GM's thread about nothing (2 Viewers)

[Kendall]

Minced garlic in the jar sucks for just about anything other than marinades.

...which is what he was making, no?

No doubt and I use it there. It seemed it was being suggested as a replacement in other posts.

Nothing wrong with it, IMO.

Now I can add a jar of garlic to my mental picture of your fridge. Contents...-Miller Lite-ketchup-pizza box with one slice remaining-garlic

The has got to be mold in the vegetable drawers.

 

[Disco Stu]

Now I can add a jar of garlic to my mental picture of your fridge. Contents...

-Miller Lite

-ketchup

-pizza box with one slice remaining I'm dropping lbs.

-garlic

Add -pickles

-mayo

-milk jug of indeterminate age

and you've got yourself a pretty accurate image.

Damn, I was so close to going with expired milk instead of pizza.

 

[charvik]

sweet. So you download from torrent onto jumpdrive and then move to it, or is it networked where you can have the torrent downloaded directly there?

well, mine is on the network, so hypothetically I could download something directly on to the attached storage device, or I could hypothetically download to another harddrive and copy the hypothetical files over after I have hypothetically verified that they are ok.

How much do these things cost?

mine was $129 from Amazon... there are cheaper models (without network and netflix capabilities) but I wanted the top of the line model.

 

[videoguy505]

I use one of these wireless things to view on the TV, and one of these things to hold all the media.

My PC has uTorrent for movies I find, and Torrent Episode Downloader, which is like TiVo for Torrents, it automatically searches the internet starting the day a new episode of a TV show airs, and keeps looking until it finds the new torrent. With a PS3 in the other room that can read the media server too, I have a library of just about everything.

The Asus O!Play Air says it'll support .vob files (ripped right off a dvd), but I haven't tried that yet. Mostly I watch xvids. RCA and HDMI outs. Really not a lot of bells and whistles on the thing, you can download new firmware upgrades and stuff though. It's really not much more than a video card and a wireless ethernet card plugged into each other.

 

[charvik]

sweet. So you download from torrent onto jumpdrive and then move to it, or is it networked where you can have the torrent downloaded directly there?

well, mine is on the network, so hypothetically I could download something directly on to the attached storage device, or I could hypothetically download to another harddrive and copy the hypothetical files over after I have hypothetically verified that they are ok.

Well it's now legal to rip DVDs and BRs so there may be some serious growth so they hypotheticals aren't hypothetical anymore. Also, can you rip or view BR on this? I have thought about a Popcorn box with a PC BR drive in it and 2TB drive so I can rip all of my BRs on to it.

yes, you can view BR or pretty much any format... I rip on my laptop and copy the files to my external drives

 

[charvik]

on a side note, the WD TV is awesome! (even though Dell's delivery service may suck)

how are you using this? for what reasons?

Well, first of all, the credit for me even having one should go to zilla... and I purchased one as a gift for a technologically challenged friend to help him out with photos and home videos, tried and loved it.I have around 500-600 DVDs and it's a pain to store them, they take up tons of room and it's a mess to sort and find what you need. My wife also takes photos, and I'm talking brit-level when it comes to quantity, easily 5,000, along with home videos. Getting all these medias to play in one location (our flat screen) to show to friends/family/daughter/ourselves was a pain. I used to have a media server hooked up, and while I liked it, the wife wasn't thrilled. It was too hard to use I guess.Enter WD TV Live Plus...One device, one HDMI cable to the TV and two USB storage devices hooked up straight to it. It instantly recognizes all photos (folders), plays any format video, all music and anything else that exists on the hard drives. The Live Plus also has a network component, so it picks up files and information from attached units, like my wifes laptop.So, I have now been able to put 500+ DVDs, and 1,000+ CDs with music in storage, and have it all stored on 2 2Tb HDDs attached to the WD TV.(added bonus is that it plays anything you happen to find online *ahem*, has netflix and other nice little features)

I have one too and its great for movies but I find it a pain for photos. As far as I can tell, it only plays them back sideshow style by name, not date. I know there are programs out there to rename photos by date but Im lazy. how do you use it for viewing photos?

honestly, I don't view photos, but my wife does. She has all photos stored in a folder, already sorted and renamed. There is software available online that can do that automatically for you though...

