Good Monday morning. Looks like a beautiful spring day today. Partly cloudy. Some wind. Temperature in the upper 60's. Hard to believe that about 100 miles northwest of Stillwater they had about 2 feet of snow fall on Friday and Saturday. wow.
When was the last time anyone went to a good rock concert? Back in the good ole days, we'd go to a concert and flick a Bic when a great song like Freebird started playing. Now, if you flick a Bic you might get booted from the venue. Open flames are no longer allowed. Just like drinking from the water hose and using a rotary telephone, gone are the days of carrying a Bic lighter into the concert and showing the band your appreciation for a great song by hoisting aloft a tiny flame with hundreds of other fans. Today you must use the artificial light of your cell phone. But, hey! If you want to simulate the tiny flame, the makers of the iphone have a solution. The MyLighter application can be used to show a photo of a Bic lighter on your iphone screen. Yup, a photo of a Bic lighter. It's called the Freebird. Go figger. What will they think of next? Oh, don't like the Bic lighter photo? What about a glowstick? Attending a memorial ceremony? Use a photo of the candle.
Kinda funny thinking about the stuff we used to do for real and now do on computers or our cell phone. We don't go outside and play tennis anymore. But we do play tennis on Wii. Anyone play a real pickup game of baseball lately? Or wiffle ball? Who wants to go outside and breathe in the pollen when we can stay in the house and play Wii? I don't have Wii, but I still have my Nintendo 64 Ken Griffey home run derby game. When was the last time you wrote a letter to a friend or relative? Not for a while I'd bet. Now we have blogs, Facebook, Myspace and email. I tried to write a letter not long ago. My hand cramped up. Not sure if it was arthritis or I was out of shape. Maybe both. Typing is alot easier than printing or writing in cursive. Call anyone lately just to chat? Or did you just send a text message?
How long will it be before we become the fat people in the Wall-E movie? Computers and robots doing everything for us? We just move from place to place in a chair. I don't want to mow the lawn. Let the automated lawn mower do it for me. Heck, why have grass at all? I don't go outside anyway. Eventually, I'll have a patch of artificial grass in my closet that I can pull out when I'm playing my Ken Griffey home run derby game. You know, that patch of grass that spurts the artificial smell of freshly cut grass when I step on the artificial grass with my virtual ballglove to catch the virtual ball hit by the virtual Ken Griffey. I don't want to walk the dog and clean up the poop. I'll get a holographic image of a German Shepherd instead that will chase virtual balls around the virtual backyard. I can virtually throw the balls with a flick of my wrist using my Wii remote. Whew, I'm tired thinking about all that.
I got the fat part taken care of. Where are the robots? Man, I am getting lazy. hee hee.
There are alot of things we used to do that are now performed using an electronic device of some sort. Very interesting to think about how our lives have changed over the last 30 years. Cable television and hundreds of channels available for us to view practically anything today. It wasn't that long ago that we had just a few channels and needed an antenna. The antenna and foil is gone and hi-def signals are all we have. Well, at least in the very near future. Remote controls to channel surf instead of having one of the kids stand in front of the tv and turn the knob. A knob on the tv? "What the heck are you talking about?"
I still drink out of the water hose on occasion. I remember how to dial a rotary phone. Not sure that's useful knowledge, tho. hee hee. Have a good day.
3 comments:
I can't even imagine what the world's gonna be like when my kids are grown up.
Speaking of wiffle ball, that sound like fun!
Man do you have your thinking cap on. Remember I was made before TV and we had to dial an operator to get someone on the phone and you were on a line with several other parties who could listen in on your conversation. The prefex of the phone number was letters instead of numbers.
I am guessing the "Anonymous" commentor is either Eleanor or Sandra? Debbie and I were talking about the phones the other day on the way to work. We both remembered having the two letters as part of the phone numbers. Miami was KI2 instead of 542. KI for Kimball. Commerce was OR5 instead of 675. OR was for Orchard. I believe Fairland was OR3? Or was that Quapaw? So, you ain't that old. Til we start talking about BTV. Before TV. Now that's old. LOL. Debbie and I had a party line when we lived in Kansas. Always seemed to be two gabby old women tying up the phone line. hee hee.
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