Sometimes I feel like I must be a technological luddite, at least when it comes to television. I certainly go to no effort to upgrade whatsoever. I did not have a DVD player until last year. I was quite happily playing my videos. If I wanted to watch DVDs, I'd use somebody else's DVD player or my computer. I have only reluctantly made the ( Read more... )

( Some observations on the media. )

What a fantastic evening of inconveniences. My ceiling light in my bedroom has blown and I'm not going to be able to get a new bulb until Tuesday, so I'm sitting here typing in semi-darkness as there's only so much my bedside lamp can do. Then when I went to have some ice cream, I managed to somehow side-swipe a beautiful glass bowl and it slid ( Read more... )

I remember sometime, I believe roughly two years ago, I wrote about how hard it was for me to watch the news because the sorrow and pain in the reports affected me too much. It seems the opposite is now happenning - there's simply so much tragedy in the world that I'm becoming numb to it. When the London bombings happened, I followed the news ( Read more... )

OK, I normally keep my utter hatred of Harry Potter to myself (especially considering I'm outnumbered about Everyone to 2 on the friends list), but for goodness' bloody sakes, a movie preview is not deserving of being on the news, and definitely not deserving of being on one of those 15-second headline update segments they play during ad breaks! ( Read more... )

Reason why capitalism is great #10421: you can turn on the television at 5pm and find someone trying to make money off your death ( Read more... )