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Writer buys mom a DVR; mom almost buys son an iHop
Funny piece this week by Joe Lavin. He and his father bought his mom a TiVo for Christmas, so she can tape all of her favorite shows, including all those Law and Order spinoffs and all the CSI shows. Not only did he discover that all these devices don't like to communicate with each other (the TiVo instructions tell you not to hook it up through a DVD player and the DVD player instructions advise you not to hook it up through a cable box or satellite), he also discovered that his mom almost made a big mistake when buying something for him.
And so I spent most of Christmas trying to hook up all the different boxes in the simplest way possible for my mother, and I think I succeeded. For the most part, she is faring pretty well with all the new technology, although she did have a little trouble pausing a movie until she learned that she could just hit the "eleven" key. She is doing much better with technology than last year, when she informed me that she was thinking of buying me an iHop for Christmas -- you know, one of those portable music devices from Apple. All I wanted was to listen to some MP3s on my way to work, and I almost ended up a pancake house franchisee.
He also makes a very true and very funny observation about how high speed internet access was supposed to free up all this time for us, and just the opposite has happened.
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