I can see green things!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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On Television!

Perhaps I should explain. I have never bought a television before. I have lived with people who owned televisions, and watched them. (The televisions, not the people.) (Well, I watched the people some, but not, you know, for entertainment.) I have had televisions left in my home by people who moved out. My son was the last of these. He went to China, and left his television behind. It was fairly nice, 27 inches, and it got all the colors except green. I have had it for about five years, or so.

Since I very seldom watched it, it was fine. Then, when he (my son, that is) came home for a few months, he convinced me that I needed to get cable. So, I did. After a while, it seemed to me that maybe green would be, well, a good thing. But, I really wasn’t ready to buy a whole new TV just to get one color. It just didn’t seem like it would be worth it. I didn’t think of it all that often. And then I started hearing that my old TV was not going to be able to receive the New Modern[sup]TM[/sup] TV signals in 2007. Then I heard that I would have to buy a converter. Well, it all sounded like a fairly good reason to quit watching “Law and Order” reruns. And besides, they changed “West Wing” to Sunday night, and I work weekends.

I came into some money and I have to admit, the old TV didn’t seem to be quite as . . . adequate as I had thought. But still, a TV? I was hesitant. It seemed a bit extravagant. But I really did have a lot of money. (In a relative way, you know, compared to, say . . . oh, last month.) I bought some furniture. I bought some camera equipment. Then, in desperation, I gave a whole lot of money to my kids, so they could deal with the stress. (I am old, and not well equipped to change my lifetime orientation.)

The problem is, I kept getting more of this money. (Okay, I’m gloating. Deal with it.) Eventually, the inevitable happened. Costco had a sale, I had the cash, and the next thing I know, I own a brand new TV! (Let’s not mention the day spent flat on my back recovering from my aborted attempt to move the old TV.) (Okay, let’s mention it, but only in passing, as it does not bear all that much on the story at hand, except in an ironic “wages of sin” sort of way.) (Not that TV is inherently sinful.) (Well, maybe it is, but that isn’t the point.) So, I pop in my Lord of the Rings CD. Wow! Hobbiton is really Green! Football game. The field is very very bright green.

I can see Green Things! Everywhere! If I had known, I would have gone into debt for a new TV months ago.

Okay, I’m easily thrilled.

Tris

“These things that are pleasin’ you can hurt you somehow.” ~ Don Henley & Glenn Frey ~

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Nice, isn’t it? I had a Radio Shlock TV for about 10 years. The colour gradually got messed up so that everything was tinted a little blue. So if there was something red on the TV, it was really a kind of muddy bluish colour. I didn’t have anything else to compare though, and it didn’t really bother me. Until I moved in with Mr. AFG a few years ago. His TV had blue in all the right places! It was incredible.

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Hey, it’s good to be easily thrilled.

You remind me of my father, who, for years, had put off going to ween an eye doctor. His deteriorating vision made it inevitable, and he finally caved in and went.

When he got his new glasses, he came home, and just stood staring outside the patio doors. When I asked him what he was doing, he replied, in a hushed voice, and with obvious awe: “The trees… the trees have leaves.”

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And, if I could see those same leaves on my TV, they would be Green!

Tris

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Twenty years ago, when remote controls were just starting to come out for TVs, my grandparents had a TV which showed mostly green things. I don’t know what was wrong with it, but most things appeared green. So, for Christmas, their three kids bought a new TV, with a remote control. Two days later, someone pointed out that the TV was again showing a green picture–this time it was a football game. (it was funny when it happened).

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Not if it’s a red maple.

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This post has been Greened by the Greenist!

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Congratulations on your newfound greenness! It must be very exciting! I experience that same thrill whenever I get good reception on my T.V. I don’t have cable (hey, I live in Alabama! We’re just getting used to that fancy indoor plumbing.), so I have to adjust and readjust my antenna, then shift in my seat and contort myself into all kinds of weird positions to get a good picture. When it finally works, I start to do a little dance of joy, at which point I lose the signal again. But those few seconds where I get a nice, clear picture? Sheer joy!

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Now, you will totally get Soylent Green.

Also, in my post above: ween = see. I have no idea what happened there. But I think I see why my father was so reluctant to go to the eye doctor. :smack:

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Tris, I can so relate, as of this week… I have never bought a TV in the past 20 years either, just have always had giveaways. Current one a 20 year old RCA, with antennae reception, 5 channels, fine, sometimes snowy reception, but OK for me.

Saturday, I went to Costco, and was very awestruck at the TV selection. I could not get over it, just sat there all slackjawed at what TVs are now. Felt like a yokel, but not too bad, TV just doesn’t matter much to me. But, still, quite amazed at those big screens.

What type of TV did you get, wondering?

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I bought a 27" AKAI LCD HDTV capable
Television. It was on sale, $100 off. It has a built in DVD player.

Tris

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I see dead people.

(some are green as well)

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I can’t blame him - the amount of effort it takes to find an unweened eye doctor is unbelievable