 

[Early_10]

Hey Early, these guys are from Newfoundland!

HOW THE HELL CAN YOU NOT KNOW GBS? I went to school with Alan Doyle, good friends with his younger sister. And Sean McCann is a distant cousin of hubbys. They are awesome. Best twist on Irish drinking music out there. :tadbiased:

AWE SOME!Had trouble seeing them from our spot of grass....huge Newfoundland Flag waving around in front of us all night. Great fun had by all. These guys know how to put on a show. Glad we went!

You ever find a reason to come this way, I'll take you out. Every little pub and bar is like that here...most bars /pubs per square foot in all of North America. We'll hit George Street.

BTW... talking with this girl that I met a few weeks ago about coming out next summer (if she's not reached her best before date yet). She's a Newf too. Updates as required.

 

[Kendall]

This discussion got way too smart for me.

 

[EYLive]

I have a new buyer at one of my accounts that I'm breaking in. I just got off the phone with her and she said that her friend wanted to know if I was single. After telling her no, I was told that "she" thinks I'm cute and I have some fans over there. wow

Tell her to send pics.

 

[charvik]

This discussion got way too smart for me.

lol, it doesn't have to be, because this device (or the Popcorn/Asus/etc) is plug and play.just hook it up to your tv, let it search through your attached USB device and press play on the right item, WA LA

 

[Kendall]

This discussion got way too smart for me.

lol, it doesn't have to be, because this device (or the Popcorn/Asus/etc) is plug and play.just hook it up to your tv, let it search through your attached USB device and press play on the right item, WA LA

Like I said, way too smart for me.

 

[Mr. Pickles]

My PC has uTorrent for movies I find, and Torrent Episode Downloader, which is like TiVo for Torrents, it automatically searches the internet starting the day a new episode of a TV show airs, and keeps looking until it finds the new torrent. With a PS3 in the other room that can read the media server too, I have a library of just about everything.

This looks like a terrific way to keep up with new torrents. That's the main reason why it's kind of a pain to go 100% torrents and avoid cable/dish altogether. Just trying to find everything you need is a chore.I feel like I'm getting close to ditching DirecTV completely.

 

[Disco Stu]

If you do this newfangled stuff for tv, how do you watch sports? The Rangers, Stars, and football are the only things keeping me tied to a cable bill.

 

[charvik]

My PC has uTorrent for movies I find, and Torrent Episode Downloader, which is like TiVo for Torrents, it automatically searches the internet starting the day a new episode of a TV show airs, and keeps looking until it finds the new torrent. With a PS3 in the other room that can read the media server too, I have a library of just about everything.

This looks like a terrific way to keep up with new torrents. That's the main reason why it's kind of a pain to go 100% torrents and avoid cable/dish altogether. Just trying to find everything you need is a chore.I feel like I'm getting close to ditching DirecTV completely.

I have already. There's no reason to have traditional TV/Cable anymore with the options available online. I don't watch the NFL, but I know all other major sports have online broadcasts available. News, weather is all available online, often better options than from the cable/sat company and all entertainment is available as well, granted it might be with a slight delay...

 

[Mr. Pickles]

If you do this newfangled stuff for tv, how do you watch sports? The Rangers, Stars, and football are the only things keeping me tied to a cable bill.

This is probably the last hangup to get over. You could pull things over the air, but ESPN is more difficult. ESPN3 might work for some things if you can get it.

 

[Kendall]

So I go into a stall in the bathroom at work, and untuck my shirt getting ready to do my business, when a dried cranberry falls out and bounces/rolls into the stall next to me, which was occupied. No comment was made.

 

[charvik]

If you do this newfangled stuff for tv, how do you watch sports? The Rangers, Stars, and football are the only things keeping me tied to a cable bill.

I'm guessing you mean Baseball when you say Rangers? In that case mlb.tv should work. NHL has the same online as well.(or, I've heard, there are free option available too)

 

[Josie Maran]

The has got to be mold in the vegetable drawers.

