HD-DVD....not so cool anymore

8 track tapes.....betamax.....and now HD-DVD. It's the latest technology to battle for dominance and lose. Yesterday Toshiba yanked the technology from the market. Funny thing was that over the weekend I had to replace my DVD. The best buy Gal was pretty knowledgeable. She explained that there is basically two types of DVD players.... the up conversion types and the true HD types. Ok....you can still but the basic models that work with "regular " TVs. You can get those for $25....but if you listen to the over reported media....you are screwed in 2009 due to the signal change to HD.....might not want to invest that $25....Ha HA....they will report and make a big deal out of everything...the media....another time for that.

Back to 8 track....I think that was the biggest battle. I knew very few people that had betamax and fewer that had the new technology of HD-DVD. But 8 tracks......always remember my brother Tim professing his love to the 8 track. I thought cassettes were better.......Come on...on 8 track the music would stop in the middle of the song....change tracks and then continue the song, how lame. Now it's Ipod's and all the Ipod accessories that go along with them.

So....I am off to return the up-conversion DVD player and spend the extra $100 on the Blue Ray!!!

Let's get to some juicy politics. Did you hear what Michele Obama said at a rally?

“Hope is making a comeback and, let me tell you, for the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country. Not just because Barack is doing well, but I think people are hungry for change,” she said during a rally in downtown Milwaukee.

She should move out of the country....period. If you have not been proud....which means you have been ashamed....for 40+ years then move.

I would hope that this line was more pandering to all the Obama lemmings then her true feelings. Weeeeeeeeeee need change. You may not agree with a certain president or party, but we are all still Americans....we are the biggest and best country in the world. When was the last time you saw Americans sneaking out of our country and trying to get into ....let's say Cuba.....NOT....