A Seattle-based medical marijuana retailer is anticipating Seahawks fans will want a “super bowl” for Sunday’s big game. That’s why employees at Solstice are working to roll a staggering number of joints — 12,000 in all — for its special “12th Pack” promotion ahead of Sunday, when the Seahawks face the New England Patriots in Super Bowl XLIX.
I hope by next year’s Super Bowl L*, they’ll have a cross-promotion deal with a pizza chain, include coupons for Doritos, or some such. 😉
Happy Friday, Gerbil Nation!
Hai, Fatwa, Mac, and Sven!
Waiting for the Cable Guy to come out and test our signal. Cox is switching to all-digital signals and of course they are encrypting those signals so the digital tuner on our TV can’t decode them. That means we have to rent a cable box for the first time in our lives (we get absolutely no over-the-air signal because of a ginormous water tank on the hill across the street). Of course the cable box has problems. Sometimes the HD signals are present, sometimes they aren’t.
They’re simply gummint’s way of protecting you from making poor choices; if there’s no choice available, than you can’t make a bad one. Easy-peasy…and ever so much better for us ign’ant clods.
Good luck. Paddy. When we first had Time Warner Cable here we had trouble with the boxes. They over compress the signals and we got pixelation on many channels. It was much better without the boxes so I returned them all (four of them). Much less trouble since then and saved money.
The only problem with that, Mac, is that all of the analog channels will be switched to digital and none of them will be sent in the clear. It will be a case of rent the box or go without. If it wasn’t for some sports and a few shows we watch on broadcast TV, we’d cancel the service and go with Hulu, Vudu, or similar on our Smart TV.
We dumped our satellite TV service more than a year ago. I never used it, and SneakyK figured that she could find all but one program she regularly viewed online.
We’ve got internet service with Charter (who suck, but slightly less so than our previous Southern Bell DSL) and download speeds are generally pretty acceptable for our needs.
That bytes (sorry), Paddy. If ours did that I would probably cancel it. Until recently most of our equipment was analog and we still use a couple of VCRs. While you can use that stuff with the boxes it is a pain for timer programing, which we both do a lot of, and adding yet another remote is a pain. A while back we considered going to another provider but that was the issue. Elena has learned to use the DVR and does but still uses the VCR and while all my recording is now on my DVR or direct to the computer I burn my DVR recordings to DVDs which I am sure I could not do with their DVRs. Mine are Magnavox and are not TeVo or proprietary to the cable companies. They still will not copy DVDs or Protected VHS tapes but they will record and burn anything that comes in on an analog signal from the cable or computer (I record some streaming TV and movies from my computer from the internet).
My internet speed is much faster than I need, well over 10 mb/sec, but I am having connectivity problems. The modem sometimes gets into a snit and keeps resetting itself, and there seems to be a problem with Win 7. Both my Win 7 Ultimate boxes will show a CPU usage equal to one core being used (12% for the eight core and 25% for the four core) and not connect when I start or awaken or just when they feel like it. Sometimes this will clear and connect after some time but other times I must keep stopping the process until it clears. If a browser is trying to connect when I do this it will connect and load while the process stops but hang again if it does it again. I thought it was an issue with the first computer but it happens with my new Win 7 box as well. I thought of the router or modem but it does not seem to happen with the XP box or Win 8 laptop. It is quite annoying. The only way I can have the internet in the morning is leaving my new machine on all night with just the monitor turned off.
I would like to switch but the main competition would be AT&T and I just dumped their cell service over bad faith operating so I am reluctant to use them. I may have to. The other problem is that I don’t know if the Win 7 issues would be any better.
TGIF greetings from Happy Larryville, GN!
I was rather amused to see this (despite the annoying autostart video): Seattle Pot Producer Rolling Out 12,000 Joints Ahead of Super Bowl Sunday
I hope by next year’s Super Bowl L*, they’ll have a cross-promotion deal with a pizza chain, include coupons for Doritos, or some such. 😉
[*Dunno why, but I find that funny, too.]
