Making your own entertainment

[Bear]

.... is what we'll have to do for the next few days.

The high winds over the weekend seem to have shifted the satellite dish
for this apartment block, or that's what I'm putting the fact most
channels are a bit "pixely" down to [1] ... according to the management
company, the satellite people are refusing to come out until friday
because "it's still a bit windy out there". Wusses.

[1] but not the movie channels (or not much) ... why's that?
--
Bear
"Don't believe the hype"
Today's music: Miles Davis "Kind Of Blue"

[AndrewR]

Bear wrote:
> ... is what we'll have to do for the next few days.

DO NOT PROCREATE!

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[Bear]

In article <34fhnpF47nv2uU1@individual.net>, AndrewR says...
> Bear wrote:
> > ... is what we'll have to do for the next few days.
>
> DO NOT PROCREATE!

lol.

As if.
--
Bear
"Don't believe the hype"
Today's music: Miles Davis "Kind Of Blue"

[DR]

Bear <bastardDOTbear@gmail.com> burbled:

>... is what we'll have to do for the next few days.

We've only just recovered from 36 hours with no electricity at all.
There are others in the area who are still without (and worse), thanks
to the flooding and high winds. A battery-powered radio and BBC Radio
Cumbria has been the main lifeline; even mobile phones were of little
use as the cell base stations had no electricity.

I recommend cards; you can while away a good few hours playing
blackjack.

>[1] but not the movie channels (or not much) ... why's that?

I think certain channels are transmitted with more power than others; a
marginal dish alignment can still get a usable signal if it's strong
enough.


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[Bear]

In article <sqe5u0dqud6ckkvu8kapgcuv0ptbofcju0@4ax.com>, DR says...
> Bear <bastardDOTbear@gmail.com> burbled:
>
> >... is what we'll have to do for the next few days.
>
> We've only just recovered from 36 hours with no electricity at all.
> There are others in the area who are still without (and worse), thanks
> to the flooding and high winds. A battery-powered radio and BBC Radio
> Cumbria has been the main lifeline; even mobile phones were of little
> use as the cell base stations had no electricity.

Blimey ... have you thought about living closer to civilisation? ;)

> I recommend cards; you can while away a good few hours playing
> blackjack.

Tragically, my lovely backgammon board is still in storage :(

> >[1] but not the movie channels (or not much) ... why's that?
>
> I think certain channels are transmitted with more power than others; a
> marginal dish alignment can still get a usable signal if it's strong
> enough.

Ah right ... my theory was that the movie channels had to have more
bandwidth allocated because they contain more data (surround, etc),
therefore a drop in bandwidth affected them less, but your theory sounds
much better :)
--
Bear
"Don't believe the hype"
Today's music: Miles Davis "Kind Of Blue"

[steve auvache]

Bear wrote
>
>Ah right ... my theory was that the movie channels had to have more
>bandwidth allocated because they contain more data (surround, etc),
>therefore a drop in bandwidth affected them less, but your theory sounds
>much better :)

<searches desperately for suitable analogy>

Think in terms of the sound being in a ratio of sir.tony's brain to his
whole body weight. Just a tiny, tiny fraction of the whole.

--
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MZ TS150: for sale still.
Bandit 600

[sweller]

DR wrote:

> I recommend cards;

At this point I'll recount my father explanation as to why he carried a
pack of playing cards in his survival kit.

Should he ever have to eject and be left stranded, alone, in the middle
of a desert he'd start playing Patience. It wouldn't be long before some
cunt appeared telling him to put the red nine on the black ten.

--
Simon

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[Paul Corfield]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 17:34:46 +0000, DR <dr@gsx550es.freeserve.co.uk>
wrote:

>Bear <bastardDOTbear@gmail.com> burbled:
>
>>... is what we'll have to do for the next few days.
>
>We've only just recovered from 36 hours with no electricity at all.
>There are others in the area who are still without (and worse), thanks
>to the flooding and high winds. A battery-powered radio and BBC Radio
>Cumbria has been the main lifeline; even mobile phones were of little
>use as the cell base stations had no electricity.

Ah so it was as awful as it looked. I did wonder how you were getting
on.

