Piece, Luv & Understating Sorry I didn't have time for my buddies to respond in my defence, I was busy talking on the phone to 'I-trashed-the-TV', who's not a Member. But I read him postings. Hey-- he's even more outrageous than I am. He mentored me in the ART of OUTRAGEOUS! I should get him on here. Or is that name-dropping? If so, I should just put on my "false humility cloaking-device" & call him 'moderator' or 'senior member'. PS: Hey--Webster's Apprentices--If you all would like to borrow some new phraseology, I can loan you some words. (...Diss?) 'I' (if that pronoun is permissible on this self-effacing, hippily-correct site) use rubbed-me-the-wrong-way, it gets recycled twice. Initiate 'operative word' & someone clones that. If you need a metaphor I can loan you some new ones. (name-dropping...so 60's) --EX-PreSs Yo-Sellff! Spid iT outch'all. "I'VE COINED NEW WORDS, LIKE, MISUNDERSTANDING AND HISPANICALLY." -GW: SPEAKING AT THE RADIO & TELEVISION CORRESPONDENTS DINNER, MARCH 29, 2001
Amen--! Amen... Now that strikes a sympathetic chord with me. I lived in tiny, emerging nations (third world countries?) for 20 years. The thing we watched on TV that was important to us was the International News. BBC News; Yes, that was paramount to us, to stay connected, to see what was going on outside or whether a coup had just happened in the streets of the country we were in. But, to benefit from the local news or programming in most places you have to be fluent in the language first, which was an eventuality. Still, there was poor reception & a lot of filler programming & even empty broadcast hours. But hell, we were more worried about when the water was going to be on, if we were fortunate enough to even have a TV set. But, If we did we always rented Movies for entertainment. You didn't say if you ever lived here. Have you? Now, if you live in America, coming from the growing nations it strikes you as way over the top. C'est un cheval d'une autre couleur pour la plupart pour vous. You are literally assaulted by the media. Your mind is flooded with Big-Brother Speak & advertising slogans & media permeates your peripheral vision with signage & flashing, menacing lights & sounds to the Nth degree. I hear ya though. It was important. As far as how the Internet of the future will compare with the Tele: I think the Internet IS the new TV, International Interstate, Infobahn & Information Superhighway. How can a modern invention not eventually come to misuse & corruption? The latest Mac OS Tiger, boast Widgets that resemble the gadgets on your Dashboard & I think they even named one of them that. They broadcast weather, stock quotes, etc. It's already a pretty fine line. I think it's true that it IS a tool & depends largely on how it is used on an individual basis for input. It's like drugs. They couldn't all be bad because the system is dealing them like mad & the Pharmaceutical companies are the richest of all big businesses. Or they license & restrict them; like alcohol & tobacco. I think active vs passive is important. Determining what you watch--you are what you eat, whether physically, spiritually or mentally. It ranges from an occasional pot-smoker to all-day nodder, heroin junkie as far as the dependency quotient is concerned. How much productivity does the individual create in spite of their use of the box, be it computer or TV set. How much work or correspondence do they get done on the Internet, or is it just because they are addicted to porn or eBay? Are they selling as well as buying on eBay or are they just compulsive gamblers spending all their money for memorabilia that won't profit in the long-run. Do they use it to unwind, or is it plugged into their brain circuits constantly in place of free-willed thought. Do they allow themselves to accept 'advert-hypnosis-delirium' (you can use that one, mine) or do they pick & choose what PBS, News, Cable or satellite channels they watch or which DVD's they rent. I always tried to rent what suits my mood, but a good movie, relevant. What you've seen in my gallery corner is a DVD player/combo/monitor & I guess TV that I bought in December, for whatever reason I wonder, since I have used it less than a dozen times, mostly for DVD's which I was playing on my much more costly computer. Also I found I can burn CD's & play individual photos on it for reference that save me dumping a ton of money on printing them out with inkjet technology. Man, it's like buying junk food for me. "If I have it, I will eat it." So I just don't have it around me. Cause I know I'm weak. I know I'll over-indulge in the cravings. But I am by no means a Puritan. Yeah, I may have seemed like I was casting the first stone here, but I am also the hooker getting pelted. I've made my brain into mush before, but that's how I learned to shy away, by making mistakes & watching the hours flee & look back & mock me as they left. Don't Be a Menace 'I think, therefore I am.'
The way I see it is, TV becomes what you make of it. It can be very informative, as can the Internet. It also can become poisonous...just like the Internet. It just depends on what you use it for. I, personally, am addicted to the news, I have to keep up with what is going on in the region, and it's quite difficult to do that through just the newspaper due to the fact the paper seems to print only what they feel needs to be printed. Granted, I'm sure the tv news doesn't tell everything. I also use it for a small bit of entertainment. I don't watch it a whole lot, if anything it's just on in the background, creating background noise. But not all TV is evil, there are informative and educational aspects to it as well. Just like the Internet.
