{"id":552,"date":"2009-08-12T20:43:26","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T00:43:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/?p=552"},"modified":"2012-06-10T16:08:55","modified_gmt":"2012-06-10T20:08:55","slug":"the-jetsons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2009\/08\/12\/the-jetsons\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jetsons"},"content":{"rendered":"
Remember The Jetsons?<\/div>\n
The cartoon aired in the early sixties and painted an image of the future that was just so fantastic, so far-out, that it could only exist in the cartoon world. Certainly, we would never live to see it.<\/div>\n
Well, this is the world we do live in today.<\/div>\n
Okay, sure, we don’t have flying cars – probably never will – but so much of what they showed is so commonplace today it isn’t funny. Think about it.<\/div>\n
I’ll soon need to use the air conditioning in my home. It’s been so cold this spring and summer that I’ve used it exactly once so far this season. And that was only because I had changed out a thermostat and needed to test the system. So the other day I ran it all day and night. I awoke to find it running full-bore, the suction line frozen and little, if any, air moving through the ductwork.<\/div>\n
I spend a bit of time with Google and soon learned more than I had ever known about air conditioning systems, more than enough to troubleshoot my system.<\/div>\n
It reminded me of that old movie, The Matrix. Remember Neo’s famous line? “Jiu Jitsu? I’m going to learn\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Jiu Jitsu?”<\/div>\n
“Air conditioning? I’m going to learn about\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 air conditioning?”<\/div>\n
We live in an unparalleled age where most of what you need to know is just a few clicks away. I swear, sometimes I gotta pinch myself.<\/div>\n
Don’t take it for granted. Think, and contribute what you can.<\/div>\n

Remember The Jetsons<\/a>?<\/p>\n

The cartoon aired in the early sixties. It painted an image of the future that was just so fantastic, so far-out, that it could only exist in the cartoon world. Certainly, we would never live to see it.<\/p>\n

Well, this is the world we do live in today.<\/p>\n

Okay, sure, we don’t have flying cars – probably never will – but so much of what they showed is so commonplace today it isn’t funny. Go check out excerpts from some episodes on Hulu<\/del>. [That is, if you can find ’em without paying. Seems they forbid that now so I’ve pulled the link.] Think about what you see.<\/p>\n

I’ll soon need to use the air conditioning in my home. It’s been so cold this spring and summer that I’ve used it exactly once so far this season. And that was only because I had changed out a thermostat and needed to test the system. So the other day I ran it all day and night. I awoke to find it running full-bore, the suction line frozen and little, if any, air moving through the ductwork.<\/p>\n

I spend a bit of time with Google<\/a> and soon learned more than I had ever known about air conditioning systems, more than enough to troubleshoot my system.<\/p>\n

It reminded me of that old movie, The Matrix<\/a>. Remember Neo’s famous line? “Jiu Jitsu? I’m going to learn\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Jiu Jitsu?”<\/p>\n

“Air conditioning? I’m going to learn about\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 air conditioning?”<\/p>\n

We live in an unparalleled age where most of what you need to know is just a few clicks away. I swear, sometimes I gotta pinch myself.<\/p>\n

Don’t take it for granted, my friends. Think and contribute what you can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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