Over The Air TV in Nanaimo, BC

A few years ago I cancelled my cable and just watched Netflix and other streaming services. 

I missed watching the news and watching whatever was on. I wanted some TV. We used to use the "bunny ears" back in the day and I heard something about making an antenna to pick up the digital hdtv signals. So I did some Internet searching and found this guy's website

https://johnbollwitt.com/2009/01/20/getting-over-the-air-ota-digital-television-dtv-in-vancouver/

I went to the hardware store and bought package metal coat hangers, a dozen metal washers, and a converter thing like we used to use to hook up cable to a TV. I found an old piece of wood in my shed and I created the masterpiece you can see in my post. That website I linked to has a video that explains how to make one.

Then I bought this https://www.amazon.ca/Mediasonic-HW-150PVR-HomeWorx-Converter-Recording/dp/B00I2ZBD1U

And hooked it up! I was amazed that It worked! Perfect quality HDTV! 

I live in nanaimo bc. I get

CBC (2)
Chek (6)
Global  (8)
City (10)
CTV Two (17)
CTV (32)

Plus some old tv show channel and an old movie channel.

I use this website to find the schedule

https://mtvl.zap2it.com/tvl?md=chooseProviders&aid=tvschedule

Also there is an app called Peel smart remote that has an ok schedule.

And finally I used this website to find the best way to point the antenna. https://www.tvfool.com/?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=29

For now the antenna just sits in my living room.Eventually I'd like to put an antenna on my roof.

Hope someone finds this info helpful

Garden in Nanaimo 2015

Garden 2015

Here's some photos of some of the garden this year. First year of garden. It turned out pretty good except the peppers didn't really grow. Going to try them in a different location next year. One of our best crops was our pumpkins. We carved 3 of them at Halloween. Next best was the potatoes. There was lots of tomatoes as well.
I think next year i will grow less tomatoes. This year I had to many tomatoes. The morning glory and the English ivy are a constant battle! There is some blackberries invading as well. I'm hoping out compost works out. I have a couple photos.

Jalapeños 

Potatoes - Onions at Harvest time.

Tomatillos

Tomatoes

Pepper Garden!

Peas, Tomatoes and Hot Pokers!

Kale!

Pumpkin

Seasons Greetings!

Seasons Greetings Everyone! I found this animated gif on a website about how to create snowfall animations using Mathematica. Thanks for the gif - it's fantastic work.

Happy Birthday

Birthday.

For my birthday this year, work gave me a totally awesome animated gif! Keeping with the goal of this website I've posted it here for all to enjoy. It was a great birthday. Thank you to everyone - especially Melissa.

 

Why do I have this blog?

It's the thick of summer here in BC - It's like 30 Degrees Celsius. Too hot for us BC people. Today I was thinking that I should let people know why I have this blog as recently I was asked this question you see. So here it is in a nice list thing:

1. Fun. It's for fun.
2. Because I wanted to have a domain name that is my name. Cause it's cool / geeky thing to do.
3. I had no where to re-post animated GIFS on the internet - I like ones that spin ( See Above )
4. That's it, nothing really else. So have try to have fun ok!?

I love you 5000

I can't believe I haven't told you about www.iloveyou5000.com !! It's a website that features one of the greatest animated gifs of all time. Forever and always, I love you 5000.

Here's me in January 2014.

I was in Vancouver British Columbia Canada that day.
Heading back to the Island. We ate breakfast at burger king for the first time ever I think, it was fantastic! The sky train was fun, we got to sit at the very front to see the tunnels - amazing the tunnels we can build - it's pretty amazing system set up for Public Transit in Vancouver, then we hopped on the 257 express to Departure bay, the 250 came first and some lady told us it's going the same place. I knew that but it isn't express so you just end up going on a fun bus ride. As long as you have a seat it's ok because that road is windy! Then onto the ferry, a nice trip to see life on mainland - pretty much the same as here, but way the heck more people.

I also saw this in departure bay - It's a sign for a fish and chips shop.

I was practising my skills with the GIMP and came up with this: Not to bad eh? Anyway, the possibility of what that C could mean is interesting. I thought at first it could be "COD Lovers" - but they serve more than cod? It's probably that if you say it out - it sounds like "Sea" - Next time I'm at the ferry - I will go into the store and find out. Enjoy 2014 - Oh here's the best animated Gif I could find for 2014 new years. Hopefully the people who I took it from don't mind.