Sunday, January 25, 2009

Water Torture

Bullet Proof Glass

In zee oold deys, vhen theengs vere-a seemple
Gretchee - yuoo vun't beleeefe-a it!
Nels, vhet?
I'm infenteeng boollet pruuff gless
Boollet pruuff gless, Nels?
Ya! (iss huldink  gless plete-a)
Ere-a yuoo soore-a it vurks Nels? 
Pretty soore-a. Let's try it oooot. 

2 days, 9 hours

2 days, 9 hours of wasted time that will haunt me ...
But wait!
No they won't.  This is my legacy!  I'm the best Klondike Hearts player in the world.  Nobody can ever beat my percentage.  Take that Robert Jarvik.  Eat me Stephen Hawking!  I WIN!

Kenyan wetbacks

Kin


The theme of this PS is fairly uncreative.  But.  It's making the rounds on the Euro boards, which is unusual. 

Today's idyll

Philips Home Theater

A Sound Buy


Lord knows I've bought a whole bunch of crap from Woot.  In fact. most all of it was crap I didn't need, couldn't use, or didn't work like I hoped.  I'm not blaming Woot - caveat emptor, and all that.  Maybe I'm bi-polar. The Philips Home Theater deal  is something I did good. 

The low price (Amazon is offering it for $453.76) reflects, IMO, the fact that the DVD player is not Blue-Ray.  That doesn't bother me in the slightest.  I'm not saying the sound equals Bose, but I don't really know.  I do know that I'm  able to watch many movies without TV EARS ( a good thing since I broke my head phones) or captions, because the fidelity is so clean and sharp.  Plenty of inputs/outputs for other devices, FM/AM radio, and an iPod Dock included.  Very, very smartly engineered. This has the SHLONG seal of approval.  Unless it breaks before I croak.
Philips DVD Home Theater System
You ordered 1 Philips HTS6600 DVD Home Theater System.
which each cost    $199.99
for a subtotal of    $199.99
plus shipping    + $5.00
for a total of    $204.99
PS -I hope you appreciate the chance I'm taking, telling you this.  I told MoSup it cost $19.95.  Shhhh.

RFD-TV

You Can't Go Back To The Farm
It's important that I don't begin the morning by listening to the news.  Doctor's orders, actually.  Makes me spend too much time thinking about tricking Nancy Pelosi into a razor fight. That's why I was so happy to learn last week that Verizon had, very quietly, added RFD-TV, aka The Farm Channel to their line-up.  This is the fare (taped video) I was hoping to enjoy again each morning.  Nice, soothing, cattle auctions, and farm reports.  But, ooh-nooooo.