Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for December 30, 2013

I thought that was only a guy thing.

Having a TV in her room might be the only thing standing between Danae and the (shudder) fulfillment of her ultimate destiny.

No wonder Danae thinks she’s smarter than everyone else if she judges the general population by the content on TV… Reality indeed…Take note that dad and Katie are holding reading material and not a remote… Who has the better grasp on reality?

Ah, yes… yet another of the holiday re-runs :/

Dead remote battery doesn’t BLIT the signal. The problem is far more serious than that- the TV itself may have expired, leaving our young herione to depend on her own imagination…. and we all fear to tread that path.

Sounds like she knows her sister…Somebodyshort, that train left the station in the oughts…..

…We now conclude today’s programing. Your television signal will return at its regular scheduled time.

and signing off with the Star Spangled Banner, leaving an insomniac hopeless and helpless, until, the advent of the infomercial.Finally the television became the sleep aid that we all needed!

I had two TVs in my room as a kid in the sixties. One was a modern home repair job and the other was a working 1940’s model.

Just those of us (like me) that are older than dirt.

and Thirdguy: I remember that stuff!! AND watching that black dot in the middle of the TV screen til it faded away.

TV in the bedroom makes you stupid. There’s even studies…

Forgot to dvr howl

WiFi works better……dat satellite is just too far out … that is not TV she has, its an old Apple…..

Charter here in DFW area had that problem all day.ONLY on the NETWORKS SHOWING FOOTBALL!!!Of course Dallas had it’s ROMO moment so all is right with the world.

Been there! Done that!

That’s exactly what I do!!!!!!!!!!!!

==Parenting advice to Joe. Kids shouldn’t have a TV in their room

==That particular ship sailed a long time ago. The big struggle now is trying to keep the tablet, laptop or smart phone out of the kid’s room.

And, ypoons, that’s why I included that! I have study that shows that too!

I’m older than dirt and my TV set lives in the front (living)room with my recliner. Bedrooms are for sleeping sans sound & light.

We didn’t have a TV in our house till 1964, so I (thankfully) missed out on a lot of the early stuff. Never had one in our bedroom. It was a blessing not not have that around when our brains were young and supple.

I feel the same way about my converter box at least my analog never skipped out on me.

How is she balancing that box on the TV? Super-glue?

When I was in junior high, I saved what I made from two paper routes and selling greeting cards door-to-door to buy a small portable TV. Now I could hurry home from school and watch “Twilight Zone”, which before I was unable to do because of mom watching soaps. Totally worth all the work!

We have either satellite or 3 stations off repeater on antenna, which is more than we had in the ’50’s and our first TV. My uncle had one with a lift up mirror in the top, and about a 3 inch CRT in the body of the “device” that reflected onto the mirror.

But everyone knows Danae was just watching Sesame Street, right?? (Okay, Nightmare on Elm Street is her bedtime story.)

“1940’s model?? – like, BIG piece of furniture with a screen no bigger than a sheet of writing paper? -.Exactly. My late father used to be a TV repairman for a national company in the fifties, so I remember seeing TV as a youngster. He kept up repairing as a hobby, right up until everything became solid state. I expect there still some old valves in his shed.

Hello……my nickname is Dirt.I remember radio too. 45’s 33 1/3’s Hi Fi radio, Hi Fi record players (not stereo that came later) , consoles the size of a VW, console entertainment centers that had a TV, record player, storage, and if lucky an 8 track. Size of a large chest freezer. 13 channels, antennas, and if lucky the antenna with the motor to rotate to get the best signal, and don’t forget UHF.Cars with an engine you could actually see much less work on.AND PHONES WITH A ROTARY DIAL AND OPERATORS……..my granddad had a ringer phone on his farm in North Carolina. You answered by the number and type of rings you heard. His was three long and two short.And most all electronic equipment had…TUBES!!!

You have to remember the Indian Chief test pattern.

must of had COMCAST – it will go out in a wink of an eye if there is any sort of wind – strong, slight, broken wind to

Interesting. When my satellite goes out, I just get a message on my screen advising me of either a partial or a complete signal loss. “Click, click, click” won’t do a thing for me at that point.