While the tech world buzzes about the latest mass media consumption device, I play with a refurbished unit called the “Roku XD 2050X 1080p Streaming Player, 802.11n/g, Ethernet Port, Enhanced Remote with Instant Replay.”

Purchased one at Woot.

Well, I actually made the classic “duh” error when I ordered the box.

I pressed the Big Button (if you’ve wooted, you know) and got an HTTP 404 error that the page I sought no longer exists.

So I pressed the refresh button…

Four times!

Tried to cancel but the Wootiers behind the virtual wall told me, “Sorry!  Our robots are scurrying through the warehouse, happily scooping up four Woot boxes just for you.”

Anyway, the one box that I wanted, I opened.

Within minutes, I was watching a free Amazon On Demand movie on the ol’ 1999 55-inch standard definition projection TV in the comfort of my overcrowded living room.

Letterbox version of a popcorn flick, “Mission Impossible 3: We Suckered You Into Watching This Fluff a THIRD Time!”

Easy as making a pie.

No, easy as pulling a frozen pie out of the freezer, sticking it in the countertop convection oven and cooking it unevenly, burning one side and leaving the other side nice and cold.

As a comedian, I’ve got to find something funny about the inconvenience of convenience foods.

Besides, writing satyrical skits gets old.  And the burlesque dancers even more plastic-looking than Cher singing at a NASCAR race full of robot drivers and their plastic, Valley of the Dolls, Stepford wives!

Enough already.

Let me save the insults for the young kids.

Time to get serious, if not a few Syrians.  Assyrians, you’re time has come and gone.  I’ve got my safari gear on and ready to hunt cougars.

Experience counts where experience counts but who’s counting?

I know there’s somebody important in this time period who died I’m supposed to add to the list of celebrity eulogies but I’ve forgotten.

Thanks to Kristyna, Connie, Muriel and others.