Have been busy packing. This will be the fifth apartment I’ve lived in since coming to New York in October 2000, which is a little crazy, but I’m v. excited about living with C., the apartment, and just being in a good relationship. (It was a long, long search).
Some various stuff:
- I have decided the apartment needs a flat-screen TV. I am thinking of this 50-inch plasma by bargain-brand Vizio. Does anyone have any suggestions?
- Yes it is an extravagance but I’ve had my last TV since 1995 — bought it at Wal-Mart in N.H. Since then I have had like two laptops, three desktop computers, about six cars and numerous other electronic gadgets and gizmos. I’m not going to lose or misplace a TV and I’m pretty sure I’ll still be watching one in 2017.
- Not that I watch that much TV anyway, but I do like watching sports.
- And speaking of sports how about those RED SOX. We need to find more playing time for Alex Cora. The man is hitting .415 in 41 at-bats. And top prospect Jacoby Ellsbury last week got promoted to AAA after slugging .644 at Double-A Portland.
- Lastly I have gotten a Polar RS200sd heart rate/speed & distance monitor. It just arrived today so we’ll see how it goes.
If you are willing to go down to a 42 inch, you could get a Panasonic plasma for a little over a thousand bucks. I have one myself.
Panasonic is a great brand, it might be worth it to go for the brand name. But I don’t know about such things because I have a digital projector and I’m never going to back to TV. 50 inches, ha, I laugh at that and the puny men that such equipment would display. Big Pappi will be little nino on that. Try ten feet of HD digital goodness.
Derek:
its so great to see you so happy!
RE the Polar…
It doesn’t look like it’s got a GPS — so how accurate will it be on distance, and how does it know when you change your stride? How does it compare to a GPS like the Forerunner for accuracy? We’ll be wanting reports.
Tallman: Our apartment is so sunny, I don’t know that I’d want a digital projector!
Dad: The Polar uses a footpod with an accelerometer to try to gauge speed. (You can see it in the photo – you attach it to your sneaker). It claims 97% accuracy out of the box, and 99% if you calibrate it. I just used it once, this morning, so can’t really tell how accurate it is.
The Forerunner you got me was a great idea — thanks! — but with all the tall buildings around here it would consistently take 10 minutes to pick up a GPS signal. And that was when I lived in N.J. So I traded it in…
Looking forward to reports about the Polar.
Good point about tall buildings and weak GPS systems.
Vizio VS WinBook 46 inch
PCMag reviewed both — and it looks like the Winbook image is better. There were comments about how great WinBook was and also comments about the artifiact on Vizio. Winbook is a LCD, Vizio is plasma. WinBook may have fewer inputs. Sounds like both use the same remote.
Might be worth a side-by-side comparison. Winbook is only a little cheaper.