OT - quiet around here, innit?
Jette Goldie
triumphs from the Day After Thanksgiving.
And cursing the little toe-rag who decided to smash in
the passenger window of hubby's car - must have been
the stupidest twonker in the business - didn't even get
the car radio (though they did try)
--
Jette
"Work for Peace and remain Fiercely Loving" - Jim Byrnes
je...@blueyonder.co.uk
http://www.jette.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
Jerri
Yes, it is quiet around here. Sometimes, I think it's just you and me,
Jette. <G>
> Here I am waiting to hear of all the Xmas shopping
> triumphs from the Day After Thanksgiving.
I was at Office Max at 7AM ... and picked up *most* of the stuff in their
advertisement which is supposed to net at $0 when all mail-in rebates are
processed. I spent $200 on this stuff, have filled out and mailed all rebate
forms, and am now waiting for the rebates to flow in. Calendar software,
holiday software, a new zip-drive, CD-R discs, CD cases, a speaker phone,
memory card reader ... lots of stuff. That's what I bought. Just stuff.
Nothing exciting. No triumph.
> And cursing the little toe-rag who decided to smash in
> the passenger window of hubby's car - must have been
> the stupidest twonker in the business - didn't even get
> the car radio (though they did try)
When the foul miscreants broke into my car, they did get the radio ... one I
had been meaning to replace anyways, because the CD player overheated and
skipped. But the busted window was a real pill ... I kept finding broken
glass in various places around the car until the other foul miscreants stole
it a couple years later. They got the radio, too. Mucho commiserations. The
radio in Rosie II is not worth stealing. It barely plays at all, and the
displays don't work at all. No way I'm having it replaced.
Jerri
Jette Goldie
"Jerri" <nooneh...@invalid.com> wrote in message
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> "Jette Goldie" <j...@blueyonder.com.uk> wrote
>
> Yes, it is quiet around here. Sometimes, I think it's just you and me,
> Jette. <G>
>
> > Here I am waiting to hear of all the Xmas shopping
> > triumphs from the Day After Thanksgiving.
>
> I was at Office Max at 7AM ... and picked up *most* of the stuff in their
> advertisement which is supposed to net at $0 when all mail-in rebates are
> processed. I spent $200 on this stuff, have filled out and mailed all
rebate
> forms, and am now waiting for the rebates to flow in. Calendar software,
> holiday software, a new zip-drive, CD-R discs, CD cases, a speaker phone,
> memory card reader ... lots of stuff. That's what I bought. Just stuff.
> Nothing exciting. No triumph.
Well, if it's stuff you'll use and you do get your rebates, then
it was a "minor triumph".
>
> > And cursing the little toe-rag who decided to smash in
> > the passenger window of hubby's car - must have been
> > the stupidest twonker in the business - didn't even get
> > the car radio (though they did try)
>
> When the foul miscreants broke into my car, they did get the radio ... one
I
> had been meaning to replace anyways, because the CD player overheated and
> skipped. But the busted window was a real pill ... I kept finding broken
> glass in various places around the car until the other foul miscreants
stole
> it a couple years later. They got the radio, too. Mucho commiserations.
The
> radio in Rosie II is not worth stealing. It barely plays at all, and the
> displays don't work at all. No way I'm having it replaced.
Hubby drives an old beater of a Hyundai. Nothing to look at
and he lets it get ratty, grubby and beat up looking on the
principle that no one is going to be interested in stealing
it. The car radio is just a radio/cassette - again a cheapo
on the principle that no one would want to break in to steal
it. This theory has been proven not to work now. However
despite breaking the window, gaining access to the car,
opening the glove compartment and rummaging around in
it, nothing was taken - there was even a screwdriver lying
on the passenger seat that I didn't recognise. He has a
habit of storing multipacks of soda cans and junk food
snacks in the back seat. None were taken. The Lotto
tickets from the last few weeks that haven't been checked
(hubby takes them into the store and lets the machine
check them every so often) are still there. Either the
would be thieves are pretty stupid - managed to pull
the radio out of its housing but not disconnect it and
get away with it, as well as leaving various possibly
valuable things in the car - or they were disturbed in
their attempt. Some kind passer-by actually informed
the police before we got home, and when we found the
car someone had turned on the hazard warning lights.