There are drawers specifically for vegetables? Oh wait. You must be talking about the beer storage overflow drawers.Who the hell puts vegetables in there?

 

[Mr. Pickles]

If you do this newfangled stuff for tv, how do you watch sports? The Rangers, Stars, and football are the only things keeping me tied to a cable bill.

I'm guessing you mean Baseball when you say Rangers? In that case mlb.tv should work. NHL has the same online as well.(or, I've heard, there are free option available too)

Any of them high quality? SopCast and the like don't really seem like viable options.

 

[Sheriff Bart]

This discussion got way too smart for me.

I have a new buyer at one of my accounts that I'm breaking in. I just got off the phone with her and she said that her friend wanted to know if I was single. After telling her no, I was told that "she" thinks I'm cute and I have some fans over there. wow

Tell her to send pics.

Other than my main contact, who knows I'm married, and one of the doctors, there aren't a lot of lookers at this place.

 

[Josie Maran]

If you do this newfangled stuff for tv, how do you watch sports? The Rangers, Stars, and football are the only things keeping me tied to a cable bill.

This is probably the last hangup to get over. You could pull things over the air, but ESPN is more difficult. ESPN3 might work for some things if you can get it.

If it weren't for football, I'd ditch cable without a 2nd thought. Maybe I'll bail in February and just get it back in August...hmmmm.

 

[shuke]

Hi

I thought of you when I was getting my car washed the other day.They had a rack of these.

They had a rack of empty packages?

 

[Kendall]

So... should I do Pub Golf this Saturday?

 

[charvik]

If you do this newfangled stuff for tv, how do you watch sports? The Rangers, Stars, and football are the only things keeping me tied to a cable bill.

I'm guessing you mean Baseball when you say Rangers? In that case mlb.tv should work. NHL has the same online as well.(or, I've heard, there are free option available too)

Any of them high quality? SopCast and the like don't really seem like viable options.

I pay for the NHL feed (NHL Game Center Live) and it's pretty decent on my connection, even when pushed out to my TV. I don't do sopcast to the TV, just to my laptop, and it's not always great agreed.

 

[Kendall]

Does anyone else loathe Word 07?

 

[Mr. Pickles]

My work ISP allows me to get ESPN3, but no such luck at home.

 

[urbanhack]

Hi

I thought of you when I was getting my car washed the other day.They had a rack of these.

 

[guru_007]

My work ISP allows me to get ESPN3, but no such luck at home.

you should have a username and password assigned which you could use at home. maybe contact your IT guy and see if he can hook you up?

 

[Mr. Pickles]

My work ISP allows me to get ESPN3, but no such luck at home.

you should have a username and password assigned which you could use at home. maybe contact your IT guy and see if he can hook you up?

Good point. I'll ask.

 

[Disco Stu]

If you do this newfangled stuff for tv, how do you watch sports? The Rangers, Stars, and football are the only things keeping me tied to a cable bill.

I'm guessing you mean Baseball when you say Rangers? In that case mlb.tv should work. NHL has the same online as well.(or, I've heard, there are free option available too)

Yes, baseball. Aren't local games blacked out?

 

[charvik]

If you do this newfangled stuff for tv, how do you watch sports? The Rangers, Stars, and football are the only things keeping me tied to a cable bill.

I'm guessing you mean Baseball when you say Rangers? In that case mlb.tv should work. NHL has the same online as well.(or, I've heard, there are free option available too)

Yes, baseball. Aren't local games blacked out?

not sure, I don't have a local team for hockey, and actually even if I was interested in baseball, we don't really have a local team for that either

 

[Running with scissors]

I use one of these wireless things to view on the TV, and one of these things to hold all the media.

My PC has uTorrent for movies I find, and Torrent Episode Downloader, which is like TiVo for Torrents, it automatically searches the internet starting the day a new episode of a TV show airs, and keeps looking until it finds the new torrent. With a PS3 in the other room that can read the media server too, I have a library of just about everything.

