{"id":902,"date":"2005-10-25T04:04:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-25T04:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/justinfoell.wordpress.com\/2005\/10\/25\/20th-century-vs-21st-century"},"modified":"2005-10-25T04:04:00","modified_gmt":"2005-10-25T04:04:00","slug":"20th-century-vs-21st-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foell.org\/jessi\/2005\/10\/20th-century-vs-21st-century\/","title":{"rendered":"20th Century vs. 21st Century"},"content":{"rendered":"

I bet you can guess what this is about. We (and I mean Justin and I) are in the midst of a hilarious argument right now (not as I’m typing, but in general). He wants to make our brand-new home a ‘smart-home.’ I say cool as long and I know how to work everything–without having to take a course. But so far that has not been the case. <\/p>\n

Upstairs is what I like to call ‘the 20th century.’ A place where I know everything works. I don’t care if I have a remote for my DVD player, my t.v., my cable, and *gasp* my VCR. I know how to use it all and it has never failed me. Unless you count the time the old VCR kept eating my Star Wars <\/em>tape. It chewed it up so bad that the tape broke and I had to hack the case to fix it–3 times! So I threw that VCR out and got another one. I know, I know VCR’s are so old and dated, but I don’t care, I’ve got some great movies on tape and I don’t want to have to buy a DVD. I don’t care about quality, I care that it works! So don’t try to convince me otherwise. You can’t tape a dvd when it breaks. <\/p>\n

The 20th Century works, but downstairs is a different story. That’s the 21st Century and it doesn’t work as well. It’s not ‘Jessi friendly.’ First off, there is no VCR. How the heck am I supposed to watch Home Alone <\/em>or Fargo<\/em> or Strange Brew <\/em>? Yes, again I understand that I can now get these movies on DVD, but again, I don’t care. So that’s problem #1-no VCR. Problem #2 is bigger than number 1, but VCR is pretty big. #2 is you have to use a keyboard to change the channel! Ya, I’m totally not kidding! Basically you have to be a computer programmer to watch t.v. in the 21st century. <\/p>\n

I spent all day upstairs today working on the computer. But when Justin got home I wanted to watch a little Seinfeld<\/em> while cooking dinner. Um, impossible when the keyboard is upstairs being used. And even if I did have a keyboard, I still had no clue how to change the channel! It’s very sad. <\/p>\n

20th Century Good (everything works):<\/p>\n

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21st Century Bad (notice the keyboard and all the programmer jargon on the screen, that’s where I’m supposed to watch t.v.):
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We both agreed that this was called ‘Get-Tivo.’ I think the Dell box posing as a t.v. stand gives it away. <\/p>\n

I’m sure one day I will come to love it as much as my VCR. I know it won’t eat the tapes, but just like any other computer, it can crash. So nothing is safe. I will admit that when Justin gets a remote, makes the font bigger, and programs it to act just like cable then I’ll probably think it’s pretty cool. The computer is a Tivo so I can record all my favorite shows if I had any. And if I missed something, I can rewind. So I guess it won’t be too bad. <\/p>\n

But until then Justin, I’ll stick with the 20th century. Hey I think Home Alone <\/em>is on cable, can we ‘get-tivo’ it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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