What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[CRTGAMER]

Bought a 330lb rated push cart to move the 36" wega. Broke it. Lashed it to the dolly I had for moving my Neo cabinet. Against all odds, it worked! So happy I'll never move that TV again.

I honestly kinda wanna get rid of it (via Craigslist "come get it" method probably) once I find a reasonable sized PVM. The framemeister is fantastic, honestly. All I need for day to day use. But you need light gun love sometimes.

No-No-No. Though a PVM CRT is a very good SD Tube most (or all?) are older technology with a curved glass tube. The WEGA is the last great CRT with a flat tube and oh so crystal clear and bright no matter what angle you view it from. It has newer chips inside to digitally enhance the picture quality vs the older PVMs with analog controls; some WEGAs are even HD 1080i tubes.

Model Number? You can pull the PDF manual from Sony ESupport.

My neighbor was just over & was surprised how good the picture looked on my "new" (to me) 27" CRT in the garage. I explained to him how CRTs handle blacks & multiple resolutions well (vs upscaling).

THIS. The CRT is the best for non HD video as in older consoles and many non HD TV channels. Plus if that 36" WEGA is an HD Tube you gain ALL resolutions crystal clear from 480i-720P-1080i. NO UPSCALE "Pixels" stretch.

No worries on the heavy weight of a CRT. Once set its not like the TV will need too be moved again. Oooh, all the inputs of last generation flat tubes that one will not find on new LEDs.

[Cronozilla]

You rat bastard.

I'm mostly wondering what the chain of events are. It's most likely that I only found it because I live in the same general area as the Author.

I've only read the ones with Admiral Thrawn, but those were pretty boss.

Thrawn does make an appearance in Outbound Flight, I believe.

[Jagosaurus]

@K-DB, without getting too technical, it's highly likely they aren't actually pulling fiber to your house if it goes through. There wont be buried glass in your yard. There is fiber node some where near & they'll break it off into copper. ATT for example has fiber in my neighborhood but it's a Cat5e cable infrastructure from house to house. Sure, my Comcast is coax/MoCA but my speeds are faster than the ATT "fiber" in the area. My coax hits Comcast fiber infrastructure eventually as well. Neither are guaranteed/SLA speeds (both "up to xx mbps"). Much of that is marketing. To my knowledge, true fiber to fiber end points are enterprise only or custom builds, in Houston any way. Bottom line, don't pay too much monthly for "fiber", especially if you're fronting construction cost.

@CRT, your tube TV passion inspires me!

[Tanooki]

I've been getting into G1 Transformers toys this year, another fun diversion of my 1980s kid life away from game price shenanigans spurred on by finding a cherry G1 Jazz in the box all complete recently. I've picked up a selection of them, up to 11 as of what came in today which made for a big smiley moment.

Jetfire, with all his armor, no damage, all stickers in place, has the often lost gun clip too. I got a deal on one for decent little bit under the going rate.

Here it is along with the rest of my things.
http://s232.photobucket.com/user/tanook ... t=9&page=1

Jazz, Topspin, Twin Twist, Cliffjumper, Overdrive, Grand Slam, Raindance, Shrapnel, Bombshell, and Kickback. Jazz, Topspin and Cliffjumper I got locally.

#12 is on the way, super psyched about that one as along with Jazz it was my 2 childhood larger/large sized Transformers I remember owning. I don't think I've ever owned a decepticon until I got those three insecticons in a bundle.

Also Grand Slam and Raindance they're the only 2 autobot cassettes that form not only into their special mode but slap together to form Slamdance a big robot and I've got all 5 of its guns. All the ones I have do have all their accessories too, but few have their manuals (just overdrive, and the 2 tapes technically as it is a blister pack cutout.) #12 has its booklet and bio-scan code thing when it gets here.

I don't intend to ebay much beyond what I have, it's going to be smiles time trying to find them locally at a few places I know of and the flea market as I've seen them thrown out on tables all the time from various eras, but G1 is all I'll pick up.

Maybe another topic worthy but who here has any of their own or looks for them? I asked on DP, got not one reply.

[MrPopo]

I've only read the ones with Admiral Thrawn, but those were pretty boss.

Thrawn does make an appearance in Outbound Flight, I believe.

If by appearance you mean is a major character.

[Cronozilla]

I've only read the ones with Admiral Thrawn, but those were pretty boss.

Thrawn does make an appearance in Outbound Flight, I believe.

If by appearance you mean is a major character.

That's what I thought, but the internet was stating otherwise. Stupid Internet.

[bmoc]

@K-DB, without getting too technical, it's highly likely they aren't actually pulling fiber to your house if it goes through. There wont be buried glass in your yard. There is fiber node some where near & they'll break it off into copper. ATT for example has fiber in my neighborhood but it's a Cat5e cable infrastructure from house to house. Sure, my Comcast is coax/MoCA but my speeds are faster than the ATT "fiber" in the area. My coax hits Comcast fiber infrastructure eventually as well. Neither are guaranteed/SLA speeds (both "up to xx mbps"). Much of that is marketing. To my knowledge, true fiber to fiber end points are enterprise only or custom builds, in Houston any way. Bottom line, don't pay too much monthly for "fiber", especially if you're fronting construction cost.

If this was directed at me, it is definitely fiber to the premises. I had it through them at my previous house. I had 20MB up and down for $40 a month.

At the new house, I can see a small coil of fiber sticking out of the ground near my power meter. So they plan to come this way with it eventually. My street is about 1.5 miles long and I can see the fiber optic cable running alongside the powerlines at the end of the street. The problem is that most of the street has underground power so they would have to trench it in.

[samsonlonghair]

If I had the option of fiber direct to my door, I would hop on that immediately. Last year I went to the state senate and to the telcos to try to twist a few arms to get fiber optic ran to my TOWN.

Didn't work.

I moved away.

I still don't get decent internet access at home.

[bmoc]

They already told me no once a few weeks ago. I called them again after Frontier said they were out of DSL ports. This time it wasn't an immediate no and they are supposed to get back to me this week. If they say no again, I will do my best to make a case for it. I'll get the neighbors involved if I have to. No one seems to care for Frontier around here.

[ElkinFencer10]

So a former student of the school where I teach was shot in the head yesterday morning. I didn't know the kid, but it was the result of gang violence, and it was only a couple miles from the school. We didn't have to lock the school down or anything, but we did cancel all after school activities and close the school at 4 pm. The other high school in the county, however, had a few fist fights break out over the shooting, and they evidently had to call in extra police officers and sheriff's deputies to keep order.

It's a town with a high crime rate, and there are usually 7 or 8 murders per year in the rough parts of town, but this has been especially jarring for the community because this wasn't in one of the bad parts of town, and he was related either directly or indirectly to a lot of our students. Needless to say, it's been a rough 24 hours for Henderson. All the teachers here have been told to keep an eye out for fights or for kids who need emotional support (he apparently had a few siblings and step-siblings enrolled here).