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In which Kiffa compares himself to a VCR
12 years ago
(Expanded version of a series of tweets I posted this morning.)
I know it's 2013, but I still use a VCR regularly. I love DVRs. DVRs are great. But eventually, they fill up. And if you have a crappy Comcast one, like I do, that tends to happen rather quickly. If you want to keep stuff indefinitely, you need something else. Thus, my VCR.
I just discovered that my VCR has lost color, and only records in black & white now. Of course, I didn't realize this until after I'd taped several programs I wanted to keep, and then deleted them from my DVR. I looked online for possibilities of why this might be happening, even though I really knew that the answer is just that it's getting old. But maybe, just maybe, there was something I could do. One person said, "I'd clean the recording head. Use a head cleaning cassette with some head cleaning fluid on it." Yeah, not likely to happen. Even three years ago, when that answer was written, it would've been difficult to find a head cleaning cassette. Now? Pretty damn near impossible. Even finding blank VHS tapes can be a chore these days. I know you can still find DVD/VCR combos in some stores, but I really can't afford to be buying a new one.
Anyway, while I was thinking about all this, a realization hit me: In essence, I am that VCR. Once useful, now obsolete, a relic, no longer functioning the way it's supposed to, little chance of being fixed.
I'm joking, of course... but not that much.
P.S. The swelling on my face continues to go down. Thanks again to all who expressed concern.
I know it's 2013, but I still use a VCR regularly. I love DVRs. DVRs are great. But eventually, they fill up. And if you have a crappy Comcast one, like I do, that tends to happen rather quickly. If you want to keep stuff indefinitely, you need something else. Thus, my VCR.
I just discovered that my VCR has lost color, and only records in black & white now. Of course, I didn't realize this until after I'd taped several programs I wanted to keep, and then deleted them from my DVR. I looked online for possibilities of why this might be happening, even though I really knew that the answer is just that it's getting old. But maybe, just maybe, there was something I could do. One person said, "I'd clean the recording head. Use a head cleaning cassette with some head cleaning fluid on it." Yeah, not likely to happen. Even three years ago, when that answer was written, it would've been difficult to find a head cleaning cassette. Now? Pretty damn near impossible. Even finding blank VHS tapes can be a chore these days. I know you can still find DVD/VCR combos in some stores, but I really can't afford to be buying a new one.
Anyway, while I was thinking about all this, a realization hit me: In essence, I am that VCR. Once useful, now obsolete, a relic, no longer functioning the way it's supposed to, little chance of being fixed.
I'm joking, of course... but not that much.
P.S. The swelling on my face continues to go down. Thanks again to all who expressed concern.
You still write and perform music with the best of them :)
And thanks for the compliment-- even though aside from Drama Armada, I haven't uploaded anything to FA in over 5 years. T_T