Given that your show has covered subjects ranging from eggplant (which most children hate) to gelatin (c'mon, there's always room for Jell-O!), you obviously have a wide variety of foods that you enjoy to prepare and eat.
Are there any specific foods, however, which you expressly *DO NOT* like? Where the preparation is particularly odious, or where the cooking itself is tedious, or where you just plain don't like the taste?
Tannerz: I found both the salt keeper and the plunger measuring cup at the (horrendously overpriced) Container Store. Luckily, I had a coupon for 15% off.
I think Alton sells salt-keepers off of his site, too.
CAUTION: tivo ruins viewing pleasure on non tivo equiped tv's
Back before they started putting up those infernal popunder ads, I bought audio/video and remote sender and receiver units from X10.com. Nowadays you can probably find units like these from Radio Shack, and I know the remote sender and receivers are available at Circuit City.
As the only person living in my household, being able to access a single TiVo (in addition to the DVD player and VCR hooked up to that television) from other TVs is pure television bliss:)
Now all I need is a video capture system (and a replacement for my broken CD-RW drive) so I can archive everything to VCD.
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And, why is Replay any different in this regard?
The newest Replay units have a sort of peer-to-peer filesharing system built in to their software.
And while that sounds well and good, I think it's a marketing gimmick, especially since not everyone who owns a Replay unit has a T3 going into their home to share shows.
Not to mention that someone with a peering Replay would have recorded the show they want in the first place...
For people who exceedingly enjoy television, the TiVo is invaluable. For people who enjoy television, but can get by missing an episode of Law and Order, the TiVo is still a great product. For people who couldn't care less about television, don't spend the money...
One of the things I first did when I got the Tivo was to turn off the suggestions. I knew that any additional shows I got addicted to would tax my schedule tremendously.
It didn't really help...
I even made t-shirts that describe how I feel about the infernal machine...
Single fast forward (3x, I think it is) has no jumpback correction. I think there's a way to change the jumpback level, but you'll want to check it at tivocommunity.com
The Series2 doesn't have S-Video out?? According to tivo.com it should...
With regard to the Season Passes, make sure to go into the manager and lower the priority on the FoodTV shows (Tivo button then 1 will get you there quickly)--highlight the show, go right with the directional pad, then move the show up and down to set the priority.
All of my FoodTV and MTV shows are way down on my season pass manager, because they tend to replay these shows incessantly throughout the week...
Not just any episode, "Once More, With Feeling," the musical episode, which is probably the only musical ever written with an internally logical reason that the character break into song and dance choreographed numbers.
"I think people confuse Star War's excellent execution with its story."
Far too many people are concerned with the originality of source material. People were arguing about Buffy as a ripoff of Devil Hunter Yohko, Lion King as a ripoff of Hamlet and the anime Kimba, and Atlantis as a ripoff of Nadia.
What seldom enters into their thinking is that The Magnificent Seven is an excellent movie, despite its near perfect translation of Seven Samurai, The Matrix is replete with so-called ripoffs of HK action, anime, and Plato's Parable of the Cave, and no one really gives two shits about Hamlet being an entirely unoriginal plot.
There's really nothing new under the sun. The devil is in the details.
But then, the whole point of Campbell's research wasn't something you would go dig into and then use in the first place anyway; the point was that there were certain archetypal myths that people have always enjoyed.
Indeed, when Joss Whedon was questioned about the Buffy's ties to the Campbellian monomyth, he replied something to the effect of:
"No, I haven't read [Hero with A Thousand Face], but I have seen Star Wars."
Vader is Lancelot (father that fails) to Luke's Galahad (son who succeeds).
All this discussion is just pushing Campbell's thesis. Whether Lucas consciously or unconsciously meant his characters to fall in line with the monomyth is an entirely different question.
_Buffy the Vampire Slayer_ also has a great deal of monomythic elements to it, but Joss Whedon has admitted himself that he hasn't read _Hero with a Thousand Faces_.
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"I wonder if they'd be willing to sell feeds to individuals..."
You could always try to buy said information from TiVo at 10-15 dollars a month:)
My primary reason for joining was to gain access to anime rentals, as the only place in Atlanta that rents anime (that I know of) only has vhs.
Oxford Comics on Piedmont just past Sidney Marcus Blvd. now rents Anime DVDs and they have a pretty immense selection. Their prices aren't the best, though...
If you're going to start comparing picture quality, you should start by tuning your TV's contrast, brightness, and color settings with either Video Essentials or Avia's Guide to Home Theater (both DVDs available at various places, including some Blockbusters).
After tuning my television (a 27" Toshiba Cinema Series from 1999), I noticed that my picture quality (pixelation, MPEG artifacts, etc.) under a program recorded at TiVo's Medium Quality is only slightly worse than when I watched it on the untuned TV at Best Quality.
