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Billmon, sage of the internets has returned.

That is all.

Apparently, I should be able to make the jump to digital without undue expense . . .

TiVo Series 2 DVR Customers

If you rely on a free over-the-air television signal received through a roof-top antenna, or “rabbit ears”, you will need to purchase an analog-to-digital converter box using a government coupon. See https://www.dtv2009.gov for details. TiVo is currently working on a free software update scheduled for release in the Summer of 2008 which will enable most Series2 DVRs* to function with the new converter boxes.

[From Digital antenna support – TiVo]

Or I could buy a new digital TiVo for a mere 7 bones:

Yeah, right. I’ll limp with my government cheese translator boxes for awhile yet.

if you have a few minutes, take a look at these short films by a more talented owner of my name . . .

1. boy (age 8 or 9) inspects a watermelon his mother has put in their cart and remarks that there is dirt on it and wants to know why. she doesn’t explain where watermelons come from.
2. young woman putting packages of instant oatmeal in her cart, and then carefully adding their price to her total with a calculator. perhaps she is a researcher, but if she is just a frugal shopper, why is she buying that stuff?

Shilshole Marina

Originally uploaded by your mistakes are your style.

fun with cross-processing (developing E-6 slide film in C-41 print chemistry).

factory fresh?

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These pens were listed on eBay as “never used.” What do you think? Click through to see more of the sad story. I’m not out any money (the whole transaction didn’t come to ten bucks) but that’s all the seller got, too. Why bother? Woulda been easier to just toss them in the bin.

bookends

Originally uploaded by your mistakes are your style.

These shoulder ornaments are four week old dropoffs from King County Animal Control, loaned to us by the Seattle Humane Society. Sadly, the mother and perhaps more of the litter remain at large, so odds are there will be more from her before summer is over.

what is it now?

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not sure what this is about. my neighbor seems to have lost control of his truck. he left a note on the windshield that "it won’t start" but he just tried to jumpstart it and it’s still there, as it has been since the pre-dawn hours. how he managed to bump it into the fence before realizing it wasn’t running and without applying the brake is an exercise for the reader.
we’re not what you’d call "on good terms" or I might be inclined to help.

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