We recently welcomed in a new roommate direct from China: Haier. All of 21 inches wide, he provides a connection to the outside world and even plays my Kenyan bootleg DVDs. Apparently the factory settings are still in place, since every time we turn him on, he displays, “Welcome to TV World.”
Ah, yes- TV World. Will & I had deliberated almost a month about whether or not to get a TV. We finally caved-in, and I’m having mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, we had very little to do at night except play cards and talk. With a TV we can keep in touch with local and international news, as well as watch the 5-in-1 movies I bought for $4 a piece. Yet now we have an all-too-easy distraction of not-so-good programming at our fingertips. The temptation to veg-out and not read, write, play guitar, talk or just sit, let alone engage each other, is something I need to be aware of.
Technology is neither good nor bad, yet entirely useful for either.
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