21st Century Blues #247 By Hank Silverberg I was born in the 1950's and got my college education in the 1970's. Yes, I am a Baby Boomer and proud of it. But I must admit the deeper into the 21st Century we get, the more worried I become that somehow; I can't keep up. Little things that were simply facts of life in the past, like the failure of an electronic device, didn't bug me. That 45-rpm record jumped because the vinyl was scratched. Yet this weekend when one of the four different remotes I have to use on my TV got wet and fried out, I found myself feeling a bit put upon. (Yes, I know about universal remotes, but despite all the hype, the minute you buy one, they invent another device that it's not compatible with.) (The new remote) So, for part of the weekend, until I spent $36.84 for a new remote for my smart TV, I was struggling to work something as si