9:52 AM 10/15/01
Opening eyes early this morning. Had to help load a truck. Finished, came in, sat down and …
Oh dear god.
Remember when I said:
“It’s funny sometimes how folks never amaze to amaze me. Every time I think I’ve seen something that’s got to top the all-time list of stupidity, someone else comes along to top it. Let’s just leave it as that I’m amazed and frightened by the world today.”
Well, TechTV just amazed me again.
All I can say about the new bottom of the screen ticker is that whomever came up with the design WAS ON CRACK. Or Dope or Speed or Uppers or Downers or BOTH.
I knew it was a California station but DANG FOLKS ugg.
There are hippies getting stoned and watching this right now. You know it.
Calming down, calming down. Think rationally.
First, NO ONE tunes into TechTV for the ticker. If they want ticker stuff they’d tune into a dedicated station.
The Ticker already took up about 1/3 of the screen in it’s existing form.
“But k9, the bottom of the screen was blank before, it was just wasted space …”
BULLPUCKEY.
An orange and green scrolling ticker is very distracting. In fact it’s probably inducing seizures in small children as we speak. Remember the Pokemon cartoon that made all the Japanese kids sick a couple of years ago? By god, I swear there are computer geeks slumped over at their computers right now after a week of this.
This thing is giving ME a headache and dang it, TNN has taken away my WKRP.
See what happens when I go away for a week?
This has to be the dumbest thing they’ve ever done at TechTV, I mean it’s more blinding than Scott Herriott’s naked manboobs were a couple of months back.
How about this compromise: Run the scrolling ticker during the lame commercials during the breaks. That way we’d actually watch them because we’d be memorized into seizures and wouldn’t be moving until the ambulances came …
UGG.
Dope, they’re all on dope.
— k9
PS Mr. Hand rules.
PPS Remember when I said I would never repeat using my personal feelings to get a message over through a strip? It’s out the window. UGG.