Entered double digits without television |
Loading ...The screenshot in the last post was of CNN coverage during Hurricane Katrina using Google Earth, we are still TV-less by choice after 10 days. Double digits now.
Sterling has us pegged for 30 days. Pete Repeat gives us a half month more: 45 days. Go ahead and leave your guess here.
So far the biggest grumbler — and it’s probably not even fair to label it “grumbling” as it’s only been mentioned a few times — has been my wife. Our youngest son complained a little about Cartoon Netwook, but the family overall is holding strong. Troopers. It’s summer and our middle teenager is about to head off on a week long camping excursion. Our oldest is contemplating helping grandma move in Montana. We received confirmation that our second Xbox 360 had reached Texas and is being repaired, so maybe we’ll have that back next week sometime.
Our Hollywood Video MVP is starting to get a bit old. We figured it would take us a couple months to cycle through the movies we were intested in seeing but hadn’t. When you start renting movies because of box art and not because you actually wanted to see it, barrel scraping has begun. Fortunately, after doing our DVD inventory this last week, we realized there are still a decent number of DVDs we haven’t seen. Like Seabiscuit, for example, which is still in the shrinkwrap. The A-Team Season 4 is queued up as well.
I exported the library collection to a tab-delimited file (709k) and saved it to a non-public folder on the server. I’d like to create an Automator action (Mac) to automatically backup the DVD inventory file to this folder on the remote server. Anybody have a favorite Automator action to recommend or should I just roll my own?
Still need to scan the CDs and games. Maybe this weekend we can knock that out.
So, what do you think, will our family make it to triple digits without TV? 90 days from now would put us into October. Post season baseball with the Mariners playing the way they are they could very well be in the mix, NFL will be a month into full season (will there be any legal way to watch NFL on the web?) … stay tuned.
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Intersting comment about renting movies because of the box art. I can think of a lot of things that could be done, rather than striving to find another visual fix. However, I still have TV so thats easy for me to say.
This is an interesting adventure. With all the video games and computers these days, it\’s amazing how we as a society is hooked on the all knowing glowing cube.
Give me a computer and an internet connection, I could disappear from my family and the world all to quickly! Kudos to you TD for doing this!
Comment by ^Lestat — June 30, 2006 @ 9:17 am PST
Thank you for the note of confidence, Lestat. Must admit it seems kind of weird having so many TVs, but so few things running on them. I wonder how far the day off is when we have zero TVs and everything is on a large computer LCD (or whatever comes next)?
It seems to me like we should already have more interaction between TV and computer than we have. If more people quit TV like our family has then a movement might be forced more energetically in that direction.
Comment by TDavid — June 30, 2006 @ 10:39 am PST