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Coool... very sharp looking bow there...

Cool (OK very warm) hat there as well. OK, so the modifications were to be historically accurate; but what purpose does the loop serve? For some reason I am having problems imagining pirates looping pony tails through there like girls loop their pony tail through the back of a ball cap...

 

Nobody really knows what the loop is for. As far as I can tell, it's for hanging your hat on a peg. Not really sure what the point of the button is either... possibly for hooking the hat in a helmet. Sailors who didn't have their hats when in certain ports could get in serious trouble, so the loop and button might have been a way for them to attach the hat to the clothes they were wearing when it wasn't appropriate to be wearing the hat. But this is purely supposition.

As far as the modifications... there's only 1 example of an actual original monmouth hat available, and so everyone makes there's to look just like it. This usually includes a thicker cuff on the hat, but there was no way I was going to do that, it would have doubled the thickness and made the thing absoulutely unbearable for wearing in Texas. I'm pretty sure if pirates had lived in Distraction, they would have opted for my slightly more modern design.

 

whadday mean "if"?

and I'm not having pleasant mental images of hats for all the [slash]sea men[/slash] errr, sailors....

 

It's my anniversary, why am I on here talking to you guys?









I could be knitting.

 

those are very cool, I remember the first one from psychology in college, the second one is newer (but I had seen it before)

 

yeah really!

I didn't notice you were still online or I would have said Happy Anniversary before...oh well

Happy Anniversary

 

Someone has some serious modeling skills.. At the moment, I would be happy with the mad knitting skills to make me a hat like Jayne's.

I woke up feeling completely hung over and I haven't had anything to drink for about 2 weeks. It must have been that bag of hot wasabi peanuts, or maybe the bag of hot wasabi peas. OK, so I got into a wasabi crave last night.....
I still have a headache which is on the verge of migraine. But I no longer am craving wasabi... just coffee, darkness, and silence.

 

A) while I will confess the modeling skills are impeccable, I'm very impressed. but I must also confess I haven't a clue who it's supposed to be

B) you don't have to have the mad knitting skillz, we all know someone who does....

 

Part of the cast of Firefly/Serenity

L->R
Jayne: hired gun, bit crazy and none too bright. Always looking for ways to turn things to his profit or take the easy way out
Mal: ship's captain and former Browncoat sergeant (lost civil war against the Alliance); playing the role of mercenary/thief for hire; however lets his sense of justice and right/wrong get in the way of the profession.
Kaylee: ship's mechanic, sometimes backwoods or naive and always cute - but even more so when covered in ship grease
Zoe: Mal's right hand, she served with him in the war and is married to the ship's pilot

Hmmm... I think I will saunter over to the couch to watch some firefly while I wait for something to kill this headache.

 

that topic got brought up at my parents' house last week, my sister mentioned she had both on DVD, but forgot to grab them before the divorce...so, I guess I need to go to Movie Gallery and rent.....oh wait, they're closed, nevermind.
The Blockbuster in Texarkana is a viable option, we're up there at least once a week anyway, so it's not as ridiculous of a thought as going 30 miles away to rent a movie would normally be

(Netflix is starting to seem like a viable option, too...am I mistaken I read somewhere it can stream over the Wii?)

 

Yes, you can stream over the Wii... man, that really gets the middle school boy still hidden inside me...

However, most of Netflix's titles can't be streamed. Let me check on Firefly/Serenity.... Yes.. they are on the stream-able list.

When you subscribe to Netflix, you tell them you have a Wii. They send you a disc. The first time you put the disc in the Wii you get a code. You go to the computer, go to Netflix and enter the code. Then your Wii will work with that Netflix disc. Whenever you want to stream something through the Wii, you pop that disc into the Wii (you only need to initialize it the first time).

 

the main problem I see is that you're willing to streaming through your Wii directly into your eyes....:happy097

okay, back to serious, how is the quality? I'm sure it's dependent on your internet connection as far as buffering, connection issues, bandwidth, etc. Is it reduced quality, like youtube level? does is download the entire movie so there's no interruption? As convenient as that would be, I'm not too keen on paying to see a movie that's jumpy and hesitant...everyone's heard my rants on my despise of the digital transition and the crappy reception I often get

 

World War II is full of plot holes, and the writers should all be fired

 

Well.. how is your home internet speed?

I am sure you have seen my rants about my cruddy connection speed and Netflix works pretty well. Whenever you start up a show/movie there is a significant delay (sometimes maybe 1/2 minute) while it builds up a buffer. However, we have watched 2 hour movies without problems with jerkiness or stopping to buffer again. Quality is decent. Don't expect Blue-Ray or HD. I would say that the quality is about VHS quality maybe even low end DVD quality. Solid backgrounds (especially black ones) have a tendency to get pixelated but the main foreground is usually fine.

I think we pay something like $10 a month for Netflix. We get a DVD off of our cue, watch it, and drop it off in the mail. Now, it is only an hour drive to the local Netflx warehouse so we probably get quicker than average turn around time. However, I dropped off a DVD in the mail yesterday (you don't pay postage), we got an e-mail today that the next DVD has already been mailed and we should have it in our mailbox tomorrow. So, for the $10 if we watched the DVD on the same day we got it we would get about 10 DVDs a month. On top of that we get the streaming for free (through Wii or Windows computers -won't work on Linux). So the $10 isn't bad. I don't like the fact that at the $10 price line you only get one DVD at a time. Usualy that isn't a problem, but it is weird getting one DVD of a TV season at a time.

 

wonderful find, Jim! Funny thing is, in this day and age of teh internets and post modern deconstructionist interpretation of everything, I could see some academic somewhere actually making this argument.*

And as for Netflix- don't forget to consider their dvd mailing service. It's pretty quick and you can't beat their selection. It takes about three days for us to get a new dvd (1 to return, 1 to process, and receive new on the 3rd.) I've had not so great experience with their streaming service. Our internet connection at home is slow-ish and our computer is falling apart. With a modern computer and a decent connection I think you could get a good picture.





*and then offered a Bishopric in the Episcopal Church in the U.S.

 

that's good to hear, as far as the streaming. my DSL connection is decent, I'd been having some issues with my new wireless router for a couple of months (had a gift card from Christmas to Best Buy, found a router that had a USB port for a hard drive to create a NAS), but we recently got a new set of phones for the house and that problem disappeared. It wasn't an issue with the wired computer, and was never a problem with the previous router, but since then we've had no issue whatsoever.

So, with your Wii, are you streaming wireless, or do you have it wired?

As for Netflix, at $10 you get one DVD at a time, but what is the streaming process? As in, as many at a time as you want, or 1 a day as with the DVD?
I expected the streaming quality to be less, naturally, for several reasons, not the least of it bandwidth and piracy issues, but was curious as to how crippled it was.

 

Our Wii is wireless. Learned a long time ago never to cross wii with wires... Or was that crossing plasma streams?

I don't know if you can simultaneously stream more than one thing at a time. I suppose I could boot wife's computer and try it, but the bandwidth would probably kill what I have streaming on the Wii at the moment (The Guild season 2). In regards to turn around time on the Wii, You can stream one thing after another all day without a limit that I have found.

Streaming through the Wii is much better than watching hulu or youtube video. It is easy enough to think that you are watching actual TV and not something coming through the DSL.

Speaking of DSL, we have been on frontiernet since the July 1st changeover from Verizon. However, I haven't noticed any change.

 

on the topic of knitting... just saw this on Make..
knitting clock

 

I try to never get my Wii crossed in any wires... [/jr high snicker]

yeah, I wasn't meaning more than one movie at the same time (though I could see that being useful at times), but the limit on how many per day was my intent of question