Wednesday, April 18, 2007
All three of the televisions in my house are connected to either a TiVo box or a DirecTV box. Both of these systems give me the option of displaying a “guide” in a grid right on the screen. If I want to see what else I can watch, I click to the guide and browse until I find something I like. That way I can search all I want without changing channels and stopping whatever is currently being shown from being recorded. I love this feature.
My girlfriend fiancée hates it. When she is watching TV she never uses the guide. She just punches the code for E! or VH1 and goes right to the channel. This bothers me both because she sometimes stops recording something by changing channels and also because it just feels inefficient. Why not just use the guide?
I just can’t seem to get into RSS.
I can’t really get upset about it, though, because her method is the same one I use to read my blogs. I just can’t seem to get into feeds. RSS is certainly cool and I dig the ability to subscribe to the feeds of the sites I like. But I never do. I have a bookmark folder in FireFox called “Blogs” and that’s where I save the links of my favorite online reads. About once a day I scroll to the (incredibly cool) “Open All in Tabs” link in that bookmark folder and pop open all my blogs at once. This is definitely less efficient than using an RSS reader — or the system included with Firefox — and only checking the blogs which have been updated recently. Why in the world do I do it this way?
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Monday, December 8, 2003
How’s this for serendiptious alliteration? Last night after seeing a television commercial for Cingular cellular I said:
I would switch to Cingular but Sarah said their service sucks.
Friday, August 25, 2000
So. I’m driving home from Four Green Fields tonight and I stop to grab some donuts and beer. After 11 pm everything in Tampa closes, even on the weekends, so I have to go to the Shell down on Gandy and Dale Mabry. Guy I know there is behind the counter as usual and I see he’s looking at something he printed from a web page. “What’s that you’re reading there, Ellis?” “Oh it’s for my job. Here.” and he hands me a cassette and a business card. Some type of lawyer thing. “You’re on line?” I ask. “Oh yeah, I love the ‘net.” “Hey check out my page - davidgagne.net,” I say. Girl in line behind me says, “Hey! Check out my page!” and we all start talking. Nice people. Sometimes, I am just astonished at the things that happen on this planet. Nobody showed at FGF; but I met some nice people and I always have a good time singing shanties.
Sunday, March 26, 2000
Strange things are afoot at the Circle K. Remember the Joan Jett song, “I Love Rock n’ Roll”? Am I the only one that ever noticed that “I love rock n’ roll” has the same number of syllables as “serendipity”?
Speaking of serendipity … Firda has a link to Ouch! who has a link to me. I had never been to Ouch! until I clicked on a link at weblog wannabe, so it’s pretty flattering.
Wednesday, March 22, 2000
There was recently a tale in [GatorNotes] in which I tried to explain the concept of serendipity and I probably did a poor job of it. I am thinking that if I ever own something that I want to name - maybe a large plantation or a sailboat - I will name it serendipity. I seem to be inundated with it lately. Tonight I read an article at www.sylloge.com and I, for not the first time today, had my flabber gasted. I’ve been visiting his site for a while now and like to read. He has a nifty little place and a style that I really enjoy. So a n y w a y … here’s a guy that I’ve never met writing about conciousness and mind and the supreme pain of hearing the word impact used as a verb and doing it in a wonderful prose and it is totally out of the blue and just when I needed to be reminded that there is intelligent life on the planet. I would really like a sailboat, by the way.
