Be Good Not Bad : Web Design :: Brian Warren : Denver, Colorado

My wife and I have become TV watchers. Not in the purest sense of the word, because we don’t have satellite (the only way to watch tv up here, cable is unheard of). We watch TV in a much different way…

A friend of ours loans us entire seasons of television shows in DVD format. We’re currently taking our time making our way through Season 3 of the X-Files. Since moving to Alaska, we’ve watched Season 1 and 2 of Alias and Season 1 and 2 of X-Files. It’s great.

This is far superior to watching TV on…well… TV. For one, you don’t have the constant stream of commercials blaring at you. Secondly, TV comes at you in a stream format, where there is a certain pressure to not leave the TV, lest you miss anything. This pressure can be alleviated by devices like TiVo, but TiVo still requires one to zip through the commercials (but does have the clever, and DVD-like, feature of allowing you to press pause if nature calls).

No, I definitely prefer watching my TV by way of DVD. It is there …

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I bid thee hello from Haines, Alaska. I’ve been toying with the idea of starting an online journal/news/musings for some time now. Many times I’d just think well that’s silly; but other times, why not?

So I consider this an experiment, and hopefully you can enjoy joining with me in this journey. Maybe we’ll both get something out of it.

Thanks for stopping by.

Today I’m working on the Summer Inn B&B website and there are three gentlemen sitting chewing the fat while I work. Now I have no problem with these guys sitting around having a great time. That’s what cafés are for. I think it’s great. What bothers me is how they chew the fat. They are super loud, which in and of itself is ok. But they’re just super loud in trying to top each other’s stories. It’s a weird balance between saying “I’m more cynical, and obnoxious!” and “I’m more crass and caught an even bigger fish!”.

It’s sad really.