Nicked from elsewhere but for anyone who knows Keswick in the Lake
District or who likes a good photograph then have a peruse of this link.

http://www.personal.u-net.com/~keswick/ldp.htm
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[DR]

Paul Corfield <aooy65@dsl.pipex.com> burbled:

>On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 17:34:46 +0000, DR <dr@gsx550es.freeserve.co.uk>
>wrote:
>
>>Bear <bastardDOTbear@gmail.com> burbled:
>>
>>>... is what we'll have to do for the next few days.
>>
>>We've only just recovered from 36 hours with no electricity at all.
>>There are others in the area who are still without (and worse), thanks
>>to the flooding and high winds. A battery-powered radio and BBC Radio
>>Cumbria has been the main lifeline; even mobile phones were of little
>>use as the cell base stations had no electricity.
>
>Ah so it was as awful as it looked. I did wonder how you were getting
>on.

As I'm not actually in Carlisle itself, I wasn't that badly affected -
just a day and a half with no electricity. I know people who had 5 feet
of filthy floodwater in their front rooms, though.


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[Lady Nina]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 18:10:50 +0000, "sweller" <ng@mztech.fsnet.co.uk>
wrote:

>DR wrote:
>
>> I recommend cards;
>
>At this point I'll recount my father explanation as to why he carried a
>pack of playing cards in his survival kit.
>
>Should he ever have to eject and be left stranded, alone, in the middle
>of a desert he'd start playing Patience. It wouldn't be long before some
>cunt appeared telling him to put the red nine on the black ten.

'You can put that ace up you know'

AAARRGGHH!
--
Lady Nina
learning her lines from glossy magazines.

[steve auvache]

sweller wrote
>DR wrote:
>
>> I recommend cards;
>
>At this point I'll recount my father explanation as to why he carried a
>pack of playing cards in his survival kit.
>
>Should he ever have to eject and be left stranded, alone, in the middle
>of a desert he'd start playing Patience. It wouldn't be long before some
>cunt appeared telling him to put the red nine on the black ten.

The merkin version of that is a cocktail shaker and someone coming along
to say that is the wrong way to make a Martini.


--
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MZ TS150: for sale still.
Bandit 600

[sweller]

DR wrote:

> I know people who had 5 feet of filthy floodwater in their front
> rooms, though.

After Lewes flooded I'd regularly pass a row of terraced houses with the
floorboards up and lent against the fronts with furniture and domestic
appliances heaped up on the pavement waiting for the council to come and
collect.

That area (Culfail Tunnel) stank of diesel and sewage for ages. So, all
in all pretty depressing for those that lived in the houses.

--
Simon

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[Bear]

In article <xn0dx3hp51d0ef000@news.individual.net>, sweller says...
> DR wrote:
>
> > I recommend cards;
>
> At this point I'll recount my father explanation as to why he carried a
> pack of playing cards in his survival kit.
>
> Should he ever have to eject and be left stranded, alone, in the middle
> of a desert he'd start playing Patience. It wouldn't be long before some
> cunt appeared telling him to put the red nine on the black ten.

ROTFLMAO.
--
Bear
"Don't believe the hype"
Today's music: Miles Davis "Kind Of Blue"

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Bear <bastardDOTbear@gmail.com>
saying something like:

>, or that's what I'm putting the fact most
>channels are a bit "pixely" down to [1] ... according to the management
>company, the satellite people are refusing to come out until friday
>because "it's still a bit windy out there". Wusses.
>
>[1] but not the movie channels (or not much) ... why's that?

I can't be arsed to dig and find, but istr the Sky digichannels don't
all come from the one satellite. There's a tight-knit group of them at
the nominal location in the sky.

--

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[Bear]

In article <lvi5u0h03qks0vbf6qtr1bprt0i7mldvql@4ax.com>, Grimly
Curmudgeon says...
> It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
> drugs began to take hold. I remember Bear <bastardDOTbear@gmail.com>
> saying something like:
>
> >, or that's what I'm putting the fact most
> >channels are a bit "pixely" down to [1] ... according to the management
> >company, the satellite people are refusing to come out until friday
> >because "it's still a bit windy out there". Wusses.
> >
> >[1] but not the movie channels (or not much) ... why's that?
>
> I can't be arsed to dig and find, but istr the Sky digichannels don't
> all come from the one satellite. There's a tight-knit group of them at
> the nominal location in the sky.

