Comments on: Geek Fu #61 - Guest Essay! - Rated PG

By: hugh

hugh — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 01:19:21 +0000

Mur, welcome back.
Thanks for the great guest essay on TV, or the lack thereof. My wife and I gave our TV away after it sat in the garage and collected dust at the last house we lived in. I do have to say that we have substitued the internet to a certain degree for TV. And although the argument could be made that at least the internet gives you the option to be interactive online…. the opposing arguments could be made against the internet as well. As with any other addiction (food, alcohol, drugs) the danger is not so much the substance, but rather what the substance becomes more important than (work, family, your life in general).

By: adders

adders — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 20:27:18 +0000

Uh…re the super hero thing. Marvel and DC have jointly held the trademark on the term, in several permutations, for literally decades.

Not quite sure where all the fuss has come from, but this is oooold news.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Mon, 27 Mar 2006 02:11:19 +0000

Great guest essay. I too don’t have television in my home. Our TV set is for the DVD player. I don’t know if that really makes me less of a good Misfit, but I don’t think that matters. My wife and I are about to upgrade from our 26″ (or so) traditional cathode-ray set to a 50″ LCD, because the current one is dying. We’ve got friends who tell us we can’t have such a big TV without cable, but I just don’t see the benefit. While a lot of my time that I used to use to watch TV has now gone to the Internet, it also goes to other, more productive activities, just like those described in the essay.

Now, if I could just find a good gaming group to help me use up my TV time.

By: DJ Mega Mat X

DJ Mega Mat X — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 09:05:05 +0000

Nice to hear that you’re back! I was on a stumbling block myself on one of my podcasts a few months ago and had to take a break and start a new Season; seemed to do the trick for me.

I’m looking forward to your print book from Lulu once the formatting issues get working out. It’s amazing how different things look like when they are in print as opposed to their layout in the computer software.

Good luck!

The only thing I watch on TV is Food Network every once in a while, though I do watch video games and DVDs on them a good deal.

By: Rick

Rick — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 15:36:50 +0000

Glad you’re back. And, I have to say, if it wasn’t for The Daily Show and our son’s kid-TV shows, we’d probably disconnect our cable too. Pretty much everything we watch is on DVD these days.

By: Will

Will — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 05:10:56 +0000

Woo hoo Mur’s back

By: Wyrd

Wyrd — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 01:17:30 +0000

Mur is back. Yay!! Happy time.

I don’t have cable either. Although I do get one channel through terrestrial TV. I almost never watch it. I have serious issues with commercials, like as-in: they suck. I mean it’s all fine and good to have sponsorship, and for a company to try to sell us stuff. That’s normal. But the current situation where massive numbers of commercials bombard our brains every 10 minutes while we’re watching TV just can’t be a good thing.

Anyway, I can download BSG and the Daily Show thorugh iTunes now.

By: Christiana

Christiana — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:18:44 +0000

Welcome back from your hiatus!

The guest-essay made me think some things that I’d only really felt in the abstract about my own TV watching, namely, that it’s a time-sucker. Now, I LOVE TV, and I’m not ashamed to say it. Anyone who thinks that “there’s never anything good on” just doesn’t know where to look. My DVR changed my life. But it does raise the question about when you make the decision to ‘not do’ something you enjoy because it takes too much time away from other things you enjoy. Hmm.

Anyway, yay, Arkham Horror. I only ever played it that one time, but still, it was a blast!

By: Froosh

Froosh — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 09:36:14 +0000

Hey Mur! Fantastic to hear from you again.

I’ve just gotten home after a crap day and even crappier public transport. Public transport that had me waiting around in the middle of absolutely no-where for nearly an hour.

But it wasn’t so bad you know - Just hearing your excitement and joy in this show made the trip enjoyable. The guest essay even inspired me to resist TV’s time-sapping allure and spend my time doing something I specifically enjoy much more rather than just enjoying the TV by default.

No need to rush or stress about the next show - we’ll still be here waiting patiently

By: sithboy

sithboy — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 07:00:50 +0000

Yay! Geek-Fu is back!

*Glomps Mur*