Why I Don’t Watch Television In Bed

I do not like to watch television in bed. There’s two reasons. the first reason is that I can’t get comfortable sitting up. I try to prop my pillow but it always slides down. I’ve tried those bed pillows but they didn’t give enoush support to my neck so I was uncomfortable. It’d be great [...]

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Descratching A DVD

I recently read in a magazine that you could remove the scratches from a DVD by spraying a little Pledge on a cloth and wiping the DVD. supposedly the Pledge creates a film that fills in the scratches, allowing the DVD to play normally. Now this might work on some minor scratches, but would it [...]

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Call Centers Are Not Quiet

Did you ever notice any of the commercials on television where they show people working in a call center? You know, the ones that show a girl or a guy wearing a headset working inside a huge cubicle with 6 foot walls. I worked in one for more than ten years and they don’t look [...]

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Smile For The Camera

We were looking at pictures taken on our annual camping trip. They’re all digital photos and we watched them on the television through our FIOS modem. I hadn’t really noticed that my brother LB2 never smiled often, especially when the camera was pointed in his direction. It’s because he’s having so many problems with his [...]

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Oddly Behaving Channel

Our channel 11 has been misbehaving. Sometimes there’s a line of static near the top of the screen. And sometimes the sound on whatever we’re watching is a few seconds behind the picture, much like a badly dubbed kung fu movie. It’s not happening on any of our other channels. We’ve tried rebooting the system [...]

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