Blog Commander ... Blog On!

Many years ago - back when we lived in our old house - The Grand Lunar bought something called Light Commander! ~ One of the many small treasures I discovered in decluttering in the basement and reinstated to a place of honor.

What is Light Commander, you ask? I'm so glad you did, as it just happens to be the topic of choice on today's blog entry. I love how we are always on the same wavelength, with you asking just the right questions!

Light Commander is some sort of futuristic electronic thing that consists of a box you plug into the wall, and then has two outlets on the bottom into which you light other stuff. Like lights, for example.

And then you turn the lamp to ON, and Commander to ON, and then rather than walking over to the lamp and tediously clicking that little knob, you simply talk to Light Commander.

"Light Commander?"

(and here Light Commander replies by blinking a green light and saying "bleeble blee?")

"Light Off!"

"byooo."

and the light goes off.

"Light Commander?"

"bleeble blee?"

"Light ON!"

"byooo."

and the light goes on.

And even fancier ~

"Light Commander?"

"bleeble blee?"

"Light dim!"

"byooo."

and the light dims.

It's really pretty futuristic and amazing.

when it works.

Which is about 50% of the time for The Grand Lunar.

And 25% of the time for me.

And perhaps 4% of the time for any of the children.

So rather than get up and tediously rotate a small clicking knob, we who live on the cutting edge (well, um, 8-year-old cutting edge) of technology instead sit leisurely on the couch saying "Light Commander? Light Off!" over and over ... and over ... then marching resolutely over to the area of the device to repeat our commands more clearly and authoritatively. Again and again. Eventually to have the light turn off in a glorious display of Star Trek like technology.

The future is now.

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I can see why the future was living in the basement.