Saw this sign today, not sure if it was just miss worded or what. But the actual sign on the building had it as “Robert’s Hair for Men and Womens Salon”. All that is needed is a Y placed at the end of Hair and it would be a funny sign.
Silly Elgato
It seems that Elgato has 2 different EyeTV Hybird USB Tuners for the Mac.. The one you can find in the stores is NOT the one advertised here. The one in the stores does NOT do Clear QAM. They decided to add Clear QAM support to the “2008” version but kept the name and model the same. So to those who want one that does QAM you need to buy it directly from Elgato and not from a local retailer. Only get it from a local retailer if it has on the box “Clear QAM” in green listed some place. The others will not do QAM at all, which means if you bought it to watch HDTV via Cable it won’t work. This information the last time I looked was not clearly visible and was buried deep in their support forums.
So to sum up, if you want a TV Tuner for your Mac and you want to watch the Digital Stations on Cable that are in the clear, you need the Tuner that does Clear QAM. The 2007 version will only do over the air HDTV, which in my area means 1 PBS station.
Tax Time again
I wish West Virginia would re-evaluate their Tax schedules. I just finished doing my taxes for the 2007 year, and once again I owe the state money… $856 to be exact… This really makes me mad as I even made a point to having extra money taken out of my pay check because of what happened last year. Looks like I will be visiting HR on Tuesday to have even more taken out of my pay check now. This really sucks!
bad winds in the north east
Today there was some extremely strong winds in the northeast. they started around 5 or 6am EST time in the area that I live in. They were any where from 20MPH up to 50+MPH today. I saw a lot of downed trees around the area (one in particular was on a road from my house to the Interstate that completely blocked the road). Needless to say the fire department, electric company, phone company and cable company had their hands full today. When I got back from the store, I had an email from my parents. Their house was hit by an 80+ foot tree from their next door neighbor. Below are a couple of pictures. Not long after getting that email a friend of mine sent me a picture of his house where the siding had blown off of part of it and hit the neighbors house. I listened to the local fire band today and it was a non stop call of down trees all over the area.
What sucks is that you can’t see it in the middle picture but there are 2 or 3 more trees behind the point of view which are ready to fall over to from the winds and may hit my dad’s workshop. And in the last picture there are a couple of trees that are behind the point of view that may hit the front of my parents house. They have been on the neighbor for what seems like 20+ years to cut them down, but the next door neighbor would never do it, because her husband had planted them before he died. The bad part is he planted them 6 inches from the property line and they have caused nothing but problems for my parents.
Big but no Tall
The local JCPenney was having a sale this weekend with between 50 and 75% off some winter type clothes. I decided to go and see what they had this afternoon. Once again Retailers if you are going to advertise a “Big & Tall” section, make sure there is Tall stuff in it. Being 6’5″ there was only 1 pair of pants that were even 36″ inseam. Out of the whole section only one freaking pair, and I did not even like them. Why is it that there was more 52″x29″ than 3[46]”x36″? I think it has to do with the fattening of America. I pretty much hate going shopping for pants/jeans any more as you can never ever find a store that is local and that has anything in a 36″ inseam. 34″ inseams only work if you never sit down and you never wash the pants. After that you might as well throw them away as they would look like “carpi’s” on me.
So I beg to all you retailers out there keep stuff in stock for TALL people. I don’t like being told that “oh you can get that from the catalog, or our online store”. It is almost to the point of discrimination against tall people if you look at it that way. I want to be able to go in to a store and get something that fits at that moment. I don’t want to have to wait till it is shipped to me to find out that it doesn’t really fit right or doesn’t look like it did in the catalog/web site.
To all the other tall people out there, where do you find pants/jeans that are in stock in a local store?