Archive for December, 2007

TV Going Digital-The cable battle is underway

If you don’t know, TV in the US is slated to go Digital by 2009. This is causing a rift between Gram and me.
Grandma does not want to get cable.She rather get a TV converter. She says that she would go back to what she started with, the radio. Even if it means [...]

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The touch tone phone battle of 1996

Since we have been busy with holiday preparations. I have decided to reflect back on Christmas past when the Touch tone phone battle of 1996 occurred.
Before I came home from college for good, I sent a touch tone phone down to my Grandmother and Great-Grandmother for Mother’s Day. I knew that communicating with companies [...]

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Giving cooking lessons at the fish market

Grandma said that the first word that I’ve ever written was “fish”. This is ironic since I can’t stand the smell of the fish market. Anyway, Grandma managed to give someone a cooking lesson while picking up some whole fish at the market. She said that a lady asked her what she was [...]

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