Bureinato

( Another silly quiz )

For 10 questions I don't see how they can identify gender. It seems very stupid and gender stereotypical.

This link is helpful for finding out where the channels will be moving to. In my area the transmitters are all to the western side, which makes sense, that's where the mountains are. It also helps that I'm on a slight rise facing the mountains. Before I broke them, the cheepo bunny ears worked fine.

Also looks like all the channels I'd care about (none really since I've not had TV for over a year) are moving up to uhf frequencies, so the youtube UHF/HDTV Antenna would work just fine at my house. I just need to get some wire hangers, I had recycled mine a while back.

So I've been looking into what I have to do to watch TV these days. Since I canceled cable a while back I haven't gotten any channels. I've procrastinated on getting bunny ears because I thought it would be taken care of by a digital conversion box. But those boxes need some kind of antenna to grab the signal, I just need to decide if I want regular $10 bunny ears or the do it yourself model.

I've compiled some links I found useful.

Here is the government web site that has the application for the $40 coupon towards a digital converter.

A video on making a HDTV antenna. Although I have an old TV (1986, yes the year I graduated HS) I think this will pull in the SDTV channels as well. And I found a transcript if you are like me and need words.

Consumer Reports has a bunch of articles that I found helpful to read.

I'm still not sure if the crazy homemade antenna for HDTV will pick up all the SDTV channels. Does anyone know?

OK, I was worried about the police being heavy handed here in Denver. Guantanamo on the Platte.

The RNC is being even more heavy handed. Here are a couple of LJ links.

Teenaged kid arrested for walking to car, and released without any information.

Permaculture / post peak oil educators arrested for driving. Why was it fine for weeks, but days before the RNC it's a hazard?

The thing that irritates me about McCain picking Palin for VP is that it successfully blew away any discussion of Obama's excellent speech.

The Omnivore's Hundred is a list of foods the gastronomic Andrew Wheeler thinks everyone should try at least once in their lives.

The rules of the meme: bold those you have tried, strikethrough those you wouldn't eat on a bet, asterisk the ones you find yummiest.

( 1 - 100 random foods )

I should have written my comments right after reading each novel. But I've been lazy and now I'm trying to remember everything I've read and watched.
( a list )

1930's housewife

( I so fail. )

( And the husband version as well. )

Since I'm not married I left many many boxes unchecked. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

( Not so sure about this meme, but I'm mostly amused. )

So I've realized that because I bought a ticket to the world science fiction convention here in Denver I get to vote on the Hugo awards. So I've been checking the novels out of the library.

I had read The Yiddish Policemen’s Union by Michael Chabonn a few months ago. I enjoyed it a lot. Although I'm at the point where I wonder if alternate history is really SF, which means I've been reading a lot of it and have normalized the concept. It's a good noir detective story, that happens to be in an alternate universe.

This weekend I read Rollback by Robert J. Sawyer and The Last Colony by John Scalzi.

My issue with Rollback is 1/2 way through I started wondering why it was about the scientist's spouse. If the scientist in the story had been male the novel would never have been about his wife. Since the scientist was female, the main protagonist of the book was her husband. It struck me as odd. Plus I don't care for near future novels with all their contemporary references. Those sorts of books seem so dated in a decade or so. The concepts in the book were interesting and well presented, but see above issues.

The Last Colony was book 3 in a trilogy so I probably should have read the 1st two novels first. I've requested them out of the library, it will probably give book 3 more flow.

Currently Yiddish Policemen's Union is my top pick in the Novel category. I've got the other 2 books on hold and should be able to read them soon.

Finding the novellas will be harder. Most of them are in Asimov's, which DPL doesn't seem to have. Or at least I can't find it in the online catalog. I did find F&SF and the novella is available through ebsco host, an online database of periodicals.

If I get ambitious I'll check out the long form dramatic presentation as well.

The april fools gag that had me going for a while was listening to this review on all things considered this afternoon.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89284569

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYGUyYcCuMA

Garfield minus Garfield is one of the best things I've seen in forever.

thanks to punkwalrus

Since I just typed this up for some friends, I'll share this recipe w/ ya'll.

( Peppery Bean Salad )

( firefly character meme )

These are the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing's users (as of Sunday). Bold what you have read, italicize what you started but couldn't finish, and strike through what you couldn't stand. The numbers after each one are the number of LT users who used the tag of that book.
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This is a great article about sleep. Even though it's about kids, it's good reading for adults as well. The advice at the very end is applicable to anyone.

It would be easier to type at home if the kitten didn't try and bat the moving cursor or arrow, and sit in front of the monitor.

( Brain Hemisphere Meme )

You're Prufrock and Other Observations!

by T.S. Eliot

Though you are very short and often overshadowed, your voice is poetic
and lyrical. Dark and brooding, you see the world as a hopeless effort of people trying
to impress other people. Though you make reference to almost everything, you've really
heard enough about Michelangelo. You measure out your life with coffee spoons.


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