I find all of this frustrating, and I wish companies would work harder on the quality of their products (though making an mp3 sound as good as a record is probably impossible, and if you even got close it would be a huge memory hog, which is part of the issue).

Do you know anyone that would argue that a cell phone has the same quality as a land line? I hate my stupid cell phone, and it’s probably not the phone, it’s probably the AT&T I am forced to put up with because my husband has an iPhone, and can’t use it with another carrier. But even when I was on TMobile, it wasn’t as good as the land line. But the land line doesn’t go in my car or to the store or wherever else I might want to be. So convenience wins over quality, yet again.

You know what? I feel old. Like one of those old folks who says, “Things these days just aren’t made the way they used to be!”, and it’s sad, because it’s true. Some of that is inferior workmanship and plastic parts, and some of it is just the age we’re living in, and the technology that is available.
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Great reminders about how things change, and how quickly. I always get a kick out of seeing an older movie or TV show and seeing someone using a brick mobile phone and such. I also remember back in ’92 researching my first computer purchase and going through page after page in Computer Shopper with ads like, Awesome 486 power! Lightning fast 14.4k modem! Blazing 286k RAM! hehe.

Coolio post.

George
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Come to think of it, I bet you could write in smarty-pants style on any subject you chose and it would make for good reading, because there would be some logic behind what you wrote.

Well, this post was equally neat, Deb. There is a however, however.

I have found that I no longer have any use whatsoever for television. In fact, I got rid of my last television in 1985 and have never looked back.

The news? I can get all I need of it online and its content is of a higher quality, unlike the Madison Avenue/Hollywood style news on TV where they try overly hard to get increased advertising income by catering to the slowest and the dumbest among us.

TV shows? I’ll take your word for it that you guys have found a single solitary TV show that is of a better than a run-of-the-mill poorly written book.

Of course, TV is relaxing. After all, when we are really into it, we are mentally almost asleep.

And now radio? That is a different matter altogether. I miss it very much, especially the story-telling shows. Much as with a book, the mind has to build all the sets and the characters involved in a radio show. That need to picture something on radio in your imagination is mind expanding, much as is a good piece of literature or a classical music piece.

But, all in all, we have come a long way; it’s just that some of “that way” is not an improvement over what was before.

Something that shows us that we have not developed our mental acuity as much as we would like to think would be reading some of the writings of just a few long dead writers, such as John Chrysostom, Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, all of whom lived in Byzantine times, prior to the awaking of the West. Then, not too distant from our times, there are the writings of Alexander Hamilton and John Adams.

We don’t have to like any of these people or subscribe to their chosen path or anything else about them to see that we are not that far ahead of them despite all the advantages we have at our disposal today.

Thank you so much, Deb, for this very good post. It is proof positive that you haven’t lost any of your mental acuity.
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Today I have 33 recordings I put on tape, then transfered to a CD, and now listen to on my iPod. I do like the crackling of the needle in the grooves – such a nice, cozy sound.

PS – Last night’s Burn Notice was pretty awesome, don’t you think?
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