This is definitely your cable signal. Doubt it's the hdmi cable.

I concur that it is not your HDMI cable.  CNET has a 3 part series on HDMI cables and the big takeaway is that they either work or don't*.  That is you either get a picture or you get no picture - there is no inbetween.  The * is for "starring" that can occur in some rare cases - but even that case is not a "blocky" picture - more like random pinpoints over the whole picture.

I ordered a Leaf HD Antenna today. The Leaf website says I should be able to get 14 channels.

If this works out, a Roku is next.

Sent from me cool phone

Depending on what you watch, this should work.  I tried the setup a year ago and would have stuck with it except we couldn't pull in an OTA CBS channel.  We time shift everything a lot (usually at least 6 months), so only have CBS.com to watch things on (the last 3-5 episodes) wasn't going to work.  Other than that, it worked great.  The powered Leaf (Leaf Plus I believe) pulled in stuff over 60 miles away and Roku with Amazon Prime and Netflix streaming provides a ton of content for about $18/month. 

Once my kids get out of the Nick Jr phase, I'm going to try it again now that we've moved to a bigger city where OTA is plentiful and close by.

If the flight is next week, your current search may be inside the discount window whereas it wasn't when the agent made the plans.  Prices change significantly at 7, 14, and 21 days (depending on the airline).. I've always been able to do better than our corporate agent. Their big benefit to the company is enforcing travel policies so that the company gets rebates from the airlines at the end of the year.

My big issue is that gaming sites are blocked at my company.    I mean I simply don't post as much unless someone else is paying me to do so. 

This happened to me too.  Now I only visit if it occurs to me on the weekends.

The only time I have ever filed a claim we had Nationwide when I accidentally left a 2nd floor bathroom sink running and stoppered.  It flooded the upstairs bathroom, bedroom, and hallway and it was raining in the downstairs dining room and powder room.  This happened on Good Friday.  A single call got us a crew to come in and start the drying out procedure and on Monday an agent came out to assess the damage, went out to his car and wrote it up and came in with a check (~$1200 if I remember correctly).  The whole thing was very easy and our rates didn't increase, although we did change companies for a lower rate a few years later.

So calling hrs were today. Or as I'm finding out, many people call this a "wake". The funeral is tomorrow morning. While I see this process is helpful and the "right" thing to do for many people. When my time comes, I just want friends and family to go out to eat, have drinks and remember me. This services stuff is just way too heartbreaking..

I'm sorry for your loss.

I feel the same way, although I wonder if I'm being selfish.  Everything after I'm dead is for the survivors.  If they want the sad version, I can't really see telling them different.  I certainly would prefer the fun version though - telling stories, playing darts, laughing - much better way to remember someone in my opinion.

We had bugs a plenty in SC and used a service.  When we moved into our home in WI we also got a service due to a cricket infestation (killing 10/day with no noticeable effect on population over the course of the summer).  In both cases it was worth it.  There are no bugs around and only occasionally will we see some dead ones.  I don't know if your problem is bad enough to need it, but the services definitely work.

Down?

That was pretty cool.

I did love the comment that said "and then she hit the Next button."   

It was down for me for about 10 minutes as well.  So you're probably not in Egypt.  Probably.

Just up the road from you they are offering me Ultra60...60 meg down not sure of up..but it is $130. What do you pay for what you get and those other tiers?

You're getting ripped off! 

I actually knew it was Chattanooga... I can't remember why though. 

Congrats!  How much is the service?

Charter is hyping their Ultra 60 service here (60MB/s).  It's like $100/month.  I can't imagine what residential customer needs that.

Board being updated and will reboot shortly. ~FishPants @ 1144hrs Eastern.

*sigh*

Lot harder to look busy at work when you can't surf. 

Another Turbo Tax online vote.  Married, 2 kids, mortgage, & some stock sales. 

I tried both Tax Act and Turbo Tax last year to see the difference.  I'd used Turbo Tax for the previous 6 years, so that might have influenced my results.  I found Turbo Tax was much better at hand holding and making sure I entered everything correctly.  YMMV.

Before that I had always just done it by hand.  Really, if it was just married I'd probably still do it that way.  Basic returns are pretty easy if you don't mind reading directions.

In a movie with dragons, this is what broke your suspension of disbelief?   

Supersize Me had a similar experiment over a few months.  They put a Big Mac, Quarter Pounder, Chicken McGrill, Fillet O-Fish and a "real" burger in jars.  They also did McD's and regular fries.  10 weeks later, all of the burgers decompose.  The horror is the fries.

This was the most effective thing in the whole movie, as far as I was concerned.