(hubby thinks they might have hit the button themselves
when trying to get the radio and scared themselves off
thinking it was some form of car alarm!)
Of course the first thing I did once I saw what had happened
to his car was to check my own little Ford Focus (name of
"Jamie") that I've only had for two weeks. He's still parked
safely under the streetlamp opposite the house. (no off
street parking in this neighbourhood.
Lee Brant
"Jette Goldie" wrote in message>
"Jerri" wrote in message
The annoyance factor of having your car broken into is much more than the
value of the items stolen. Last January some kids broke into my car, Ford
Taurus that I didn't lock and stole the beads hanging from the rearview
mirror. That's all, just the beads, they left the money in the console, and
the tapes, Oh they did steal my mailbox key and the keys to the pool, they
were in the door handle. And the left the screwdriver in the ignition.
Cost me $300.00 to fix the ignition and $55.00 to have the car towed and
three hours of missed work. I did get a free rental from my car insurance
under road side assistance but the vandalism fell under the $500.00
deductible. They did more damage to my neighbors new Honda though.
Now I always lock the damn car. And I pay more attention to the dog when
she barks at night. Not fun, I'd rather be back in my own little utopia
again.
Lee--- This used to be such a nice neighborhood<snerk>
Dotiran
>"Jette Goldie" <j...@blueyonder.com.uk> wrote
>
>Yes, it is quiet around here. Sometimes, I think it's just you and me,
>Jette. <G>
>
Nah. I'm here. Can't get rid of me :) but I don't *do* day after Thanksgiving
shopping. I took a three hour nap instead to recover from three days of cooking
and table setting and 20 people, etc. WHICH was only the best Thanksgiving
we've ever had.
I always wait for the snow before I shop. We had our first snow fall, almost 6
inches, but it was the day before Thanksgiving and yesterday the sun came out
and melted the whole darn thing. Now I'll just have to wait for the next
snowfall before thinking Christmas thoughts [actually quite busy on my major
geneological scrapbook surprise gift for hubby. For a "non crafty" person this
book is starting to look really really good.]
Other than that I've been too busy thinking Adrian Paul thoughts and looking at
pictures of him as the gay submarine captain in his new movie that he just
finished shooting in Hawaii.
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/dailypix/2004/Nov/21/il01d_b.jpg
Dorothy aka Rottweiler
Jerri
> Other than that I've been too busy thinking
> Adrian Paul thoughts and looking at pictures
> of him as the gay submarine captain in his
> new movie that he just finished shooting in Hawaii.
Another straight-to-video or will we actually see a release of this one?
Jerri [just wondering]
AMc in CA
>[actually quite busy on my major
geneological scrapbook
>surprise gift for hubby. For a "non crafty" person this book is
>starting to look really really good.]
Sounds great. Care to share more?
Alicia <--- into genealogy & "digital scrapbooking" & loves to hear about
others' projects
- - - - - -
To be different is not necessarily to be ugly;
to have a different idea is not necessarily to be wrong.
The worst possible thing is for all of us to begin
to look and act and think alike.
-- Gene Roddenberry
AMc in CA
>> Other than that I've been too busy thinking
>> Adrian Paul thoughts and looking at pictures
>> of him as the gay submarine captain in his
>> new movie that he just finished shooting in Hawaii.
To which Jerri queried:
>Another straight-to-video or will we actually see a
>release of this one?
Actually, it's a made-for-cable movie called "Tides of War" for a new cable
station called here! TV. The info for my local cable mentions it as being
available for digital subscribers, but sounds like they're charging $3.95 per
selection (movie or series).
http://www.heretv.com/news.asp?id=33
Alicia <-- doesn't have digital cable
JDChronicler
to my new housemate so she can go shopping because her car is out of
commission.
Meanwhile I stayed home and studied a rune for the rune study group that I
belong to. I also read a hundred pages in the latest in the Thomas Covenant
series by Stephen R. Donaldson.
Re the movie in which AP is a gay submarine Captain-- I doubt I'll get to see
it on TV. You probably have to order the channel and it probably isn't
available everywhere. Even if it's available where I am, I can't afford to pay
for an extra channel.
On the bright side, it will probably be available on video eventually. That's
how I've gotten to see Queer As Folk after I lost access to Showtime.
