Tech Creep
It was only a matter of time before we had a computer in every room of the house except the bathrooms. And I often take my PDA in with me, along with my phone, so I guess we even have coverage there.
Lee is currently in the process of repackaging what's left of Glen's old gaming computer in a small case to use with the TV in the guest room downstairs. This all started because I proposed that we might want to trade our upstairs Viewsonic 32" flat-panel TV with the old Sony 19" CRT downstairs to not only give our guests a better TV, but to give ourselves a more comfortable place to sit than our bed when we want to watch something when Glen is using the family room TV. Remember that four years ago, the Sony was our BIG television.
We still don't actually watch that much TV. On Sunday evenings after dinner, we sit down as a family and watch Top Gear (which we discovered when we were in England), MythBusters and/or an old BBC documentary series. Other than that, Glen watches Star Trek in a variety of incarnations; we now have a digital video recorder from the cable company, so he records them all and can watch when he feels like it.
Tranferring old home videos to DVD started the computer+TV business, but once Lee had a digitizer, he found he could also record off TV. This gave him a new use for his long-time hobby, which has to do with souping up, or "upgrading" computers. I figure it's cheaper than golf, boats, sports cars, hot women, or any of a number of other popular male hobbies, and it has the advantage of usefulness to the rest of the family, too. We are careful not to calculate a cost-to-benefit ratio, however.
This works so well that Lee decided we ought to have a computer with the new 32" TV in the guest room, too, as well as a second digital cable tuner box. This way, he can record MythBusters at the same time Glen is watching Jean Luc Picard or James T. Kirk, and we're trying to sleep upstairs.
Isn't technology grand?
Lee is currently in the process of repackaging what's left of Glen's old gaming computer in a small case to use with the TV in the guest room downstairs. This all started because I proposed that we might want to trade our upstairs Viewsonic 32" flat-panel TV with the old Sony 19" CRT downstairs to not only give our guests a better TV, but to give ourselves a more comfortable place to sit than our bed when we want to watch something when Glen is using the family room TV. Remember that four years ago, the Sony was our BIG television.
We still don't actually watch that much TV. On Sunday evenings after dinner, we sit down as a family and watch Top Gear (which we discovered when we were in England), MythBusters and/or an old BBC documentary series. Other than that, Glen watches Star Trek in a variety of incarnations; we now have a digital video recorder from the cable company, so he records them all and can watch when he feels like it.
Tranferring old home videos to DVD started the computer+TV business, but once Lee had a digitizer, he found he could also record off TV. This gave him a new use for his long-time hobby, which has to do with souping up, or "upgrading" computers. I figure it's cheaper than golf, boats, sports cars, hot women, or any of a number of other popular male hobbies, and it has the advantage of usefulness to the rest of the family, too. We are careful not to calculate a cost-to-benefit ratio, however.
This works so well that Lee decided we ought to have a computer with the new 32" TV in the guest room, too, as well as a second digital cable tuner box. This way, he can record MythBusters at the same time Glen is watching Jean Luc Picard or James T. Kirk, and we're trying to sleep upstairs.
Isn't technology grand?
posted by Jeannette | 8:46 AM
1 Comments:
uh-oh. i feel like i'm seeing the future of my life...
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