Roku delivers the goods again.. Well sort of.. I will say this, that if we had to live without cable tv we could, however there is very little that is truly live.. In the entertainment area there is E! on the AOL.ON channel. Truth is if you only had one channel to have this could be it.. They have new sources, entertainment, and a lot of things to watch.. The new channel 8ctave (what I called channel 8) has hundreds of channels and was updated yesterday when I added a channel*.. The biggest problem I have with this channel is before any video plays it plays an advertisement that can be a two minute infomercial which is annoying as hell because as I have done on YouTube on the computer, when the advertisement is two minutes and the video I want to watch is 30 seconds I opt out of watching the commercial and watch the video.. They have that skip add choice thing and most of the time when I am in a hurry (most of the time) I click this link when it becomes available to do so five seconds into it.. This site (channel 8ctave) has some interesting content, however it is community channels so you are getting free content put on by people who shouldn't, for the most part, be doing this.. But some is good.. I wish Sidney would get their community channel up there, I'd watch a little I think.. Plus there are school programs that are on there, some Christmas concerts and plays & stuff..
*The channel I added was TVNWEATHER. Which is the Reed Timmer weather chaser channel. This guy must be full time weather (tornado) chaser.. He seems to be all over the country chasing weather all year long.. I follow him on Facebook and Twitter and he has a chaser channel on the computer that shows (via GPS I assume) where they are in their chase vehicles.. That is interesting to watch but I think this channel on the Roku is a video channel, prerecorded type of stuff right now but all channels can change over time and this channel might be a live streaming site when the season calls for it.. It's the only way this channel will be of any interest to anyone.. The tornado videos are available by way of YouTube.. But live streaming is available by just a few sites right now.. That might change very soon as well..
Avoiding a close call yesterday.. Has anyone ever lost a cell phone?? I thought I did yesterday.. I had set the phone to the on position as it were and thought I put it in my pant pocket and went into Walmart.. While in the store I use it as a clock and went to check it, but it wasn't there.. Checked every pocket.. NO CELL PHONE!! But it really isn't that big of a deal, I thought I left it in the car so no big deal. I get through looking around and left the store.. Got in the car and headed out and as I get to the stoplight I think where is the phone?? Looked where I thought it should be and it wasn't there, nor any of the other two or three places and a quick feel of the pockets again because I'm sure that pat down at the store wasn't enough to find it while standing up.. So I think, it fell out of the car and I just didn't hear it hit the lot there.. I can be quite not there when I have something else on my mind.. I get back to the 'mart and there in the parking stall is what looks to be a smear on the lot.. Could that be the phone?? I drive to the other side of that parking stall and it turns out to be an aluminum can.. So where is the phone? I get to a parking lot and start looking for it in the car.."Can you imagine, I'm gonna have to go into Walmart and ask if someone brought a phone in, and describe it.. very old cell phone".. I look and there under the seat support is what looks like the phone and as I felt for it..YUP that's it.. FOUND 'ER.. But I told mom this and as I was telling her about this I told her I doubted anyone would see the value in this phone.. It was the phone we got a few days after dad was in the hospital the last time.. it is the phone mom got the call on. that Sunday night.. not the best news or the best reason to have a sentimental attachment to it, but I like it.. Very simple phone.. like me I guess I like simple things.. We had the chance to upgrade to one of the latest gadget phones but I like having a phone, and it is very basic.. I do remember sending a text to the computer at home while I was on the mountain by Silverton way back before texting was the big it thing to do..
I watched the first disc of music videos that I made last summer (fall) when the infinity project was first started.. That first disc is the IT disc.. Just my favorite set of videos, with the best ideas and songs that matched with Maiden Voyage being the highlight.. Such a cool song, and of course my favorites top notch in running order 3: Flightpath 2: Outreach 1: Stratos ultimately stratos is my favorite Jonn Serrie song and one of my favorite songs of all time.. Watching NCIS the other night and the punk kid gave Gibbs shit for being old school in his music taste and Gibbs said yep.. Just like my taste.. OLD SCHOOL..
