Thursday, February 12, 2015

WHO? What? Doctor Who's TARDIS - Where?

Why hello there, anyone up for a little treasure hunt  - a little WHO Hunt as it were - courtesy of the Internet? Who wants to find Doctor's Who's TARDIS? Oh why, I was certain that you would. Okay let's go find us a TARDIS, here we go.

If we go to google maps and type in the following location: 

  • 236 Earls Court Road W.8, Kensington, London SW5 9AA, UK. 

Then click on any of the three street views. You are able to look around as if you were there. By moving our mouse around we can look at different locations in the street view - did anyone find the TARDIS? 

Okay, now that we see it does anyone want to take a look inside? Why I thought that you all would, after all we have come this far. 

Alright now, walk around about with your mouse. As we move our mouse around we see some directional icons (circle with arrow and some Xs) in different locations. We want to activate one of the Xs. Oh man we are so close, are any of you excited? Oh man, here we go - when you have the tall poll next to the two bicycles and light post in view. Try and have the X next to the tall poll active. Do you see the X appear? When you do click on it

Gobsmacked - we are inside!


Oh my what an interesting adventure - I hope you all have fun on your exploration of the inside of the TARDIS. Oh whats that I am being called away. Farewell, I am signing off now so I will be seeing all y'll sometime in the near future. <Cut and fade>

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Movie Night - YAY! - Lights, Cameras, No Cash and No Hits - WHAT?!?

Dude! Hey fellow surfernauts, have you been wanting to plan a movie night and invite a bunch of your friends over for a fun night of movies and revelry? But you don't have any new or interesting movies in your collections. You were thinking of going out on a retail hunt to find a gem to show for your main feature, but when you check your cash flow; well you're stopped dead in your tracks. Never fear, the answer is here - why not swap a DVD you currently own and don't want with a DVD hit you do want? 

Well now there is a website devoted to exactly that. A site called Swap-A-DVD has now come to your rescue with thousands of members wanting to do the same thing. Here is what Swap-A-DVD says about how to swap DVDs: 
  • You have original, playable DVDs that you do not want to keep. 
  • You post those DVDs to your "DVD Tower" to offer to other members. 
  • After you have posted the first 10 DVDs to your DVD Tower, you get 1 "gift" credit from SwapaDVD to get you started swapping (limit one per household). 
  •  After that, you earn credits by sending out DVDs to others. 
  • You may order available DVDs for 1 credit per disc (some DVDs do cost more than 1 credit), plus a Swap Fee of $0.49 per item (no matter how many credits are in the item). 
  • If you want a DVD that is not currently available you can place it on your Wish List and we will notify you by email when it is available for you to order. 
  •  You can even have it sent to you automatically when it becomes available, with no email necessary. 
  • When a DVD is requested from you, we notify you by email, provide the address for you to send it out, and even provide a wrapper with postage printed on it if desired! 
  • Wrap and mail your DVD. 
  • When the requester receives it, you earn 1 credit per disc mailed. Yes, you pay the postage to send out your DVDs, but when you request a DVD, the sender ships it to you and you pay 1 DVD credit (some DVDs do cost more than 1 credit)! 
  • The DVDs you receive from SwapaDVD are yours. We hope that you will re-post them to share with other members when you have viewed them, but you can certainly keep them, or give them away. Similarly, the DVDs you send out to others belong to their new owners. SwapaDVD is a great way to share DVDs with people all over the country!
What an inexpensive way to expand your collection and to find the gem for your up and coming movie night. I also see that they have similar programs for used books and CDs. So there you have it a inexpensive way to expand your media collections and to find those little gems you were looking for. Have fun swapping my little surfernauts and start that corn a poppin.