Stay Tuned Kiddos!

I love listening to people in their 40-60's reminisce about television from when they were kids. They talk about how there were only two or three channels and that the stations shut down by about 9 o'clock at night. They had little TVs and little choice what to watch.

Here's what I imagine someone like myself will sound when they reach that age...

"Papa! Tell me about when you were a kid."

"Alright, but take off your virtua-helmet so you can hear me."

"Okay, I'm listening."

"Well when I was young, we didn't have it so easy like you kids today. Take the TV, for example. We only had about 70 channels to choose from, and we could only watch a few at a time with picture in picture."

"You mean you couldn't view all your favorite channels simultaneously as one streaming visual?"

"Ha! I wish. No, if we wanted to see what was on the other channels, we had to push the proper numbers on our remote controls to find it. Or if we couldn't remember the right number we had to just look at each channel one by one until we found it."

"Holy shit! One by one? That must have taken a minute!"

"Watch your language! But yes, it took a long time. And we only had a 52 inch high definition television that we had to share with the whole family."

"Didn't they have the wall-o-visions back then?"

"Not a chance! Our TV's were nowhere near the size of the ones you got today. The sure they were high definition, but we had to pay extra to the high def channels. It was rough. And the most we could watch in a day was 24 hours. We could only dream of something like Hypertime Television stations."

"That ... sucks."

"Indeed...now you run along, Billy. Go play your games and watch out for the WereLizards"

"Sure, Pops."

Yeah, that's what he future will be like. It's gonna be weird. Especially with all those WereLizards running around.