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    Carol Brady Creates The Worst Tech Support Job On The Face Of The Earth

    New Hearing Aids Double As Headphones, Reduce Grandpa to a Living, Breathing iPod Accessory (UPDATED)

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    Image of infmom infmom
    10/14/09

    In reply to Carol Brady Creates The Worst Tech Support Job On The Face Of The Earth
    Wish I knew enough old people with money like that, I could fix stuff for half price and still laugh all the way to the bank.
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    10/14/09

    In reply to Carol Brady Creates The Worst Tech Support Job On The Face Of The Earth
    Here's the story, of a mom named Brady.
    Who was pushing DTV support for the old ladies.
    All of them had hair of gray, like this mother,
    The youngest one in her eighties.

    Here's the story of a man with a cunning plan
    Who was busy concocting a scheme of his own,
    He would find a washed up B list celebrity,
    And start a business with a phone.

    Till one day when the lady met this fellow
    And he knew she couldn't tell he was a shlub
    These two would somehow form a business
    That's the way we all became the FloH Club
    The FloH Club.

    That's the way we all became the FloH Club.
    The FloH Club.
     Reply
    Edited by Jrsy Devil's Advocate® at 10/14/09 7:05 PM Jrsy Devil's Advocate® was starred Jrsy Devil's Advocate® was unstarred
    Image of Margatron Margatron
    10/14/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Bright Idea®: You win.
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    Image of longbourne longbourne
    10/15/09

    @Jrsy Devil's Bright Idea®:

    Here's a story of a lovely lady
    Who did tech support for all the Golden Girls
    They were all on dial-up (like your mother)
    With drivers made in PERL.

    But the business was a little shady
    Selling timeshares in Boca Raton retirement homes
    They packed ten seniors in a room together
    ...and some were 'accident'-prone...

    So one day an unpleasant stream of yellow
    Caused several residents to lose their lunch
    The company paid the fogies off with Jell-O
    And disappeared in the '08 credit crunch.
     Reply
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    Image of Jrsy Devil's Advocate® Jrsy Devil's Advocate®
    10/14/09

    In reply to Carol Brady Creates The Worst Tech Support Job On The Face Of The Earth
    "Oh! My FloH!"
     Reply
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    Image of Curves Curves
    10/14/09

    In reply to Carol Brady Creates The Worst Tech Support Job On The Face Of The Earth
    What a very shrewd business move on her part. There is a market, and she is jumping in it to supply a need that isnt being met for her target customer. Bravo, Mrs. Brady. Bravo.
     Reply
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    Image of Yuppers: I love you Yuppers: I love you
    10/14/09

    In reply to Carol Brady Creates The Worst Tech Support Job On The Face Of The Earth
    Speaking of Facebook, I think my mom had one of those personal training sessions because she just added me as a friend on FB. Now I want to close my account. :/

    BTW, I ignored her.
     Reply
    veronykah promoted this comment Yuppers: I love you was starred Yuppers: I love you was unstarred
    Image of veronykah veronykah
    10/14/09

    @Yuppers: I love you: You're supposed to add her, then delete later.
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    Image of SQLGuru SQLGuru
    10/14/09

    @veronykah: I'm going to start a competitor to Facebook and call it Circle of Friends. You'll be able to put people into different circles (for example, buddies, work mates, and family). Then, when you post about how you were skipping work because of a hangover, you could tag the message as only going to the buddies circle and your boss and your mom would never find out.
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    Image of infmom infmom
    08/12/09

    In reply to New Hearing Aids Double As Headphones, Reduce Grandpa to a Living, Breathing iPod Accessory (UPDATED)
    There are bone-conduction hearing aids on the market already--they are used for specific kinds of hearing loss. No reason why that technology couldn't be combined with the bone-conduction headphones.

