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TV isn’t totally dumb :)

Posted by kovaiputhalvan on December 26, 2007

Mini-vacation extended by a day. Came down with a bad cold and associated problems. I didn’t want to pass it on to my better half, so visited the doctor and got prescribed a ton of stuff that’s going to make me sleep like a log. So here’s a quick post before I hit the sack.

A friend of mine had some trouble with his Cable-TV connection. He thought he knew what the matter was – to confirm, he posted a question on comp.dsp. An interesting conversation followed. To cut a long story short, he found that his original guess was as far off the mark as we are from Proxima Centauri, and he learned a lot more about Cable TV than he cared for. There’s more to TV than just the idiot box, or so it would seem :)

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Unlikely Bedfellows

Posted by kovaiputhalvan on November 10, 2006

A long while ago, when I was still green behind the years and was living in the Institute with Tree Lined Avenues, I was gifted one of those little plastic plaques with a pithy message written on it.

It read thus:

If you love something, set it free;
If it comes back, it is yours.
If it does not, it never was.

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