I may gripe about advances in technology. Cameras, however, provide wild entertainment

I sometimes rail against the rapid advances in technology which make me feel old and incompetent.

Well, I am incompetent and definitely getting older, but I am so glad for the rapid spread of cameras that let me see every fall, every motorcycle mishap and every sports fail in the world.

Doorbell cameras and security cameras catch everything that happens outside or inside a house. Those small cameras that attach to helmets offer great views of people tumbling head over heels.

These things rarely fail to amuse me and there are more posted every day. (Disclaimer: I only watch the ones where no one is seriously hurt.) In fact, most people come out of their fails laughing. I mean, if you are going to try and balance on anything that has fewer than four wheels you have to expect disaster I think.

Wedding mishaps are a favorite on the internet, possibly because everyone records a wedding and nervous people dressed in unfamiliar finery have a good chance of having problems. And I guarantee you will be able to find old folks falling down while dancing.

I even found a video of double fails. You had to mess up the same thing twice or manage to mess up another person while you were going down. Sometimes they are just mysterious. In one clip, a woman wearing a giant hat, like the Cat in the Hat, that came down to her knees, tried to walk down a runway and fell off.

Never mind that it was a bad idea to walk somewhere you couldn’t see. After they helped her back up, she tried to walk back up the ramp and fell off the other side.

There was an entire six minute video of soccer fails and volleyball fails which certainly looked painful, but funny. You know the old saying, it’s all funny until someone gets hurt, then it’s hilarious.

One of my favorite things is to find videos of rock bands performing at their primes and then watch them playing today. They will be because few can resist a reunion. But the young, long haired people from long ago in those videos now look like the rest of us old people and just seem out of place. Some of them can still belt it out and I was surprised by how many videos I found of It’s A Wonderful Day (the actual band name) performing “White Bird.” At least, the surviving members still perform.

I certainly don’t want to contribute any embarrassing moments of my own but I feel slightly guilty that I watch and don’t participate. Maybe I’ll just get a surveillance camera and hope something odd happens outside the house. There might be a chance. After all just in the past of years or so people have driven through three light poles on my street.

Stay tuned.