Seriously? Well I never.
--
Bear
"Don't believe the hype"
Today's music: Miles Davis "Kind Of Blue"

[AndrewR]

Bear wrote:

<SNIP>

> Tragically, my lovely backgammon board is still in storage :(


I've got a backgammon board - would you like me to send it down with Eddie
tomorrow?

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[Bear]

In article <34g2tdF4au7tlU1@individual.net>, AndrewR says...
> Bear wrote:
>
> <SNIP>
>
> > Tragically, my lovely backgammon board is still in storage :(
>
> I've got a backgammon board - would you like me to send it down with Eddie
> tomorrow?

Oh mate that would be *fantastic* :)

Many, many thanks.
--
Bear
"Don't believe the hype"
Today's music: Miles Davis "Kind Of Blue"

[AndrewR]

Bear wrote:
> In article <34g2tdF4au7tlU1@individual.net>, AndrewR says...

>> I've got a backgammon board - would you like me to send it down with
>> Eddie tomorrow?
>
> Oh mate that would be *fantastic* :)

Predicatably I now can not find my sodding backgammon set. I was _so_ sure
I know where it was.

Despair not, I'll ask Lisa when she gets in from work.

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[Bear]

In article <34g6vuF3uq4fmU1@individual.net>, AndrewR says...
> Bear wrote:
> > In article <34g2tdF4au7tlU1@individual.net>, AndrewR says...
>
> >> I've got a backgammon board - would you like me to send it down with
> >> Eddie tomorrow?
> >
> > Oh mate that would be *fantastic* :)
>
> Predicatably I now can not find my sodding backgammon set. I was _so_ sure
> I know where it was.

lol.

> Despair not, I'll ask Lisa when she gets in from work.

Ah, enter the brains of the operation ... I'm saved :)
--
Bear
"Don't believe the hype"
Today's music: Miles Davis "Kind Of Blue"

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the
drugs began to take hold. I remember Bear <bastardDOTbear@gmail.com>
saying something like:

>> I can't be arsed to dig and find, but istr the Sky digichannels don't
>> all come from the one satellite. There's a tight-knit group of them at
>> the nominal location in the sky.
>
>Seriously? Well I never.

Here ya go..

http://www.flysat.com/ebird1-astra28.php

Looks like there's four sharing that location.

--

Dave

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[Eddie]

AndrewR wrote:

> Bear wrote:
>
>>In article <34g2tdF4au7tlU1@individual.net>, AndrewR says...
>
>>>I've got a backgammon board - would you like me to send it down with
>>>Eddie tomorrow?
>>
>>Oh mate that would be *fantastic* :)
>
> Predicatably I now can not find my sodding backgammon set. I was _so_ sure
> I know where it was.
>
> Despair not, I'll ask Lisa when she gets in from work.

Hmmm... I think we might have your backgammon set - was it a little
travel one, chess board one side, backgammon the other?

But... you couldn't find the backgammon/draughts pieces when you lent us
it anyway...

[AndrewR]

Eddie wrote:
> AndrewR wrote:

>> Predicatably I now can not find my sodding backgammon set. I was
>> _so_ sure I know where it was.

> Hmmm... I think we might have your backgammon set - was it a little
> travel one, chess board one side, backgammon the other?

Indeed it was.

> But... you couldn't find the backgammon/draughts pieces when you lent
> us it anyway...

Rats wi' big hairy cocks, I _still_ can't find them.

Then again, if Bear can't manage to play backgammon using chess prawns then
he's not the man I think he is.

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[Bear]

In article <34ggv6F4bh01oU1@individual.net>, AndrewR says...

> Then again, if Bear can't manage to play backgammon using chess prawns then
> he's not the man I think he is.