Add to this some very nice deals on TiVo's Special Offers page (as low as 49.99 for new DirecTV subscribers).
I'm not sure about the quality of the Hughes units, but both the Sony and the Philips units have high marks in customer satisfactions. I suspect the Hughes TiVos might be OEM'ed Philips units.
Depends, your rating may be too low to automatically accept new missions, but you may be able to contact the employers in question, "discuss the terms," and then accept the job.
If, however, you mean that there are no more missions in the mission list, then you should be able to click the fast-forward time button (">>>" at the top of the screen, slightly left of center). This should eventually cause some more missions to roll in.
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This game came out months ago!! I got hooked on the demo (which can be clocked in 15mins once u get good).
There is however a problem for those of use who don't have a credit card. HOW DO WE BUY THE FULL GAME. No shop will order it in:(
Ask for it for the holidays? *shrug*
You can extend the playability of the demo by abandoning missions before you get too high a rating.
Apparently there's a story line which gets quite interesting, and the CD has a password protected zip file on it. You have to crack it to find out what's in it.
There are actually numerous little secrets and inside jokes in and out of the game, not the least of which is a 13-or-so MB file that people have been trying to decode into an MP3 or so.
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The networking feature allows a single player to observe their status (whether that's news or the world map) via multiple screens--i.e. a monitor solely for the bounce points you use to hack a site and a monitor for your general gameplay.
Unfortunately, I've had little success getting the map to display on my two machines, but then again, they're both Pentium 166 systems running Windows.
There is something to be said about being able to play a modern computer game on a Pentium 166, though.
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Umm, all of you moderators modding the "Alan Parson's Project" posts offtopic, it's a reference to the second Austin Powers movie.
They're probably doing this because bankcruptcy is looming and they need to make some cash. They're probably not selling too many... $600 is a hell of a lot of money for something that 'pauses live tv' (for the life of me I can't imagine why I would want to do that). I asked what it could do for me and was amazed to be told it could only record off analogue channels... no digital, no satellite, no cable (to be fair most other videos have this problem, although at least they can play rental videos and cost $100).
Ummm, you're obviously not talking about TiVo, because my standalone unit is currently recording off of both satellite and cable inputs. I've seen DirecTV units for sale at $49.99 to $79.99, as well.
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Given that your show has covered subjects ranging from eggplant (which most children hate) to gelatin (c'mon, there's always room for Jell-O!), you obviously have a wide variety of foods that you enjoy to prepare and eat.
Are there any specific foods, however, which you expressly *DO NOT* like? Where the preparation is particularly odious, or where the cooking itself is tedious, or where you just plain don't like the taste?
Tannerz: I found both the salt keeper and the plunger measuring cup at the (horrendously overpriced) Container Store. Luckily, I had a coupon for 15% off.
I think Alton sells salt-keepers off of his site, too.
Remember to bring the barf bags. I once played Descent II using a 4'x6' projector screen. I damn near vomitted out my ears after that.
CAUTION: tivo ruins viewing pleasure on non tivo equiped tv's
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Back before they started putting up those infernal popunder ads, I bought audio/video and remote sender and receiver units from X10.com. Nowadays you can probably find units like these from Radio Shack, and I know the remote sender and receivers are available at Circuit City.
As the only person living in my household, being able to access a single TiVo (in addition to the DVD player and VCR hooked up to that television) from other TVs is pure television bliss
Now all I need is a video capture system (and a replacement for my broken CD-RW drive) so I can archive everything to VCD.
The newest Replay units have a sort of peer-to-peer filesharing system built in to their software.
And while that sounds well and good, I think it's a marketing gimmick, especially since not everyone who owns a Replay unit has a T3 going into their home to share shows.
Not to mention that someone with a peering Replay would have recorded the show they want in the first place...
For people who exceedingly enjoy television, the TiVo is invaluable. For people who enjoy television, but can get by missing an episode of Law and Order, the TiVo is still a great product. For people who couldn't care less about television, don't spend the money...
One of the things I first did when I got the Tivo was to turn off the suggestions. I knew that any additional shows I got addicted to would tax my schedule tremendously.
It didn't really help...
I even made t-shirts that describe how I feel about the infernal machine...
Single fast forward (3x, I think it is) has no jumpback correction. I think there's a way to change the jumpback level, but you'll want to check it at tivocommunity.com
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The Series2 doesn't have S-Video out?? According to tivo.com it should...
With regard to the Season Passes, make sure to go into the manager and lower the priority on the FoodTV shows (Tivo button then 1 will get you there quickly)--highlight the show, go right with the directional pad, then move the show up and down to set the priority.
All of my FoodTV and MTV shows are way down on my season pass manager, because they tend to replay these shows incessantly throughout the week...
