In article >,
notbob > wrote:

> On 2009-02-17, Pete C. > wrote:
>
> > expense. I canceled cable TV last year and haven't missed it. Broadcast
> > TV is 99.99% crap and cable TV is 99.95% crap, in either case you are
> > better off actually getting off the couch and doing something.

> I'll admit to being a child of the tv age. I am drawn to it like a moth to
> a flame. I even sometimes wonder if it's not latent instinct, the
> electronic equivelent of the primordial campfire our cave ancestors once
> huddled around. Regardless, I can, and have, gone without tv for years at a
> time. It IS a different life, of that there can be no doubt.

When I was a kid, we were one of the first families on the block to get
tv. It was a big black and white set. I know it was before I went to
kindergarden. When I was in 3rd grade, my father got mad at the quality
of tv programming, and got rid of it. I was upset at first, but soon
got used to it. I watch very little tv now.

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA