Monkey's -- HDTV Beta Adventure

Czech Plush Monkey's Adventures!

Monkey sees and does stuff.

New visitor? Monkey's name is Opice (pronounced OH-pits-ay) which is Czech for monkey.

This is part of an on-going story.

To fully catch-up, web visitors will want to review how Monkey got connected and then what Monkey got connected before/during/or after reading this chapter of:

Monkey's Connections

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Previously on "Monkey's Connections" we left Opice staring into his 52" High Definition television screen awaiting HDTV signals.

We rejoin his gaze already in progress...

After many hours awaiting divine video, Monkey has an epiphany. "I need a new modem for more broadband!"

By the power of the internet, he magically has one.
(Come-on, you can suspend your disbelief.)

Opice figures installation will be easy-peazy.

"I swap out the 1st unit for the 2nd unit. The 2nd unit becomes the 1st unit and the 1st one becomes secondary. The new 1 becomes the new first 1 and the old 1 the new 2nd back-up 1.

This advanced math magically manifests a third modem. (2 on floor, 1 on shelf, none installed properly.)

"They're multiplying!" Opice frets as he stacks them in different arrangements because they won't sort themselves out. Soon he forgets which modem was which number: 1, 2, 3 / new, old, back.

"Which unit is first? What goes second? Who's on third? It's all becoming a bad joke."[1]

Then I switch the boxes; except, now they all look the same!

[1] And now, in keeping with Monkey's attention span, a moment completely different. Circle the correct word [of 3 choices] in the following sentence:

There are three [to too two]s in the English language.

If that's not provoking enough, learn how to pronounce ghoti!

Out with the new; in with the old -- no wait?

Done digressing? Back to the problem at hand...

Monkey jams together all the parts, assuming whichever whatever however will work if he's clever (which he believes he is, always).

"Now it's a simple matter of rearranging the wiring to achieve an aesthetic cabling that should enhance the color configuration of the test pattern," he declares. "Besides, technology is smoke and mirrors like Asimov said." [Guess who loves mirrors.]

And then I swap out the colors with cables.

Monkey rushes around front to see what the mirrors and modem shows him.

He stares into the 52" High Definition television screen awaiting HDTV video.

Time goes by. Suddenly the blank screen goes black!

Opice has so fouled up the fiber optic connection that photon bits were bouncing back up the glass line and flooding SureWest's basement!

Jim Gamer® gets an emergency call on his Freedom Fon (xxx-xxx-1776) and springs into action. He grabs a bit-bucket and begins bailing while dispatching his best S.W.A.T. Techs[2] to disconnect and correct Monkey's mess.
[2] S.W.A.T. = Sure West Anti-Analog Taskforce

Monkey welcomes the fiber-optic installers.

SureWest to the rescue!

This proves to be Monkey's bestest mess-up ever, at least from his mischievous view-point.

It takes 3 technicians 3 hours and 3 arguments to figure out what Opice did and how to undo it. But at last Monkey is watching Family Feud in High Definition tv. [The Techs confiscated the mirrors.]

Monkey crows about what the repair guys said leaving, "I heard them say I was 'a real piece of work'! ...And people think I'm lazy."

[2] S.W.A.T. = Sure West Anti-Analog Taskforce

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