Sunday, December 11, 2005

Technology backslide...

The middle child likes to skip songs on various CDs which tends to drive the entire family incredibly batty. My wife came up with a very good idea which I seriously think we need to consider: switch to cassettes. I mean, do you remember trying to stop at exactly the beginning of the next song on a cassette? It was impossible, and not only that, it gave us the patience to listen to the whole tape. If you didn't, you put yourself into the world of trying to just find "that one song". People, tapes are the reason I didn't really get into music until my late twenties...The only downside I see is that I don't think even my oldest really knows how to work a cassette tape.

Speaking of technology - the kids are entirely addicted to DVR. They've already blocked out the fact that it used to be a major production to tape a show and that live TV wasn't pausable, let alone rewindable. So, while these new features are totally addicting, I have to wonder why I still can't find time to watch the game I wanted to see. Seems like the majority of things which get DVR'd are things like SpongeBob and The Last Avatar - nothing the wife or I really am interested in. Hmm, maybe I'll start correcting that now, there must be a game on somewhere, it is Sunday after all...

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