tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33801994.post5497265766164676049..comments2024-02-14T02:30:36.732-05:00Comments on The Blog of Helios: It's About Rythm and Structure.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13978117986484281976noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33801994.post-41255874736313542292011-02-08T14:49:06.486-06:002011-02-08T14:49:06.486-06:00I remember most of it as well, but they could have...I remember most of it as well, but they could have done much worse than the PT Cruiser :)<br />Oh, wait, they did... Pontiac Aztek :)Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17490966466819291720noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33801994.post-75211221998099887022011-02-07T12:28:02.702-06:002011-02-07T12:28:02.702-06:00All the problems of the world, everyone
of them ca...All the problems of the world, everyone<br />of them can be blamed on Lawrence Welk <br />and Perry Coma.<br /><br />You kids should know that there was a time<br />when there was no TV. Good times.<br /><br />Thanks Ken.Colonel Paniknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33801994.post-87609189408224747212011-02-07T12:08:06.103-06:002011-02-07T12:08:06.103-06:00Many of us have taken a keen interest in technolog...<b>Many of us have taken a keen interest in technology, we choose to. But as I mentioned in a less than gentle way recently...<br /><br />Some people don't want to.</b><br /><br />OK, I'll give you that, but those people should realize that this is their choice and when that channel does "go fuzzy", they cannot expect friends or family to come at the drop of a hat and come fix it.<br /><br />Especially when we have to come fix the same stupid problems time after time.<br /><br />I gave my family notice 2 years ago. I will no longer fix virus or spyware problems on their computer any more. Some have let me put Linux on their computers and every one of them are happy enough. The rest still do the same dumb things. The only difference is that they now pay the geek squad about 200 dollars every 6 months or so.<br /><br />Their is a price to pay for staying in one's comfort level. It tends to make those around them uncomfortable.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33801994.post-74836601319975129262011-02-07T11:19:00.412-06:002011-02-07T11:19:00.412-06:00"A black and white screen up until sometime a..."A black and white screen up until sometime around 1968."<br /><br />Luxury. My parents waited to get a color TV until 1979.<br /><br />Great article, thanks for posting it.piquant00https://www.blogger.com/profile/12127072023401476771noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33801994.post-13487832542549062692011-02-07T11:03:16.558-06:002011-02-07T11:03:16.558-06:00I think you missed a beat, there, Ken. Those folks...I think you missed a beat, there, Ken. Those folks didn't trust Walter after awhile, instead they yelled and changed the channel when the body-bag reports starting playing. They fought to keep on trusting what they were told.<br /><br />I'm old enough to remember watching the original airing of the Superman, and American Bandstand, but I also remember "don't trust anyone over thirty". The lines were never really that clear-cut, but the message was and is true: stop believing what you're told just because you're told to. Find out for yourself. To me, that's what the Sixties was about, and, guess what: it still is.<br /><br />But then, I'm sitting in the choir rows here. I think everybody who watches this blog of yours is all about go-find-out.<br /><br />I can offer some encouragement, however. My father is in his mid-80's. He never forgave Cronkite either. For a decade, he'd listen when I told him to never reply to spam, to ignore MSIE and use Mozilla, to ignore Exchange and use Pegasus... but only in the context of Windows. Linux was freaky stuff (used by his freaky son, QED). Now he's using Ubuntu for the family's web-cruiser, and looking to hook his (still-preferred) XP systems up to the Net strictly through the Ubuntu box's firewall. He's budging, and he's as stubborn as I am. There's hope.crb3noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33801994.post-81265349230325081442011-02-06T09:56:14.856-06:002011-02-06T09:56:14.856-06:00"Then there was "rerun summer".
Ye..."Then there was "rerun summer".<br /><br />Yeah, that's when kids actually went outside and <b>played</b>. Today, it's all I can do to get my kids to get up from their playstation to come eat. I think they think of sunlight as a deadly force, to be shunned at all costs.<br /><br />Liz and I were talking about things in our childhood during dinner one night and I mentioned something about me climbing a tree when I was 10. My 12 year boy looked at me with a raised eyebrow and asked' <br /><br />"Why would you do that?"<br /><br />I told him, "because I could".Dennis Kittingernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33801994.post-85451743159982450922011-02-06T08:57:30.200-06:002011-02-06T08:57:30.200-06:00"Turn the TV to Lawrence Welk boy and get me ...<b>"Turn the TV to Lawrence Welk boy and get me another beer..."</b><br /><br />Are we brothers?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33801994.post-33643627519494960462011-02-05T20:33:53.290-06:002011-02-05T20:33:53.290-06:00You took me back to my child hood and I do miss it...You took me back to my child hood and I do miss it in a way. With all the channels Cable and Satellite furnish you would think they could at least furnish all those "old" favorite shows on a channel or two for us folks. Plus it would be great to show our Grandkids what we used to watch. Might be a great time to share a few laughs with them.<br />Great blog today.Fred and Wilmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10493905505446616242noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33801994.post-91489320370704036822011-02-05T20:29:41.952-06:002011-02-05T20:29:41.952-06:00Great, now I have the Howdy Doody theme song stuck...Great, now I have the Howdy Doody theme song stuck in my head...<br /><br />No Don Knotts in Maybury? (Ever seen The Incredible Mr. Limpet?) What about the Dick Van Dyke show? The old black & white Dennis The Menace? The Rat Pack? (Ever seen the original The Manchurian Candidate?) I still think those old Duck and Cover PSA's are hilarious! ;)<br /><br />People have had difficulty changing since the human race first learned to make fire. Radio to TV, horse and carriage to car, and the Industrial Revolution was no cake-walk! The printing press stirred up some trouble, the telescope had prominent skeptics for decades, and being a 7th century Western European peasant must have been slightly disorienting to say the least! :P Rome was not built in a day, and neither did it fall in a day. And Socrates was sentenced to death by poison by his own people for telling the truth.<br /><br />Change is not something that humans handle gracefully, but it always happens nevertheless. Even so, it is not always the case that individuals change, but rather the <i>next</i> individuals. In the words of Gustav Mahler, "<b>The young are always right</b>".Gavinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33801994.post-32525075712477641922011-02-05T09:51:04.135-06:002011-02-05T09:51:04.135-06:00Thanks for reminding me just how old I am.
Poetic...Thanks for reminding me just how old I am.<br /><br />Poetically done Ken.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com