I don’t have Cable, or antenna service of any kind. I like movies though. Perhaps I give an average of 2-3 hrs a week to TV, but even that is while looking at other things I’ll watch a movie.
I used to love documentaries, but most nature documentaries are produced for sensationalism and not information, so I’d rather Grab a book. I used to like history, culture, and religion documentaries, but again, they’re either plagued by extreme bias or shallow generalizations.
I really miss Iron Chefs (Morimoto Rocks!) My reason for having Cable is mostly financial (not worth the investment) however, I find the moral and mental benefits upon the family are worth the sacrifice.
I have XM radio and get News (CNN, FOX, BBC, and others) Sports, documentaries, even old radio drama and new audio books. Its great.
Almost anything is better than TV. A Band I knew in High School was named “Kill T.V.”
Aiya, I seem to have fallen into every pithole that has been mentioned. I love watching TV – well, I used to, when there were actually some worthwhile shows on. You know, before all this idiot reality stuff. I love Will and Grace, Frasier, Spin City, Buffy, and a couple of animes that I am absolutely not going to name.
And Star Wars. It’s not on TV, but it’s worth mentioning!
BTW, I am oblivious to the Amelie phenomenon. Could someone please enlighten me?
I didn’t realize it was a phenomenon, but it highly appeals to dejected anti-social loner types. The movie is kind of like the Catcher in the Rye, but not as negative and more cutesy.
I saw that film and it was very odd. Not that I did not understand the french, but I simply do not know the point of it, nor what it was about. I was talking once to my french teacher and she thought my french to be lacking when I tried to tell her the significance of this film! It’s about a girl in a red dress who finds some guy’s pictures and searches for him.
BTW, I am oblivious to the Amelie phenomenon. Could someone please enlighten me?
oh, I saw it in german on tv, they dubb all films here. It’s a sort of surrealist film, very popular in France and Germany too I believe (at least they were showing it in Speyer’s cinema). Not sure about the anti-social loner type bit… maybe in the US cause it’s in french and no one would go and see a french film if they didn’t have like loads of time on their hands in which to learn french first .
Never read catcher of the rye, but it sounds strange. Amelie is fun and strange, i think it was on the French/German channel Arte.
The ending to that movie was terrible. The only reason she liked that guy is that she didn’t know him, and so was able to attribute any personality she wanted to him. When she finds out he’s not what she fantasised he was, she’d be bitterly disappointed and depressed.
Of course, the movie showed none of that, and instead ended with them having satisfying sex, with the implication that losing touch with reality carries no consequences.
I only have peasant-vision since I also refuse to pay for cable. So I get 4 channels by antenna if the weather is good. I watch tv if I’m bored but too tired to do anything else. My favourite shows are the Simpsons and Will and Grace.
Gentoo is a flavor of Linux, which is a free, open-source unix offspring named after a guy who did a bunch of coding for it, Linus Torvalds. In my opinion, Linux is just about as good as Windows as a desktop OS, and better in the security department. For development, and for learning intimate details of your computer, it’s great.
c++ and Java are programming languages, and Mandelbrot is actually the Mandelbrot set, a fractal based on complex numbers.
goes away and attempts to hack away at a few lines of Ovid
TV me? lol… no… i hardly watch it… mayb once every school holidays… but that once may have been 12 hours… well there isnt anything to be seen that interests anyone in Aussie tele… wish i was bak in HK… 23 channels so something lyk that… cant get bored… may ur eyes get extremely tired but its worth it… well its all australian drama here well nearly all of the programs r… and cable tv is pretty pointless… since i hardly watch tele anyways… well no one in my family watches the tele they seem to be so occupied with stuff… y would anyone want to watch tele anyways?? i mean its pointless… u see the achievements of others/wot they have acted… when u could be doing something much betta… cant think of any events betta but i am sure there is…
While I don’t see TVs very often, the internet probably accounts for a certain amount of wasted time.
And just today I got myself a brand spankin’ new iMac (gosh, it’s prety), so a few more days will be wasted on configuring that.
Since we’ve been chatting about Linuxy stuff, I’ll just note that my job is wrangling Linux and Solaris machines. And soon I shall delve into the wonders of OSX… it has a shell!
i guess i’m different to all these scholars here i live in sydney too lau kai, and i watch trash wherever possible e.g. simpsons, csi, the simple life 2, bb when it’s on, what else, the amazing race so i can be offended each time how rude the contestants always are, &c people sound shocked when i tell them i watch these things: as if one goes to the tv for high culture hehehe i just like the endorphins it releases
also i like amélie, to jump into another conversation above… episcopus the french is easy enough to follow if you get the french subtitles: there’s a file which you can google which has the full french subtitles, just google an actual phrase from the movie, eg “se posait rue Saint-Vincent, à Montmartre”
but a lot of them are slightly wrong because they’ve paraphrased the french, but you’ll be able to follow the french generally, even if you’re just a beginner like me
My wife is a huge tv fan…I mean HUGE…the tv is almost ALWAYS on in our house…therefore…I end up watching quite a bit of “secondhand” tv! I do really like quite a few shows out…
We both love “Everybody Loves Raymond”, just because we can identify so strongly with the characters…that’s what makes a good sitcom IMHO. We also like “Still Standing” which we think is hilarious…about two highschool sweethearts who marry and 15 years later can’t believe they are “adults” with kids and a mortgage.
The stuff I love to watch is sports…I am a verifiable sports nut! I the Red Sox and Love the Yankees and the Mariners (my closest MLB team), and I have been a rabid Detroit Pistons fan since the 80’s. I can watch sports and ESPN for hours on end (but I don’t usually).
I must say though, that a majority of my tv watching occurs with my laptop on my lap in my easychair, while I’m checking my e-mail, posting here, or working on databases…so the tv really only gets about 20% of my attentions (which means whatever else I’m doing only gets 80%!!) while I do my various tasks.
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