At 11:50 10-03-01 -0600, Julia wrote:
>On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, J. van Baardwijk wrote:
>
> > At 09:51 10-3-01 -0600, Julia Thompson wrote:
> >
> > >And I also like just enough of the
> > >commercials on the shows I'm watching to put up with the ones I don't; and
> > >I also like the fact that every hour, there are several opportunities for
> > >me to bolt for the bathroom without losing much of anything worthwhile.
> > >(I have to time these things a lot more carefully when I'm watching
> > >PBS....)
> >
> > Julia, I really think you oughta go and buy a VCR now! :)
> >
> > You can skip the commercials, and go the bathroom when *you* want, not
> when
> > the networks decide to interrupt the program and gracefully allow you a
> > pee-break.
>
>We have a VCR. It's actually easier to sit down and watch the program
>when it's on. I watch at most 10 hours of prime-time programming every
>week, and just skip the shows I'm interested in if I've got something more
>important or interesting to be doing at that time. (E.g., going out to
>the theater, doing something with friends, etc.)
>
>Besides, it's really hard to swap out the tape that we're using
>exclusively for that Babylon 5 episode to tape the thing that comes on
>another channel right afterwards. ;) (And the other TV/VCR setup in the
>house has a similar problem with swapping out tapes just after The
>Simpsons.)
So get a third VCR . . .
(No, I have 3 VCRs and sometimes that still isn't enough. Of course, most
of the time they, and the TV sets, are sitting idle, reflecting the fact
that Sturgeon's Law is alive and well.)
-- Ronn! :)