“I’ll take ‘Infamous Wheelizens’ for $100, Alex.”
I know this feeling.
It tends to be more for bugs and politicians, though.
Hai, Mac!
When I read your JPEG, I wondered if Mr. X was perhaps visiting North Dakota.
In some regards, that’s a distinction without a difference; in-general, both ought to be squashed or lured to their doom.
Just read that Romney will not run; further evidence that he’s a reasonably decent guy…but not a good candidate.
It Tex had cats, they’d all be armed.
Hai, Sven!
You’re right about that, I think.
I think nature has already seen to that. An armed society is a polite society, as these respectful dogs obviously agree.
Happy Friday, Gerbil Nation!
Hai, Fatwa, Mac, and Sven!
Waiting for the Cable Guy to come out and test our signal. Cox is switching to all-digital signals and of course they are encrypting those signals so the digital tuner on our TV can’t decode them. That means we have to rent a cable box for the first time in our lives (we get absolutely no over-the-air signal because of a ginormous water tank on the hill across the street). Of course the cable box has problems. Sometimes the HD signals are present, sometimes they aren’t.
I just love monopolies.
Hai, Paddy!
They’re simply gummint’s way of protecting you from making poor choices; if there’s no choice available, than you can’t make a bad one. Easy-peasy…and ever so much better for us ign’ant clods.
Good luck. Paddy. When we first had Time Warner Cable here we had trouble with the boxes. They over compress the signals and we got pixelation on many channels. It was much better without the boxes so I returned them all (four of them). Much less trouble since then and saved money.
The only problem with that, Mac, is that all of the analog channels will be switched to digital and none of them will be sent in the clear. It will be a case of rent the box or go without. If it wasn’t for some sports and a few shows we watch on broadcast TV, we’d cancel the service and go with Hulu, Vudu, or similar on our Smart TV.
We dumped our satellite TV service more than a year ago. I never used it, and SneakyK figured that she could find all but one program she regularly viewed online.
We’ve got internet service with Charter (who suck, but slightly less so than our previous Southern Bell DSL) and download speeds are generally pretty acceptable for our needs.
That bytes (sorry), Paddy. If ours did that I would probably cancel it. Until recently most of our equipment was analog and we still use a couple of VCRs. While you can use that stuff with the boxes it is a pain for timer programing, which we both do a lot of, and adding yet another remote is a pain. A while back we considered going to another provider but that was the issue. Elena has learned to use the DVR and does but still uses the VCR and while all my recording is now on my DVR or direct to the computer I burn my DVR recordings to DVDs which I am sure I could not do with their DVRs. Mine are Magnavox and are not TeVo or proprietary to the cable companies. They still will not copy DVDs or Protected VHS tapes but they will record and burn anything that comes in on an analog signal from the cable or computer (I record some streaming TV and movies from my computer from the internet).
My internet speed is much faster than I need, well over 10 mb/sec, but I am having connectivity problems. The modem sometimes gets into a snit and keeps resetting itself, and there seems to be a problem with Win 7. Both my Win 7 Ultimate boxes will show a CPU usage equal to one core being used (12% for the eight core and 25% for the four core) and not connect when I start or awaken or just when they feel like it. Sometimes this will clear and connect after some time but other times I must keep stopping the process until it clears. If a browser is trying to connect when I do this it will connect and load while the process stops but hang again if it does it again. I thought it was an issue with the first computer but it happens with my new Win 7 box as well. I thought of the router or modem but it does not seem to happen with the XP box or Win 8 laptop. It is quite annoying. The only way I can have the internet in the morning is leaving my new machine on all night with just the monitor turned off.
I would like to switch but the main competition would be AT&T and I just dumped their cell service over bad faith operating so I am reluctant to use them. I may have to. The other problem is that I don’t know if the Win 7 issues would be any better.
Pfffftttt!!