TiVo or not TiVo
A life where TiVo has always existed
She gets quite confused when we are watching a non-TiVo TV, and she asks to watch ''a kids show'', and we have to explain that this TV won't do what ours at home does. We've sometimes shortened this explanation to ''This TV is broken'', which she seems to accept, and will wait until we get home to watch our ''fixed'' TV.
My son, too, expects every TV he sees to be able to deliver him a choice of episodes of Dora, Little Bill, or Blue's Clues on his command.
Comments
sorry, but in that flux article about japanese tattoos, i think that writer actually got it wrong on some of them.
and, in China, there are a lot of people wearing what I consider to be an infamous shirt here that says "Fuck you Mr. Gay Man." So, I guess it goes both ways.
Posted by: d fresh | November 20, 2003 3:51 PM
Thanks. You know you can comment on that flux link, by clicking the '0'. ?
Posted by: sudama | November 20, 2003 4:37 PM
This post is interesting for so many reasons, not the least of which is calling something "broken" which is fully functioning.
I do long for the days when you can wake up and look at a touchable screen plasma television that is wired for other plasma screens around your house and switch on a segment, or a version of a show for each room, and then spit out your toothpaste, touch your mirror and rewind to that part where John Franken, anchor for Weather Watch, takes you "just for kicks" through the eye of the world's most powerful hurricane.
And I did not know about the O. Now that I do I will be going for the O more often.
Wait a minute...
Posted by: d fresh | November 21, 2003 4:03 AM
My girls are 8 and 5 and still seem a little confused by the idea that there's a small room somewhere miles away where a person selects songs and plays them off of CDs or whatever and we have to listen to whatever he or she picks, or switch to listening to some other person in another small room doing the same thing.
Posted by: Prentiss Riddle | November 21, 2003 10:39 PM