Buster Benson I need more goals.
On April 17th, 2004, I moved into a new place that didn’t have a television. I immediately sorely missed Jon Stewart’s Daily Show and Celebrity Poker. Now, I’ve compensated with a healthy dose of Netflix on my PowerBook. I think it’s going to be easy peasy to make it to next April, and may go the rest of my life without a television—I don’t miss it one bit.
Good job! I’ve been living without TV for 6 years and I don’t miss it at all :) There are far too many things to do and TV seems like a waste of time.
Buster Benson I need more goals.
Wow, that’s impressive. You’ve been spared the entire reality television travesty, all of the crazy Iraq War/War on Terror “coverage”, and who knows how many generations of bad new WB drama-comedies. I can’t wait until the nightmares stop from my own over-exposure during the last few years.
Did you give up the television intentionally? Do you find that you watch more movies or fewer now?
But – I have also been living without tv for a few years (three actually) For me it happened by accident (ultra cheap roommate didn’t want to get cable and we can’t get even local channels w/o bunny ears)
I only miss tv when i’m home sick but can’t sleep, then I want to be entertained but am too ill to sit up and read… but that’s a tiny loss compared to how much free time I have gained back.
I personally find that i watch movies more than before. I also find that when I do get to watch tv (whenever i am in a hotel) i enjoy it way more than before too.
But then – that’s just me. Good luck with it – I say – Worth Doing!
you could totally become best friends with my roommate and then you could watch the daily show and celebrity poker with him every time it’s on. i think his friend network still has an opening and lord knows there’s room for you on the pimp couch. with him as a bf, you could easily keep a teevee out of your home for the rest of your life and still keep in touch with pop culture. (or at least learn some poker tricks)
Buster Benson I need more goals.
I think I’ll pass.
I’m breaking up with pop culture, except for the kind that gets transferred to me through movies, magazines, and John Richards’s annoying early morning banter.
Livinig without a tv is, I think, one of those strange things that actually makes your life better without any negative side effects like addiction, poverty, or a failing liver.
One of the first things I bought when I moved into my new place 3 years ago was a widescreen rear-projection set. I’d already been living w/o regular TV since college and couldn’t conceive of $50/mo worth of programming I’d even want to watch.
I don’t really regret it and have both my Netflix, spiralling Internet addiction, and way-too-many side projects to compensate.
Oh yeah, back to the point. For shows that I do want to keep up with, which right now pretty much is the Daily Show, I’ve found BitTorrent and EasyNews to be more than any one person needs (apparently the SA Forums are a good one stop shop as well). Not that I’m in any way shape or form unauthorized distribution of copyrighted works.
Buster Benson I need more goals.
I actually haven’t really tried out bittorrent yet… probably because I’m always on borrowed wireless networks and I assume it would take forever to download these shows. What’s a typical download time for a 30 minute show over Airport Extreme?
You will have a lot more time for reading!
I know this is barely related, but there’s no entry to comment on in your “read a book a month” goal. I need to recommend that you read Data and Reality, by William Kent, if you haven’t. It’s so old, and it’s so weird, but I just love it so much and I think you will too. Just a hunch, but—you know how it is when you have a hunch someone will like something.
Excerpts are here:
http://www.bkent.net/Doc/darxrp.htm
This has to be one of my ten all-time favorite books. I’ve read it three times-so I’m totally biased about it. I had to say something, though. It was killing me! :)
confused101 wants to Beat my depression
get up on time
learn to play the harmonica
cast a spell on someone.
go to the oscars
watch southpark
Strength train
paint my kitchen
Learn to cook
create a non-profit organization
make a collage
shoemaker wants to have more self control
find at least one thing each day that makes me happy and record it everyday for a year
Sing
figure out what clothes suit me and fit me
Watch a Joan of Arcadia Episode
i want to live in the wild
embrace
Upgrade my PC
Become Financially Independent
house
ATLfemme wants to meet like minded people
dream lucidly
bellydance
build an online portfolio
read 12 books in 2010
