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Feb 4
Kate and I just got* a TV. Kate used her superior processing mental resources to determine that a 32 inch was big enough and to talk me out of the bigger one. They thing fits our little house just fine and doesn’t loom over anything. Which is good, as I was one of the first to speak out against looming.
We took a few break from TV. I say that just to get respect from the Post Modern Urban Hippies I know. We watch lot’s of TV, just not on tv’s. Dig?
{Sidenote: If you say “We don’t own a TV” in Seattle, people will nod their heads knowingly and mention something about stopping global-walmart-”fois gras” and how they do the very same thing. Weirdos. Everything is a cause with these people.}
So, we got ride of the TV’s back before the marital consolidation process. I have a really really good memories of curling up in front of the fire at my folks old house with Kate and watching The Offce (US verison, for those who care about these things) on my iPod. Now this wasn’t the fancy new iPod Touch things that always leave me thinking I am playing with something that would have made Issac Asimov pee his pants, this was an iPod 5G. It had a screen which was 2.5″. We would each take an ear bud and watch these copy/paste clone episodes of The Office and were very much happy with life.
Post Consolidation: Video piracy and Kate’s 15″ Macbook Pro brought us into a world where we could actually hear both audio channels and sit back a foot from the screen. We thought this was amazing and razed about the experience of the big “screen”.
This experience was slightly upgraded by the acquisition of Tina Fey. My too-big 17″ laptop.
Now flash forward and I sit and bemoan the absence of George from Grey’s Anatomy from across the room now. This is real progress. We just bought a DVD player for the TV and both in awe of this 20 year old technology*. We still get most of content from Hulu/Adultswim/Torrents. I would say we use Netflix Play Now, but that would be a lie. Our sub-sucky data connection through Broadstripe tanks on streaming their stuff. Thanks City of Seattle Government granted monoply (surrounding Seattlites will also nod their heads at this).
Aside from a weird lingering desire to get an AppleTV I think I am going to freeze any further development on the media playing department. At least until they find a way to sent audio/visual information over the airwaves without using the internet.
* – By “just got” I mean a few months ago
* _ In a related story, I just heard you could record audio data to a magent tape and run it through a decoder that can in turn convert it to an audio signal. Amazing!