Food Network?

On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 23:40:56 -0500, "J. Clarke"
wrote:


So I'd be trading ghosts for pixelation and gaps between picture and
sound? Gee, what an improvement. Not.

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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
I haven't watched the Food Network in a few years, since they switched
from cooking to showmanship and b.s. As I do most "reality" shows, I
found this absurd beyond belief because of the contrived challenge.

I tuned in today to "Chopped" while I ironed. Huh? A competition
with ingredients like sea urchin and sweetbreads. Ick.

The finals straw was the dessert ingredients: blueberries, pickles,
saffron, and Froot Loops. OhMyAlex, as Barb would say. It sounded like
a combination only a 9-months-pregnant lady would suggest.

There's gotta be something better to watch.

gloria p
 
Re: [email protected]

Ed Pawlowski wrote:


Well frankly, a lot of their shit is veiled racism. Birtherism, for example.
It's all about not wanting a black president and refusing to accept reality
to the extent of condemning all the evidence no matter how credible. When
you offer proof and the proof is rejected for illogical reasons, or no
reason is give at all, that tells me there is an ulterior motive, and in
this case, it's racism, plain and simple.

Yanno, I can catch all kinds of people saying things they don't want others
to hear. The only way you got to hear that one is because an established
criminal pulled a sneaky stunt.
 
On 2011-03-07, sf wrote:


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Yeah, there's no gun violence in CA, the most restrictive gun law
state in the US. Live the fantasy.

nb
 
On Wed, 9 Mar 2011 23:39:56 -0500, "J. Clarke"
wrote:


Doesn't matter, does it. No matter, what the result is still crap.

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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
On 2011-03-07, George wrote:


Also depends on where and with who you contract for basic. Buying
basic directly from you cable company is likely to get you the worst
deal possible. Buying from a sub-contactor or someone offering
promotional deals is more likely to get you a better price. Direct
purchase from Comcast, basic was about $32 mo. I got tired of paying
so much, so did without tv for 2 yrs. Finally ran across a promo deal
for basic being offerred by a local bank. Same Comcast basic, $15 per
mo for one year, then $22 mo after that. I have a friend who is still
paying only $12 per mo for same Comcast basic. It pays to shop
around, even for cable tv.

nb
 
On Mar 6, 4:56?pm, "gloria.p" wrote:

They did goat brains yesterday.


I generally like the cooking shows which have pros doing the cooking.
I also like Diners, Drive Ins and Dives. Iron Chef isn't bad, but
it's not great.
 
Cindy Hamilton wrote:
vinaigrette.

I've tried eating while reading, but my chewing somehow
distracts me from the synthesized speech I'm trying to listen
to carefully. When I've tried it, I'm at least grateful that I
scan all my books on to my computer and thus have no danger of
staining them with vinagrette, curry, chile oil or anything
else.

Orlando
 
On Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:05:19 -0800 (PST), Bryan
wrote:


This is the first time I've heard anyone questioned McCain's
legitimacy and I'm in the heartland of liberalism. I think that was a
Birther red herring, used to justify their jhad on Obama.


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Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
 
On 2011-03-07, sf wrote:


Some occasionally tolerable material if you don't mind listening to an
entire on-air staff that sounds like they've been 'luded out since
Woodstock. Otherwise, lotta crap:

"Today, we talk to Percivel Wanker, a 36 yr old live-at-home who has
learned how to train lab rats to raise house flies. Tell us, Percy,
are you ever gonna get laid?"

Yeah, some real thought provoking stuff.

nb
 
On Mar 9, 7:17?am, Brooklyn1 wrote:

And yet, when I want to get a good recipe, I would turn to Alton or to
Julia and not to you. When I am watching a how-to cooking show,
what's important is what and how it teaches me, not whether its host
can/could cook food for 200 people in 4 hours at Sizzler.
 
Doug Freyburger wrote:

It doesn't matter which way you face for an antenna, as long as you
don't have something like a bank vault in the way. DTV is on mostly UHF
with some VHF and those frequencies penetrate walls ok. A good
directional antenna in an attic or closet will generally suffice.

I get my 3Mbps cable modem for a total with tax and whatnot of
$44.13/month (which my work pays), and I do not have cable TV at all. If
you're paying $82 for just cable modem service, you're paying way too
much unless you have other services like static IP, much higher
bandwidth, etc.
 
On 3/7/2011 8:16 PM, notbob wrote:

Why all of the drama again? PBS is absolutely, positively entitled to
their view but I have no interest in helping to pay for it.
 
sf wrote:

www.mythtv.org is a box like a Tivo. It's normally used with a cable
connection. Folks tend to put a TV card in a PC and load the MythTV
application to it converting the PC into a MythTV box.

The main reason I started having interest in it is it has direct support
for IPTV over the network. With my current Tivo I can order through
Netflix.

I don't know how ready for prime-time IPTV over the network is. We
still like live news and weather. The rest of the shows we watch we
could get through Netflix. Watching most of our shows over Netflix
would probably improve the quality of what we watch compared to stuff
recorded with season passes and recommendations on the Tivo.
 
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