Gives me the same feeling as Toilet Rat

TenuredVulture wrote:

The Dude wrote::lol:

The ppv channel used to play the first couple minutes of a movie for free before scrambling, hoping you'd get sucked in and buy it. I always hoped against hope they'd forget to turn off "Disorderlies"

I remember watching scrambled soft core porn hoping to see a green slightly wavy nipple.

Once caught an episode of "Night Calls" that was barely scrambled. What a night.

The Dude wrote:Fun fact: prism launched in 1976 and had 6 paying subscribers, all in upper darby

Bucky, is 1985 what your mom told you?

I don't have to watch the movie, Dottie--I lived it!!

I was off by a year. It was actually [url=https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xal1/v/t1.0-9/12079163_906195056082565_8758584558119778605_n.jpg?oh=50e79fca5e73d797ff30f39eaeb373ab&oe=56CFD02E[ 1986.

The least expensive service, Comcast, will offer 31 channels of basic programming for $2.50 a month. Comcast's rate for its most-basic service - as well as rates of $3.95 charged by Greater Philadelphia, $4.50 charged by Rollins Cablevision and $5.95 charged by Wade Communications - are relatively cheap by national standards

A few years prior to that, however, most of the city DID have access to PRISM, by virtue of having a microwave antenna installed on your roof. I only knew a handful of people who got them. I can't readily find any pictures online, but they were silver and somewhat in the shape of a jai-lai stick.

Ha, my neighbor has one

I know south philly had cable in the mid-70s, and then Comcast swallowed up a cable provider that was here already, but not sure what year that company started

There was only a small section of Philadelphia (in south philly) that had cable up until 1986. It was brutal.

And how is it that it isn't until 2015 until I discovered the how PRISM got its name!!

events held at The Spectrum (the venue itself lending to the channel's tongue-in-cheek naming as viewing a "prism" allowed one to see "the spectrum").

The Dude wrote:Ha, my neighbor has one

really? One of the old PRISM antenna is still up?!?!?! Take a picture!!

We have a damn mummers channel on tv right now. We need a prism throwback channel

The internet/personal computing is up there with inventing agriculture and the industrial revolution in terms of fundamentally changing the way humans live.

Just got an email from a student saying he overslept today and missed class because he was up last night with food poisoning.

Our class is Thursday morning, not Friday morning.

The NOPE thread finally did it. It made me literally sick to my stomach and it's officially made me check my toilet every hour.

jerseyhoya wrote:Just got an email from a student saying he overslept today and missed class because he was up last night with food poisoning.

Our class is Thursday morning, not Friday morning.

that's some bad food

I might have to revise my ideas about technology when Tesla gets to the "low price/high volume" stage. I don't think a range of 300 miles is a huge problem, as long as recharging stations are plentiful and you can recharge to full in 10 minutes or so.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the ... ever-made/

Alas, apparently, software updates are part of the Tesla experience. Presumably though they'll be unobtrusive.

I find it off putting when guys at the gym have those plastic milk jugs of water when they are working out.

that's what i drink out of but i don't go to the gym.

Bucky wrote:....the shape of a jai-lai stick.

a jai alai stick?

You must mean a cesta. It's a basket.

jai alai stick, smdh

ReadingPhilly wrote:that's what i drink out of but i don't go to the gym.

How the nips doing?

Bill McNeal wrote:

ReadingPhilly wrote:that's what i drink out of but i don't go to the gym.

How the nips doing?

made it back. was at the 2.6 mile mark and finished with 6.4. the right one is always much worse than the left.

ReadingPhilly wrote:

Bill McNeal wrote:

ReadingPhilly wrote:that's what i drink out of but i don't go to the gym.

How the nips doing?

made it back. was at the 2.6 mile mark and finished with 6.4. the right one is always much worse than the left.

Same here! Just fewer miles for me.

TenuredVulture wrote:I might have to revise my ideas about technology when Tesla gets to the "low price/high volume" stage. I don't think a range of 300 miles is a huge problem, as long as recharging stations are plentiful and you can recharge to full in 10 minutes or so.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the ... ever-made/

Alas, apparently, software updates are part of the Tesla experience. Presumably though they'll be unobtrusive.

The carmaker's next model, after its just-released Model X SUV, is the Model 3, a mass-market electric car set to sell for about $35,000 and start production in 2017.

which, is, COINCIDENTALLY, about 22 months away!!!

FTN wrote:

Two men are charging their cars at the two main stalls, chatting, naturally, about Tesla, and I overhear one man say, "If you can't afford it, don't test-drive it. It'll ruin your life."

which is PRECISELY why I always walk quickly past the Tesla showroom in the KoPM, never once yet having set foot inside