for dogs.
  7. Our granddog Ferg is just beside himself with excitement…
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