Monday, June 12, 2006

360 degree TV

My house has many windows and a wrap around porch. Depending on which window you choose, you'll find yourself peering into woodland thickets, a long meadow and garden patch or a porch that is home to a variety of dogs, birds, bugs and sometimes people. In warm weather all the windows are open, providing not only a view of these environments, but also the sounds and scents.

For my feline housemates, the windows are a complex, multimedia entertainment system. If one window is made inaccessible (say by closing a door), it diminishes the surround sound/smell/sight quality of the entertainment system.

In window world, everything is timed just so. Sid Vicious (cat) will be sitting and staring at the study window, and suddenly he'll bolt from his perch and speed across the house to the french doors or a kitchen window. Imagine if people would turn off their "reality tv" and switch to the 360 degree window entertainment my cats enjoy. What a different world we'd live in! Maybe then, we wouldn't be an obsese nation of greedy, dimwitted sleepers. Look out your windows! There's a world out there just waiting to entertain you. And get this.... it's absolutely free and there's no commercials!

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