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6-18-06 Justice League Unlimited, 24, Nip/Tuck.

1-29-06 update: Since I’ve moved to California, I haven’t had a television set. That hasn’t stopped me from watching the television programs I enjoy. TV is starting to go through the same upheaval that music has been experiencing for the last 10 years from peer-to-peer file sharing revolution.

I use TorrentSpy, Azureusand its RSSFeed Scanner plugin to get just about all the broadcast programming I want.

Since I’ve been busy living the Vida Cali, I watch less TV.. but here’s my list of favorites:
- The Colbert Report
- The Daily Show
- Scrubs
- 24
- Nip/Tuck
- Mythbusters
- Malcolm in the Middle

I was happy to be able to catch up on
- Dead Like Me
- Greatest American Hero - The show is much worse than I remembered :-( But I’m glad I got to see it. Especially the pilot episode. (which still sucked, but I’m still glad I saw the “creation story”)

The only shows I haven’t been able to catch are
60 minutes - I can’t find a torrent for it on Torrentspy :-(
Bullshit - I can’t find a tor…. wait. I just found a torrent with season 1-3. [Click] I should have it in a week.

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Recently, the cable TV cartel has been fighting legislation requiring that they unbundle their programming. It’s just been unbundled for them. Clearly, a new business model for television must emerge.

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3-1-02 update
Tivo hasn’t changed the way I watch television, it has fundamentally changed what television is. Dare I use the phrase "paradigm shift"? I dare.

2-12-02: I got Netflix for xmas. I just started up my subscription. I don’t know how much I’ll use it between Tivo, school and work.

Current Favorite shows:

Joe Millionaire- I’m completely hooked. It’s just so real. I can so project myself into Evan’s shoes. It’s wonderful watching and learning about human psychology with this fishbowl. And I am so angry that Evan got rid of Melissa! How can he hope to live happily ever after with either Zora or Sara?!?!

Rough Science- Still. This show is so much fun and so stimulating!

Nova: Hitler’s Lost Sub - It brought the history of this sub to the present. Three divers lost their lives in the late 1990’s during a personal quest to find out the history of this sub. The sub sank off the coast of NJ in 1942. It was a very intense program.

The Veteran’s Project - Since my Dad was here and he loves shows about WWII, we watched a lot of those shows. The format of this show is very simple. A veteran narrates a 1/2 hour slide show of his war experience. Most of the photos and video clips are of him, his buddies, or his group. The show is only on bi-weekly, 8-8:30am Sunday mornings on the History Channel.

11-14-02: Favorite TV programs: Rough Science, MST3K

6-28-02: More or less in order, here are the shows that I have in my Tivo’s Season Pass Manager:

Movie & Darkstar - TJIC recommended. Someday I hope it comes around on the tube
Babylon 5 & Strife - The very last episode I need to complete my set!
The Prisoner - After seeing about 10 episodes now, I can see the shows lacked consistently good writing. But some episodes, like "Many Happy Returns" blew my mind.
Angel - Shara is a bigger fan than I, but I don’t miss many episodes
Evolution - An excellent educational mini-series
Buffy the Vampire Slayer  - Shara is a bigger fan than I, but I don’t miss many episodes
Marx, Groucho - I hope I hope I hope "You Bet Your Life" comes around again!
Chaplin, Charlie
Penn & Teller’s Magic and Mystery Tour - I’ve been a fan of theirs for years. Smart guys. Real.
Enterprise - Ick. How did this schlock get here? Shara?
60 Minutes - I Tivo the boring articles, but there aren’t many
Jackass - I’m magnetically drawn to this! It’s far more consensual than America’s Funniest Ball-Busters
Scientific American Frontiers - Yup
Mystery Science Theater 3000 - It’s more fun watching and heckling along with friends. But I don’t have any to watch it with now :-(
Just Shoot Me - When I get around to watching sitcoms, which isn’t too often, this is one I like
60 Minutes II -
BattleBots - Carnage without the meat.
Scrubs - I really like this show a lot. The Scrubs world spins off to the left while the solid ideas hold it right in place. My kind of show.
Nova - Sometimes great topics, sometimes fluff.
Ebert & Roper - Usually pretty good movie reviews. I’m a little partial to Ebert
Sex2K - Infoporn ahhh
Modern Marvels - A good history show
Crank Yankers - I dunno if I’ll keep this on the list. It’s kinda funny….
Harrison Ford - More Shara’s pick than mine
Humphry Bogart - More Shara’s pick than mine
Kenneth Branagh - More Shara’s pick than mine
Insomniac with Dave Atell - Good Everyman entertainment
Friends -
Inside the Actors Studio - sometimes very insightful guests speak
Southpark - Southpark is always insightful
Star Trek: Voyager - slightly less offensive than Enterprise. Good "fall asleep fast" TV
Travel Sick - I dunno. The show has possibilities but I don’t like the omniscient narrator forcing our hapless hero to do gruesome tasks.
Lexx - The pinnacle of stupid sci-fi. I eat it up!
The Practice - I saw an episode or two and I’m trying to get interested in it
The Daily Show - This is honestly really good news! I get more news from these guys than most other sources!

I give Thumbs Up to a bunch of shows that I’m slightly interested in watching:

EGG: The Arts Show -
The Man Show - Unrepentant, unabashed
Ripley’s Believe it or Not -
Mad TV -
Sportsnight -
The Simpsons - Society’s mirror. I’m disappointed when they do random wacky things instead of insightful wacky things. But I guess they have a lot of shows to fill.
America’s Funniest Home Videos -
Iron Chef - Oh, the spectacle of it all!
Victory Garden - I like the old host better. And I like Norm better than Bob Villa
The Osbournes - OK, so I watched a few. It’s only because my sister forced me to! Really!
Junkyard Wars -

Phew! That’s a long list!

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Babylon 5 - I watched it from the second season til the end. I appreciate it because it has so very few plot holes, has a contiguous universe, and nice storyline. One of my few concessions to obsession in my life is that I taped (and still have) -every- episode. Of course, I don’t do anything 1/2 way so I got an SVHS tape player for the task. So now I have 120 hours of B5 on 60 tapes… Now what do I do with them?

Xena: Warrior Princess - She can beat me up anytime
You Bet Your Life - with Groucho Marx. He was an absolute genius! Have you ever gotten to watch this show? He Ernie Kovacks - another genius, and a Hungarian to boot!
Mystery Science Theater 3000- Heckling a bad film is one of the purest joys there is in the world. These guys have raised it to a high art!
The Prisoner has a certain allure
Mr. Wizard. I watched Mr. Wizard a whole heck of a lot from middle school all the way through college.
Universe with Walter Cronkite. I looked back for this one and was really surprised to realize that it just ran for two summers. It really had an effect on me. Walter rocks.

Music videos

• Sledgehammer- Peter Gabriel
• Take on Me- a-ha  That’s not to say that I’m an a-ha fan, but there is this one moment of… oh heck, if you’ve seen the video, I’m sure you know what I’m talking about.