{"id":25929,"date":"2023-10-13T05:00:18","date_gmt":"2023-10-13T09:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=25929"},"modified":"2023-10-12T22:49:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-13T02:49:50","slug":"now-on-with-the-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/13\/now-on-with-the-opera\/","title":{"rendered":"Now on with the Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I previously described, my cable and internet provider, or as I call them, the Ministry of Static, has upgraded my service to some unheard of number of petaflops per second of binary goodness.\u00a0 I know this because they tell me it is so.\u00a0 Of course, the picture looks the same and the data transfer from YouTube and X are equally erratic as before.\u00a0 But they tell me it is so and they are honorable men.\u00a0 They are all of them honorable men.<\/p>\n

Honorable men or women or giant talking celery stalks or whatever else they hire there at the Ministry.<\/p>\n

But what is undeniable is that I had to install the new router and the cable box.\u00a0 And even though these operations went surprisingly well, eventually I got back to programming all the devices into the master remote<\/u><\/em>.\u00a0 Ah yes.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne thing to rule them all,<\/strong><\/p>\n

One thing to find them,<\/strong><\/p>\n

One remote to click them all,<\/strong><\/p>\n

And in the darkness bind them,<\/strong><\/p>\n

On the living room couch where the snack crumbs fall.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

So there I am trying out all these codes to get the master remote to turn on the tv, audio receiver, the dvd player and the roku thingamabob.\u00a0 And I\u2019m thinking what the hell am I wasting my time for?\u00a0 There\u2019s nothing on the damn cable anyway.<\/p>\n

But the truth is we\u2019re creatures of habit.\u00a0 Sixty some-odd years of television viewing has conditioned me to plunk myself down in front of this device, or cluster of devices, in expectation of something that could be defined as entertainment.<\/p>\n

And so I dutifully performed my task and I even managed to improve the set up so that Camera Girl doesn\u2019t have to use the audio receiver to switch between separate output buttons when switching between the cable and the DVD and the roku audio.\u00a0 And she verbally patted me on the head, much as she does with her dogs and other critters.\u00a0 Well at least she didn\u2019t give me half a dog biscuit.<\/p>\n

And when everything was hooked up and working it was nice that it worked better than the old one.\u00a0 And I will admit that watching a YouTube video that theorizes about how consciousness might be accounted for in quantum theory is kind of a fun thing.<\/p>\n

But then I remember how in the old day YouTube was called books and that there are even certain advantages to paper podcasts.\u00a0 Like writing notes on the pages.\u00a0 But I shouldn\u2019t get too crusty.\u00a0 Human beings can waste time with or without the latest tech hardware.\u00a0 The trick is to actually earn your daily bread while wasting the time.\u00a0 Which I guess I did.\u00a0 I even vacuumed up some of the dust I found under the old cable box.\u00a0 It was a kind of frightening accumulation.\u00a0 If you\u2019ve ever seen a dust explosion you know the destructive potential of finely divided solids.<\/p>\n

But the really frightening thing is that that stuff is either dead skin cells, or even worse, dead mites that lived off dead skin cells.\u00a0 I feel like some brontosaurus with my own ecosystem living on my back.\u00a0 It\u2019s not a flattering thought.\u00a0 Note to self: vacuum the entertainment center once a season from now on.<\/p>\n

Well I wrote this frivolous post because they say tomorrow, Friday the 13th<\/sup> is some kind of jihad day for Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Isis, Al Qaeda and whatever other Islamic psychopaths are still around.\u00a0 If that\u2019s so I wanted to have a little fun just in case these lunatics created further havoc and spoiled my mood.<\/p>\n

And I think that, part of their plan is to make us so miserable that we lose the will to enjoy life.\u00a0 I think back to 9\/11\/2001 and how we spent years watching the newscasts and worrying about the soldiers over in Iraq and it sucked all the joy out of life.\u00a0 And they said that if we didn\u2019t go on with our lives the terrorists win.\u00a0 Well, they won.\u00a0 They had lots of help from George W Bush and the rest of the Uniparty but in a real sense they took years away from our lives.\u00a0 And we got back nothing.\u00a0 So now I want some fun even when they\u2019re blowing up everything.\u00a0 And I blame them all and I hate them all.\u00a0 Hamas, Joe Biden, Hezbollah, the FBI, Al Qaeda, the LGBTQ Mafia, ISIS, Anthony Fauci, Islamic Jihad, the Media Liars and all the rest of them.\u00a0 They steal away our joy and our lives.\u00a0 Well, not today.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Now, on with the opera.\u00a0 Let joy be unconfined.\u00a0 Let there be dancing in the streets…\u00a0\u00a0 drinking in the saloons, and necking in the parlor.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Play, Don.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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