Not knowing whats on
March 18th, 2006 by 
Jason
I live without TV. I’ve lived without TV for some time now. I don’t miss it. I have friends with TV who pay a huge monthly bill and rarely watch it. That’s part of the reason I don’t have TV. The other part is that, what’s on TV in my opinion, is boring, mind-numbing media. When I had TV, I’d find myself sitting there for hours watching nothing. I’d look back on Sunday night and say my weekend was gone and I have nothing productive to show for it. I’d sit and just waste away, entranced by what was coming through the picture set. I needed to get a away from that.
I spend the majority of time at home reading. I enjoying reading about what I do for a living. I get all my news from the web. I get everything I need from the web now. If people say, have you seen that commercial? I know that I can ‘google’ it and usually be watching it within minutes. I’ve effectively trimmed my media intake down into two sources: books and the internet. Both require me to physically do something and exercise what little brainpower is between my ears.
For this I say, thank you TV.
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March 18th, 2006 at 10:32 am
I agree, television is mostly a waste of time. For all the money I pay for cable I really only watch about 2 shows - the worst thing is you have to pay for a bunch of crap you don’t want and then if there is a specific channel like HBO that you actually do want they make you pay extra. It’s a very consumer unfriendly deal that I hope collapses in on itself eventually.
I think at some point I will ditch cable altogether and just keep the tv around for watching movies - as much as I like being able to watch dvd’s on my laptop it
s not the same as having a nice flat screen to look at.
March 18th, 2006 at 10:01 pm
I read more than anything too, however there are a lot of good channels on TV if one knows where to look. I watch the History Channel, Discovery Science, PBS, Civilization, BBC America, CNBC and the National Geographic Channel.
March 19th, 2006 at 11:06 am
My wife and I are making increasingly heavy use of Netflix for watching TV shows. Getting rid of all of the commercials by default, watching when we want to. Between that and our DVR, we’re barely watching TV that’s not specifically something we want to watch.
Which reminds me, there’s a new series on disasters on the Discovery Channel tonight that I want to record.
March 23rd, 2006 at 2:41 pm
i think it’s funny how popular the ‘disaster’ shows are - especially when you’re actually living in a country that has earthquakes and active volcano’s.