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hose of us who are senior citizens (or as we are sometimes called, those in the autumn of our years) have seen a lot of changes in the world. If you took a snapshot right now of what is in your home, your automobile, or what you can purchase in various stores, it’s easy to quickly realize that we are living in a remarkable time. The majority of the changes we see make life easier and improve our quality of life. We are living in an era where the bar set for quality and performance is high. We no longer accept mediocrity in service nor are we very accepting of items with product flaws. Recalls on defective products are now commonplace, because consumers will accept nothing less than perfection. Too bad that message isn’t getting through to the Chinese.
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Lying here in my hammock, surveying my domain, I can easily spot a number of items that make me realize how technology has altered our lives so dramatically and improved our quality of life.
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I have seen quite a bit of technological change in my 60+ years as well. (The PC, for instance) It is funny to watch an older TV show and say how much easier it would have been for the star to contact someone he needed to get ahold of if he had a cellular telephone! Or even the early ones that were so big.
As for the VCR you must not do any timer recordings, and I don't recall ever having one that flashed 12:00, it only displays "----", if it hasn't been programmed with the right time. Some are setup now to get a time signal from a local TV station. We have had problems with that feature before, so I mistrust it and do my own time setting. I cannot understand in this day and age of WWV set clocks why the VCR/DVDR machines do not provide accurate time, even the old electric analog clocks were pretty accurate using the 60Hz from the power lines to synchronize the clock (motor). It can't be that much more expensive to provide a crystal controlled clock in one or just an oscillator tuned to the power line frequency. If we only could get the stations with more than one channel to cover the weather on one and the regular programming on the other! Around here, when severe weather is in the area, the stations go to "wall to wall" storm coverage, even dropping commercials to keep us informed that we are in danger or that it has passed and someone else down the road is in danger.
As for TV guides (either the TV GUide or the one supplied with the Sunday paper or online--zap2it.com are needed when you don't subscribe to a cable/sattelite/etc. service) In Oklahoma City's case the newspaper one does not cover all local channels, so it is worthless. I have my Media Center PC guide and zap2it.com to supplement my desire to know what is on. At least they let you choose which channels you want to see programming information for and for two weeks at a time, as well.
The word is lying not laying in the interest of quality writing. "Laying here in my hammock, surveying my domain"
oops. Our bad.
Laying vs. Lying. Drat... messed it up again. This was editorial error not Bill's.
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