The Asus O!Play Air says it'll support .vob files (ripped right off a dvd), but I haven't tried that yet. Mostly I watch xvids. RCA and HDMI outs. Really not a lot of bells and whistles on the thing, you can download new firmware upgrades and stuff though. It's really not much more than a video card and a wireless ethernet card plugged into each other.

You just :woosh: ed a lot of people in this thread.

 

[EYLive]

I use one of these wireless things to view on the TV, and one of these things to hold all the media.

My PC has uTorrent for movies I find, and Torrent Episode Downloader, which is like TiVo for Torrents, it automatically searches the internet starting the day a new episode of a TV show airs, and keeps looking until it finds the new torrent. With a PS3 in the other room that can read the media server too, I have a library of just about everything.

The Asus O!Play Air says it'll support .vob files (ripped right off a dvd), but I haven't tried that yet. Mostly I watch xvids. RCA and HDMI outs. Really not a lot of bells and whistles on the thing, you can download new firmware upgrades and stuff though. It's really not much more than a video card and a wireless ethernet card plugged into each other.

You just :woosh: ed a lot of people in this thread.

He lost me at wireless.

 

[zander_s]

I use one of these wireless things to view on the TV, and one of these things to hold all the media.

My PC has uTorrent for movies I find, and Torrent Episode Downloader, which is like TiVo for Torrents, it automatically searches the internet starting the day a new episode of a TV show airs, and keeps looking until it finds the new torrent. With a PS3 in the other room that can read the media server too, I have a library of just about everything.

The Asus O!Play Air says it'll support .vob files (ripped right off a dvd), but I haven't tried that yet. Mostly I watch xvids. RCA and HDMI outs. Really not a lot of bells and whistles on the thing, you can download new firmware upgrades and stuff though. It's really not much more than a video card and a wireless ethernet card plugged into each other.

Good stuff!! I better start looking for an 'N' router

 

[General Malaise]

GM, Aaron or anybody else in the Ultimate Survivor Contest, please forward the PM from Carlton to me, Josie & McJose.Your pal, Bart

Did this get done? I had no idea I was in this until this morning.

 

[wazoo11]

If you do this newfangled stuff for tv, how do you watch sports? The Rangers, Stars, and football are the only things keeping me tied to a cable bill.

myp2p has almost all games on torrent stream.

 

[General Malaise]

Oregon is certainly appealing, but alas, as Krista said, very few jobs.

You are your own job, no?

 

[wazoo11]

If you do this newfangled stuff for tv, how do you watch sports? The Rangers, Stars, and football are the only things keeping me tied to a cable bill.

I'm guessing you mean Baseball when you say Rangers? In that case mlb.tv should work. NHL has the same online as well.(or, I've heard, there are free option available too)

Yes, baseball. Aren't local games blacked out?

not sure, I don't have a local team for hockey, and actually even if I was interested in baseball, we don't really have a local team for that either

houston astros?

 

[General Malaise]

I hate using garlic in recipies. Its just so annoyingly frustrating having to peel of the first layer, crush it the flat of a knife, peel off the rest of the crap and then still dice it up. Plus... I think I put waayyyy too much in my steak marinade this morning. And despite washing my hands several times and showering since then, my hand still smells like garlic.

There's a couple of old remedies for this, that work, but which is going to be individual. For me, scrubbing my hands with coffee grinds (used) work well. Others have had success using lemon or lime. Basically, cut a lemon in half and squeeze out the juice using your fingers, rub juice and pulp thoroughly, rinse...

Interesting. Before I just got used to onions I would rub my knife blade with a lemon to kill the sting in the eyes. Never thought to do this with my hands after working with garlic. Thanks for the tip!

Light a candle near the onion you are chopping. WA LA, no eye sting.

 

[Tremendous Upside]

If you do this newfangled stuff for tv, how do you watch sports? The Rangers, Stars, and football are the only things keeping me tied to a cable bill.

I'm guessing you mean Baseball when you say Rangers? In that case mlb.tv should work. NHL has the same online as well.(or, I've heard, there are free option available too)

Yes, baseball. Aren't local games blacked out?

not sure, I don't have a local team for hockey, and actually even if I was interested in baseball, we don't really have a local team for that either

houston astros?

