TVs.
Do people still repair TVs? and is it worth doing? I came home today to find my Samsung HDTV had bit the dust, despite being well taken care of, plugged into a UPS and all of that..
When trying to get it to start, it clicks a few times and there is a moment of sound but it is never able to successfully activate the picture tube. After trying unsuccessfully to start, it clicks off. Fully removing it from power and plugging it back in hasn't done anything.
In any case, the TV is out of warranty, but it wasn't a really cheap TV when I brought it in 2002, ao I'm disinclined to replace it. It's a 27 in. flat CRT HDTV with two component inputs and a slew of regular composite inputs on the back, and I'm using all of them, so I imagine it won't be cheap to replace if I were to buy new.
Worth getting repaired? How much can I expect to spend?
Keep in mind that me looking at it myself is completely out of the question.. I deal in software, folks. Design an enterprise identity management system? Configure some servers? No problem.. but, my legally-blind self isn’t about to start poking around inside a TV with all of its capacitors and what not.. :)
When trying to get it to start, it clicks a few times and there is a moment of sound but it is never able to successfully activate the picture tube. After trying unsuccessfully to start, it clicks off. Fully removing it from power and plugging it back in hasn't done anything.
In any case, the TV is out of warranty, but it wasn't a really cheap TV when I brought it in 2002, ao I'm disinclined to replace it. It's a 27 in. flat CRT HDTV with two component inputs and a slew of regular composite inputs on the back, and I'm using all of them, so I imagine it won't be cheap to replace if I were to buy new.
Worth getting repaired? How much can I expect to spend?
Keep in mind that me looking at it myself is completely out of the question.. I deal in software, folks. Design an enterprise identity management system? Configure some servers? No problem.. but, my legally-blind self isn’t about to start poking around inside a TV with all of its capacitors and what not.. :)
Reunion?
Hey... Who's going to
drewuniversity Reunion next week?

I might be crazy...
I just got a third-party utility to allow my Treo 600 to play MP3 ringtones, just so I could put TMBG's "Call connected through the NSA" ringtone on there...
Apoligies to _yggdrasil and the CNS '06 crew...
This was the first
drewuniversity graduation I haven't attended since I myself graduated in 2002. I really wanted to go and wish people the best of luck, but I found myself to be sick as a dog when I woke up this morning (strangely, I was fine when I went to bed last night..)
For future reference, I'd hesitate to recommend the following combinations of foodstuffs in succession as standard Friday night fare:
although I'm not sure if that's what it really was.. and I did have a great time celebrating
kikibird's birthday on Friday night!

For future reference, I'd hesitate to recommend the following combinations of foodstuffs in succession as standard Friday night fare:
- "The Elivis" from Peanut Butter & Co (consists of peanut butter, banana, and bacon)
- "Understanding Vanilla" flavor rice pudding from Rice to Riches
- A shot of Tequila and two Corona's from a nearby bar
although I'm not sure if that's what it really was.. and I did have a great time celebrating
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Last night.. On the L train with Garfield the cat...
A picture randomly taken of
shmivejournal,
runstaverun and I with Garfield by this dude on the L train last night.
redvector and ariestar's 25th b-day.
Realizing I hadn't posted a link to the photos from Frank and John's 25th birthday party last week. Here they are!. Also, take a look at the pictures that
kikibird took.
Be forewarned, however... The dudes look like ladies and the ladies look like dudes... :)
Be forewarned, however... The dudes look like ladies and the ladies look like dudes... :)
mmm... Apathy...
So.. I suppose when it has now been over a week and a half since I was in Iceland and I have failed to make even one blog entry about it, I should probably just consider this LJ dead...
That would be a waste of a permanent account though...
Perhaps I should just give myself a kick in the ass and start posting in this thing again...
Things to think about...
That would be a waste of a permanent account though...
Perhaps I should just give myself a kick in the ass and start posting in this thing again...
Things to think about...
My umbrella...
... recovered the other half...
... of my umbrella...
... at the Hoboken train station...
... it has been...
... reconstructed...