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Personal Interests

500 Channels and Nothing On – The Death of Traditional TV Programming!

So there I was… Up late at night. My usual insomniatic self, waiting for my mind to reach complete exhaustion before being about to fall asleep.

It was nearly two years ago that I was laying on the couch in my apartment watching TV at about 2am. As I jumped from channel to channel, I really started to get angry. I was paying more than $100 a month for cable TV, and I was not able to find anything on that was worth watching. It was at that moment that I decided to become an early adopter of what I believe to be the future of online entertainment /edutainment and the death of traditional television.

The next day I packed up my cable box and dropped it off at the cable company. My next stop was my local electronics store (Best Buy) where I purchased an AppleTV.

The Flash Mob Pattern Interrupt…

Have you ever seen a flash mob? Color me clueless, but until a day ago I had never heard of the concept.
I was watching a television series called Weeds about a widowed suburban mother up to her eyeballs in illegal activity.
Anyway, near the end of an episode she is sitting in a plaza [...]

Ted Talk – 2 years 20 minutes in a Biosphere

‘Cove’ Director Surfaces Deep (And Dark) Secrets : NPR

Go and see this movie.  I realize that there is no shortage of tragedy in the world. However it is the effort of people like Louie Psihoyos (pictured) and Jim Clark that raise awareness which is the first step toward positive change.

‘Cove’ Director Surfaces Deep (And Dark) Secrets : NPR.