Shomeret
Jerri
> Alicia <-- doesn't have digital cable
Ole Jer doesn't have any cable at all ... doesn't even have a Universal
Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 full-speed compliant cable with which to hook up the
cheap HP inkjet printer she bought a few weeks ago. The cable from my
digital camera won't fit, nor will the cable from my new media card reader.
Cables, cables everywhere ... and not a one that fits. Why can't TPTB in the
hardware biz make one damn thing that fits everything? Huh?
Jerri [ungruntled]
Dotiran
>
>
>Alicia <--- into genealogy & "digital scrapbooking" & loves to hear about
>others' projects
Since you asked :)..........
Yeah, my husband has been doing geneology for about 10 years now. He is quite
adept at it to the point where he helps out others online now. But he is only
in the beginning of putting it all into prose form [we're talking about a room
full of charts, papers, miscellaneous "stuff".]. He hopes to make a small book
out of it that we can publish copies of for all our children and grandchildren.
What I am doing/have been doing for a couple of months [as a surprise Christmas
gift] is making copies of our oldest, most precious photos of parents,
grandparents, great grandparents and even great greats, etc., and making a
12x12 scrapbook. I didn't want to use the original photos for fear of ruining
them, but with modern printers and software it was no problem to duplicate
them, even the sepia tones in some.
Family Tree Maker software has a great template to print off the family tree
itself [and I've used separate ones for his dad, his mom, my dad and my mom's
ancestors] For layout I decided to arrange things in what they call Z to A
order, in other words, starting with hubby's father, then going on to *his*
father and mother, then *their* fathers and mothers, etc.
Each page is getting decorated, labeled, "treated" differently. I had never
even *heard* of scrapbooking as a craft until a few months ago, but once I did,
I just knew it was the perfect way to go with making a memory photo book. Hubby
has talked about putting all our photos in a nice album for a long time and I
know he'll never get around to it. I do so hope he likes this surprise, heaven
knows I think it's starting to look so good that I'm *shocked.* :)
One of the opening two page spreads features photos of the Mourne Mountains in
Northern Ireland. His family farm [in the family for 800 years] faces those
mountains. As a header I used the line from the old song "where the mountains
of Mourne sweep down to the sea"
and a famous quote that says "How will children know who they are if they don't
know where they came from?" [and yes, I am toying with the idea of *also*
using somewhere the quote "Where do I come from?" and attributing it of course
to .........Duncan MacLeod of the Clan,..........you get it] What made the page
a cool scrapbook page is that I traced the outline of the mountain tops, then
tore a jagged edge top for the page that exactly duplicates that sloping curve
in a swirled blue and white paper that looks like clouds. The underlying paper
is a great shade of green with almost invisible shamrocks on it. The photos are
mounted on coordinated cardstock and the whole effect is really better than I
thought it would be. A couple celtic looking stickers and voila !!! Hoping any
of this makes sense. I do know that a person with more talent might do it
better, but I don't know that anyone could top the amount of time and love
poured into this project :)
I'm hoping even more that hubby really loves it. My plan is to photograph each
page and make duplicates for each of our children. If I live long enough :)
Dorothy aka Rottweiler
Bizarro7
//Restraining myself mightily against the obvious pun here//
Leah
Debi Matlack
"Dotiran" <dot...@aol.comd> wrote in message
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*some snippage*
Pictures? Please? This sounds wonderful.
--
Debi (quasi-amateur genealogist)
Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?
GHorvath
>each
>page and make duplicates for each of our children.
I used a Color Xerox to make a copy of the scrapbook I made for my niece of her
late Great-Grandmother, and that came out well. That one is 6x6, though -- I
don't know how available12x12 copiers are.
From the photos in my grandmother's house I am also making 3 scrapbooks for
myself, my brother, and my father. In that case, I'm making copies of the
most important photos and laying out/constructing each page 3 times, almost
identically. I don't recommend this strategy -- the pleasure of making a cool
page is significantly reduced by the tedium of making the same one again.
Imho.
GH
<== also a recent convert to the Scrapbooking craft.
http://hometown.aol.com/webgill/index.html
Donna
> GH
> <== also a recent convert to the Scrapbooking craft.
Bwa-ha-ha-ha... my work here is finished...
