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Ummm, I still do many of those things, not just a few (and I am not a luddite by any means).
 
Do they still make a tv guide?.
Not in this country.
That list does cheat, there are like 4 things to do with pay phones. There are a few things that I think are gone or going that we just haven't noticed....
  • Listening to a radio show, daily
  • Listening to the radio on a timer as you go to sleep
  • Pagers, other than doctors
  • Calling a large corporation and get an actual human on the phone.
  • Getting a real caring letter in the mail. (Basically it's all solicitation and bills, now.)
  • Actually caring what interest rates are
  • Music videos on TV
  • Weekly murders in Cabot Cove, Maine
 
Do they still make a tv guide?.
Not in this country.
That list does cheat, there are like 4 things to do with pay phones. There are a few things that I think are gone or going that we just haven't noticed....
  • Listening to a radio show, daily
  • Listening to the radio on a timer as you go to sleep
  • Pagers, other than doctors
  • Calling a large corporation and get an actual human on the phone.
  • Getting a real caring letter in the mail. (Basically it's all solicitation and bills, now.)
  • Actually caring what interest rates are
  • Music videos on TV
  • Weekly murders in Cabot Cove, Maine
.
Radio shows daily are HUGELY POPULAR. Talk radio.
 
Do they still make a tv guide?.
Not in this country.
That list does cheat, there are like 4 things to do with pay phones. There are a few things that I think are gone or going that we just haven't noticed....
  • Listening to a radio show, daily
  • Listening to the radio on a timer as you go to sleep
  • Pagers, other than doctors
  • Calling a large corporation and get an actual human on the phone.
  • Getting a real caring letter in the mail. (Basically it's all solicitation and bills, now.)
  • Actually caring what interest rates are
  • Music videos on TV
  • Weekly murders in Cabot Cove, Maine
.
And I do a few of those as well...radio (especially Ira Glass) and (previously) Car Talk. No timer, tho, I do remember that as a teenager! My mom still writes to me via mail, she's an analog girl in a digital world. But, yeah, I send emails now. I have to care what interest rates are as my mortgage is dependent on it.
 
Do they still make a tv guide?.
Not in this country.
That list does cheat, there are like 4 things to do with pay phones. There are a few things that I think are gone or going that we just haven't noticed....
  • Listening to a radio show, daily
  • Listening to the radio on a timer as you go to sleep
  • Pagers, other than doctors
  • Calling a large corporation and get an actual human on the phone.
  • Getting a real caring letter in the mail. (Basically it's all solicitation and bills, now.)
  • Actually caring what interest rates are
  • Music videos on TV
  • Weekly murders in Cabot Cove, Maine
.
Radio shows daily are HUGELY POPULAR. Talk radio.
.
Yes, but I don't think people really gather around and tune-in specifically. If you are in the car, fine. If you are in the office, fine. Even TV, with PVRs, people care less about what time something will be on. It's become the background noise to our lives. The only radios that I own are the alarms in the rooms and the one in my car. If we had a blackout, I wouldn't have one that works.
 
Do they still make a tv guide?.
Not in this country.
That list does cheat, there are like 4 things to do with pay phones. There are a few things that I think are gone or going that we just haven't noticed....
  • Listening to a radio show, daily
  • Listening to the radio on a timer as you go to sleep
  • Pagers, other than doctors
  • Calling a large corporation and get an actual human on the phone.
  • Getting a real caring letter in the mail. (Basically it's all solicitation and bills, now.)
  • Actually caring what interest rates are
  • Music videos on TV
  • Weekly murders in Cabot Cove, Maine
.
Eric Arthur Blair said:
  • Weekly murders in Cabot Cove, Maine
Well she quit writing about them, so they just stopped!
 