It all goes back to moisture.  McDonald's thin cut fries don't have any and cooking.  Steak fries do.  There's nothing unnatural about it.

Hep, a couple of my friends and I get together most nights around 9PM central for an hour or so. We often run friendly custom games to help new players along. If you have a headset, install Teamspeak, and we'll even be able to talk you through a lot of stuff.

We won't be able to get you into or anything, but we'll at least be able to make you into a solid bronze player.

As a graduate of such sessions, I can say they make a world of difference (and are quite fun)! 

If you want to go against another bronze in 1v1 sometime, feel free to ping me in game: Ashaman #301

I'm 3 missions from completing the campaign.  Through all those missions, I think I used hotkeys twice.  You can have a lot of fun in just the campaign and with the 5 difficulty settings (casual, normal, hard, brutal, insane), there's no reason you should ever get stuck or find it too easy.

I recently jumped into MP.  My previous MP experience with any game was 3 games of CoH (which were a lot of fun actually).  I thought I wouldn't have any fun at all and that would be that.  But after the placement matches - which were fun just because of how clearly overmatched I was - the game did a pretty good job of finding people of my skill level (which is very, very low - I only started using hotkeys 2 days ago and have been playing MP for nearly 3 weeks).  I lost a lot of games before winning one, but they were all fun because you are playing SC.  It's fun to make units and watch them blow stuff up (a little less fun to see your stuff get blown up, but still).  Winning is just kind of a bonus.

And I don't have a headset, but all the communication I've had has been very nice.  Some games we don't say anything at all, but most of the time people wish you luck or gg you - which even if they are lying is still better than some obscenity laden rant. 

I say it's worth the money even if you never touch MP, but still recommend giving MP a chance.  You can always avoid the unwashed masses and just play custom, unranked games against people from here.

Thanks, Q, for running the game!  It was a lot of fun!

I feel bad I got blocked from work and had to go mostly silent.  Only a little, though, since as soon as that happened, we started finding wolves.    My radar is apparently a wee bit rusty.   

Maybe this is a start of a streak for the Villagers!!

Isgrimnur - do you know what happened to Flatlander? 

I don't understand, though.  How was Stessier not a wolf?  

 

I just need a shave.  And maybe a bath.  Any sort of dental hygiene would probably be a plus as well.

Jeez, way to ruin a nice game by getting so personal.  









 

Sorry for the whole trying to kill you thing.  

Don't get your logic. Nothing is "completely confirmed" ever, in games of these types.

I know you had to say this being in your position and all, but there is one thing that is confirmed the way as the game is currently constructed - if you die at night, you were not a Wolf.  In a game lacking a Sorcerer, this has the effect of verifying all of a Seer's scans upon death.  Wonderful for the Good Guys, crummy for the Wolves. 

  well you see, the thing is  I am just mostly dead..... 

Just a flesh wound? 



I suggest rickfc tomorrow.

[Einsteinium]

Feel better Einsteinium!

We need a body to lynch after all. 


Interestingly, Ein and rickfc start today questioning whether the Specials are really Special.  It is the wolves only play - they have to convince us to lynch in our pool of knowns.  But then they mess up and take out rshetts2, thereby confirming Flatlander and Isgrimnur.  Couple that with no one contesting Moliere and Moliere stating that I was protected the first night, means everyone good is completely confirmed - by the wolves own hand.  Man, that has to hurt.   

Future wolf strategy - if you want to go down that road, leave rshetts2 alive and start taking out his scans.  That was actually the better play when you got blocked last night as well.  You knew rshetts2 was most likely to be protected and that I couldn't have protection.  As bad as being found by the Seer was the block of Trust being created.  You had to chip into that wall and taking me out would have kept the game in your favor one more day.  Ah well, live and learn.

Oh - and JayDee was a simple Voyager.  Suicidal, apparently, too.  We need better psych screenings before leaving on the next trip. 

2003 Honda Civic Hybrid

When I first got it, 50+ on the highway, ~45 city. 

Now I have 115k and get about 46 highway, 40 city in the summer.  High 30's in the winter (moved to WI where winters are MUCH colder than SC and DC).

I personally think rickfc and misguided.  Did I say that before?  I'll have to check.

It would be a personal favor if the wolves would eat me.  I feel like I hold up the game during the day.    And not at all because it lets our Seer make it to the end of the game. 

