Gonna go WILD!

8.2.2013

 When I was a wee robot, my sister, brother and I had to devise a ladder to reach the on/off switch of the TV to watch Saturday morning cartoons, cuz my parents did not want to get up as early as we did.  I'm sure most of you experienced something similar.

FF to today and my Little Wife and I are enduring Saturday and Sunday mornings much like our folks did, but in our case, the solution is ... the iPad.  Natch.

He gets 15 minutes of Angry Birds (he was shown how to set the iPad's timer to count down from 15 or whatever).  When he's interrupted by the timer ending, he switches to PBS Kids streaming programming.  He used to watch an episode or two of Dinosaur Train, Super Why! or Wild Kratts, but more and more these days, it's more like an hour or two.

I know it's rationalization to say "at least it's PBS ... it's educational."  But looking back to the crapitola cartoons we used to watch (complete with scads of commercials), he does have it better.

Come on!  He knows what an Angler Fish is, for fuck's sake.

Tonight - The Residence.


bye-ee!
whrr ... clik!