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no wait...tangerine....no wait....uh....kiwi

manicott(i)

Prescott, AZ.

Gul Dukat.

True Story:

I grew up with four older sisters and no brothers. When we went to one particular restaurant (Love's: my Mom worked there), I would always order a BOY cheese sammich because I already had enough girls in my life (I thought it was a "girl-cheese sammich").

My Dad still loves to tell this story :rolleyes:

On a more serious note, apparently a group of Islamic extremists today killed 16 people in some form of pre-Olympic terrorist event. I haven't read much about it, so I'm not exactly sure what happened.

Ah - here's a link with some details.

Possibly this?

Not good, but it is about 2000 miles away from Beijing.

I enjoy the Olympics. It reminds me of traveling to Indonesia for vacations when I was a kid. The trips always conincided with the Olympics. When I was missing home, I could watch the sports events on foreign televisions and feel comforted.

I love to watch synchronized swimming. It's amusing to me!

So we were trying to set up a keyword wishlist on our TiVo to catch as much of the olympics as we could. It became apparent that several of our favorite shows refuse to have the good graces to stop airing new content while the Olympics are running, so, even with 2 tuners, we were running into a LOT of conflicts.

Then it hit me...it costs all of $10 extra per month to get Time Warner's HD DVR. Hell, that's a fraction of the cost of triple-cast, it's in HD, and replayable whenever I want. And if I understand everything correctly, there's no fee to get it and no penalty to just return it at any time. So if we just do that, problem solved (assuming I'm right about no fees or penalties, and I'm pretty sure I am).

Now, the real question is whether we'll be able to resist just keeping the extra DVR, especially since it's HD (though if it's as sucky as the last Time Warner DVR we had, it'll be easier to send it back).