Using two VCRs to edit a video project for English class.
Using two VCRs to edit a video project for English class.
I used to get up early on Saturdays to watch cartoons, and remember being really bummed when they weren’t on because Saddam Hussein was invading Kuwait.
And I can sort of mentally mark when I started to sleep in later because by the time I got up all I managed to catch was Saved By the Bell before the broadcast switched to a golf tournament or a fishing show.
And ATMs charge fees, which you don’t pay if you use the teller.
“Real old heads”? Blu-rays are older than Silly Bandz.
My bluetooth headphones still do this when I use the microwave at work. I have learned to stand back from it when it’s in use.
Apple IIe’s in the computer lab at school, magazines with whole programs in basic that you could type in to make the computer draw something.
Road trips with Prairie Home Companion on tape, Dad was at the wheel, and Mom flipped the tapes. I didn’t quite grok that there was a big plastic case full of cassettes, so hearing “turn to side eight” mystified me, because surely tapes could only have two sides, right?
That smell is Christmas to me. That was the only time we typically got new NES or Super NES games, and lord I loved that smell of fresh print and plastic.
I remember always resenting Prince Valiant for taking up valuable page space that could have gone to Calvin and Hobbes or something else that didn’t suck. Good lord, Prince Valiant was fucking terrible.
One of my first vehicles came with an aftermarket ten-disc cd-changer someone had installed in the back and hooked into the sound system, with a separate control panel up front. It was such a pain to use (and would skip constantly) that I usually just listened to the radio anyway.
And you didn’t have to update it constantly with patches that might change its functionality.
It was channel 4 for us, because channel 3 was the local CBS affiliate and it would interfere with the signal from the NES. There was a switch on the console to flip between 3 and 4, because it varied depending on location which channel was optimal.
Channel 3 was CBS, 5 was ABC, 12 was NBC, and that was it.
The ABC affiliate would also broadcast Sesame Street because for most of my childhood, we didn’t have a local public television station. When we finally did get one, you had to get cable to pick it up where I lived. I have vague memories of having cable in the house for a brief time around the time the ABC station stopped carrying the show, but my parents dropped it pretty soon afterward when we started to want to watch exclusively Nickelodeon. At least I always assumed that was the cause, but the cost of cable was probably a bigger factor. They compensated for that by recording movies that came on network TV with the VCR, and we happily rewatched those constantly instead of whatever we were missing on cable. We had whole shelves full of just VHS tapes full of movies recorded off the TV.
If I wanted to talk to someone who wasn’t in the same location as me, I had to know the ten digit number assigned to them.
Okay, sure, but voting on a single issue is what fucking morons do.
Sounds to me like those are shitty safety limits then. Fix your nuke plants, Japan. You’d think this would be a priority after the last time.
Shithole state.
Yeah, so was McCain until he got onto the ticket and every GOP puppet master shoved their arms up his ass.
Incremental change is often the best we can hope for in this world.
Lol, the headline makes it sound like they were just so belligerent about being told to stop taking pictures of themselves that they flipped the boat out of spite.
St. Patrick’s Day in America has always been more of a celebration of Irish-American immigrant culture than it is of Ireland itself.