Author Archives: Granger Meador
Saving Face(book)
Since so many of my current and former students use Facebook, I maintain a presence there. But lately I’ve wondered if I should give up on it since I was being deluged with annoying automatic invites and updates from various … Continue reading
Languages of the Dead
Last Thursday, outside the local Quiznos sandwich shop, radio tore my heart in two again. I was about to drive home with a belly full of French Dip goodness when I tuned in National Public Radio. Its brief elegy to … Continue reading
Defining high definition
So what is high definition TV? Answers vary widely! My own standard would be an image that is at least 720 pixels high (preferably 1920 pixels wide and 1080 pixels high) and is delivered at a reasonable bandwidth. While many … Continue reading
TiVo Trials
Well, it didn’t take me long to re-invest the forthcoming year of monetary savings from cancelling cable television. Tuesday night I kept an appointment to sit down and watch a wonderful live high-definition transmission of a NOVA episode on broadcast … Continue reading
I’m feeling Blu…
Well, I’m feeling a bit Blu, because Blu-Ray may well have won the format war for high-definition video discs. Why does that make me sad? Because I bought an HD-DVD player a couple of months ago so I could watch … Continue reading
