{"id":313,"date":"2008-02-16T13:48:30","date_gmt":"2008-02-16T20:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=313"},"modified":"2008-11-30T12:22:54","modified_gmt":"2008-11-30T19:22:54","slug":"waiting-for-snow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=313","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for Snow"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s creeping down the mountain toward us.\u00a0 Weather forecasters are hedging their bets.\u00a0 Maybe it’ll snow in Tucson, maybe not.\u00a0 I think it’s down about as far as it’ll get this year.<\/p>\n

\"Snow!\"
Snow!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I have plenty of time to observe the weather today.\u00a0 Donna and Polly are out shopping for paint, and normally I’d grab this moment to watch one of the high-definition DVDs I ordered from Netflix, one of the ones I know I’ll like but\u00a0Donna won’t.\u00a0 But I have no HD DVDs.\u00a0 They’ve been in\u00a0our queue for three months, and not\u00a0one has ever come.\u00a0 I e-mailed Netflix but they never answered (goodbye Netflix, hello Blockbuster).\u00a0 Now I learn that Netflix will no longer rent out HD DVDs, only Blue Ray.\u00a0 Right.<\/p>\n

Once again, I bet on the wrong horse.\u00a0 Many years ago we bought a Betamax.\u00a0 At the time we knew VHS was the more popular format, but Betamax provided the\u00a0better picture, so we wound up with an expensive video player . . .\u00a0and nothing to play on it.<\/p>\n

This time we decided to go with the more popular format.\u00a0 When\u00a0we went to Circuit City last November, there were no HD DVD players in stock, but there were plenty of Blue Ray players collecting dust on the shelves.\u00a0 Clearly, the shoppers of America had voted for HD DVD, so that’s the way we went.<\/p>\n

Within a few weeks, a major studio announced\u00a0it was giving up on HD DVD in favor of Blue Ray.\u00a0 Another studio followed.\u00a0 Now Netflix is abandoning HD DVD, and, no doubt, Blockbuster too.<\/p>\n

When I was a kid my father bought a Nash.\u00a0 It must be\u00a0in the blood.\u00a0 Maybe it’ll snow after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s creeping down the mountain toward us.\u00a0 Weather forecasters are hedging their bets.\u00a0 Maybe it’ll snow in Tucson, maybe not.\u00a0 I think it’s down about as far as it’ll get this year. I have plenty of time to observe the weather today.\u00a0 Donna and Polly are out shopping for paint, and normally I’d grab this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumerism","category-personal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1087,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313\/revisions\/1087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}