Not just any episode, "Once More, With Feeling," the musical episode, which is probably the only musical ever written with an internally logical reason that the character break into song and dance choreographed numbers.
You've got a strong case for the post with the most errors based on unfounded assumptions...
"I think people confuse Star War's excellent execution with its story."
Far too many people are concerned with the originality of source material. People were arguing about Buffy as a ripoff of Devil Hunter Yohko, Lion King as a ripoff of Hamlet and the anime Kimba, and Atlantis as a ripoff of Nadia.
What seldom enters into their thinking is that The Magnificent Seven is an excellent movie, despite its near perfect translation of Seven Samurai, The Matrix is replete with so-called ripoffs of HK action, anime, and Plato's Parable of the Cave, and no one really gives two shits about Hamlet being an entirely unoriginal plot.
There's really nothing new under the sun. The devil is in the details.
Indeed, when Joss Whedon was questioned about the Buffy's ties to the Campbellian monomyth, he replied something to the effect of:
"No, I haven't read [Hero with A Thousand Face], but I have seen Star Wars."
"the article is trying to say that George went 'Ummm....I meant to do that!' when, in fact, he probably didn't."
Welcome to Hollywood...
Vader is Lancelot (father that fails) to Luke's Galahad (son who succeeds).
All this discussion is just pushing Campbell's thesis. Whether Lucas consciously or unconsciously meant his characters to fall in line with the monomyth is an entirely different question.
_Buffy the Vampire Slayer_ also has a great deal of monomythic elements to it, but Joss Whedon has admitted himself that he hasn't read _Hero with a Thousand Faces_.
"I wonder if they'd be willing to sell feeds to individuals..."
:)
You could always try to buy said information from TiVo at 10-15 dollars a month
My primary reason for joining was to gain access to anime rentals, as the only place in Atlanta that rents anime (that I know of) only has vhs.
Oxford Comics on Piedmont just past Sidney Marcus Blvd. now rents Anime DVDs and they have a pretty immense selection. Their prices aren't the best, though...
If you're going to start comparing picture quality, you should start by tuning your TV's contrast, brightness, and color settings with either Video Essentials or Avia's Guide to Home Theater (both DVDs available at various places, including some Blockbusters).
After tuning my television (a 27" Toshiba Cinema Series from 1999), I noticed that my picture quality (pixelation, MPEG artifacts, etc.) under a program recorded at TiVo's Medium Quality is only slightly worse than when I watched it on the untuned TV at Best Quality.
Add to this some very nice deals on TiVo's Special Offers page (as low as 49.99 for new DirecTV subscribers).
I'm not sure about the quality of the Hughes units, but both the Sony and the Philips units have high marks in customer satisfactions. I suspect the Hughes TiVos might be OEM'ed Philips units.
Depends, your rating may be too low to automatically accept new missions, but you may be able to contact the employers in question, "discuss the terms," and then accept the job.
If, however, you mean that there are no more missions in the mission list, then you should be able to click the fast-forward time button (">>>" at the top of the screen, slightly left of center). This should eventually cause some more missions to roll in.
This game came out months ago!! I got hooked on the demo (which can be clocked in 15mins once u get good). :(
There is however a problem for those of use who don't have a credit card. HOW DO WE BUY THE FULL GAME. No shop will order it in
Ask for it for the holidays? *shrug*
You can extend the playability of the demo by abandoning missions before you get too high a rating.
Apparently there's a story line which gets quite interesting, and the CD has a password protected zip file on it. You have to crack it to find out what's in it.
There are actually numerous little secrets and inside jokes in and out of the game, not the least of which is a 13-or-so MB file that people have been trying to decode into an MP3 or so.
The networking feature allows a single player to observe their status (whether that's news or the world map) via multiple screens--i.e. a monitor solely for the bounce points you use to hack a site and a monitor for your general gameplay.
Unfortunately, I've had little success getting the map to display on my two machines, but then again, they're both Pentium 166 systems running Windows.
There is something to be said about being able to play a modern computer game on a Pentium 166, though.
Umm, all of you moderators modding the "Alan Parson's Project" posts offtopic, it's a reference to the second Austin Powers movie.
They're probably doing this because bankcruptcy is looming and they need to make some cash. They're probably not selling too many... $600 is a hell of a lot of money for something that 'pauses live tv' (for the life of me I can't imagine why I would want to do that). I asked what it could do for me and was amazed to be told it could only record off analogue channels... no digital, no satellite, no cable (to be fair most other videos have this problem, although at least they can play rental videos and cost $100).
Ummm, you're obviously not talking about TiVo, because my standalone unit is currently recording off of both satellite and cable inputs. I've seen DirecTV units for sale at $49.99 to $79.99, as well.