cable tv?
- By Tina Griffith
- Published 06/4/2008
Tina Griffith
I love the summer, Halloween, animals, chocolate and music. That is the basis of knowing me. I also like to write and travel a little.
So I haven't had cable television for years, what exactly am I missing? I wonder sometimes. Then I see commercials for things and check out TV guide online and I think maybe I'm not missing that much.
I am not one to outsource one thing for another. I love my old video games over the new ones. A lot of things that should not have sentimental meaning for anyone else have it with me. My old Hercules plate, for example, and my stuffed dog Spot.
But I have found myself liking weather.com better than the weather channel. Why? Because I don't have to watch the radar when they put it on, every twenty minutes or whenever they do. I just click one button on my computer and there is the weather for my town. The radar, 10 day, hour by hour, all of the things I love about the weather channel. And when I go camping, all I need is a zip code to get the day's forecast on my cell phone.
Isn't that the point of having the internet anyway? Another thing, I often hear the joke "I remember when MTV
had music videos..." Yeah, I barely remember that. Where do I go to see music videos? Good question. Ask any high schooler, youtube. That is where OK Go had their famous treadmill video. I thought it was good by the way, but I like them anyway.
So what else am I missing? Ooh, reality TV. I can't stand reality television. Isn't my own life interesting enough? No, I need to watch these famous people, and these people trying to become famous people doing the dumbest things I have ever seen on television. Sound exciting, doesn't it? Hardly. I really do things with my life.
Is that everything? Well, besides or Hannah Montana and the other children's shows, the cooking shows not much. I only miss the travel channel, the discovery channel, animal planet, and the sci fi channel. And that was when the sci fi channel was good. Not that it is bad now, just not the way I liked it.
That means I'm not missing more than four channels among about 200. So why would I pay for cable? Although with the price of everything else, maybe you wouldn't notice.
I am not one to outsource one thing for another. I love my old video games over the new ones. A lot of things that should not have sentimental meaning for anyone else have it with me. My old Hercules plate, for example, and my stuffed dog Spot.
But I have found myself liking weather.com better than the weather channel. Why? Because I don't have to watch the radar when they put it on, every twenty minutes or whenever they do. I just click one button on my computer and there is the weather for my town. The radar, 10 day, hour by hour, all of the things I love about the weather channel. And when I go camping, all I need is a zip code to get the day's forecast on my cell phone.
Isn't that the point of having the internet anyway? Another thing, I often hear the joke "I remember when MTV
So what else am I missing? Ooh, reality TV. I can't stand reality television. Isn't my own life interesting enough? No, I need to watch these famous people, and these people trying to become famous people doing the dumbest things I have ever seen on television. Sound exciting, doesn't it? Hardly. I really do things with my life.
Is that everything? Well, besides or Hannah Montana and the other children's shows, the cooking shows not much. I only miss the travel channel, the discovery channel, animal planet, and the sci fi channel. And that was when the sci fi channel was good. Not that it is bad now, just not the way I liked it.
That means I'm not missing more than four channels among about 200. So why would I pay for cable? Although with the price of everything else, maybe you wouldn't notice.
