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:
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.
Tags: batv, directtv, dish network, insight communications, st. todd decubbville, u.s. open
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.
Tags: casket, funeral, michael jackson, moonwalk
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]
Tags: boa, bofa, kwon, us airways
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:
“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!
Tags: appalachian trail, argentina, argentine booty call, arlen spector, fema, fox news, joe leiberman, john conyers, john mccain, maría belén chapur, mark foley, mark sanford, michael brown, miss south carolina teen 2007, shapur
the words: let sleeping dogs lie
what it means: leave a message, im having my nap
Ferguson
Liberty Mutual, the insurance company, has this online driving test called Driver’s Test. Caution, annoying music starts to play.
meant to simulate some of the challenges that elderly drivers face when they’re out on the road.
Yeah, if you are driving your car using arrows on a keyboard. You know up arrow for accelerate, down area for stop, right for right, left for left. I HATE games that use keyboards. 
“The Driver Seat Game is a great conversation starter,” Greg Gordon, senior vice president of Consumer Marketing at Liberty Mutual, said in a statement. “Most families are simply not addressing the very important issue of senior mobility, perhaps because they feel ill-equipped on how to approach it.”
Yeah, I started a conversation with myself, muttering under my breath how I HATE using arrows in a game and then muttering that Liberty Mutual must have a bunch of idiot Xer’s in their marketing department that convinced the Trophy Generation at their advertising agency to develop a game that uses arrows. At least let me use my mouse. So of course, then it became a game like Pac-Man, the cars were like eaters, meant to be devoured when they change color and the people were bonus points.
I always sucked at Pac-man too. I was trying to drive to the church and ended up at the diner. I guess I got a lot of points for driving like a bat out of hell the wrong way down one-way streets.
Boomers should start to retake driving tests at age Sixty, and then re-take the test when ever the state requires a new license. If you have an opinion on this topic, here’s a poll.
According to A A A findings, with the exception of teenagers, seniors have the highest crash death rate per mile.
I was lucky, my dad gave up his keys very willingly. I think he scared himself! I scare everybody that rides with me because at low speed, I “tailgate.” Here’s my rationale: I can see at least two cars ahead by looking through the windshield of the car in front of me. I’m paying closer attention to the road than she is. I also incur the wrath of drivers when we stop. I pull right up on their bumper. What? Are they going to suddenly throw it in reverse and back into me?
If she pulls up annoyed, I pull up.
If she flips me off, I blow her a kiss.
If she pulls out a revolver, I duck.
By the way, Friday is Drive Your Corvette to Work Day.
Tags: aaa, corvette, driver's seat game, liberty mutual insurance, pac-man, relvover, tailgate
Times are tough.
Imagine you have a job:
Now imagine peer pressure says you MUST have an assistant. Even though that assistant does little more than carry your laptop and tell you the keys you selected to write that email were perfect, and the assistant cleans your keyboard at every opportunity.
You pay the assistant a salary and they get a cut of your commission.
That’s golf/PGA.
The PGA reports that caddies are paid based on how well their golfer does on the green. First they receive a base salary of $1,000 a week, then 5 percent of tournament winnings, 7 percent of a top ten placement and 10 percent for a victory.
Your name isn’t Tiger Woods or Phil Mickelson, or David Duval. Your name is Lucas Glover or Ricky Barnes or Ross Fisher, giving away any of your income for a pretty worthless assistant wouldn’t be pretty.
When will the PGA take pity on the poor professional golfer who has to lug around this assistant to carry clubs, when there are mechanical devices that will do the job better?
Oh, about the same time, they allow short pants during competition, and limit beer sales at tournaments (oh wait, they already did that.
It’s time to dump caddies. Let technology takes it’s place in golf. There are fantastic electric bag haulers. If the PGA demands the players walk, let them use an electric cart that follows the player.
Let the players use the laser range finders to know the exact distance to the pin.
In addition to reducing overhead for the players, think of how this would speed up play. How many times during the long, long, long U.S. Open did you watch player and caddy agonize over a yardage book? How many times did you watch a caddy wave and point and wave and point and nod his head and then the player reached into the bag and pulled his own club?
Silly assistant. Silly PGA professionals. The PGA should eliminate caddies.
The PGA better start making changes now because sponsors are drying up, and unless they are willing to cut the amount they donate to charity, the prize money will be reduced. This means a less competitive field. This leads to lower TeeVee ratings and reduced purses.
Golf is in trouble. If the PGA doesn’t start making changes now, they are shanking an opportunity.
Tags: caddies, caddy, david duval, earnings, lucas glover, pga, phil mickelson, ricky barnes, ross fisher, tiger woods
Attention all companies who have a product they wish to have me rave about.
Time is running out. Get your samples and coupons for free stuff to me ASAP.
The FCC is on our trail.
the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is considering to monitor blogs for undisclosed sponsored blog posts. According to the FTC, bloggers who don’t disclose that they received freebies once these new rules go into effect could become the target on an FTC investigation.
I just started doing pay per post, and one company says I can let you know that it is a sponsored post and another company said specifically I couldn’t let you know. (Of course the latter is in the U.K. so they care about the FCC about as much as I do.)
Yes, the same FCC that brought you government cheese for your TeeVee viewing pleasure, now wants to regulate me.
Bring it.
In the meantime, any company that want’s a free plug, like the Kush Night-time Breast Separator, should just get samples or coupons for free samples in the mail. (I hate my wrinkly cleavage, unlike these lovely boomer cleavages. - SFW)
I promise I will give you a glowing review and recommendation.
I’d prefer cash for my endorsement, $10+, but any freebie will do. Will work for candy.
As much as those bloggers who receive these gifts would like to claim this isn’t the case, freebies like free laptops, trips, or gift cards are likely to influence a writer’s opinion of a product. We just heard from a food blogger last week who told us that she regularly receives expensive spices, books, and mail-order steaks from companies that won’t to be covered on her blog.
If somebody gave me a laptop or a Freakin’ Ford Fiesta or meat I sure as heck ain’t gonna bad mouth them! If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.
As ReadWriteWeb.com said:
We also can’t help to wonder how the FTC is going to monitor the thousands of small-time bloggers who regularly receive freebies.
They can’t.
So social media experts who work for clients sitting on all that swag, that need some quick buzz, before it’s illegal (and even afterwards) contact me. @goinglikesixty or goinglikesixty@gmail.com. GoingLikeSixty.com is so small as to be invisible…
Tags: endorsement, fcc, ford fiesta, free sample, pay per post
