Friday, December 24, 2010

Going Like Sixty

Going Like Sixty

Shopping Tip from Jesus

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 10:41 PM PST

OMFG! OMFG! It May Snow. Live In Fear Doppler Says So!

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 11:44 AM PST

Bad Weather Forecast Snow


From the Smallburg television station WBLOW comes this WX BLAST… (wx means weather in teevee talk)

Current forecast models look to phase or connect upper level energy from the north and a deep low pressure system to the south somewhere over the southern Appalachians by Saturday night.

Whuck?

Current Models? Like Brooklyn Decker (real name) will phase or connect?
Hottie Brooklyn Decker in Bikini

OMFG.

Jaysus Nancy, go buy white! (Bread, milk, eggs, sugar, sheets, toilet paper)

Upper level energy… Like a bomb?

Deep low pressure? I’ll show you deep low pressure…

Fire up the Live In Fear Doppler boys (and token girl), we may get THREE INCHES OF SNOW.

There is a timeline for our certain death from SNOW (with my interpretation)

TIMELINE

  • - Increasing clouds today and tonight – no weather worries. (true, that’s what the WBLOW WX Alert says -no weather worries – and I couldn’t do better!)
  • - Cloudy to start Friday morning. Light snow will begin moving in from our northwest mid-afternoon Friday. (Light snow as opposed to dark snow, which should not be confused with Black Ice.)
  • - Snow will begin to accumulate on area roadways late Friday afternoon and into the evening. (Start driving off the roadways early on Friday.)
  • - Occasional snow showers overnight Friday into early Saturday morning. Some 1/2″ to 1″ amounts possible. (Or it could accumulate to 5/8″ to 1 3/8″ possibly.)
  • -Periods of snow likely Christmas Day Saturday with an additional 1-2″ across Southern Kentucky. (Bringing the totals to a mind-boggling OMFG total of 3″)
  • -There may be a brief lull in the snowfall Saturday evening before more snow falls early Sunday morning. (Lulls, we like lulls.)
  • - Additional snow showers will occur Sunday – especially eastward. (Eastward, yeah eastward is good. Eastward of Westwood?)
  • - Snow showers tapering off Sunday evening. Breezy NW winds will send wind chills into the single digits. (keep your digits covered.)
  • - Some flurries may hang around with low clouds Monday morning. Some cloud breaks Monday afternoon. (Reeeeaaaaady? BREAK!)
  • - Total snow accumulation – 1-2″ westward. 2-3″ around Smallburg. 3-4″ eastward.

Never fear, I shall remain at my post to post. Live in Fear Doppler or no. I shall prevail. Brian, a Masshole, will guide me through this time.

Car covered with snowdrift

Sell Netflix. Don’t Even Rent It.

Posted: 23 Dec 2010 09:06 AM PST


I got an offer of a free month of Netflix.
Free.
Love Free.

Winter. Cold outside. Broadcast TV turning to re-runs and holiday specials. Cable loaded up with  holiday specials and sports.

Netflix!

Wrong.

If you have invested in Netflix (NFLX) Sell. And not because some Warren Buffet wannabee says sell. Sell because some cold, couch-potato geezer says…

VOD  (Video on Demand) is a bad product. Netflix is the world-wide leader in bad product distribution.

Video on Demand is way over-rated. The stuff that’s available for immediate streaming is old. Unless you really are into the classics and enjoy watching Jaws or The Godfather over and over and over. (Which I do, but I bought the DVDs.)

BTW: The Tivo was unavailable because the cable from the BATV to the satellite receiver was borked. Since the BATV is permanently screwed to the wall, that cable won’t replaced.

52 inch Sony Flat Panel Television Installation

(above: BATV screwed to wall)

This has since been remedied with a work-around thanks to St. Todd DeCubbville.

Netflix hit me with the offer when I was vulnerable, cold and lazy.

First, had a hard time filling up my queue for DVD sby mail. I know there were movies out this summer that we said we would wait until they showed up on Showtime or we could rent them. But scrolling and scrolling and scrolling through endless movie titles and descriptions was frustrating. I finally threw in six movies just to move on.

What I really wanted live streaming Video on Demand. I wanted to watch a movie NOW.

Pfffbbbt.

Talk about a bunch of crap. Here, let me show you! Go to Netflix and get your free month.

Available NOW:

  • Police Academy Special Edition – have never watched any of the series, never will.
  • Julie and Julia – saw in theater, watched again twice on Showtime.
  • Lie To Me – it’s a TV show! Had it Tivo’d and ended up deleting it because I lost interest,
  • Precious – probably should watch it, but I don’t like fatties.
  • Scooby Doo – Camp Scary. Ruh roh, that’s all I know of Scooby Doo.
  • Bourne Identity – Theater and probably six times on television.

So there’s the point. VOD has old crap, the new movies are on Showtime BEFORE they are available on Netflix. Showtime is part of our DirecTV satellite package.

OK $7.99 a month vs. $113.49 a month. Yeah, there’s that.

(gulp!)

When our DirecTV satellite and Tivo came back to us, there was the thrill – thrill I tell you - to find four or five episodes each of the television programs that we had missed:

  • Sons of Anarchy
  • Dirty Jobs
  • The Closer
  • Mythbusters
  • Dexter

Yeah, as cable and satellite television gets better, and it is, Netflix is a dying business. But $113.49 to  watch a few channels? I think I need to think.

NFLX…

Netlfix trades at 60 times this year's earnings and 50 times next year's earnings. This is a stock that is priced for perfection.

I think that Netflix investors will be in for a shock if the company's subscriber growth or Wall Street revenue projections fall short. Investors would be wise to start trimming their position or buy some protection in case Wall Street's darling tumbles.

This the perfect case of Wall Street touting something they know nothing about.

Netflix.

Buh-bye.

DirecTV, you’re on standby.
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