>I still have my BETAMAX (1982) with the 12′ long wired remote!
I’m so old I remember a time before videotape machines.
If you missed an episode of your favourite show, you had to wait until summer to see it again.
And, if there were two good shows on at the same time, well, I don’t want to even talk about that.(hat tip: an old Bizarro cartoon)

>So I solute George Bush
In my best Inigo Montoya voice: “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.”
See, solute is the substance that a liquid solvent dissolves to create a solution.

Poe’s Law states:

Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won’t mistake for the real thing.

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Life before the internet was far more boring, and life with early modem internet wasn’t as fun as current fast internet!

I want to keep my amazing technology! In fact I want more!

If I’m unhappy at any point its not about technology, I’m very fond of it. I want more! Where’s my biochemically vastly extended life and youth?

Truechristian=oxymoron.

Rich:
Explaining that there are actually physical limitations to what we can do in this universe to people who understand nothing of physical law is like trying to walk uphill on ice,,,while wearing teflon coated boots,,,but thanks for trying.

Gary 7

and Jasonpacifico – a science-fiction-fantasy troll. Way off topic.

Louis mentions a VCR with wired remote. I never saw one of those, but I remember in 1976 visiting a college friend at his girlfriend’s house, her TV had a wireless remote – you pushed a button and it send a sound wave to the TV set. Now that’s a clicker !

Zenith ultrasonic remote

About 10 years ago my mother was visiting a friend of hers, the TV set was on, a commercial came on too loud, so she picked up the remote and began clicking … nothing happened … she looked at the calculator in her hand.

I personally can’t further back in time than CK but my great-grandparents supposedly never had electricity at their farm and no tractor – just horses to pull a plow. And they never paid income taxes, never had enough income to do so. And no Social Security either – but one of their daughters took care of them in the city when they could no longer take care of themselves. I’d like to see CK make some hay, er, funny stuff with the pre-1900s lifestyle (we have automobile exhaust, they had horse farts).

Used to do IT support for the Headquarters AF, and all the bigwigs got Blackberries when they were the really, really new thing. Having to explain to some technology loving yet tech-stupid colonels, generals, and SES types why their e-mail took several seconds longer to get to their Blackberry than to their desktop became a chore. “Well, you see Sir, the e-mail goes from your device to a cell phone tower to a region link up to a satellite to RIM in Canada back up to a Satellite back to a cell tower and then to your device or another device and to our network through our e-mail servers etc, etc. When the mail is only on our network it only has to travel through our servers and routers right here. Even at the speed of light the message will take fractionally longer to get to your device because it has to travel farther.” Or something to that effect – “Yeah, but it takes longer… why should I have to wait an extra 3 seconds? Can’t you fix that?” Unfortunately, “Shut up and listen you moron… you only have this device for prestige – you never even leave the building!!!” wouldn’t have done much for my career as a junior officer. No kidding, at the time I worked there we had a Secretary of the AF who timed with a stopwatch the difference in time and would send really nasty messages down if it exceeded his desires.

So, I love Louis C.K.’s bit here. Been a big fan of his for a while. Tried to love his HBO show, which did have it’s moments, but it just didn’t translate his comedic point of view very well. It may have been a bit before it’s time in uncomfortable squirmy comedy too. Maybe now that we’ve all been primed by The Office, it would do better.

Nick.

Yes, Pieter Kok, I know it is still the usual “999″ for Emergency Services here in the U.K., but now, in line with the European Union standard, you can also dial “112″. I should have clarified that point in my post above.

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*Think that qualifies as fair use…

Pete

Used to be? I emigrated to the US about 5 years ago… did they change 999? I can’t take it any more!! I don’t think I can ever return…

But this gentleman – I must have his babies!

And the bit about banks – I remember when banks closed from noon until 2PM for lunch, and closed at 4PM If you couldn’t get to the bank before lunch or 4PM, you either had to get your spouse to pick up money for you or you tried to cash your check at the grocery store.

When I post on other blogs and my own, I often talk about entitlement and how this time in our lives is so based on selfishness. Louis CK says it so eloquently in this clip, that it actually shocked me (a little – I’m not easily shocked) when I saw some of his other clips. He definitely pushes/stretches/breaks boundaries with his stuff.

As to the “troll”, whether or not s/he believes what was written, there are others who DO believe it. And I agree with tacitus. The religious will always spin what happens, just like astrologers and moon landing deniers and anyone else who wants to push their “reality” on us all.

The good news is, they can say whatever they want and I don’t have to agree (or even listen, should I so choose).

I might have to try Louis CK’s “OMG” moment when the plane takes off this Thursday as I go to Baltimore for turkey and family. I’ve always (even today!) wanted to try Bill Cosby’s “Hope the plane don’t crash”, but never had the nerve.