Joining the 21st Century: HDTV

Posted September 8, 2008, 10:22 p.m.

So, Melissa and I have always been fairly cutting-edge with computers and technology, but we’re not big TV watchers so our TV has never been a priority. We had been hopelessly behind-the-times with a CRT-based, non-DV, 20-something-inch television.

Well, no more. We finally caved and bought a 37″ flat-panel LCD HDTV. The times, they are a-changin’.

Problem is that we have an old DVD player that doesn’t work well on through the HDTV, so that needs to be replaced too, and we also have to upgrade our DirecTV plan a bit. It adds up, but we probably won’t upgrade again for another eight years or more so it’s no big deal :-).

Scott Bradford has been putting his opinions on his website since 1995—before most people knew what a website was. He has been a professional web developer in the public- and private-sector for over twenty years. He is an independent constitutional conservative who believes in human rights and limited government, and a Catholic Christian whose beliefs are summarized in the Nicene Creed. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University. He loves Pink Floyd and can play the bass guitar . . . sort-of. He’s a husband, pet lover, amateur radio operator, and classic AMC/Jeep enthusiast.

Quotes

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

[Americans posess] the advantage of being armed . . . over the people of almost every other nation.

The great danger in today’s world, pervaded as it is by consumerism, is the desolation and anguish born of a complacent yet covetous heart, the feverish pursuit of frivolous pleasures, and a blunted conscience.

In manufacturing, we try to stamp out variance. With people, variance is everything.

Creation of the universe from absolute and complete nothing marked the beginning of space, time, and matter. Theology has held that position for over three thousand years. Cosmology in the last decade or so has come to agree.

Violence, after all, is no mystery. It’s peace that’s the mystery. Violence is the default. It’s easy. It’s peace that is difficult: learned, inculcated, earned.

I always wanted to be somebody. I should have been more specific.

Reason itself is a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all.

You don’t have real diversity when you have a group of people who look different and think alike.

When a legislature undertakes to proscribe the exercise of a citizen’s constitutional right to free speech, it acts lawlessly; and the citizen can take matters in his own hands and proceed on the basis that such a law is no law at all.

Christian morality and God’s law are not arbitrary, but are specifically given to us for our happiness.

The gods have their own rules.

Moral responsibility is an individual matter, not a social matter.

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

[Pregnancy is] a wonderful thing for the woman, it’s a wonderful thing for the husband, it’s certainly an inconvenience for a business.

The great problem facing modern man is that, that the means by which we live have outdistanced the spiritual ends for which we live.

Follow the law of virtue; do not follow that of sin. The virtuous rest in bliss in this world and in the next.

When men are uniform in their opinions, it affords evidence that they are sincere. When they are shifting, it gives reason to believe, they do not change from conviction.

The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy.

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