[ale] OT: Viewing Habits Re: [ale] IBM linux e-server comercial.

[David Brooks]

That pissed me off, too.  Im a car nut, and I used to watch speedvision
all the time.  Then i saw the little banner at the bottom they put on
saying how they were moving it to digital cable.  I was watching the
night speedvision was unrightfully yanked from my cable lineup.

Then my cable bill price went UP.

Shortly I'll be getting Dish Network (since theyve got a deal now where
you get 4 free receivers, free installation, and first 3 months free
with a 12 month contract), since it's almost cheaper.  If any of you
need it installed, a buddy of mine does it, so lemme know.

-Dave

On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 11:32, Matt Magee wrote:
> Speedvision is the channel I used to watch the most, but it is not available 
> until (if) we switch to digital cable.  That scenario should sound familiar 
> to James Kinney!
> 
> Formula 1 and the World Rally Championship were extreme sports before anyone 
> thought up a silly name for it!  Plenty of tech there.
> 
> On Wednesday 06 February 2002 10:10, rhiannen wrote:
> > /me is bored & still sick
> >
> > I sometimes wonder of the viewing habits of other techs, coders, gamers,
> > geeks, hackers, & the ilk.  We have a houseful of the above and I can't
> > remember when any of us had it tuned to one of the "old" broadcast
> > channels (ABC, NBC, CBS, or even PBS or FOX.) For instance, I had no
> > idea what the fuss was about "Survivor", could not point out a cast
> > member if my life depended on it.
> >
> > It might be interesting to see what similarities might exist between ALE
> > members in offline screen watching.
> >
> > In a typical month around here, *IF* the TV gets turned on (we can go
> > days and days w/o it), it's usually just for short periods of time.
> > Normally, it's tuned to one of these (listed in order from most to
> > least, except the last 2):
> > DCSCI - Discovery Science
> > DCCIV -Discovery Civilization
> > DSC - Discovery
> > DCWIN - Discovery Wings
> > HIST - some - Used to watch the Hitler, er, History Channel more often,
> > but
> > HISTI - isn't quite so fixated on der Furher.
> >
> > If it's not on one of the above channels, you could usually safely bet
> > it's on only for the following specific shows:
> > FoodTV - IronChef -'nuff said ;)
> > FNC - Fox news - breaking news, sometimes commentary
> > TWC - Weather - updates
> > TLC - Junkyard Wars
> > ComedyCentral - BattleBots
> > TechTV - ScreenSavers, Tomorrow
> > BBCAmerica - News, & GroundForce (comes on at bedtime, like it better
> > than the celeb late night talkies) - sometimes Monty Python, for the
> > 1000th time ;)
> > ANP - Funniest Animals (we have ferrets and cats, but geek pets is a
> > different question, <g>)
> >
> > Even these shows are watched more out of whim than habit.
> >
> > They canceled "Invader Zim!", or I'd have had to include Nick in that
> > list.
> > Very, very rarely, we might turn it to one of the movie channels, but
> > that normally indicates that our bandwidth has gone down & we're going
> > through withdrawals.
> > If you ever see it on ESPN or SportSouth, it means my dad has come up
> > for a visit. ;)
> >
> > Typical? Missing anyone's *must watch* favorites?
> 
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