Bigger than Television

Everybody knows, I love taking baths. No, that's not how I wanted to start this blog entry today. Everybody knows I have recently found YouTube.



I started out with a post on YsabellaBrave, and I still listen to her. I mostly listen to her VLOGs. I love the way she sings; I am hooked.

Anyway, I am not really wanting to post on her again – for one, you will think I have a girl-crush on her, and, well, I don't. I wish I could sing like her though.

A few weeks ago, I heard a couple of VLOGgers talk about YouTube being bigger than television¹. Er, not sure what they were smoking (actually, one of the people who made the claim is a medical-marijuana-carrying-card-member), but television is still bigger than YouTube. I just thought the VLOGgers were feeling all self-important and predicting the future. I have no problem with being self-important or predicting the future (my futurist post). But this thought leads me to thinking about technology that seems to be going out-of-favor.

VCRs
I have a VCR, and I have not used it in more than one year. I am thinking if you don't have a ton of homemade porn, you probably don't use the VCR too much either. Convert those VCR tapes to DVD – they will last longer. Oh, and do the same to the homemade tapes of little Johnny and Mary when you taped them at birthdays, Christmas or on family vacations. Just don't mix up the DVDs.

Land Line Telephones
I have a telephone that actually attaches with a phone cord and plugs into the wall. I only get phone calls from telemarketers. I just thought about it, and no person I want to talk with ever talks to me on the "land line." Now, I make calls from it, but only when I am at home. It is not that I love my cellular phone, but it is so convenient. I think about calling people, but if I wait until I get home, I often forget. Bad memory for making phone calls. Plus I like to call people while I am at work, and since my employer doesn't like paying for the calls, I use my cellular phone. I just don't know if cellular phones are spelt "cel" or "cell" phones.

Books
I have heard that some people think books are becoming obsolete. I don't think so. Books have been around for hundreds of years, and I remember several companies (including Apple) try to have some digital devise that would replace a book, but for most books, this is not going to happen. Yeah, I know about e-books, but I don't think e-books will ever replace "normal" books. I love the feel of books, and cannot ever imagine replacing my books with an electronic version of the books.

Besides, I love reading in the tub, and from my limited knowledge of electronics, electronic devises in a tub is a bad idea.

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¹It reminded me of a quote from John Lennon of the Beatles, "We're more popular than Jesus now." Actually, later, John Lennon did say, with regards to his statement, "I should have said television was more popular than Jesus, then I might have got away with it...." His statement had as much to do with Christianity not being as popular as it once was than anything else. The whole line was, "Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me"