Learn from the mistakes of others

we don't watch tv much in our house.

i think i can count the number of hours i've spend in front of either of our tvs [housemate™ and i each have our own] over the past few weeks on one hand. maybe the past few months even.

that said, we watch on average, so i just worked out, around 14-20 hours of television programs each week. that's about half as many as i spend working on client files at work in my office. no wonder i seem to have seen almost anything and everything that's worth watching already.

let me back up a little here.

we have adsl internet at home. for the past 10 months or so we've had 512k/128k adsl. on friday this stepped up to 1500k/256k. sometime real-soon-now™ that will become 24000k adsl (aka adsl 2+) as internode's local dslamms come online.

much of our 70gig per month downloading has comprised of tv eps. we have seen a wide variety of shows that are either only just airing here now, or are yet to air here ... (and a few that probably never will since they got canned by nervous execs just as they were getting going ...)

house, deadwood, doctor who, dead like me, battlestar galactica, numb3rs, regenesis, the family guy, the daily show, 24, bones, harsh realm ...

this makes for some interesting, and varied, evening viewing. on a computer screen.

that's not to say that i spend every night in front of a screen watching tv eps. those 14-20 hours generally fit into perhaps four evenings of around 3-5 hours (or 3-5 eps) each.

ok. ok. i not only need to be getting out, i need to be getting myself a new hobby. or something.

but it will be sweet once the internet starts arriving at something like 20meg per sec.