Like Charv said...

 

[KGB]

If you do this newfangled stuff for tv, how do you watch sports? The Rangers, Stars, and football are the only things keeping me tied to a cable bill.

This is probably the last hangup to get over. You could pull things over the air, but ESPN is more difficult. ESPN3 might work for some things if you can get it.

If it weren't for football, I'd ditch cable without a 2nd thought. Maybe I'll bail in February and just get it back in August...hmmmm.

I've been doing torrents and I started a thread one time about buying an "nfusion" box. nfusion is down now and for the 1st time I think Im going to have to get dtv. it seems they have a deal right now where you get 5 months free if you pay for sunday ticket and includes 2 hd boxes.Im also starting to get a little worried about getting caught with all the torrents we do. for 2-3 years all weve watched was torrents, every movie, every tv show. the nfusion took care of football and we got all the pay per view stuff too. including canadas porn, which is way better than ours. but now thats gone, at least for nowI need to see the football games and cant get what I want from local cable. :(

 

[videoguy505]

I use one of these wireless things to view on the TV, and one of these things to hold all the media.

My PC has uTorrent for movies I find, and Torrent Episode Downloader, which is like TiVo for Torrents, it automatically searches the internet starting the day a new episode of a TV show airs, and keeps looking until it finds the new torrent. With a PS3 in the other room that can read the media server too, I have a library of just about everything.

The Asus O!Play Air says it'll support .vob files (ripped right off a dvd), but I haven't tried that yet. Mostly I watch xvids. RCA and HDMI outs. Really not a lot of bells and whistles on the thing, you can download new firmware upgrades and stuff though. It's really not much more than a video card and a wireless ethernet card plugged into each other.

Good stuff!! I better start looking for an 'N' router :(

I've got one of those ancient Linksys W-hatever ones, free from my office when they were throwing stuff away, and it works great. Don't think you need anything fancy. Can work wired, too, of course.

 

[videoguy505]

I use one of these wireless things to view on the TV, and one of these things to hold all the media.

My PC has uTorrent for movies I find, and Torrent Episode Downloader, which is like TiVo for Torrents, it automatically searches the internet starting the day a new episode of a TV show airs, and keeps looking until it finds the new torrent. With a PS3 in the other room that can read the media server too, I have a library of just about everything.

The Asus O!Play Air says it'll support .vob files (ripped right off a dvd), but I haven't tried that yet. Mostly I watch xvids. RCA and HDMI outs. Really not a lot of bells and whistles on the thing, you can download new firmware upgrades and stuff though. It's really not much more than a video card and a wireless ethernet card plugged into each other.

You just :woosh: ed a lot of people in this thread.

He lost me at wireless.

:( It's all incredibly easy. I bought the big WD media server and plugged it into the router. Done.

I opened my torrent program and hit the setting for "output folder" to the WD media server. Every torrent I download goes to media server/videos. Done.

I told Torrent Episode Downloader to run in the little box next to the clock on my PC. I opened the settings and told it to automatically send everything to my torrent program. Done. I never see a prompt, it just runs in the background 24/7, downloading the TV Guide every so often so it knows when to start looking for new torrents.

I plugged my PS3 into the routher and hit "search for media servers". It found the WD right away. Done.

I plugged in the Asus O!play air in the other room. Just the power cord, and the cable from the box to the TV. No need to plug it into the router. Turned it on. Found the media server. Done.

 

[General Malaise]

Ah, I forgot. GM and Bob asked about wineries here in Santa Ynez valley.

First, let me say I'm not a wine guy, but my family are all wine snobs...and there are so many here, its hard not to pick something up. Heck, I can walk to a few from my house so I end up doing some wine tours for clients.

I like the unique wineries on the Foxen Canyon Trail.

My favorite is Foxen Winery. Drive slow or you will miss it--its an old sheep shearing barn out in the middle of nowhere. I shat you not, but the wine is outstanding...even to me...and its so different than the big corporate wineries that took over Napa and are starting here.