Donna
(so, gh, how's that Tivo thing working out for you? <eg>)
Dotiran
>page is significantly reduced by the tedium of making the same one again.
>Imho.
So true. I needed something to "practice" on before I did the big geneology
scrapbook so I bought 5 identical scrapbooks, about 5x7 in size each, and made
identical scrapbooks for my best friends here [a group of women with whom I
have met every week for over 25 years] and made 5 identical pages , 12 pages
in each book for *their* Christmas present. This project was a little different
in that I photocopied 10 of my original poems, then added photos that I had
taken that really went well with the theme of the poem, and then decorated
those pages. Since it was a learning curve, those pages look a little more
"amateurish" but I'm sure they will love it anyway. Friends are like that :)
Dorothy aka Rottweiler
Susan Stansfield
In article <rw6qd.24525$up1....@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk>, "Jette Goldie"
<j...@blueyonder.com.uk> wrote:
<< Here I am waiting to hear of all the Xmas shopping
triumphs from the Day After Thanksgiving.
Yep. It has been quiet around here lately. And to answer your question, no,
we haven't done amy Christmas shopping yet.
And cursing the little toe-rag who decided to smash in
the passenger window of hubby's car - must have been
the stupidest twonker in the business - didn't even get
the car radio (though they did try)
>>
Oh no!
Susan
Darth Maul's Highlander Site:
http://pub54.ezboard.com/fdarthscommunityfrm20
GHorvath
# the case.
#
# The woman claims that the enumeration is a violation of her religious
# beliefs. Like many fundamental Christians, she relies on a Biblical
# passage warning that whoever worships a Satanic beast that issues a mark
# OR NUMBER to all persons will incur the wrath of God.
#
# Initially, the IRS disallowed her claims and child care deductions.
#
# The woman claimed that just because she didn't provide numbers for her
# children did not mean that the children did not exist. An appeals officer
# agreed and overruled the auditor, saying that there was no deficiency
# in the woman's tax return.
----
Here is a more detailed example of how government expands surveillance
(and thus control) in a seemingly never-ending manner...consider this when
talking about a National ID Card:
Is it okay for the government to look at your property while walking by and
if the officer spots marijuana plants growing to get a search warrant?
Of course it is.
* "The Right To Privacy", ISBN 0-679-74434-7, 1997
* By Attorneys Ellen Alderman and Caroline Kennedy
*
* ...then the Supreme Court ruled that if the yard was big enough that "An
* individual may not legitimately demand privacy for activities conducted
* out of doors in fields," the Court wrote, "except in the area immediately
* surrounding the home."
*
* ...then the Supreme Court ruled that a barn sixty yards from a farmhouse
* was too far away from a house to expect privacy.
*
* ...then the Supreme Court ruled that aerial surveillance did
Donna
*
* Furthermore, the FBI has blamed the security industry for making locks
* and alarms more difficult to defeat.
*
* That was the central justification offered by the FBI when a couple of
* years ago it asked the White House for $27 million in public funds to
* pay the engineering whizzes at the Sandia and Los Alamos National
* Laboratories and several other government research facilities to develop
* ways to defeat "any locking system whether it be mechanical or electronic,
* or computer supplemented."
[snip]
*
* The FBI's Rapid Prototyping Facility (RPF) is a laboratory and factory
* dedicated to the design and manufacture of "unique miniaturized devices in
* direct support of various investigative efforts" of the "FBI and other
* members of the U.S. law enforcement community."
*
* Operated jointly by the FBI and the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research
* Projects Agency (DARPA, creators of the Internet), the FBI facility was
* created to allow the bureau "to use computer-aided design, engineering
* and manufacturing of tools and equipment (software and firmware
* respectively) to design, simulate, and fabricate integrated circuits,
* printed circuit boards, electronic components, packages, systems and
* concealments in a quick turnaround cost-effective manner."
*
* Among the facilities advantages are speed "through the use of laser
* restructuring, high-density interconnect, and reverse milling capability,"
* and a capability "to produce an integrated microphone ('microphone on a
* chip') in a single design/fabrication process."
*
* For many years, the FBI had been placing se
Susan Stansfield
A single cell, in its DNA strands, holds a MASSIVE AMOUNT OF INFORMATION.
