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August 01, 2004Too many damn wires!
One new surge protector multi-outlet, one new RCA audio-video cord, and much sweat later, I seem to have brought my TV, VCR, DVD player and PS2 to an uneasy peace. Nothing routes through anything, even though I seem to remember having the DVD player wired to the TV via the VCR originally. It doesn’t matter. They don’t all work simultaneously, but I’d never have need to use more than one device with the TV at any given time, anyway. And with the addition of the multi-outlet surge protector, I don’t have to unplug the VCR to juice up the DVD player (and vice-versa). Even more importantly, the DVD player’s power cord is no longer pulled taut like a tripwire across empty space a foot-and-a-half off the ground to reach the more remote outlet.
I’m sure my departed father, who majored in physics and worked as an engineer for Bourns for most of his adult life, is shaking his head in the afterlife right now.
Then again, my mom is confounded by all manner of electronics (computers, cell phones, TV remotes--you name it).
Technologically speaking, I guess that makes me the missing link.
Posted by patrick at August 1, 2004 11:25 AM
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