The wine isn't that great, but the setting is amazing at Rancho Sisquoc. Grab some lunch and head here for a picnic.

My wine snob pops loves Melville, Rideua, and Beckman. SeaSmoke, drank teh wine but I've never been there. Supposed to be outstanding wine.

Food? Roblar is a new winery across the road from us, and its got a great restaraunt menu. Wine so-so. Los Olivos deli (on 154) has great BBQ every weekend, I'd grab some plates there to go. "Downtown" (its all relative) has a decent burrito joint.

If you don't want to drive around, park in Los Olivos and hit any of the dozens of tasting rooms and artsyfartsy stores there. Or pretend you are Danish and waste a day in Solvang at any of the hundreds of stores selling the same crap.

I know I'm forgetting something...ask away.

Great, thank you very much. I'm going to turn my focus to this hard next month and finalize all the details of our trip. Thanks much!

 

[charvik]

Oregon is certainly appealing, but alas, as Krista said, very few jobs.

You are your own job, no?

not anymore GB...

 

[General Malaise]

sweet. So you download from torrent onto jumpdrive and then move to it, or is it networked where you can have the torrent downloaded directly there?

well, mine is on the network, so hypothetically I could download something directly on to the attached storage device, or I could hypothetically download to another harddrive and copy the hypothetical files over after I have hypothetically verified that they are ok.

Well it's now legal to rip DVDs and BRs so there may be some serious growth so they hypotheticals aren't hypothetical anymore. Also, can you rip or view BR on this? I have thought about a Popcorn box with a PC BR drive in it and 2TB drive so I can rip all of my BRs on to it.

What the hell is a BR?

 

[eoMMan]

bank robbery

bank reconciliation

 

[Running with scissors]

sweet. So you download from torrent onto jumpdrive and then move to it, or is it networked where you can have the torrent downloaded directly there?

well, mine is on the network, so hypothetically I could download something directly on to the attached storage device, or I could hypothetically download to another harddrive and copy the hypothetical files over after I have hypothetically verified that they are ok.

Well it's now legal to rip DVDs and BRs so there may be some serious growth so they hypotheticals aren't hypothetical anymore. Also, can you rip or view BR on this? I have thought about a Popcorn box with a PC BR drive in it and 2TB drive so I can rip all of my BRs on to it.

What the hell is a BR?

Blu-Ray. Or bromine. I mean really, take your pick.

 

[Kendall]

I hate using garlic in recipies. Its just so annoyingly frustrating having to peel of the first layer, crush it the flat of a knife, peel off the rest of the crap and then still dice it up. Plus... I think I put waayyyy too much in my steak marinade this morning. And despite washing my hands several times and showering since then, my hand still smells like garlic.

There's a couple of old remedies for this, that work, but which is going to be individual. For me, scrubbing my hands with coffee grinds (used) work well. Others have had success using lemon or lime. Basically, cut a lemon in half and squeeze out the juice using your fingers, rub juice and pulp thoroughly, rinse...

Interesting. Before I just got used to onions I would rub my knife blade with a lemon to kill the sting in the eyes. Never thought to do this with my hands after working with garlic. Thanks for the tip!

Light a candle near the onion you are chopping. WA LA, no eye sting.

Lemon on the knife did the same thing. I suppose I could use a lit candle to burn the remaining garlic off of my finger tips when I'm done chopping though.

 

[Hawks64]

sweet. So you download from torrent onto jumpdrive and then move to it, or is it networked where you can have the torrent downloaded directly there?

well, mine is on the network, so hypothetically I could download something directly on to the attached storage device, or I could hypothetically download to another harddrive and copy the hypothetical files over after I have hypothetically verified that they are ok.

Well it's now legal to rip DVDs and BRs so there may be some serious growth so they hypotheticals aren't hypothetical anymore. Also, can you rip or view BR on this? I have thought about a Popcorn box with a PC BR drive in it and 2TB drive so I can rip all of my BRs on to it.

What the hell is a BR?

Blu-Ray. I am lazy typist.