The quest started, I guess, a couple of summers ago, when I got this notion in my head to replace the kitchen TV with a computer monitor. Of course, people balked at my radical new concept in kitchen technology. After all, how many people even have televisions in their kitchens?
But ours is a dine-in type kitchen, complete with a kitchen table. This is where we usually entertain guests that must have some table to use, for example, to play cards or role-playing games. It is a convenience to have a TV available for when everyone else is taking their turn at the game so that you can look up and watch whatever happens to be on. Plus, it's a convenient location for a source of weather information during breakfast in the morning.
Connecting a computer to the television seemed a natural step. The internet would provide more information than we would ever need from the kitchen, and the benefit of not having to trek up to the computer room and warm everything up just to look up directions or a recipe was significant. ...
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