Drabble by Kevin Fagan for March 04, 2013

What do you think that is, 440RoadRunner?

(The kid has a future in bureaucracy.)

I know the feeling.

Sometimes when I turn on/off theTV it will turn on/off either the TV or the cable box.

Didn’t understand problem or solutions!

Why would a new TV have more than one remote?

Everything is more complicated than it used to be even using the phone, you have to go through so many steps. What happened to just picking it up and dialing a number? Oh no, you have to press this, then that, and maybe eventually the number. Sigh….

My newest TV did not have a code that my TiVo could read(among may pages of choices), so I still have to turn on/off and change volume with the TV remote, but all other functions use the TiVo.

upstairs TV is better, but cable service was here this week and left me with one new remote for converter box without taking away the old one.

I think this cable tech was a newbie. He was flummaxed by some things that I knew and was more interested in the dress displayed on the nearby mannikin (one of my designs).

It is not only the tv – it is the cable box, the video game console, the dvd player, the vhs(don’t forget the betamax). It is very confusing and not worth it to get the program you were searching for.

MALL COP STRESS

Between multiple game consoles, TV, receiver, HDMI switch and cable box I think I was up to 10 devices in the living room. I bought one good programmable remote and now I just push a button on it for what I want to do and it turns on the correct hardware and changes the settings. So much easier to have one remote do everything