From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V6 #256 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Sunday, December 17 2006 Volume 06 : Number 256 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [loud-fans] cable question [CertronC90@aol.com] Re: [loud-fans] cable question [CertronC90@aol.com] [loud-fans] comments [Jenny Grover ] Re: [loud-fans] comments ["Steve Holtebeck" ] Re: [loud-fans] comments [Jenny Grover ] Re: [loud-fans] cable question ["Joseph M. Mallon" Subject: [loud-fans] comments Anyone catch Scott's little appearances at recent Aimee Mann shows? Jen ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 13:56:21 -0800 From: "Steve Holtebeck" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] comments On 12/16/06, Jenny Grover wrote: > Anyone catch Scott's little appearances at recent Aimee Mann shows? I went to the show last Tuesday (12/5), and Scott did two songs, "Inverness" (duet with Aimee) and "Just Gone" (solo). He also joined the other performers for "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" to end the show. If that sounds like a rerun, it's because I posted the same two sentences on Wed 12/6. I also said the show would be available for listening at woxy.lala.com starting "next week", and now there are excerpts from the show (which don't include Scott's two songs or anything from the other "supporting act" Grant Lee Phillips) at http://woxy.lala.com - -Steve ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 17:55:02 -0500 From: Jenny Grover Subject: Re: [loud-fans] comments Steve Holtebeck wrote: > > If that sounds like a rerun, it's because I posted the same two > sentences on Wed 12/6. Thanks, Steve! Apparently I never got that post. Maybe it bounced. Jen ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 16:31:30 -0800 (PST) From: "Joseph M. Mallon" Subject: Re: [loud-fans] cable question On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, CertronC90@aol.com wrote: > Anyone have a technical explanation as to why I have these cable channels? Because the installer was wrong. Cable channels & Internet travel on the same wire, and, while your computer can "perceive" the Internet, your TV can "perceive" the cable signals & decode them. I'm guessing that if you find a list of your provider's "basic tier", those would be the channels you get. Joe Mallon jmmallon@joescafe.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 22:56:10 EST From: CertronC90@aol.com Subject: Re: [loud-fans] cable question In a message dated 12/16/2006 7:41:38 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, jmmallon@joescafe.com writes: Because the installer was wrong. Cable channels & Internet travel on the same wire, and, while your computer can "perceive" the Internet, your TV can "perceive" the cable signals & decode them. I'm guessing that if you find a list of your provider's "basic tier", those would be the channels you get. Ah. Makes sense. I think the installer was just lying to protect Charter, which probably told him to tell this to people. Too bad VH1 isn't on the basic tier. It's a strange brew of channels, like Oxygen and Court TV and National Geographic and The Style Channel. So far, my favorites are National Geographic and The Style Channel. It doesn't matter too much, because I don't have much to watch it on. I have a decade old 13" Samsung color tv with a VCR built in and it's mono, with a converter from Radio Shack which sends the two audio channels from my mini DVD player (the display for the player itself is actually on the tv screen) into one for my tv. This tv is actually a step up for me from my previous one. The last tv I had before this was a black and white 17" one from the '60s from a thrift store that I bought in my twenty-something hipster phase when I wanted a vintage tv, but every time I watched it, the res was so bad I'd get a headache, so I was the electronic equivalent of fashion victim. - --Mark, whose faith in mankind has been restored--tonight, a guy forced me off the road into a drainage ditch and I couldn't get out and within minutes three guys in three different vehicles appeared to help me out--one directed traffic, one got his towing straps and one used his Hummer to pull me out--it was beautiful, like a well executed military maneuver, and it was over from going into the ditch to pulled out and back on the road in less than fifteen minutes ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V6 #256 *******************************