A big day, with about 17 opportunities to see a dozen different games including THE Game.
There’s also some Football (9:30 am Manchester United @ Newcastle) and Formula One Qualifying (11 am).
So I’ve already explained that you should lay out a 24 hour list including the half hours that you can cut and paste your Zap2it channel listings into. Now to make it pretty.
It may make it easier for you if you bold your time labels at that point with <b></b>, but if I’m in a time crunch (and I usually am) and updating, I find it just as well to do that as the very last thing to mark each section’s completeness. In any event it’s best to put off any extra formatting until you’ve identified all the programs you want to highlight and pasted them into your outline. If you’re going to do links like I do you’ll put the link square bracket shortcuts ([]) around each one as you harvest it.
Once you have a complete outline it’s time to apply your global HTML starting with your line endings. I find using ‘Unordered Lists’ (<ul><li></li> … <li></li></ul>) creates an attractive presentation, so go to the end of your first entry line, type in the end of list element HTML (|</li>|), and copy it to your Clipboard (Ctrl-Ins).
Now use the Down Arrow and End keys to go to the end of each entry and paste (Shift-Ins). During this pass you should also delete any unused time lables and extra lines you have used to visual seperate each block of entries. If necessary you can stop at any arbitrary point and format the rest of your updated entries later. For instance I’m doing this particular piece in 12 hour chunks so I stopped at 5:30 pm.
You’ll notice each channel label is bolded and ends with a dash (-). I think the bolding makes it easier to read and the dash is so I can achieve this effect with a search and replace. You simply load up your search with dash space, |- | (this cuts down on your false positives), and replace it with end bold HTML and your dash space, |</b>- | (so you don’t lose your dash space).
Then you get to put your start line code at the begining of each entry. If you are bolding your channel label it looks like |<li><b>|, otherwise it’s just |<li>|. Type it once, copy to the Clipboard (Ctrl-Ins), and use the Down Arrow and Home keys to paste it (Shift-Ins). This goes pretty fast too.
Finally, make sure each time period list has the begining (|<ul>|) and end (|</ul>|) Unordered List HTML code at the … wait for it … begining and end. If you don’t make sure your |<ul>| and |</ul>|s and |<li>| and |</li>|s match the results you get will be unexpected at best.
I haven’t talked yet about the links, but you do those last. I’ll get to them tomorrow and I hope it will be shorter and less boring and detailed than today.
This covers the time period from 6 am to 6 am. It’s currently complete until 3 pm.
Update: All done.
6 am
- ESPN– Sports Center (Marathon until 10 am)
- Turner Classic– Beloved Brat
7 am
- AMC– Gone With the Wind
- E!– Fashion Police (again)
- MSNBC– Up with Chris Hayes
7:30 am
- E!– The Soup (again)
- Turner Classic– Don’t Bother to Knock
8 am
- ABC Family– Richie Rich
- Comedy– Waiting … (again)
- E!– Kardashians (Marathon until 3 pm, break at 10 am)
- History– Pawn Stars (Marathon until 3 am, break at 11 pm for Big Shrimping)
- Nick– Spongebob Squarepants (Marathon until 11 am)
9 am
- Oxygen– Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
- SciFi– Path of Destruction
- Spike– The Phantom Menace (again)
- Turner Classic– The Mummy
- TV Land– Hot in Cleveland (Marathon until 9 pm)
9:30 am
- Bravo– Real Housewives
- ESPN2– English Premier League Football, Manchester United @ Newcastle
10 am
- ABC Family– Richie Rich’s Christmas Wish
- Comedy– Idiocracy
- Disney– Phineas and Ferb
- Speed– Formula One Debrief
10:30 am
- Turner Classic– The Lone Wolf Meets a Lady
11 am
- Discovery– Deadliest Catch (Marathon until 9 pm)
- Oxygen– Pride & Prejudice
- SciFi– NYC: Tornado Terror
- Speed– Interlagos Qualifying
11:30 am
noon
- ABC– College Throwball, Ohio State @ Michigan
- ABC Family– Matilda
- Comedy– My Cousin Vinny
- ESPN– College Throwball, Georgia @ Georgia Tech
- ESPN2– College Throwball, Rutgers @ Connecticut
- FX– College Throwball, Iowa State @ Oklahoma
- Lifetime– Home for the Holidays
- MSNBC– Prison Porn (Marathon until 6 am)
- MTV– Beauty Shop
- TBS– Just Like Heaven
- Turner Classic– Bomba on Panther Island
- Toon– Shrek
- Travel– Man v. Food (thank goodness, Marathon until 2 pm)
- USA– Raiders of the Lost Ark
12:30 pm
- AMC– Chisum
- Spike– Attack of the Clones
1 pm
- A&E– A Few Good Men
- SciFi– Megafault
1:30 pm
- Turner Classic– Giant
2 pm
- ABC Family– A Boy Named Charlie Brown
- Lifetime– A Very Married Christmas
- MTV– How High (again)
