Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:02:57 -0500 From: "Michael Walsh" <mjw at press.jhu.edu> To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] TV trash talk, was Re: My report on the inauguration Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> > "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net> 1/25/2009 6:22 PM >>> >>Tamar Lindsay <dicconf at yahoo.com> wrote: [stuff snipped] >> I watched broadcast tv, the first time I've done so deliberately >> since 1993. > >I think I've watched mine more recently than that, but not within the >past year or two. So I haven't bothered to get a converter box, and >when analog TV is shut down next month I'll probably toss the TV in >the dumpster. Virginia doesn't have recycling for computers, tvs, and the like? = Computers etc all have metals that really shouldn't go into a landfill. And it's sort of silly to trash a working - but for converter box - tv. = Perhaps a neighbor might find it of use. mjw