Phonebooks. So many questions unanswered…

I got home from work today and saw a phonebook outside my door.  Swell.  A phonebook.  When am I going to use a phonebook?  Do people still use phonebooks?  They do??  Haven’t they heard of the internet?  Don’t they know you can just search for a name and find the number if it’s listed?  No flipping through pages and squinting at tiny print.  They can even look up a number to find a name.  Can’t do that very easily with a phonebook.

The phonebook will sit outside my front door until the office people at my complex remove it.  The same thing happened last year.  It took about a week before it disappeared.  What a waste of paper.  Can I opt out of phonebooks?  How did they know to even send me a phonebook?  Who are “they” anyway?  Can I find their number in the phonebook?  I bet it would be faster if I looked online…

I guess it’s just another example of some old technology hanging on for dear life.  The same goes for newspapers and paper bills and cursive handwriting.  

My aunt, and elementary school teacher, tells me they’re still teaching kids cursive.  Why?, I ask.  Because it’s in the curriculum.  Because they need to know how to sign their name.  Pff, then only teach them how to sign their name and spend the rest of the time teaching them how to type.  Better yet, spend more time on math and science so our children don’t fall further behind other countries.

Woah, wasn’t I just talking about phonebooks?

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There’s no reason for fuzzy Sharks

As I write this, I’m watching game six of the San Jose Sharks/Calgary Flames NHL playoffs series…in standard definition. Why standard definition? I dunno. It’s being aired on Comcast Sports Network, yet Comcast Sports Network HD is airing nothing. Not nothing as in Bass Fishing or Pro Bowling, nothing as is nothing. Nothing as in no signal. I guess I don’t understand how television programming and scheduling works. But that doesn’t matter. All I know is that this is pretty dumb.

Of all professional sports, hockey benefits the most from HD quality broadcasting. It’s just too hard to watch in standard definition. This is coming from someone that practically took his first steps in hockey skates. I’ve been playing ice hockey since I was four. But even I got frustrated following the tiny, blurred puck move from fuzzy player to fuzzy player. To watch hockey, I had to be at the game.

But a hockey game in HD is completely different. You can see every detail. Every puck movement. Every hit. Every emotion. HD is how the game was meant to be viewed.

But here I am living in the so called “technology hot bed” of America, during the NHL playoffs, watching the Sharks in standard definition on an underutilized Samsung 50 inch plasma tv.

Sigh…

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Advice of the day…

When choosing a domain name for your firearms exchange website, consider how it reads.

Case in point: www.shootersexchange.com

…just something to consider.

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