Re: [LM_NET] Vent

[Rosanne Zajko <rmzajko@COMCAST.NET>]

I'll tell you what REALLY frustrates me...a librarian (me) who can't operate
a remote. Have mercy on us.....please. In my house, we have at least 5 (I
lost count) remotes. It used to be when you wanted to watch television, all
you had to do was click one button and the TV came on with the sound. Now
you have to click one for the audio, one for the picture and one for the
cable, unless you want to watch it from the satellite, which is another
process...and let's not even talk about HDTV. What confuses me is when the
audio and the image don't match. It scrambles my brain. And those universal
remotes are a misnomer. We have one and you still have to push more than one
button when the one button doesn't do everything it is supposed to do. My
son even drew me a diagram but it hasn't helped. Then, if you want to watch
a dvd or video you have to go to a different component, which has nothing to
do with the one you watch tv broadcasts on.

In school I was spending too much time trying to remember which buttons to
push in sequence to get to a particular spot on the dvd that I wanted to
show to illustrate a point. Now I just climb up on a chair and push the
buttons on the dvd player. I can't help it...I'm remote impaired. It reminds
me of the scene from City Slickers where one of the guys is explaining to
the other how to record on a vcr a program you are not watching while at the
same time you are watching a totally different show on TV. To paraphrase:
The cows get it before I do. As far as I am concerned, improvements in
technology should make life easier, not harder (or at least, not more
confusing).

Rosanne Zajko - librarian
Ancillae Assumpta Academy
Wyncote, Pa.
rmzajko@comcast.net

-----Original Message-----
From: School Library Media & Network Communications
[mailto:LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU]On Behalf Of Clark, Curtis
Sent: Wednesday, October 05, 2005 4:48 PM
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: [LM_NET] Vent


Does anyone get as frustrated as I do of these teachers that can't hook
up a simple VCR????????????

Curtis L. Clark
Library Media Specialist
Harrisonville Middle School
601 South Highland
Harrisonville, MO 64701
816 380 7654 #243
Fax: 816 884 5733
clarkc@harrisonville.k12.mo.us


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