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I'm using an ASUS 24" LCD right now that has VGA and HDMI inputs. It's native resolution is 1920x1080 so 1080p content will be displayed properly. For $185, it's a bargain.

If you want bigger, This 32" 1080p LG would be really nice and costs about $325.

Right now I’m torn between the Sony KDL32BX420 or something like the ASUS VE278Q or Viewsonic VX2753MH

That ASUS looks good. It has VGA, DVI, HDMI and Display Port and the price is good.

Anyone here a wordpress guru? I've got a pickle (not a back-end Python) where I've put in CSS that works in a separate (non-WP) page but is all fubar inside a WP page, and I don't want to go mucking into php-generated pages. Preferably a few minutes on skype screen sharing, as it seems showing is easier than telling.

ddt

I'll give it a shot, ddt. 'bbrighton' on skype, PorrukaME on iChat

Thanks! Better than me cursing the sloppy taxonomies that open-source projects seem to have baked in. What time on Fri would be best for you?

ddt

Call it after 11a Friday. Or give me a call/SMS if you still have my number, to play it by ear on scheduling. -0486

I'm supposed to do a car pickup for someone (30 minutes or less; no Dominos were harmed) sometime Friday morning; not sure when.

... or the car's free?

Thanks -- I'll ping you tomorrow. Hope it doesn't drive you nuts, too.

ddt

Drive me nuts? No guarantees, b/c much of the craziness in worlds like that can be about the theme (or theme framework) rather than WP itself, so we'll just have to see.

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I've got a fever and the only cure is .... Silent Witness.

I love this BBC show. Unfortunately, BBC America thinks the colonialists only enjoy Gordon Ramsay and Top Gear. I enjoy them both, but obvs there is more out there. I have been able to enjoy Wire in the Blood on Netflix Streaming, but I LOOOOVE Silent Witness. I can get the latest episodes on torrents, but what of seasons 1-12?

BBC's iPlayer coming to US(ofA)!

http://wp.me/p1xtr9-urf

Excellent. Now they need to get iPlayer on PS3.

I am also enjoying the series Mongrels on Hulu+

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Anyone here a wordpress guru? I've got a pickle (not a back-end Python) where I've put in CSS that works in a separate (non-WP) page but is all fubar inside a WP page, and I don't want to go mucking into php-generated pages. Preferably a few minutes on skype screen sharing, as it seems showing is easier than telling.

ddt

ddt,

The best way to test/experiment might be with a child theme. If something then goes kabloey you can just nuke and start from scratch...

http://www.lynda.com/WordPress-3-0-tutorials/WordPress-3-Building-Child-Themes/77859-2.html

Any astronomy buffs out there?

I am frustrated. I have a Celestron Nextstar that requires three star alignment. I live in an a woodsy area where its hard to get a full view of the sky (plus I get light pollution from NYC!). So I have yet to find three stars to be able to do the alignment. Frustrating! I wish I were living in an age where I had the time to spend to learn the sky, to know how to find objects the right way. I feel a loss here. But my job demands a lot and, well you know me, I'd rather be toasty warm surfing netporn and reading about Lindsay Lohan than shivering outside.

So I want to blow some cash for Christmas and get a scope that has a better alignment system. The two options out there seem to be Meade's Lightswitch/Celestron's Prodigy and the various other scopes that require alignment but can figure out the stars for you. The former seems amazing. Set up the scope and it aligns for you. But I don't know if it'll work when so much of my sky is blocked. The next option is that I find one to three bright objects and it aligns for me. That won't be hard out here. Any thoughts?

Meade or Celestron?

No idea if any of you are astronomy buffs, but for godssakes, you're geeks, you have to be…

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No idea if any of you are astronomy buffs, but for godssakes, you're geeks, you have to be…

Yes, but when I was doing that sort of thing, observing involved climbing up a 10ft ladder to get the lens cap off. And then hoping that siderial drive would provide some actual tracking.

If you can't even see enough of the night sky to align your 'scope, what are you going to look at once you have it aligned?

Plenty! After all I've still got 1/3 to half the sky. I pulled the trigger on a pricey Celestron 8 inch Nexstar SE. Not getting any younger, concerned my night vision is going and my children are young and impressionable now. It won't do me half as much good when I'm 85.

Baha,

Maybe this is too late, but if you have never tried a quality refractor you don't know what you are missing. Might I recommend the following links:

http://www.stellarvue.com (I have the SV102ED and love it - it's a great visual scope)

For precision (but pricey) alt-azimuth mounts:
http://www.halfhitchtelescope.com/
http://www.discmounts.com/

The SkyCommander (digital setting circles/computer) can be purchased with either of the above mounts and will do a 2-star alignment with an alt-az mount:
http://www.skyeng.com/

I have simple alt-az mounts from Stellarvue because I'm a visual observer and know the sky well. For me the hunt is as much of the fun as actually seeing the objects. These are not "goto" solutions, but "push to" setups. Once aligned you select an object to observe and then manually move the telescope until the readout says you are there. Simple and no noisy motors to disturb the quiet of the night. And a 3-4 inch refractor is easier to setup quickly and thus you are more likely to get out, even on those cold evenings.

Just some suggestions. Feel free to ask me more questions. I'm an amateur astronomer with 45 years in the hobby (started when I was 11 years old).

Benton

I actually figured and implemented something in WordPress all by myself! And I tied my own shoes, too! http://www.twoangstroms.com/portfolio/

I'm beginning to learn that the trick to dealing with WP is to, well, basically ignore WP and do the things you want to do _despite_ WP, not _because of_ WP. In this case, the vocabulary was sloppy around "gallery" and "slideshow".

Is this the case for all open source stuff? I mean, I appreciate that you can open up the hood and fiddle, but I'd rather not have to.

ddt

Sorry, what did you actually do/modify/change?

(I'm guilty of not doing this myself - but a link to the homepage for the twoangstroms header image would be handy...)

Thanks, Tony -- that's on the list of Things to Fix.

I added the Lightbox Plus and NextGEN Gallery plugins, because the built-in WP "gallery" feature is just thumbnail (click) --> page with big image. You can't have one thumbnail represent a "folder" of images, and you don't get the jquery/html5 popup of an image. The captioning also didn't work with just Lightbox Plus, even though I followed the instructions and other examples.

ddt