Digital TV Question

I need some help!  We used part of our tax refund money to buy a digital tv today.  We are using a rooftop antenna and most of the stations in the Denver market will not be converting to digital next week.

Here’s the problem:  when watching the channels in digital mode, part of the picture is cut off.  For example, the tops of heads don’t show and any wording gets cut off.

For now, we are watching in analog because we get the full picture.  But when the conversion takes place, I’ll want to be able to see the entire picture.

How do I fix this?!

UPDATE:  Looks like I fixed it by pushing the ‘pix shape’ button on the remote control.   Now that’s intuitive, and there wasn’t anything in the crappy manual that helped.  Sometimes you have to just begin pushing buttons and hope you don’t screw up anything too badly.

The P Word

Don Marostica (R-JrHS)

Some people need to grow up.  Don Marostica (R) is one of them.  This guy is my rep in the statehouse, but I have never voted for him and never will.  In fact we got into a bit of an email flame war this last election cycle because he pays some old fart to go around town putting up his political signs on public property, which is against the law.

It seems Donnie got the vapors recently when one of his aides saw an ad from the UK National Health Service that included the word penis.

You see Marostica, always in the back pocket of big business, was considering the introduction of a bill that would make the ban on indoor smoking less restrictive.  Stephanie Steinberg, the executive director of an anti-smoking organization, showed up at Marostica’s office with an ad. 

[...] The caption reads, “Smoking damages the tissues in your penis.”

Marostica got a copy of the ad from a 19-year-old male aide and deemed it to be “very inappropriate and offensive material.” He went to the House floor Friday morning to speak out about it and said he would not even display the ad for other legislators because of its content….

Leave it to a prude like Marostica to think his colleagues would be offended by seeing the word penis in print, but think nothing of actually taking a scalpel to the penis of a prisoner in Gitmo as way of extracting information from him.

Spare me, please.

Do These Things Work?

There are times when I love browsing catalogs, especially those containing unusual products.  Not too long ago I got a Harriet Carter catalog in the mail and laughed several times while paging through it.  This is where I first saw the farting piggy bank, but it wasn’t the only thing I saw that made me wonder about the person behind the product.

Occasionally you find something in one of these catalogs that truly fills a void.  I kinda like this product:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

and would probably use it when entertaining.  Other than making votives out of apples, what else would you use?

Here’s another product I might consider buying:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 Apparently you put this fan cover in the freezer and then use it whenever it gets really hot.  In theory, I think it would work.

These last two fall into the laughable category:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

How lazy do you have to be to use a banana slicer?

And at my age, this last one might be my favorite:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just what we need – a boob sling!  I wonder if it works?!