    However, given the outrageous prices for hearing aids already, and the fact that almost nobody's insurance covers them, any early adopters of the technology better have deep pockets.
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    Image of Sinecure Sinecure
    08/11/09

    In reply to New Hearing Aids Double As Headphones, Reduce Grandpa to a Living, Breathing iPod Accessory (UPDATED)
    For the ultimate old people cross-pollination of ideas you could include a laser pointer that spells out "Get Off My Lawn" at the press of a button.
     Reply
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    Image of dimsum4u dimsum4u
    08/11/09

    In reply to New Hearing Aids Double As Headphones, Reduce Grandpa to a Living, Breathing iPod Accessory (UPDATED)
    So after I have taught my grandparents how to use this new fandangled doohickey, I then have to teach them how to use the other fandangled doohickey that speaks to them without any wires. I think the reason they price it so high is because they know they won't sell many in the beginning, but once our generation becomes old and need to wear diapers we are gonna need something like that. Hopefully it changes our diapers at the same time.
     Reply
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    Image of Hello Mister Walrus Hello Mister Walrus
    08/11/09

    In reply to New Hearing Aids Double As Headphones, Reduce Grandpa to a Living, Breathing iPod Accessory (UPDATED)
    "consumer tech accessories meant to indirectly plug into your bone"

    So, by "bone" do you mean the skeletal parts of your body or your penis? The former would be sort of disturbing. The latter would be just weird...
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    Image of J0hnP J0hnP
    08/11/09

    In reply to New Hearing Aids Double As Headphones, Reduce Grandpa to a Living, Breathing iPod Accessory (UPDATED)
    As a lifelong hearing aid wearer and gadet user, I've been eagerly awaiting this type of integration (hearing aids/bluetooth). Since most cell phones generate a lot of interference with hearing aids, having bluetooth integration (sort of like the current tele-coil capability) would be awesome!
    Of course, I think the battery drain would be pretty significant. And the price sure seems very significant. ;-)
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    John Herrman promoted this comment J0hnP was starred J0hnP was unstarred
    Image of John Herrman John Herrman
    08/11/09

    @J0hnP: Aren't most fitted hearing aids quite expensive anyway? I always assumed a few grand was par for the course, at least for the mid-to-high-end stuff.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    08/11/09

    @J0hnP: i wonder if this equipment would be covered by most insurers.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    08/11/09

    In reply to New Hearing Aids Double As Headphones, Reduce Grandpa to a Living, Breathing iPod Accessory (UPDATED)
    It's a great time to be an old.

    adjectives . . . the new nouns.

    sorry, just givin' ya a hard time john.
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    Edited by Nick at 08/11/09 6:06 PM Nick was starred Nick was unstarred
    Image of John Herrman John Herrman
    08/11/09

    @Nick: I love Nick: Admittedly I stole the phrase from Gawker, but it's a thing! I promise!
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    Image of Nick Nick
    08/11/09

    @John Herrman: well, now i feel dumb. i was sitting here asking myself, "what if it's a thing i don't know about. then i am gonna look mighty dumb. ahh, what the hay." but the good news is that i now know it's a thing and i will do my best to further perpetuate it.
     Reply
    Edited by Nick at 08/11/09 6:25 PM Nick was starred Nick was unstarred
    Image of strider_mt2k strider_mt2k
    06/13/09

    In reply to Reminder: DTV Transition Is Today, June 12th
    Nothing lasts forever.
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    Image of infmom infmom
    06/12/09

    In reply to Reminder: DTV Transition Is Today, June 12th
    I'm an old person and I'm not giving up the rabbit ears. They provide the reception to our converter box, at least till my old husband puts up the outside antenna he's been talking about for 15 years.


    Yeah, we also have cable.

     Reply
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    Image of travisvannimwegen travisvannimwegen
    06/12/09

    In reply to Reminder: DTV Transition Is Today, June 12th
    I agree completely with theeraserhead.
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    Image of infmom infmom
    06/12/09

    @Travis VanNimwegen: Is that a big ditto from you?
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    Image of mikegriffin mikegriffin
    06/12/09

    In reply to Reminder: DTV Transition Is Today, June 12th
    Analog, Digital-same old shit.
     Reply
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    Image of IN THE FACE! IN THE FACE!
    06/12/09

    @mikegriffin:

    +1 Insightful


    Wait... um, no.

     Reply
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