tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12954391.post891313947424228500..comments2023-11-28T22:47:40.465-05:00Comments on Tales from FAR Manor: FAR Future, Episode 80: White Valentine’sLarry Kollarhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08317037795075278427noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12954391.post-33960948879792120822009-04-09T07:18:00.000-04:002009-04-09T07:18:00.000-04:00Sorry to rant .. didn't quite intend to go off the...Sorry to rant .. didn't quite intend to go off the deep end .. but I'm glad you liked it :)<BR/><BR/>I got rid of the television back in 2002. The basic cable, which had been left on accidentally when the previous tenant moved out, was suddenly cut, so that was my cue to ditch the boob tube. Took the thing to the Salvation Army, with the remote taped to the back.<BR/><BR/>There are a few shows I watch (mainly Lost and the Sarah Connor Chronicles) but for the most part, watching them online is benign. Between takes, there's only 1 ad break of perhaps 30 seconds. And you can get streaming HD over a 100K connection just fine.<BR/><BR/>Uggh, I hate the television effect. It turns potentially decent/useful people into zombies. But that's a rant I should do for real someday.Nudgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01513472441473206482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12954391.post-11973035850878318832009-04-08T07:44:00.000-04:002009-04-08T07:44:00.000-04:00Nudge, it seems to me if publishers are not taking...Nudge, it seems to me if publishers are not taking *any* new MSS, they're basically getting ready to shut down. I've often said that there's no social problem in the US that couldn't be solved by cutting off all the TVs… maybe that's an exaggeration, but not by much.<BR/><BR/>Wonderful rant… I agree with it all.Larry Kollarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08317037795075278427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12954391.post-66346075811851249132009-04-08T05:40:00.000-04:002009-04-08T05:40:00.000-04:00Great 'sode, Far, and let me join them who sai...Great 'sode, Far, and let me join them who said they're glad the series isn't disappearing offline. Besides, the publishers are doing bad these days ~ I know this. A few of them have stopped taking in new manuscripts, which is totally daft IMHCFNO since that's what starts the process of them selling books which is what makes them successful. (For instance, the publisher that handled the Harry Potter series has benefited greatly in a financial fashion.) But, oh well, some people take “downsizing” too seriously. (I fantasize about starting up a publishing biz someday, but it would have to fit into the textile thing somehow.)<BR/><BR/>Metric = good. Most people can't do fractional math in their heads anyway, let alone on paper and with much mumbling.<BR/><BR/>I am wondering what might happen if our great cultural leveler, err, mindwasher (television) were to be suddenly turned off. Those of us who've researched this stuff are aware that television is responsible for the utterly-batshit-insane lifestyle expectations of too many people, the damping-down of local & regional accents everywhere, the shrinking of our world (aka the New Jersey effect: “what exit do you live at?”), the act of making every little place look almost just like a million or so other lumps of Applebees, Prole*Marts, CVS, Homeless Depot, Amberzombie & Bitch, Homegoods, OfficeMax, Linens&Crap, etc.<BR/><BR/>Note to the shitheads in charge of urban planning: NO ONE LIKES EVERYPLACE LOOKING JUST LIKE EVERYPLACE ELSE! Not only is it the sort of blandness that makes you want to gouge out your eyes (after first checking the GPS to see what state you're in), but it's Totally. Farking. Boring. It makes it quite the chore to find the places that do NOT look like everyplace else.<BR/><BR/>(apologies for the caps please!)Nudgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01513472441473206482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12954391.post-75394802033791347412009-04-07T14:45:00.000-04:002009-04-07T14:45:00.000-04:00Hey Yooper! Future FARf says, "You noticed the met...Hey Yooper! Future FARf says, "You noticed the metric, huh? Yup, we started the transition in 2025 and finalized it in 2029. For a while, the holdout junta-symps would insist on using the English measurements, but they finally gave it up.<BR/><BR/>"Heehaw is slang for a Harlow-Easton Hauler, a light truck built at the old GM plant in Chamblee (ironically, using a Ford design, the RE100D aka 'Red100'). The nickname spread, and now the rest of the country calls any truck based on the Ford designs a Heehaw. I'll be talking about it more a little later."Larry Kollarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08317037795075278427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12954391.post-10390037960482489622009-04-07T13:48:00.000-04:002009-04-07T13:48:00.000-04:00Hey Far! I'm glad to see the "U.S." has finally se...Hey Far! I'm glad to see the "U.S." has finally seemed to have scrapped the standard measurement and converted to metric! ha! I try to do this on every job, I'm on... So much easier! Can't seem to get this by the carpenters though! We should have done this back in the 70's!! Especially when most can't even get to the 10th in the field!<BR/><BR/>About the only thing good the standard measurement was the "step" or foot and the "pace" or 3 feet, for a quick estimate (how primtive). But I suppose, not everybody can add/subtract and multiply/divide in 16ths and 12's... Maybe that's why they keep me around?!!! That just drives in insane!!! ha! ha!<BR/><BR/>Btw, what's a heehaw"?yooperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11297259993402713368noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12954391.post-80794727390280501822009-04-07T09:16:00.000-04:002009-04-07T09:16:00.000-04:00Boran, winter is still winter. I doubt we'll ever ...Boran, winter is still winter. I doubt we'll ever see palm trees in Buffalo, no matter how globally warm it gets.<BR/><BR/>Actually, the big dash of cold water has lowered ocean temperatures, which is giving the future a temporary reprieve from global warming. When the going gets weird, the weather's a pro. ;-)Larry Kollarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08317037795075278427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12954391.post-32668953005702840292009-04-06T23:02:00.000-04:002009-04-06T23:02:00.000-04:00Hay Far, aren't things supposed to be getting warm...Hay Far, aren't things supposed to be getting <I>warmer</I>? I guess that Far Manor just goes its own way on these things. ;-)boran2https://www.blogger.com/profile/10483728578007756485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12954391.post-20455992525895147592009-04-06T20:56:00.000-04:002009-04-06T20:56:00.000-04:00Hi all!Bri2K, thanks much. Mondays will continue f...Hi all!<BR/><BR/>Bri2K, thanks much. Mondays will continue for a while, anyway.<BR/><BR/>FM, it can be exhausting trying to imagine an entire world! But "local stuff and day to day things" is kind of the whole point… a lot has changed, but a lot of familiar things still happen: people play, get sick, fall in love, all that. I don't expect it to change.Larry Kollarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08317037795075278427noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12954391.post-2984288539986462132009-04-06T15:36:00.000-04:002009-04-06T15:36:00.000-04:00Hiya FAR,Great story telling as usual. Your story...Hiya FAR,<BR/><BR/>Great story telling as usual. Your story telling sort of reminds me of cooks that say, "I only us locally grown stuff." Whereas local stuff and day to day things seem to weave throughout your stories. Wonderful.<BR/><BR/>Hope you have a good week in front of you.Family Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17101125448247590979noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12954391.post-4107821491714913302009-04-06T15:13:00.000-04:002009-04-06T15:13:00.000-04:00Thanks for the latest installment of FAR Future, M...Thanks for the latest installment of FAR Future, Mr FARf. It was most timely given the pre-Easter snow that us in the east are expecting. <BR/><BR/>I was very relieved to find out FAR Future going offline was an April Fool's joke. Your timing is excellent as I'd recently voted that your wonderful saga is the main reason I visit your site, although I do enjoy your posts about what's happening around the true-life homestead.<BR/><BR/>Keep 'em coming! Mondays wouldn't be the same without FAR Future<BR/><BR/>Bri2kAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com