Random Thoughts Part 4 - Split Thread

[fresh_42]

You wasted 20 minutes of your life observing that?

Wasted? 20 minutes of imagination, jealousy and sitting in a park? (Ok, I'm a little shameful for me and my fellow males but only a little. )

 

[WWGD]

You wasted 20 minutes of your life observing that?

Sort of, I observed it on and off. Hoping I would be next in line ;).

 

[fresh_42]

Anybody watching football?

 

[WWGD]

Anybody watching football?

You mean the Super Cup?

 

[fresh_42]

You mean the Super Cup?

No I meant the wild card matches.

 

[zoobyshoe]

All representatives are still assisting other callers. Please continue to hold for the next available representative.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Some Bach piece in the interval, I think it's a movement from one of the Brandenburgs, transcribed for guitar. It's very scratchy. I'm on the third time through.

 

[WWGD]

Elvis' birth anniversary (1/8/35) seems to have gone by with little notice.

 

[WWGD]

All representatives are still assisting other callers. Please continue to hold for the next available representative.

Seems they could save both the public and themselves time, hassle and money if they would allow you to leave your phone together with good times to call you back -- with some guarantee to not put you on a marketing call list.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Seems they could save both the public and themselves time, hassle and money if they would allow you to leave your phone together with good times to call you back -- with some guarantee to not put you on a marketing call list.

The Ca DMV does that. This is my cable company I'm trying to talk to at the moment. They issued a new device for digital TV. I hooked it up, but I am only getting one channel, USA. The TV refuses to even try to display another channel by any means of channel changing.

 

[WWGD]

The Ca DMV does that. This is my cable company I'm trying to talk to at the moment. They issued a new device for digital TV. I hooked it up, but I am only getting one channel, USA. The TV refuses to even try to display another channel by any means of channel changing.

Seems it would take a good amount of computing power for someone on the other side of the phone line to understand your layout and give instructions. I have seen very few people do that well.

 

[zoobyshoe]

Seems it would take a good amount of computing power for someone on the other side of the phone line to understand your layout and give instructions. I have seen very few people do that well.

Well, someone finally answered. The problem was that, to do anything, you have to aim the remote at the new digital box rather than at the TV.

 

[fresh_42]

Elvis' birth anniversary (1/8/35) seems to have gone by with little notice.

I noticed. My sister is mad about him. (And I once named a server Aaron!))

 

[zoobyshoe]

So far, the ordeal was worth it. Everything's HD now, and I get about 20 more channels.

 

[WWGD]

So far, the ordeal was worth it. Everything's HD now, and I get about 20 more channels.

I am still trying to figure out how best to find something I enjoy with a 200+ line up. Maybe I should use ideas of the Secretary Problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem to choose the best thing to watch.

 

[fresh_42]

I am still trying to figure out how best to find something I enjoy with a 200+ line up. Maybe I should use ideas of the Secretary Problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem to choose the best thing to watch.

Sounds like a perfect strategy to watch the last five minutes of many shows and movies.

(My record is at danger: I want the Steelers to win and they are 15-0 in the lead (3rd).)

 

[WWGD]

Sounds like a perfect strategy to watch the last five minutes of many shows and movies.

But there is a feature in most cable that you can know the programming ahead of time, together with a description ( but maybe good old Tivo ( if it is still around) may be a better alternative). But there is the issue that this will interrupt the last 5-10 minutes while searching. Unless you start your prep many hours ahead -- I don't have that amount of time nor dedication to this.

 

[fresh_42]

But there is a feature in most cable that you can know the programming ahead of time

I've got something like this. And I can mark programs I want to watch so the receiver automatically switches channels. That sometimes results in pure stress when overlapping occurs ...

 

[zoobyshoe]

I am still trying to figure out how best to find something I enjoy with a 200+ line up. Maybe I should use ideas of the Secretary Problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem to choose the best thing to watch.

I only have 96 choices, but so many of them are so invariably of no interest that choosing is usually a matter of determining the best of 3.

 

[lisab]

There are several chunks of time today that I can't account for.

 

[WWGD]

I only have 96 choices, but so many of them are so invariably of no interest that choosing is usually a matter of determining the best of 3.

I guess you're one of those that do not enjoy any of the 37 channels with either Korean, Ethiopian, Tibetan, etc. Novelas?

 

[zoobyshoe]

There are several chunks of time today that I can't account for.

Aliens?

 

[zoobyshoe]

I guess you're one of those that do not enjoy any of the 37 channels with either Korean, Ethiopian, Tibetan, etc. Novelas?

I don't get any of those, but, yes, all channels in Spanish are automatically out of the running.

 

[WWGD]

I guess you're one of those that do not enjoy any of the 37 channels with either Korean, Ethiopian, Tibetan, etc. Novelas?

My lineup includes around 50 channels in languages I don't speak nor understand.

 

[lisab]

I only have 96 choices

I'd rather have 96 choices than 99 problems

 

[WWGD]

I'd rather have 96 choices than 99 problems

There Hugo.

 

[lisab]

There Hugo.

again

 

[zoobyshoe]

My lineup includes around 50 channels in languages I don't speak nor understand.

Here's a different choice problem: I want to go get coffee but I also want to watch Dr. Blake. Got a formula for that?

 

[WWGD]

Here's a different choice problem: I want to go get coffee but I also want to watch Dr. Blake. Got a formula for that?

Instant coffee with a tea baller (I think Russians call it a Samovar) to heat up water close to the TV set? (Assuming Dr Blake is a TV show :) ).

They gave you the answer to this during your call to the TV company: Samovar representatives are trained to help you and will be with you shortly.

 

[WWGD]

again

There Hugh goes again. If your name is Hugh, probability is 99.56%+ that you are British, most likely English. The French prononciation of it I have heard is very close to dry heaving.