"I don't have a T.V." isn't such a signal anymore....

So I last had cable television in August of 2004. By the the summer of 2005 we'd phased out the television, period. I became the "well, I don't have a television...." guy. This causes some issues. I am somewhat spotty in my pop culture awareness. And it's getting worse and worse the further I am from my television days (though I think I've hit the point of diminishing returns in gains of pop culture ignorance over the past few years; there's only so much crap you can forget!). When I was on vacation recently I naturally turned on the television to see what commercials I missed. There's a lot of clever stuff out there! I was totally amazed by the Kia Soul Hamster commercial, and was thinking about blogging it, before being told that it was old news. I have a similar issue with video games, which I've avoided since ...