Do they still make a tv guide?.
Not in this country.
That list does cheat, there are like 4 things to do with pay phones. There are a few things that I think are gone or going that we just haven't noticed....
  • Listening to a radio show, daily
  • Listening to the radio on a timer as you go to sleep
  • Pagers, other than doctors
  • Calling a large corporation and get an actual human on the phone.
  • Getting a real caring letter in the mail. (Basically it's all solicitation and bills, now.)
  • Actually caring what interest rates are
  • Music videos on TV
  • Weekly murders in Cabot Cove, Maine
.
Radio shows daily are HUGELY POPULAR. Talk radio.
.
Yes, but I don't think people really gather around and tune-in specifically. If you are in the car, fine. If you are in the office, fine. Even TV, with PVRs, people care less about what time something will be on. It's become the background noise to our lives. The only radios that I own are the alarms in the rooms and the one in my car. If we had a blackout, I wouldn't have one that works.
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We're throwbacks, we know that. We actually listen to the radio in the house and discuss what we hear. DH does talk radio in the car and I listen to music. And we do have a battery-powered radio for power outages. Which happen a lot here.
 
Do they still make a tv guide?.
Not in this country.
That list does cheat, there are like 4 things to do with pay phones. There are a few things that I think are gone or going that we just haven't noticed....
  • Listening to a radio show, daily
  • Listening to the radio on a timer as you go to sleep
  • Pagers, other than doctors
  • Calling a large corporation and get an actual human on the phone.
  • Getting a real caring letter in the mail. (Basically it's all solicitation and bills, now.)
  • Actually caring what interest rates are
  • Music videos on TV
  • Weekly murders in Cabot Cove, Maine
.
Eric Arthur Blair said:
  • Weekly murders in Cabot Cove, Maine
Well she quit writing about them, so they just stopped!
.
Arkansawyer said:
Eric Arthur Blair said:
  • Weekly murders in Cabot Cove, Maine
Well she quit writing about them, so they just stopped!
Thank goodness, they were having to bring people in from away so the town wouldn't be decimated!
 
Do they still make a tv guide?.
Not in this country.
That list does cheat, there are like 4 things to do with pay phones. There are a few things that I think are gone or going that we just haven't noticed....
  • Listening to a radio show, daily
  • Listening to the radio on a timer as you go to sleep
  • Pagers, other than doctors
  • Calling a large corporation and get an actual human on the phone.
  • Getting a real caring letter in the mail. (Basically it's all solicitation and bills, now.)
  • Actually caring what interest rates are
  • Music videos on TV
  • Weekly murders in Cabot Cove, Maine
.
Radio shows daily are HUGELY POPULAR. Talk radio.
.
Yes, but I don't think people really gather around and tune-in specifically. If you are in the car, fine. If you are in the office, fine. Even TV, with PVRs, people care less about what time something will be on. It's become the background noise to our lives. The only radios that I own are the alarms in the rooms and the one in my car. If we had a blackout, I wouldn't have one that works.
.
Eric Arthur Blair said:
Yes, but I don't think people really gather around and tune-in specifically. If you are in the car, fine. If you are in the office, fine. Even TV, with PVRs, people care less about what time something will be on. It's become the background noise to our lives. The only radios that I own are the alarms in the rooms and the one in my car. If we had a blackout, I wouldn't have one that works.
It has just changed. I am listening to Sirius radio right now.
We listen online, we have different methods.
As for the old Walton's where they sit around on the caroet and wood chairs listening to a radio program, well...we have tv, and so on from there. TRIVIA: (PS Walton's mountain is 2 hours from us, in case anyone wants to visit! and Mayberry is south of an less than 2 hours)
BUT having said that, PLEASE SEE THIS BLOG ARTICLE (this is right here) and it is nostalgic - please LISTEN it is pretty fun!: http://blog.claibornehouse.net/2013/02/youve-gotta-hear-floyd-radio-show.html
and we won't forget the uber popular A Prairie Home Companion
and all the many NPR programs that many listen too as well, daily. :)
 
I still do quite a few of those things too. My favorite is hanging out sheets on the clothesline in nice weather. It's hidden so my neighbors can't see it and I don't do it when guests are here. Nothings smells as great as fresh sheets off the line.
 