One last thing, I started to try to watch that Netflix original (exclusive) show House of Cards last night and then the Roku had other plans and so I ended up watching the Philadelphia Experiment 2 instead.. The show was alright but as it got to the end it made very little sense.. I guess they wanted it to be wrapped up nice and neat, but it was anything but.. Anyone ever watch that movie it left more questions than answers.. Good movie concept the original was, but the second wasn't very good.. To have the David Herdeg character back made it impossible to be the way it ended.. For anyone else it might have been fine but to have guy who went through twice.. Too far fetched even for a far fetched concept anyway..
Badge Henry
*The channel I added was TVNWEATHER. Which is the Reed Timmer weather chaser channel. This guy must be full time weather (tornado) chaser.. He seems to be all over the country chasing weather all year long.. I follow him on Facebook and Twitter and he has a chaser channel on the computer that shows (via GPS I assume) where they are in their chase vehicles.. That is interesting to watch but I think this channel on the Roku is a video channel, prerecorded type of stuff right now but all channels can change over time and this channel might be a live streaming site when the season calls for it.. It's the only way this channel will be of any interest to anyone.. The tornado videos are available by way of YouTube.. But live streaming is available by just a few sites right now.. That might change very soon as well..
Avoiding a close call yesterday.. Has anyone ever lost a cell phone?? I thought I did yesterday.. I had set the phone to the on position as it were and thought I put it in my pant pocket and went into Walmart.. While in the store I use it as a clock and went to check it, but it wasn't there.. Checked every pocket.. NO CELL PHONE!! But it really isn't that big of a deal, I thought I left it in the car so no big deal. I get through looking around and left the store.. Got in the car and headed out and as I get to the stoplight I think where is the phone?? Looked where I thought it should be and it wasn't there, nor any of the other two or three places and a quick feel of the pockets again because I'm sure that pat down at the store wasn't enough to find it while standing up.. So I think, it fell out of the car and I just didn't hear it hit the lot there.. I can be quite not there when I have something else on my mind.. I get back to the 'mart and there in the parking stall is what looks to be a smear on the lot.. Could that be the phone?? I drive to the other side of that parking stall and it turns out to be an aluminum can.. So where is the phone? I get to a parking lot and start looking for it in the car.."Can you imagine, I'm gonna have to go into Walmart and ask if someone brought a phone in, and describe it.. very old cell phone".. I look and there under the seat support is what looks like the phone and as I felt for it..YUP that's it.. FOUND 'ER.. But I told mom this and as I was telling her about this I told her I doubted anyone would see the value in this phone.. It was the phone we got a few days after dad was in the hospital the last time.. it is the phone mom got the call on. that Sunday night.. not the best news or the best reason to have a sentimental attachment to it, but I like it.. Very simple phone.. like me I guess I like simple things.. We had the chance to upgrade to one of the latest gadget phones but I like having a phone, and it is very basic.. I do remember sending a text to the computer at home while I was on the mountain by Silverton way back before texting was the big it thing to do..
I watched the first disc of music videos that I made last summer (fall) when the infinity project was first started.. That first disc is the IT disc.. Just my favorite set of videos, with the best ideas and songs that matched with Maiden Voyage being the highlight.. Such a cool song, and of course my favorites top notch in running order 3: Flightpath 2: Outreach 1: Stratos ultimately stratos is my favorite Jonn Serrie song and one of my favorite songs of all time.. Watching NCIS the other night and the punk kid gave Gibbs shit for being old school in his music taste and Gibbs said yep.. Just like my taste.. OLD SCHOOL..
One last thing, I started to try to watch that Netflix original (exclusive) show House of Cards last night and then the Roku had other plans and so I ended up watching the Philadelphia Experiment 2 instead.. The show was alright but as it got to the end it made very little sense.. I guess they wanted it to be wrapped up nice and neat, but it was anything but.. Anyone ever watch that movie it left more questions than answers.. Good movie concept the original was, but the second wasn't very good.. To have the David Herdeg character back made it impossible to be the way it ended.. For anyone else it might have been fine but to have guy who went through twice.. Too far fetched even for a far fetched concept anyway..
Badge Henry
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