Every cell in our body is structured by information, the DNA helix.
This information structuring is why we don't just splash to the
ground in a muddy puddle of our constituent chemicals.
We are matter structured by information.
"We are starshine" ---Woodstock
----
Whew!
Cybernetics is VERY heavy-duty stuff.
It can yield the ULTIMATE in control.
It can be applied to controlling people in a society.
Cybernetic control of society.
The 'arousal filter' Stafford Beer and his cyberneticians
set up was effectively keyword monitoring of traffic.
When you use keywords to either select or exclude traffic, each step
is a 'filter' step. If you make it past all the filters, a human then
reviews the results to see if it calls for action. "arousal filter"
Mr. Beer was trying to help the economy by massive real-time monitoring
of factories and companies and banks, and thus help the people of Chile.
* "Brain of the Firm", Stafford Beer, 1986, ISBN 0 471 27687 1
*
* Twenty-four hours a day, messages were flowing in non-stop. This instantly
* posed an enormous problem in handling the inundation of information.
*
* Two of the senior cyberneticians organized a filtration system.
The feedback was not simply machine throughput rates, but also---via
the central computer---a system 'through which anyone could consult
anyone else'.
Dotiran
hysteria on the matter: it is then possible that they would want to continue
having a drug problem so they could continue the hysteria.
Even the Attorney General was drooling over drug forfeiture dollars, to the
point of shunting aside other cases.
Recently...
: CBS 60 Minutes, Steve Croft reporting.
:
: Remember that story of the hero customs agent snagging a tanker truck full
: of cocaine? There is a strange twist to the story.
:
: The Federal agent's manager repeatedly tried to interfere with him making
: the bust.
:
: The agent's dog had flagged the truck; the agent weighed it and found a
: discrepancy. His manager said it must be in the tires. You can only check
: the tires for drugs he was told.
:
: But the agent persisted, and made the bust. His manager let the driver
: of the truck leave. The driver literally fled on foot back to Mexico.
What the hell was that about???
Was it a single corrupt Federal agent?
: CBS 60 Minutes, Steve Croft reporting.
:
: Standing at a fence about a hundred feet from the U.S. Customs lanes,
: Steve Croft and an ex-agent with a walkie-talkie tuned to the right
: frequency began videotaping the border crossings.
:
: Truck after truck drove right through the individual Customs lanes,
: not even stopping. "Nafta express lanes" explained the ex-agent.
:
: Truck after truck drove straight into the U.S. unmonitored.
:
: Then a message came through the walkie-talkie: "We got some cameras
: watching, better get out there and cover traffic".
:
: Suddenly several Customs agents came out of the booths and started
: inspecting trucks.
That makes at least five people at a minimum!
What the hell is going on???
IF the rumor is true, THIS looks like it would be the smoking gun.
How did our country get so twisted around that they can invade our
bodies to drug test, yet allow truck after truck a
Debi Matlack
* livid, gasping face came within the angle of his vision.
: The BATF agent slammed Kimberly Katona, then several months pregnant,
: against the wall so hard she began bleeding. She soon miscarried.
:
: Did BATF apologize to this family? No. Instead, BATF pressed
: criminal charges. A judge threw the charges out of court.
I'm sure the BATF agent had a good reason for violently shoving Ms. Katona:
he thought he saw the fetus pointing a gun at him.
"A kinder, gentler America" --- President George Bush
DoubleThink. We are doing this to protect you.
And the Lamplugh's? They were in the politically incorrect business of
managing gun shows.
----
Cryptography is the most important tool to come along for privacy in
communications ever; it uses the power of computer software to shield
us from endlessly intrusive government computer monitoring.
These categories of War are the big lie (propaganda technique) used by law
enforcement to discredit any and all privacy concerns. These are the reasons
why we can't use cryptography to give us the beginnings of privacy from the
Government.
That the dangers of it protecting someone involved in these activiti
GinjerB
>Date: Sun, Nov 28, 2004 10:00 EST
>Message-id: <20041128100002...@mb-m15.aol.com>
LOL!
GinjerB
Jerri
> First snowfall already?
People in the mid-West are up to their bellybuttons in "First snowfall
already". Here in KC we had 7 - 9 inches the day before Thanksgiving. It's
all melted away, but we're doing rain now. Precipitation.
