The Vent and Rant Thread - Page 1741

orlok · 06-09-2015, 03:37 AM

Bad neighbours make life miserable. Well done on your win!

cromag · 06-09-2015, 07:20 PM

Hope you enjoy some quiet weekends soon!

My rant is not nearly as dramatic. I just had a physical today -- just routine, it was about time. But how do doctors' offices always manage to buy those #&*! gowns that, no matter what size you are, manage to be two sizes smaller?

5thWiggleWife · 06-09-2015, 07:45 PM

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Originally Posted by cromag

Hope you enjoy some quiet weekends soon!

My rant is not nearly as dramatic. I just had a physical today -- just routine, it was about time. But how do doctors' offices always manage to buy those #&*! gowns that, no matter what size you are, manage to be two sizes smaller?

Ha! My doctor gave up on gowns and all I get is a paper sheet.

poohbear_nc · 06-09-2015, 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by 5thWiggleWife

Ha! My doctor gave up on gowns and all I get is a paper sheet.

So he paper trained you?

Hitch · 06-09-2015, 08:45 PM

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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

So he paper trained you?

OK, you owe me one keyboard. ;-)

Hitch

Hitch · 06-10-2015, 02:45 PM

OK, I'm pissed.

Fox has carried the live 24 Hours of Le Mans, with decreasing amounts of coverage for some years now. Initially, they carried the whole thing, start to finish. We would close up shop here and make a big thing of it--we'd stay up, watch the entire race, stagger in on Monday all haggard, but we love it.

Each year, their coverage has become fewer hours shown, and they are pushing their content over to FoxSportsGo, their web channel.

I wouldn't bloody mind that, except FSG isn't available in any way, manner, shape or form, through what I have. Not on DirecTV, not on my Roku channels, zip, zein, zilch. I don't WANT to watch it on my laptop, or any of my ninety bajillion tablets, dammit.

I've set up Dailymotion on my Roku, but that feed is in French. (Assuming that LeMansTV doesn't change what it had going last year, that is. That's not confirmed yet). And while I do have some languages, OF COURSE, French isn't one of them, and Mr. Hitch can't speak a word of it. {sigh}.

If I have to set up a Plex media server between now and Friday, I'm going to get REALLY CRANKY(ier).

BOOOOOOOOO, FOX!!! Not even SIX hours of coverage? S**t, why not just go back to the week-delayed one hour highlight reel?

Hitch

poohbear_nc · 06-10-2015, 08:10 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hitch

OK, you owe me one keyboard. ;-)

Hitch

You know you shouldn't drink and type!

Hitch · 06-10-2015, 09:22 PM

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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc

You know you shouldn't drink and type!

Nah, I shouldn't drink and READ.

Hitch

Hitch · 06-11-2015, 02:03 PM

AND, after going through all the brain-damage of hooking up the Crapple Mac Mini I have, to my TV/Monitor, to pipe FoxSportsGo through it, it's a mess. Jerky, yadda yadda. UGHGHGHGHGHGHGH!!!!

Hitch
Who is bitchier than usual today, and will get worse if she doesn't get her 24 Heures de Le Mans!!!

PandathePanda · 06-13-2015, 01:34 AM

Me don't like amazon

Been struggling to get it to accept the change I make into my preferred device to deliver too. I'd like it to be automagically be delivered to me PC, it accepts it, but only for the first two transactions thereafter it defaults back to whatever amazon wants

Bilbo1967 · 06-13-2015, 09:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hitch

AND, after going through all the brain-damage of hooking up the Crapple Mac Mini I have, to my TV/Monitor, to pipe FoxSportsGo through it, it's a mess. Jerky, yadda yadda. UGHGHGHGHGHGHGH!!!!

Hitch
Who is bitchier than usual today, and will get worse if she doesn't get her 24 Heures de Le Mans!!!

Did you manage to get coverage?

