{"id":40296,"date":"2011-05-04T00:08:08","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T08:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/gnxp\/?p=11452"},"modified":"2011-05-04T00:08:08","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T08:08:08","slug":"%e2%80%9ci-don%e2%80%99t-have-a-t-v-%e2%80%9d-isn%e2%80%99t-such-a-signal-anymore%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.razib.com\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/04\/%e2%80%9ci-don%e2%80%99t-have-a-t-v-%e2%80%9d-isn%e2%80%99t-such-a-signal-anymore%e2%80%a6\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI don\u2019t have a T.V.\u201d isn\u2019t such a signal anymore\u2026."},"content":{"rendered":"

So I last had cable television in August of 2004. By the the summer of 2005 we’d phased out the television, period. I became the “well, I don’t have a television….” guy. This causes some issues. I am somewhat spotty in my pop culture awareness. And it’s getting worse and worse the further I am from my television days (though I think I’ve hit the point of diminishing returns in gains of pop culture ignorance over the past few years; there’s only so much crap you can forget!). When I was on vacation recently I naturally turned on the television to see what commercials I missed. There’s a lot of clever stuff out there! I was totally amazed by the Kia Soul Hamster commercial<\/a>, and was thinking about blogging it, before being told that it was old news. I have a similar issue with video games, which I’ve avoided since adolescence because of the opportunity cost of playing. They’re starting to become so awesome that I have a hard time understanding what I’m seeing on the screen at the electronics store.<\/p>\n

But things are changing. The rest of the world is slowly catching up, and I’m falling back toward them. …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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