tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34877723.post7391678379014257721..comments2023-11-03T06:16:11.862-04:00Comments on insidious truth: Watching TVlaughinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11999190808736700318noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34877723.post-22976295184476145452009-06-26T10:49:13.652-04:002009-06-26T10:49:13.652-04:00Our first recorder was a Beta, and it was not a pi...Our first recorder was a Beta, and it was not a piece of crap. It lasted ten years or more. In fact, it never actually stopped working that I know of. At some point they stopped renting movies on Beta, so we got a VHS player and kept recording stuff on the Beta. But eventually they stopped even selling black Beta tapes, and the VHS player was stolen, so we had to buy a new VHS recorder. Seems like that one worked five years or more, and whatever went wrong with that one probably had more to do with our dragging it all over the country more than the quality of the machine.<br /><br />Now you buy something new, and it doesn't work the next year. And that's without getting into the headaches of having your old computer stuff that you really like not working with the new computer you are almost forced to buy.laughinghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11999190808736700318noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34877723.post-74573544535251154482009-06-26T10:35:23.401-04:002009-06-26T10:35:23.401-04:00How funny your mom didn't seem to notice he wa...How funny your mom didn't seem to notice he was in the other shows. I wonder if she thought the earlier shows did not count because they were kid shows. <br /><br />I do not recall any of those shows. But you are younger than me and I was probably off working and going to college. I can't recall watching much TV then at all.<br /><br />VCRs, DVDs... they do break at the drop of a hat. We have trouble with buttons falling off of the things. Then we have to use a pencil to poke inside the hole that leaves to change the channel. Sheesh. It's all so much crap!Ananda girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09578471199205376974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34877723.post-3899687267799864312009-06-26T09:24:59.210-04:002009-06-26T09:24:59.210-04:00"Anyway, I think all new stuff is now deliber..."Anyway, I think all new stuff is now deliberately designed to be crap."<br /><br />It's been crap for a long time. I remember visiting a local VCR repair place in town. He actually had a room that was set up as a VCR museum. He had several VCRs from over the years on display, partially disassembled, with little signs indicating how the build quality went down from year to year. I can't imagine they got any better after that. <br /><br />"And this same actor was a character that I did not like in Jason of Star Command. He was supposed to be smart, but he was always doing something dumb or getting his hair caught in something."<br /><br />Well, I guess there is something to be said for bald Starfleet officers. They just don't have such problems. Or maybe these problems result in bald Starfleet officers.dmarkshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07269773990064736457noreply@blogger.com