This morning I got up early and deposited my first paycheck at the bank, then went to my local State Farm agent to see about getting some health insurance – only to discover that their hours are Mon-Fri 9-5, and Saturday by appointment only. Well, I have two options: get up early on Monday and try to get it taken care of before work, or try to get it taken care of online. That’s what Dann’s done for the last several years; maybe I’ll have to try it. Computers are just so much easier to work with than humans – always there, always patient, never rush you or have to take lunch breaks.
This evening, Dann, Pan, and I sat down and watched “The Fellowship of the Ring – Extended Edition.” I love that movie and always enjoy watching it. Neither of them had ever seen the Extended Edition before, and I think it adds so much more to the film – it really explains the background and the characters in a way that makes much more sense than the theatrical release did.
I left all my DVDs with my sister in Alabama. One of these days I’m going to have to go back down there and pick them all up – I have a good-sized collection of DVDs, since I haven’t had television in the past year, and I got several more for Christmas that I haven’t had the chance to watch. (I got the Indiana Jones trilogy and the Terminator movie.)
That’s right – I haven’t had television in the past year. I watch DVDs on my computer. (The screen’s only 15 inches, but when only one or two people are watching the movie at a time, you can sit close.) I haven’t missed it at all – well, maybe “Junkyard Wars,” but that’s about it. In fact, when I moved in here with Dann, I watched a couple of half-hour programs, and was surprised at how annoying commercials can be when you’re used to watching a whole program at one sitting. You can get entire seasons of popular TV shows on DVD – I got Transformers, Season One, and Dann has the Simpsons, Seasons One through Three. And despite all the hype about “movies-on-demand” and “shows-on-demand,” I already have the movies and shows I want, when I want them, and I can watch them as often as I want, without having to pay a fee, because I already bought them!
You can get pretty much everything you need from the internet – news and weather, for instance, as well as many things TV can’t provide you -- like maps and dictionaries. In fact, even if I wind up getting a TV again someday, I seriously doubt whether I’ll go back to subscribing to cable. For me, computers and the internet just fill too many of the roles TV used to, and too many more, for me to spend time and money going back to what is rapidly becoming an obsolete technology.
And good riddance, I say.
This evening, Dann, Pan, and I sat down and watched “The Fellowship of the Ring – Extended Edition.” I love that movie and always enjoy watching it. Neither of them had ever seen the Extended Edition before, and I think it adds so much more to the film – it really explains the background and the characters in a way that makes much more sense than the theatrical release did.
I left all my DVDs with my sister in Alabama. One of these days I’m going to have to go back down there and pick them all up – I have a good-sized collection of DVDs, since I haven’t had television in the past year, and I got several more for Christmas that I haven’t had the chance to watch. (I got the Indiana Jones trilogy and the Terminator movie.)
That’s right – I haven’t had television in the past year. I watch DVDs on my computer. (The screen’s only 15 inches, but when only one or two people are watching the movie at a time, you can sit close.) I haven’t missed it at all – well, maybe “Junkyard Wars,” but that’s about it. In fact, when I moved in here with Dann, I watched a couple of half-hour programs, and was surprised at how annoying commercials can be when you’re used to watching a whole program at one sitting. You can get entire seasons of popular TV shows on DVD – I got Transformers, Season One, and Dann has the Simpsons, Seasons One through Three. And despite all the hype about “movies-on-demand” and “shows-on-demand,” I already have the movies and shows I want, when I want them, and I can watch them as often as I want, without having to pay a fee, because I already bought them!
You can get pretty much everything you need from the internet – news and weather, for instance, as well as many things TV can’t provide you -- like maps and dictionaries. In fact, even if I wind up getting a TV again someday, I seriously doubt whether I’ll go back to subscribing to cable. For me, computers and the internet just fill too many of the roles TV used to, and too many more, for me to spend time and money going back to what is rapidly becoming an obsolete technology.
And good riddance, I say.
posted by Mark at 1/17/2004 09:45:00 PM
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