Its Beamer TV, but I'm not beaming.
Saturday started with a leisurely walk with Jill and Marc along a local trail which has been newly paved. We walked along the trail which had a lot of signs which stated that it was private trail and that tresspassing would be unlawful, however there seemed to be a lot of people walking the trail. The reason for such a big turnout was that for a january day it was unusually warm, I am guessing around 18 degrees celsius and in fact we all wore shirts in a one layer dress code. Along the trail there was an old bridge which had railroad type bleachers as a pathway which had been closed off with plastic wiring but it was quite easy to traverse (if somewhat dangerous) either side and move onward on your way.
We got back in time for me to order the pay per-view game Liverpool versus Arsenal (which I am glad to report Arsenal won 3-1. It was at this time that I decided to call my family in order to enquire about the setting up of a tv-phone system called Beamer TV. My mother not being up enough with any electronic devices it was good to have my sister there to help. After several calls to first of all get it set up with international voltage converter plugs and telephone lines et al, and then after finally having her find out how to set the tv channel to aux setting, we proceeded to make call after call in order to get this device to work. You see Beamer TV is a great concept...you can talk with people over the telephone and also visually see them, a unique device for someone in my position with family far away. But if in the process of trying this after several hours you become so annoyed with the device that you dont even want to think about it anymore, then you start to think differently about the uniqueness of it all. Afterall what use is it if it does not work practically. It transpires that maybe through the use of AT&T prepaid cards it may just work. So that will be the next step afterall a considerable sum of money was paid for these Beamer TV's so we must exhaust all options in order to make it work. Jill is going to call the helpdesk on Monday. I was thankful that the result of the game went well, otherwise Saturday would have been a real pain.
We got back in time for me to order the pay per-view game Liverpool versus Arsenal (which I am glad to report Arsenal won 3-1. It was at this time that I decided to call my family in order to enquire about the setting up of a tv-phone system called Beamer TV. My mother not being up enough with any electronic devices it was good to have my sister there to help. After several calls to first of all get it set up with international voltage converter plugs and telephone lines et al, and then after finally having her find out how to set the tv channel to aux setting, we proceeded to make call after call in order to get this device to work. You see Beamer TV is a great concept...you can talk with people over the telephone and also visually see them, a unique device for someone in my position with family far away. But if in the process of trying this after several hours you become so annoyed with the device that you dont even want to think about it anymore, then you start to think differently about the uniqueness of it all. Afterall what use is it if it does not work practically. It transpires that maybe through the use of AT&T prepaid cards it may just work. So that will be the next step afterall a considerable sum of money was paid for these Beamer TV's so we must exhaust all options in order to make it work. Jill is going to call the helpdesk on Monday. I was thankful that the result of the game went well, otherwise Saturday would have been a real pain.
posted by refu at 8:50 PM
1 Comments:
that beamer tv sounds cool - stick at it no doubt it will be worth the hassle. Well done the gunners. Maybe we'll see you next round
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