Boredom is not having your trusty mouse

with you at TV time.

[ann]

I was watching TV the other night and, while looking at the guide channel scrolling, felt that it was going waaaay too slow. I caught myself searching all around me for the mouse so I could speed it up.

One night I was going to change channels and again I began looking for the trusty mouse!

Anyone else? Or am I spending too much time at the computer?

Ann

[Iguana]

No Ann, you're spending too much time with the TV. Get back on that computer!

[zCat]

After typing in a new channel number on the remote, or dialling a number on the telephone, I often feel a vague urge to press some kind of enter key to "submit" the "data".

[ann]

Gee, I better schedule some more computer time hehe

zcat!
You are exzctly right. I do that also!
Whew, glad I am not really going crazy...of course going insane is not out of the question. :)

Ann

P.S.

Happy Fourth of July!

[httpwebwitch]

talk to me when you've double-clicked the buttons on your microwave oven.

[DamonHD]

Bizarrely my microwave oven has exactly the same whirly ASCII progress indicator as a Sun workstation/server when booting.

Some wag that worked for me transferred the SUN badge from an old machine to the oven. Still amuses me!

Rgds

Damon

PS. Don't we all wish that there was an "undo" in the real world?

[Hester]

Microwaves and washing machines often use chips originally destined for computers, but which would be classed as too out-of-date today. At least that's what I've heard.

Anyway, it sounds like ann needs to get into interactive TV. There you can control the menus and some content as if using a computer.

Or go the whole way and set up Windows Media Center (or similar on Mac, Linux etc). Then you can record shows, and use the mouse to play them back.

[DamonHD]

...and have your TV crash, just like the "real" thing!

Rgds

Damon

PS. Yes, still millions of Z80s being made every year for washing machines, etc, AFAIK... Probably 6502s and 6800s also.

[Lipik]

After one year of using a HD-DVD-recorder, I try to FF or REV a 'live' programm.... Doesn't work :(

[Hester]

Doesn't that only work with Sky+?

[LifeinAsia]

I try to FF or REV a 'live' programm.... Doesn't work :(

You need Tivo. But then again, as soon as you get used to it, you feel completely lost in a hotel room that only has live TV.

[tedster]

I've been trying to keep several TV channels open at once in different tabs -- just can't make it happen.

[Brett_Tabke]

> Anyone else

I reach for the mouse when I am reading the news paper and want to cut-n-paste an article link to someone...

[ann]

Well,
I have sat TV and a DVR to record the shows. It is a little archaic since you can only use button control for moving the selector and for selecting.

When are they going to come out of the dark ages and give us a mouse to work with? I demand My Mouse!

Ann

[bhonda]

A couple of weeks back I was semi-watching a film on bog-standard terrestrial tv, when a huge thunderstorm kicked off, and cut my reception off for a few seconds.

My initial reaction was one of panic - I knew I had to ping something, but I had no idea what the TV server was called, or its IP address.

I think I've been playing with servers too much.