Tuesday, December 06, 2011

"Gonna Be ON Tv Soon...."

Stepping up to a larger flat screen television set MIGHT cause a problem.

For my cat.

And, for me.

She has never paid attention before but the bigger, brighter image seems to catch her attention.

She favors the Detroit LIONS, the Jacksonville JAGUARS, the Cinncinati BENGALS and the Carolina PANTHERS.

At first she walked carefully over and around the various tv remote controls.

Some were quite old and some were brand new.

There's even one now for a ROKU unit so I can stream Netflix.

I'm waiting until I install my Blu-Ray DVD player before I consolidate ALL into my universal remote.

I took the batteries out of the ones I'm not using now.


The cat has moved closer but - so far - has not pawed the screen.

Apparently, football is the mainstay of her tv watching.

She does not seem to be interested in Comedy Central.

Not even Jon Stewart on The Daily Show or Stephen on the Colbert Report.

I knew my kitty was curious.

I just assumed she had a sense of humor.


(Click on the pictures for more details.)

Streaming movies is a great way to see big, vivid films. The cat's not much of a cinema buff but let's see what happens when we check out Animal Planet.

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Thursday, November 24, 2011

Black Friday !

It's a fine working television.

It has a "big" screen (well, 46" measured diagonally) and has served me faithfully for about 6 years.

That's a LOT of football games and Comedy Central.

Oh yeah, and PBS and the History Channel.

It never was designed to hang on the wall but, placing it in the corner worked fine.


I understand it would help the economy if I were to go stand or sit in line around midnight.

Maybe get a newer model.

They have made fantastic advances in the last 6 years since I bought this for $999.

The fad of 3-D movies in theaters seems to be winding down. Too expensive.

Don't think I would want to wear tv-viewing-glasses at home.

My comfortable chair's distance from the tv has been perfect for a 46" set.

But I believe the stores are willing to give me a much larger size for about what I paid all those years ago.

Think I'll check it out later tonight.

You can tell I'm serious.

I cleared space for something newer, slimmer and awesome.

(Clicking on the pictures makes the images bigger. Even then the old tv is still going to be only a 46" screen - measured diagonally.)

Shopping at midnight is for people who really like crowds. Saving money always keeps you warm when it's chilly.

Good luck out there!

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Monday, November 01, 2010

Just A Face In The Crowd....

This appears to be the "Early Bird" souvenir towel.

Don't know how many were made but I got this at 9:00am before the noon start of the Rally.

Edged my way to the center near the second large screen but crowd crunch was fierce.

Ended up to the left of the stage with some more elbow room - and a place to sit on my small blanket. Unfortunately a media stand blocked my view.

But there was a great Jumbo-tron for an excellent view of the onstage activity.

And the SIGNS!






Very creative and funny.

I stood among a very mixed-age crowd. Some older but most younger.

A well-behaved group of people.

When the assemblage was told to do a Hand-Wave, one could see that the ripple took a long, long, long time to reach back toward the Washington Monument.


Later I heard that admittance to the actual Mall was closed by the National Park Service around 11 am.

I still have not heard an "official" estimate of the crowd size but certainly believe it was more than 150,000.

There were at least that many ahead of me trying to get on the Metro afterward.


























Wow. I took a lot of pictures with my Canon S90. Click on these to see more detail. Thanks for coming by.

If you were in the DC crowd and I didn't say "hi" I'm sorry.)

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