Showing posts with label commentary logic. Show all posts
Showing posts with label commentary logic. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

What is reasonable? Logic?

"If you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."  - Sherlock Holmes

Just now, I was watching a movie. I saw a woman on it put headphones on, then start her portable CD player. I wondered, what the hell year was this film made? So, I picked up my remote and hit "Info" and nothing happened. I looked at my Tivo and when I hit a button, the response light lit. Hmmm.... What the--?

I played with it for a while, the remote that is. I removed the battery. Light on the Tivo player still worked in response. What? I thought.

Then I thought, well, the remote worked a little while ago. But, things break, right? So, now what?

I was at a loss. Then, I realized, if its not one video player, maybe its the other. So I looked at my BlueRay disk player that I get Netflicks though and sure enough, I wasn't watching Tivo, it was Netflicks.

And so, if I had paid attention to the possible, ("If you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth"), if I had just thought, just decided that the remote was recently working, so what if its ok? Then I would have realized, I was using the wrong remote. Which means, I thought I was watching the wrong video player. And I would have come to the conclusion that I needed to switch remotes to another, typically, Netflicks (the BlueRay player).

How much easier is life, when we play the logic game, accurately?