Do they still make a tv guide?.
Not in this country.
That list does cheat, there are like 4 things to do with pay phones. There are a few things that I think are gone or going that we just haven't noticed....
  • Listening to a radio show, daily
  • Listening to the radio on a timer as you go to sleep
  • Pagers, other than doctors
  • Calling a large corporation and get an actual human on the phone.
  • Getting a real caring letter in the mail. (Basically it's all solicitation and bills, now.)
  • Actually caring what interest rates are
  • Music videos on TV
  • Weekly murders in Cabot Cove, Maine
.
Radio shows daily are HUGELY POPULAR. Talk radio.
.
Yes, but I don't think people really gather around and tune-in specifically. If you are in the car, fine. If you are in the office, fine. Even TV, with PVRs, people care less about what time something will be on. It's become the background noise to our lives. The only radios that I own are the alarms in the rooms and the one in my car. If we had a blackout, I wouldn't have one that works.
.
Eric Arthur Blair said:
Yes, but I don't think people really gather around and tune-in specifically. If you are in the car, fine. If you are in the office, fine. Even TV, with PVRs, people care less about what time something will be on. It's become the background noise to our lives. The only radios that I own are the alarms in the rooms and the one in my car. If we had a blackout, I wouldn't have one that works.
It has just changed. I am listening to Sirius radio right now.
We listen online, we have different methods.
As for the old Walton's where they sit around on the caroet and wood chairs listening to a radio program, well...we have tv, and so on from there. TRIVIA: (PS Walton's mountain is 2 hours from us, in case anyone wants to visit! and Mayberry is south of an less than 2 hours)
BUT having said that, PLEASE SEE THIS BLOG ARTICLE (this is right here) and it is nostalgic - please LISTEN it is pretty fun!: http://blog.claibornehouse.net/2013/02/youve-gotta-hear-floyd-radio-show.html
and we won't forget the uber popular A Prairie Home Companion
and all the many NPR programs that many listen too as well, daily. :)
.
No Sirius radio (car is 10 years old, if I was going to change the radio, I'd add an MP3 player.) Honestly, long term, I don't expect radio to survive long term. Same with newspapers. Expect services like Pandora and Rdio to take over and radio shows to be on-demand, just like NetFlix is today.
 
I just ran into one of those the other day. Flicking through channels, we came on a show we like to watch. We watched something else until it was over so we could watch it on OnDemand.
The radio thing I sort of get. I listen to the local station in my house but it is through my iphone with the internet. I have a clock radio but I use my phone to get up by also.
I miss the yellow pages. I felt that added value and probably would still be useful today. I have yet to find one online that i like as much.
 
Read a book in paper format...my son said it used to be easier for him to meet women because they would be sitting around in the laundromat or wherever reading a book or a magazine. He could walk over to them and ask how was the book, did they like that author, would they recommend the book for him to buy for his sister? Now, he says, they are all texting on the phone. He says it's awkward to go and ask, 'Hey, who are you texting? Anyone I know?' That is stalker material there. Just asking about a book is conversation!
 
Also gone: shorthand, typewriters and ribbon, carbon paper, ko-rec-type, onion skin paper, "erasable bond" paper and typing erasers with the little broom on one end.
 
I play the radio through my DESKTOP. My phone acts as my alarm clock. What is a newspaper? :)
 
Also gone: shorthand, typewriters and ribbon, carbon paper, ko-rec-type, onion skin paper, "erasable bond" paper and typing erasers with the little broom on one end..
On my list of things that I want to see an end to...
  • Paper receipts - Really, is it so hard to email me a PDF receipt? They do it in Mexico!
  • Cable boxes - Why can't they come up with a standard in this country?
  • Table TV Electronics - My TV is on the wall... why do I need a table for stuff?
  • Keys - Seriously? Electronic keys, iButtons, and NFC phones mean anything to anyone?
  • Charging cables - There must be a better way to charge stuff
 
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