Dan wrote on Tue, 17 Feb 2009 12:36:31 -0800:

>> 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.

Back in the early sixties, I visited the house of a technician friend at
Harwell, England. His pride and joy was a prewar TV set. It could not
receive current broadcasts and had a 6-inch monochrome tube in an
immense wood veneered console.

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not