Oh FFS. You're both useless, but thanks anyway :)
--
Bear
"Don't believe the hype"
Today's music: Miles Davis "Kind Of Blue"

[Champ]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 23:28:40 -0000, Bear <bastardDOTbear@gmail.com>
wrote:

>In article <34ggv6F4bh01oU1@individual.net>, AndrewR says...
>
>> Then again, if Bear can't manage to play backgammon using chess prawns then
>> he's not the man I think he is.
>
>Oh FFS. You're both useless, but thanks anyway :)

I don't know why but this little sub-thread has had me rolling with
laughter. Andy and Eddie are like the usenet equivalent of Laurel and
Hardy.
--
Champ

[Nigel Eaton]

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ
<news@champ.org.uk> typed
>On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 23:28:40 -0000, Bear <bastardDOTbear@gmail.com>
>wrote:
>
>>In article <34ggv6F4bh01oU1@individual.net>, AndrewR says...
>>
>>> Then again, if Bear can't manage to play backgammon using chess prawns then
>>> he's not the man I think he is.
>>
>>Oh FFS. You're both useless, but thanks anyway :)
>
>I don't know why but this little sub-thread has had me rolling with
>laughter. Andy and Eddie are like the usenet equivalent of Laurel and
>Hardy.

Laurel and Hardy have you rolling with laughter?

Blimey.

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[platypus]

Nigel Eaton wrote:
> Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, Champ
> <news@champ.org.uk> typed
>> On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 23:28:40 -0000, Bear <bastardDOTbear@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> In article <34ggv6F4bh01oU1@individual.net>, AndrewR says...
>>>
>>>> Then again, if Bear can't manage to play backgammon using chess
>>>> prawns then he's not the man I think he is.
>>>
>>> Oh FFS. You're both useless, but thanks anyway :)
>>
>> I don't know why but this little sub-thread has had me rolling with
>> laughter. Andy and Eddie are like the usenet equivalent of Laurel
>> and Hardy.
>
> Laurel and Hardy have you rolling with laughter?
>
> Blimey.

I suspect he regards Jerry Lewis as a comedic genius, too. "You'll believe
a man can wee."

He's the SteveH of funny.

--
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no need to ask

[Bear]

In article <h376u051n5b030knsj8sirqh6a334cj8gp@4ax.com>, Champ says...
> On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 23:28:40 -0000, Bear <bastardDOTbear@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >In article <34ggv6F4bh01oU1@individual.net>, AndrewR says...
> >
> >> Then again, if Bear can't manage to play backgammon using chess prawns then
> >> he's not the man I think he is.
> >
> >Oh FFS. You're both useless, but thanks anyway :)
>
> I don't know why but this little sub-thread has had me rolling with
> laughter. Andy and Eddie are like the usenet equivalent of Laurel and
> Hardy.

Abbott & Costello, more like.

"Who's got the board."

"What?"

"No, What's on second ..."
--
Bear
"Don't believe the hype"
Today's music: Miles Davis "Kind Of Blue"

[Ben Blaney]

Nigel Eaton wrote:

>Laurel and Hardy have you rolling with laughter?
>
>Blimey.

I like the one with the piano and the stairs.

--
Ben Blaney

[sweller]

Nigel Eaton wrote:

> Laurel and Hardy have you rolling with laughter?
>
> Blimey.

I like them.

--
Simon

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[AndrewR]

Champ wrote:

> I don't know why but this little sub-thread has had me rolling with
> laughter. Andy and Eddie are like the usenet equivalent of Laurel and
> Hardy.

Did you hear that, Eddie?

Since you got your little jeep that's the closest anyone has come to
implying you might be a straight man.

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[Dr Ivan D. Reid]

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 18:10:50 +0000, sweller <ng@mztech.fsnet.co.uk>
wrote in <xn0dx3hp51d0ef000@news.individual.net>:
> DR wrote:

>> I recommend cards;

> At this point I'll recount my father explanation as to why he carried a
> pack of playing cards in his survival kit.

> Should he ever have to eject and be left stranded, alone, in the middle
> of a desert he'd start playing Patience. It wouldn't be long before some
> cunt appeared telling him to put the red nine on the black ten.

I was explaining that theory to a colleague just last week.

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[Vass]

>>[1] but not the movie channels (or not much) ... why's that?


There are 6 (last time i saw the Astra info cnl) satellites all sitting in
a huge virtual box in the geostationery orbit

The sats have little motors on them to keep them in the box and to stop them
banging into each other

It might be that the one sending the Movie signals is further over to one
side
of the box

just a hunch, probably crap !
--
Vass