Happy Birthday, DTV Transition!--Cake

Hey, everybody, as I write this, today is June 12, 2010: the 1st birthday of the digital TV transition (really the full-power analog free air station SHUTOFF) in the U.S.A.! Remember that? ;-)

 

I took that very seriously as another one of the big milestones in television broadcast history, and it was such an interesting one to me that I recorded the analog shut-offs, and any digital start-ups for those stations that weren't already up on digital until then. So a year later, I decided to celebrate it with this cake!

 

OHHH, you know what? These little round cakes were on sale just now, but I just thought of something: I should buy a rectangle cake and have the whole thing made up to look like a TV! YEAH, let me go do that! (Those bigger rectangle ones are a lot more expensive, though, for some reason.)

 

Okay, deal! So I'll see ya back here a little while later, when I get my next bit of money, with the rectangle cake that'll look like a TV by itself!

 

 

The girl decorating the cake probably thought this was the most unusual cake decoration she's ever heard of!

:-D (But maybe not, I dunno--I didn't think of asking her, but hey, maybe I'll have to ask her next time I see her around there.)

 

Too bad she didn't fit the word "transition" in there quite right. Should I have her redo it? Well, naw... it's still... okay. I had her redo enough other stuff already as it is--the shape of the TV, etc. But it still looks pretty good, doesn't it? Oh, and can you see the little sprinkles I had her put on the TV there, that make it look like an analog TV with no antenna signal coming to it anymore? Cool, huh? :-D

Done