Poor doggo. 
Doesn’t he look like he’s suffering?
(OK, he’s pretty happy right now. But they’re calling for storms this afternoon.)
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Here’s another of Noodle honestly scared from a few years ago:
Poor doggo.
One last Noodle pic of the day, because he wants you to know he is horribly mistreated and abused and thinks you should call the SPCA on his owners:
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We’ve now reached the point where people need to be told
- What a TV antenna is
- How to connect one
- That you might not get a perfect signal
In my day, this was all assumed general knowledge. https://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2019/07/11/directtv-directvrochester-13-wham-channel-8-how-to-get-your-channels-back/1703118001/
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There’s some regional-ness to OTA TV, too. When I lived in central PA for a few years in the late 90s Cable was pretty much the default because there was maybe one channel available OTA reliably due to being in the middle of nowhere.
That was also where I was on a pretty familiar basis with the cable company office because I was broke often and the cable bill got skipped a lot for various reasons. So I’d miss a payment, realize it was shut off in the evening, go pay in person, then wait for it to get turned back on. Happened surprisingly often for a year or so.
Growing up in the DC Metro area I feel we were kind of spoiled for options. We had a huge rotating antenna setup when I was little so we could get DC or Baltimore stations depending on things, and had a pretty full selection. The area didn’t get cable until the late 80s and that was a Big Deal.
There been a commercial on TV for the last… year? several months?.. advertising a back-of-the-set antenna, making it out to be this wonderous, magical device.
“You can get HD TV without the stations knowing!”
Well, no shit.
On the topic… I’ve never had cable. We played with Netflix one summer over our Wii, but other than that it’s been OTA only.
We have two recorders (actually three if you want to dip into VHS 
) and we almost never watch anything live. We record all the prime time stuff and watch it on playback. Works out better for the summer doldrums… record three shows a night, playback one…
To be fair, in your day this was the only way to get television.
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Uphill both ways in a blizzard with an onion tied to our belt as that was the style at the time and that’s the way we liked it!
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This is the first time I’ve used a coin-op laundry in something like 20 years.
Plus side, have phone (and tablet) now.
I’m actually kind of glad I didn’t take the trash down out to where it’s picked up until the morning. If I had tried doing it at night I might not have noticed the bag was crawling with maggots.
That brought back memories from my childhood. My grandparents in the DC area also had a rotating antenna setup.
It was the coolest toy in the house I was forbidden from playing with.
Still got burned out a few times from overuse, though. And messing with Dad’s highly optimized antenna settings.
For those who have no idea what I’m talking about, in our basement growing up was a big 70s-style box with a big dial on it. It was connected via a cable to a simple servo motor setup that would rotate the physical antenna that I think was in the attic. We also had a tower, but I think that was for the 70s CB Radio antenna setup.
So you’d turn the dial, which had a definite ‘Star trek’ feel and a pleasing amount of resistance, and there’d be an exciting “whirwhirwhirwhirwhir” noise as the antenna adjusted. Which meant nothing at all if you weren’t even watching TV, but made for a cool sci-fi playtime noise and such.
We also had dimmers for the basement lights, and blew those out a few times because it’s fun to make the lights go up and down, strobe them, etc.
My parent’s 80s basement family room was definitely the ‘party room’ of the house. Wood paneling, fireplace, huge built-in bar, really nice built-in shelves and such back where the stereo (and later computer) lived…
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People ripped apart the idea of making a movie out of the board game “Battleship”. How long will it take others to do the same to the just-announced Space Invaders movie?
The Last Starfighter was good.
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Been done before? Pixels
Thine clickee linkee dinna work… here be another clickee linkee
Between the recent Trade Show and today’s training class, I am no longer in need of or in fact allowed to bring black t-shirts into the house.
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