I'm watching it on British Eurosport right now.

kindlekitten · 06-13-2015, 01:21 PM

She may now might be trying to find a ticket to England to keeeeel you

And then watch it on your TV

Bilbo1967 · 06-13-2015, 01:26 PM

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Originally Posted by kindlekitten

She may now might be trying to find a ticket to England to keeeeel you

And then watch it on your TV

She'd have to pry the remote out of my cold, dead hand!

I hope Hitch doesn't think I was crowing; not my intention.

kindlekitten · 06-13-2015, 01:30 PM

I don't think she would. I'm just playing

Hitch · 06-14-2015, 04:45 AM

I might....

I finally hard-hooked my CrApple MacMini (I knew I'd finally find a use for that damn thing, other than desk paperweight--it's the one I keep for when I have to convert a Pages file, or do screenshots for a Mac client that can't sort something, and needs explanations) to my TV monitor, and streamed various feeds. Had some live on FoxSports and FoxSports2; then streamed hours on FoxSportsGo (that was dicey at times, not due to issues with the streaming itself, which was surprisingly good--because Fox would turn it OFF when their "TV" coverage would start, or, worse, would turn the streaming OFF, and then NOT turn on the TV coverage, because, heaven save us, Soccer (Football) ran into OT. I was pretty steamed at one point.

Am now watching it on FS2, where it's supposed to run for the next 4 hours. Just around 5 hours left. So, no need for me to fly anywhere, rip someone's arm off and beat them over the head with it.

HOWEVER, I think I've decided to buy a Season Pass from WEC (World Endurace Cup) and a Chromecast doo-dah, and just Chromecast future races in WEC and next year's LM24, instead of all this bulls**t, switching back and forth here, there, Dailymotion there, AC official channel over in that corner, etc. I mean, that's daft and irritating. And after this many hours, your brain starts to get mushy...can't remember what the log-in is over at X, and that sort of thing.

I will say, in fairness, that the FSGo coverage, WHEN Fox had it on, was actually pretty damn good. Nary a commercial in sight. Can't complain about that part.

So, Bilbo...will it come down to the wire again, between Porsche and Audi? (And really, listen, I like the Gentlemen drivers as much as the next guy, but Krone really, really needs to let his professional cohorts finish out the race.)

See ya AFTER the race, headed back in....

Hitch

06-10-2015, 02:45 PM	#26106
Hitch Bookmaker & Cat Slave Posts: 11,503 Karma: 158448243 Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Phoenix, AZ Device: K2, iPad, KFire, PPW, Voyage, NookColor. 2 Droid, Oasis, Boox Note2	The 24 Hours of Le Mans Coverage OK, I'm pissed. Fox has carried the live 24 Hours of Le Mans, with decreasing amounts of coverage for some years now. Initially, they carried the whole thing, start to finish. We would close up shop here and make a big thing of it--we'd stay up, watch the entire race, stagger in on Monday all haggard, but we love it. Each year, their coverage has become fewer hours shown, and they are pushing their content over to FoxSportsGo, their web channel. I wouldn't bloody mind that, except FSG isn't available in any way, manner, shape or form, through what I have. Not on DirecTV, not on my Roku channels, zip, zein, zilch. I don't WANT to watch it on my laptop, or any of my ninety bajillion tablets, dammit. I've set up Dailymotion on my Roku, but that feed is in French. (Assuming that LeMansTV doesn't change what it had going last year, that is. That's not confirmed yet). And while I do have some languages, OF COURSE, French isn't one of them, and Mr. Hitch can't speak a word of it. {sigh}. If I have to set up a Plex media server between now and Friday, I'm going to get REALLY CRANKY(ier). BOOOOOOOOO, FOX!!! Not even SIX hours of coverage? S**t, why not just go back to the week-delayed one hour highlight reel? Hitch

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06-09-2015, 03:37 AM	#26101
orlok Close to the Edit! Posts: 9,797 Karma: 267994408 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: UK Device: Kindle Oasis, Amazon Fire 8", Kindle 6"	Bad neighbours make life miserable. Well done on your win!