Jerri
Jerri
> Toe-rag?? That's a new one to me.
> Derivation?
I was actually watching an old episode of Lovejoy on the VCR last night, and
a guy called Lovejoy a toe-rag, and I still don't know what it means. But
now I've been exposed to it from 2 different places.
Jerri
GinjerB
>Date: Sat, Nov 27, 2004 16:41 EST
>Message-id: <rw6qd.24525$up1....@text.news.blueyonder.co.uk>
>
>Here I am waiting to hear of all the Xmas shopping
>triumphs from the Day After Thanksgiving.
>
>And cursing the little toe-rag who decided to smash in
>the passenger window of hubby's car - must have been
>the stupidest twonker in the business - didn't even get
>the car radio (though they did try)
>
>
>--
>Jette
Toe-rag??
That's a new one to me.
Derivation?
GinjerB
GinjerB
>Date: Sat, Nov 27, 2004 19:54 EST
>Message-id: <20041127195402...@mb-m11.aol.com>
First snowfall already? Where do you live, Dottie?
Nothing in NYC yet, although there was some in Westchester County on
Thanksgiving...
I habitually wait until The Last Minute to do my Christmas shopping...well, at
least I'm consistent. <g>
GinjerB
Jette Goldie
"GinjerB" <gin...@aol.com> wrote in message
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Not sure, but I suspect it may be from the "taureg" nomadic
Arabic people who were notorious for walking off with anything
not nailed down during the days of the British Empire.
--
Jette
"Work for Peace and remain Fiercely Loving" - Jim Byrnes
je...@blueyonder.co.uk
http://www.jette.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
HiRene23
traffic at the BestBuy parking lot, I changed my mind.
I did some serious damage to my credit card with online ordering instead.
HiRene23
>
I got TiVo for my birthday last month. It's so wonderful to feel like I'm in
charge of the TV instead of vice-versa. I find that I am watching more TV as
well.. but at my convenience, and only shows that I really want to watch.
So, yeah.. I give it a huge thumbs up!
WrySmile
>the passenger window of hubby's car - must have been
>the stupidest twonker in the business - didn't even get
>the car radio (though they did try)
>
>
>--
>Jette
>je...@blueyonder.co.uk
>http://www.jette.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/
>
>
>
>
>
>
player, all my CDs and a few other items, a total of $600 worth. My insurance
reimbursed me for what was stolen, but the damage came to $200 and my
deductable was $250. The second time, there was nothing of real value in the
van, but again the damage cost me $200 to repair. I installed a car alarm cost
me $450. The car alarm shorted out the starter, cost me $400 to fix. Maybe I
aught to quit while I'm behind???
WrySmile ;-?
phil...@ee.signature.uk
>> Toe-rag??
>>
>> That's a new one to me.
>>
>> Derivation?
>
>
>Not sure, but I suspect it may be from the "taureg" nomadic
>Arabic people who were notorious for walking off with anything
>not nailed down during the days of the British Empire.
Or, possibly, it could be derived from 'tow-rag' - as in the (often)
dirty piece of cloth hung on the end of something that one tows behind
your vehicle (also used for weird loads which stick beyond the end of
your pick-up o.n.o).
Philippa
Dianne
Ginjer asked
> > Toe-rag??
> >
> > That's a new one to me.
> >
> > Derivation?
I found the following explanation here
http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-toe1.htm
*brief explanation*
Aha, another term from that inexhaustible store of rude British slang
expressions (though it is also well-known in Australia).
The original form-in the nineteenth century-was toe rag. referred to strips
of cloth that tramps wrapped around their feet as an inadequate substitute
for socks. It didn't take long to become a term of abuse.
Article then goes on to say it became more widely known in the 70s thanks to
TV show "The Sweeney"
--
Dianne
One of the Four Horsewomen of the ATH Gutter
Christine from B.C.
says...
I got recently a recordable DVD player WITH (that is the important bit) a large
hard drive so I can record whatever, whenever, play back whilst it is still
recording the show etc, etc, etc. When I have seen the shows I can wipe them
or record them on discs to keep....It is amazing. I acquired it as a points
gift on my credit card and was not sure what it was BUT I am sold on it.
Christine from B.C.