Wellington Journal

The Times They’ve Already Changed

It was twenty years ago right about now when I realized that the final game of the men’s college basketball championship was playing back in the states and it made me just a little bit homesick.  Back then, I was living in Leningrad, USSR, and the best I could do was to try to find the International Herald Tribune the next day to read about the score.

And here I am, twenty years later, sitting on my couch half way around the world, watching UNC trounce Michigan State as it happens.  The picture quality isn’t great, and I had to downgrade the connection to “fair” to keep it from stopping every few minutes, but I’m still impressed. I’m guessing I’ll still be impressed in the year 2029 when I’m watching the championship (Brown vs Davidson, perhaps?) from our vacation house on the moon, and my grandkids are yelling at me to turn down my implant because the sound’s leaking out of my ears.

UPDATE: Well, that was boring.  If I’m going to tune in from across the globe, the least they could’ve done would be to make it look like it was difficult.  Oh, well.  Maybe at least it helped Obama win his office pool.

Labels: Observation

posted by Dug @ 2:25 PM