Known Good Guys: rshetts2, Isgrimnur, Moliere, Flatlander, stessier

Possibly Lycan: Misguided, Jaydee, Einsteinium, rickfc

Miss, Night Kill - leaves 4 Known, 3 Possible (with 2 wolves)
Miss, Night Kill - leaves 3 Known, 2 Possible (with 2 wolves) <- Wolves are known here!
Wolf, Night Kill - leaves 2 Known, 1 Wolf
Wolf <- Villagers WIN!

Well it's about time - the Villagers can't lose!

Oh, and I know this will be a shock, but Newcastle was nothing but a simple innocent. 

They all look around and begin to count faces. No one has been killed. They have all survived the night.

So do tell - who'd they go after (and thus, who's going to die tonight)?

I got a free trial from a buddy.

The game seems quite playable on my 4+ year old system:
Athlon x2 3800
2G RAM
GeForce 7800 GTX

Left all of the game's settings alone (lots of Medium and Low) and bumped the resolution to 1680x1050. Looks and plays fine. My guess is the cut scenes are taking the biggest hit from dialing down the settings (lots of jaggies and not so good looking shadows).

I am a very lite RTS player. Typically I lose interest fast. I have been playing the original SC and finally beat the Terran campaign for the first time. I think I'll go back and try to finish SC/BW before purchasing this. I really wish SC/BW had a "casual" setting!

You are a stronger person than I. 

I didn't really have the money, so I said I would beat SC/BW again before buying.  I got halfway through the Zerg missions in SC when I broke down.  I'm really glad I did - SC2 is a great game.  I'm just about to finish the campaign for the first time, and then I want to jump into some MP - something I never did in the original.  I'm hoping to still get in while everyone here is Diamond level yet.  :lol:

It really is one of the finest, if not the finest, scene ever written and performed in cinematography.

Another 305 owner here.  I was really worried about the bulk when I was buying it, but it has been a non-issue for me.  (I actually wish the screen was a little larger sometimes so I could get more information at a quick glance.)  It fits very comfortably on my wrist and I completely forget it is there once I start going.

The software all the Garmin watches comes with leaves something to be desired.  Use Sportstracks.  It's awesome!

Is it wise to even discuss it in the open, Moliere? You know what the options are, and it's hard to argue with the results from yesterday evening. I can't imagine there's anyone in the village that isn't comfortable leaving the decision in your hands.

It's not like I'm exposing a secret. All I've done is list the options that the wolves have to choose from and allowed them to wonder which way I will play it.

Iocane powder is your friend.   

However, if the Seer dies tonight and we lose, you will be the butt of jokes from here until the end of time.  No pressure. 

rickfc
JayDee
Isgrimnur

Order of the next 3 lynches.

Voting Tally:
     
Isgrimnur (4):  Moliere, JayDee, Einsteinium, rshetts2
newcastle (5):  Flatlander, Misguided, stessier, newcastle, Isgrimnur
JayDee (1):  rickfc
   
No vote: 
     
Majority is six.
     
newcastle is n-1.

If we lynch Newcastle, and he is human, then we learn that Misguided and rickfc did not want Isgrimnur to die. 

If we lynch Isgrimnur and he is human, then we learn JayDee, Einsteinium, and Newcastle wanted him dead.

From a clarifying, "scan these players tonight" point of view, I would say we learn more from lynching Newcastle.

YMMV.

Drat, we're at an even number aren't we?  I thought we were at an odd population count.

Now...what to do, what to do...

Is there anyway we can lynch both of 'em?  Maybe the rope get tangled around the 2nd as the first drops???

[Lynch Newcastle]

Lynch Newcastle

[Isgrimnur-1]

Know what I think? I think I've been wrong about pretty much everything and everybody (which means I should be suspecting Moliere I suppose). Fine. It's currently n-2. Now it's Isgrimnur-1. Newcastle, if you think he's the one, the power to end it is in your hands.

This is the wrong strategy.  If rhetts2 is a wolf and Isgrimnur is the Seer, you have placed him on the edge of death without letting him even know what's going down.  Holding off your vote until we hear from him doesn't hurt anything.  He will still be there to take out later.

I strongly suggest you remove your vote for now - just to be safe.

[has not]

I strongly suggest everyone back off Isgrimnur until everyone has a chance to disavow Seer.  Everyone has not checked in yet!

Im cool with that but if we wait on Flatlander we may be here til September 

No, we don't have to wait until Flatlander.  It would be too funny if you were a wolf who named our true Seer as human.  I mean, tomorrow would be really exciting if that is when he finally came back and talked.   

I think Isg., Flats & Jay right?

Yes.  Well, Moliere as well, but probably not such a big deal there`:)

[has not]

I strongly suggest everyone back off Isgrimnur until everyone has a chance to disavow Seer.  Everyone has not checked in yet!