- Oxygen– The Duchess
- TBS– The House Bunny (again)
- TNT– The Firm
- Toon– Looney Tunes: Back in Action
- Vs.– College Hoopies, Battle 4 Atlantis
2:30 pm
- NBC– College Throwball, Grambling State @ Southern
- Comedy– Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
- USA– Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
3 pm
- AMC– Broken Trail
- Disney– Wizards of Waverly Place Movie
- E!– Fashion Police (again)
- SciFi– Polar Storm
- TV Guide– The Story of Us
3:30 pm
- ABC– College Throwball (Regional Game)
- CBS– College Throwball, Alabama at Auburn
- E!– The Soup (again)
- ESPN– College Throwball, Penn State @ Wisconsin
- ESPN2– College Throwball, Oregon State @ Oregon or Virginia Tech @ Virginia
4 pm
- ABC Family– Snoopy, Come Home
- FX– The Devil Wears Prada (again)
- Lifetime– Secret Santa
- MTV– You Got Served (again)
- Spike– Revenge of the Sith
- Toon– Who Framed Roger Rabbit
4:30 pm
- Disney– Phineas and Ferb
- Oxygen– Pride & Prejudice (again)
- Vs.– College Hoopies, Battle 4 Atlantis
5 pm
- Comedy– Delta Farce
- SciFi– Ice Twisters
- Turner Classic– America, America
- TNT– You’ve been Gumped
- TV Guide– When Harry Met Sally
- USA– Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
6 pm
- ABC Family– The Dog Who Saved Christmas
- E!– Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (again)
- Lifetime– 12 Men of Christmas (again)
- MTV– Beauty Shop (again)
- Nick– Spongebob Squarepants (Marathon until 8 pm)
- Style– Sex and the City (Marathon until 8 pm)
6:30 pm
- Bravo– The School of Rock
- FX– 27 Dresses (again)
7 pm
- A&E– Storage Wars (Marathon until 4 am)
- AMC– The Outlaw Josey Wales (again)
- ESPN2– College Throwball, Florida State @ Florida
- SciFi– Stonehenge Apocalypse
- Toon– Open Season 3
- TV Guide– Angel Eyes
7:30 pm
- ESPN– College Throwball, Clemson @ South Carolina
- Oxygen– Enough
- Spike– Attack of the Clones (again)
- Vs.– College Throwball, Washington State @ Washington
8 pm
- ABC– College Throwball, Notre Dame @ Stanford
- NBC– Macy’s 85th Anniversary
- ABC Family– Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
- Disney– Geek Charming
- E!– Knocked Up
- Lifetime– Dear Santa
- MTV– Get Rich or Die Tryin’
- Nick– Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness (Marathon until 10 pm, 2 premiers)
- Turner Classic– Dodsworth
- TNT– A Time to Kill
- USA– Elf (again)
9 pm
- NBC– Bee Movie
- Bravo–Meet the Parents (x 2 until 1 am)
- Discovery– Punkin Chunkin 2011 (again)
- FX– Bride Wars
- National Geographic– Restrepo: Afghan Outpost
- SciFi– Storm War
9:30 pm
- Disney– Phineas and Ferb
10 pm
- Lifetime– An Accidental Christmas
- Nick– Friends (Marathon until 5:30 am)
- Oxygen– Erin Brockovich
- TBS– Pretty Woman
- Turner Classic– The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
- TV Guide– Something to Talk About
- USA– Land of the Lost
10:30 pm
- ABC Family– Love Actually
- ESPN2– College Hoopies, Las Vegas Invitational
11 pm
- AMC– The Outlaw Josey Wales (again)
- Comedy– Fanboys
- Discovery– Punkin Chunkin 2011 (again)
- E!– The Soup (again)
- MTV– How High (again)
- SciFi– Meteor Storm
- Spike– Revenge of the Sith (again)
- Style– Sex and the City (Marathon until 1 am)
- TNT– The Da Vinci Code
- Toon– Boondocks
11:30 pm
- Toon– Boondocks (Episode 1)
midnight
- Disney– Phineas and Ferb
- E!– Knocked Up (again)
- Lifetime– Dear Santa (again)
- National Geographic– Restrepo: Afghan Outpost (again)
- USA– Semi-Pro
- Vs.– College Throwball, Grambling State @ Southern
- VH1– National Lampoon’s Van Wilder (again)
12:30 am
- TBS– The Wedding Date
1 am
- Bravo– The School of Rock (again)
- Comedy– Zack and Miri Make a Porno
- MTV– Seed of Chucky
- Oxygen– Duplicity
- SciFi– Storm War (again)
- Turner Classic– Easy Living
1:30 am
- ESPN2– College Throwball, Florida State @ Florida (again)
2 am
2:30 am
- Disney– Minutemen
- TBS– Runaway Bride
- Turner Classic– She Wore a Yellow Ribbon
3 am
- AMC– Chisum (again)
- MTV– Get Rich or Die Tryin’ (again)
- SciFi– Storm
- Toon– Big O (Final Episode)
3:30 am
- ESPN– College Throwball, Clemson @ South Carolina (again)
- Toon– Ghost in the Shell
4 am
- Disney– Phineas and Ferb (marathon until 6 am)
4:30 am
- Turner Classic– The Browing Version
5 am
- ESPN2– ATP Tennis
- TNT– Law & Order (Marathon until 2 pm)
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Remembering why it was that Bill Clinton was elected for to terms. He was a charming bullshit artist who listened to the little people even if he ended up doing very little for them. He also came from a poor background with a unhappy childhood. He rarely came off as an elitist and that was his appeal, even now.
Obama is his antithesis even though there policies are essentially the same.