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cromag Surfin the alpha waves ~~ Posts: 26,487 Karma: 459765791 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: New Jersey Device: Jetbook Lite & Mini, Nook STR, Kobo, Hanvon N516, Kindle 2, Androids	Hope you enjoy some quiet weekends soon! My rant is not nearly as dramatic. I just had a physical today -- just routine, it was about time. But how do doctors' offices always manage to buy those #&! gowns that, no matter what size you* are, manage to be two sizes smaller?

06-11-2015, 02:03 PM	#26109
Hitch Bookmaker & Cat Slave Posts: 11,503 Karma: 158448243 Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Phoenix, AZ Device: K2, iPad, KFire, PPW, Voyage, NookColor. 2 Droid, Oasis, Boox Note2	AND, after going through all the brain-damage of hooking up the Crapple Mac Mini I have, to my TV/Monitor, to pipe FoxSportsGo through it, it's a mess. Jerky, yadda yadda. UGHGHGHGHGHGHGH!!!! Hitch Who is bitchier than usual today, and will get worse if she doesn't get her 24 Heures de Le Mans!!!

06-13-2015, 01:34 AM	#26110
PandathePanda a toy panda Posts: 2,568 Karma: 26020474 Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Onboard the Queen Anne's Revenge Device: Various Android dvices	Me don't like amazon Been struggling to get it to accept the change I make into my preferred device to deliver too. I'd like it to be automagically be delivered to me PC, it accepts it, but only for the first two transactions thereafter it defaults back to whatever amazon wants

06-13-2015, 01:21 PM	#26112
kindlekitten Professional Adventuress Posts: 13,368 Karma: 50260224 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Olympic Peninsula on the OTHER Washington! (the big green clean one on the west coast!) Device: Kindle, the original! Times Two! and gifting an International Kindle	She may now might be trying to find a ticket to England to keeeeel you And then watch it on your TV

06-13-2015, 01:30 PM	#26114
kindlekitten Professional Adventuress Posts: 13,368 Karma: 50260224 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Olympic Peninsula on the OTHER Washington! (the big green clean one on the west coast!) Device: Kindle, the original! Times Two! and gifting an International Kindle	I don't think she would. I'm just playing

06-14-2015, 04:45 AM	#26115
Hitch Bookmaker & Cat Slave Posts: 11,503 Karma: 158448243 Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Phoenix, AZ Device: K2, iPad, KFire, PPW, Voyage, NookColor. 2 Droid, Oasis, Boox Note2	I might.... I finally hard-hooked my CrApple MacMini (I knew I'd finally find a use for that damn thing, other than desk paperweight--it's the one I keep for when I have to convert a Pages file, or do screenshots for a Mac client that can't sort something, and needs explanations) to my TV monitor, and streamed various feeds. Had some live on FoxSports and FoxSports2; then streamed hours on FoxSportsGo (that was dicey at times, not due to issues with the streaming itself, which was surprisingly good--because Fox would turn it OFF when their "TV" coverage would start, or, worse, would turn the streaming OFF, and then NOT turn on the TV coverage, because, heaven save us, Soccer (Football) ran into OT. I was pretty steamed at one point. Am now watching it on FS2, where it's supposed to run for the next 4 hours. Just around 5 hours left. So, no need for me to fly anywhere, rip someone's arm off and beat them over the head with it. HOWEVER, I think I've decided to buy a Season Pass from WEC (World Endurace Cup) and a Chromecast doo-dah, and just Chromecast future races in WEC and next year's LM24, instead of all this bulls**t, switching back and forth here, there, Dailymotion there, AC official channel over in that corner, etc. I mean, that's daft and irritating. And after this many hours, your brain starts to get mushy...can't remember what the log-in is over at X, and that sort of thing. I will say, in fairness, that the FSGo coverage, WHEN Fox had it on, was actually pretty damn good. Nary a commercial in sight. Can't complain about that part. So, Bilbo...will it come down to the wire again, between Porsche and Audi? (And really, listen, I like the Gentlemen drivers as much as the next guy, but Krone really, really needs to let his professional cohorts finish out the race.) See ya AFTER the race, headed back in.... Hitch

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