http://www.geebobg.com/2006/08/08/they-colorized-jeannie/ Americlecticintellectica Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:43:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 http://www.geebobg.com/2006/08/08/they-colorized-jeannie/#comment-47 gee bobg » Blog Archive » Mohammed meets mountain Thu, 21 Sep 2006 14:05:03 +0000 http://emphatic.com/bobg/wordpress/2006/08/08/they-colorized-jeannie/#comment-47 [...] The thesis of Ken’s short talk was that he doesn’t consider “trivia” to be trivial at all, and he made a case for trivia being a kind of glue holding society together. He also mentioned that he met his wife thanks to trivia (kinda like me — that’s eight!) when he knew what came next after some particular movie quote. [...] [...] The thesis of Ken’s short talk was that he doesn’t consider “trivia” to be trivial at all, and he made a case for trivia being a kind of glue holding society together. He also mentioned that he met his wife thanks to trivia (kinda like me — that’s eight!) when he knew what came next after some particular movie quote. [...]

]]> http://www.geebobg.com/2006/08/08/they-colorized-jeannie/#comment-19 gee bobg » Blog Archive » Turn off, tune out, drop in Sat, 02 Sep 2006 07:05:23 +0000 http://emphatic.com/bobg/wordpress/2006/08/08/they-colorized-jeannie/#comment-19 [...] Though it took another eight months, in the end simple economics won out, and we’ve now been cable-free for almost a year. At the beginning it was hard, as with kicking any habit, but only very briefly. In a year, the only time I’ve really missed having cable was for the Superbowl. Meanwhile, thanks to Netflix, I’ve recently watched entire seasons of Deadwood, Veronica Mars, and I Dream of Jeannie; and movies such as Munich, King Kong, Wedding Crashers, MirrorMask, and much more. There’s no live sports and there’s no channel surfing; and while you might linger guiltily on the latest Emanuelle movie on Skinemax when channel-flipping, you’re not very likely to bother actually renting it. But in all other respects it’s as good as cable. Better, in a lot of ways, because there are no commercials and no wading through junk you don’t want to see. [...] [...] Though it took another eight months, in the end simple economics won out, and we’ve now been cable-free for almost a year. At the beginning it was hard, as with kicking any habit, but only very briefly. In a year, the only time I’ve really missed having cable was for the Superbowl. Meanwhile, thanks to Netflix, I’ve recently watched entire seasons of Deadwood, Veronica Mars, and I Dream of Jeannie; and movies such as Munich, King Kong, Wedding Crashers, MirrorMask, and much more. There’s no live sports and there’s no channel surfing; and while you might linger guiltily on the latest Emanuelle movie on Skinemax when channel-flipping, you’re not very likely to bother actually renting it. But in all other respects it’s as good as cable. Better, in a lot of ways, because there are no commercials and no wading through junk you don’t want to see. [...]

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