Oh the joy of rabbit ears

Sometimes I just cannot stand rabbit ears. You know, those metal contraptions that cost anywhere from five to twelve dollars (or more for the fancy ones), and allegedly provide you with television reception that amounts to anything from your local evangelical TV station (I.e. suffering through endless TBN “good guy” televangelists fundraising.) , to - count them - four and a half channels, as is my case.

Most of the times all they amount to is your daily dose of physical exercise. Stand up, adjust, sit down, repeat as necessary. Not to mention that not always will you get even decent reception; storms, high winds, and even smoke from forest fires can impede it. The joys of rabbit ears.

On another note, I don’t know how many of you are aware of the transition in 2009 to digital television, which means pretty much the end of rabbit ears. Although I heard (via hearsay) that there will be some electronic box that convert the signal from analog to digital. Whether our lovely government, well known promise keepers of old, will actually help those folks with acquiring the boxes, remains to be seen.

Even with my late night rant on rabbit ears, I admit that I get nostalgic sometimes. I remember being a little one watching television, and on top of our television stood our set of rabbit ears. (That is, until we got cable mid-nineties.)

Night all.

~Elindelwolf