Funny screen name...Yeah, I agree. I don't know many objects that are intrinsically evil by nature. You have a level head about stuff & seem like you are much wiser than the typical person your age. The TV doesn't get up & throw itself at us. We get entranced, enchanted. Like the saying about, 'guns don't kill people, people kill people.' The TV is an inanimate object. It has a plug. News, yeah, my sister is a Weatherhead, the Weather channel is always on in the background at her house. With me, 2 computers are on, one with Photoshop & iTunes & the other on the Internet all the time. But I'm always controlling the volume or if I don't like the song changing it & I'm busy interacting on the other. Control freak or OCD. One thing is I need to work on blocking annoying ads off the Internet, which is the most bogus feature about TV in my world. Since the server Mac runs OS 9 there's not a lot of software out there for it. On the OSX machine there is, but I don't wear it out for the web. Anyway the used machine would be worthless if I didn't use it for something, so a dedicated server is convenient. Maybe I could spray it fluorescent orange & black for Halloween & light it up & leave it on someone's doorstep. I can't believe the planned obsolescence on this hardware, one day you're spending five grand on a top of the line computer & big monitor & a few years down the line it is worth diddly squat, except to use & it's slow compared to new. Now I am craving the WI-FI thing & powerbooks & the Macs that are in the monitor, have you seen them? I kind of went nuts on the Warchalking subject. Plus I'm determined to move. All this desktop stuff is great for work, but sucks to transport. Oh, well. Have fun here. PS.: Did you have to pay in order to get to access the last three controls on your profile options? I never get to check the hetro preference & I think other guys don't want to email me because of it. Is that a perk of paying? I thought those would come alive with my 100th posting. Didn't happen. It could be all the strange pictures in my gallery. But they're there for a reason. I really like to have graphics to ad an edge to a posting. The FBI is one of my favorite nags. They're so anal-looking, especially from that Hoover era. Where's Fritch? I'm in TX, but when I changed my city to Margaritaville, I accidentally mispelled it. But I noticed it made sense in Spanish, so I hyphenated it for emphasis. It could mean loosely, Screaming Mara's Town. Like non ti gritas! Don't yell. Ha--that reminds me, tomorrow is Cinco de Mayo. I have great Bushism for it. Later Y'all :H I love this photo! This is where my head is at most of the time.
Tell your sister to take some prozac . weatherbug can warn you with a sound alarm if some nasty weather is in your way . how ever the dam thing is hard to remove from your pc plus i think it have spyware. unless they have a pro version with out any.
skycanvas- Haha, thanks, I got my nickname out of the blue from a friend at school. I didn't pay for anything on here...I'm too cheap, lol. And Fritch would be up in the Panhandle, close to Amarillo.
I went through there a lot of times Kinky Ramona, last time on the way to Taos. Well uh, creepers, beepers, why don't mah buttons work? So all the guys figure I'm neutral. But women don't care if you are. So I guess that's OK then--ha! I sold more stuff today. I wanna move someplace cool. Are you into art, your homepage said you did Photoshop. I thought your prom dress was a bit Merlin-like. Harry Potter. The cupboard under the stairs. I used to have a place under the basement stairs when I was a kid with all my rockets & model cars & chemistry & geek stuff--inventions. Were you laughing at my spaceman joke? Actually my brother is an actual rocket scientist. I'm going to bed. I posted the Cinco de Mayo post on Events & Festivals or whatever main topic I said I would. Read--it's funny & nobody replied. Also a want ad about offering an apprenticeship. Well... brain... shutting down...goodnight all you misspelled words...This had nothing to do with TV, did it? OK I will be back with TV stuff manana.--you can't make an Enya in ascii can you? Fritcher?--people from Fritch would be Fritchers. We'd be DFWers. DWFers & DTWeeters. Woof-woof! Somewhere I'd like to be
You got it, Exhibita. We're not talking about the keenly active, discerning heads out there who recognize the bullshit that's going on behind the scenes & how this is all a puppet-show we're watching like a bunch of entranced kids. It's your average droid that hasn't got a foockingkleww. The Malls are full of them. Ever notice when you meet somebody you know in reality inside a Mall, that they sort of act bedazzled? It's like they have to shake the fairy-dust out of their eyeballs to even focus on you. That's what I'm talking about. Running into your boss & his wife & kids at 6 Flags. That's what the word a-muse-ment means: Away from thinking. Check out the two guys' posts on the level of brain activity we human beings are reduced to when we get absorbed into the tube. It's mass hypnosis. "Honey, but the voices in my head say: GO OUT & BUY THAT NOW!--so I couldn't help maxing out our credit card!--it was on SALE for a LIMITED time ONLY!" -Later
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2004/0407.turner.html My Beef With Big Media How government protects big media--and shuts out upstarts like me. By Ted Turner ------------------------------------------------------------------------ In the late 1960s, when Turner Communications was a business of billboards and radio stations and I was spending much of my energy ocean racing, a UHF-TV station came up for sale in Atlanta. It was losing $50,000 a month and its programs were viewed by fewer than 5 percent of the market. I acquired it... "I AM MINDFUL NOT ONLY OF PRESERVING EXECUTIVE POWERS FOR MYSELF, BUT FOR PREDECESSORS AS WELL." -GWBush: WASHINGTON, D.C., JAN. 29, 2001
