I *never* ever thought I would ever write a blog with this title. This weekend I wanted to track the NCAA Basketball and NIT Basketball tounaments while I was attending the CCHA hockey tournament – so I turned to trusty Google SMS (46645) and started typing in things like “NIT”, Wolverines, etc and I got nothing back except a stupid message about what Google SMS does. I tried NCAAB – one of its suggestions – and still nothing but a blank stare.
\nI wonder what happenned – I used to think Google SMS was the bomb – it was as if a bunch of people were there ready with the answer in 4 seconds. But now it cannot even seem to get the simplest thing right. I have given up on it.
\nOn the same weekend – I installed Comcast Digital cable – the box that costs me $1.00 per month. This is AWSOME – it has so much free stuff – on-demand old movies and on-demand old TV shows and HD radio are probably the best – but things like Karaoke, extended previews and PPV are cool as well. I wasted hours this weekend exploring.
\nAll this for only $1.00 – dang! This will save me a bunch at he video store. I got two of the boxes and probably need to get three more (at least).
\nTechnical note: My only gotcha was that I had one TV behind too many splitters – the signal was not too great – the digital box would not sync up until I dropped back to a single splitter. So if your TV signal is snowy – fix that before trying to go digitial. Luckily I was doing two boxes at the same time and the second one worked perfectly on the basement TV – so I swapped the boxes – the box still worked downstairs but not upstairs. So it had to be the wiring – dropping down a Splitter solved the problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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