[ExI] fun essay by penn jillette

[Samantha Atkins]

On 08/19/2011 08:11 AM, spike wrote:
>
> *On Behalf Of *John Grigg
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] fun essay by penn jillette
>
> >...Spike, have you seen his "Bullshit" television program?
>
> John
>
> No.  I have insufficient patience for television now.  Not enough 
> controls on it.  All  TV shows need a scroll bar along the bottom for 
> instance, to make them analogous to YouTubes.  Since television 
> generally doesn't have that, I discontinued my cable service about 
> three years ago.  My TV is now a DVD player only.
>

Record it or get it on Hulu or Amazon or Apple TV and scroll to your 
heart's content.  What TV I watch I almost never watch in real time.  
For some of the services you lose the commercials too.

> Recently when visiting Shelly's parents, Isaac was puzzling over their 
> television, which he had never really seen.  He figured out the remote 
> can change the channel, but soon realized that there are only about 50 
> channels, none of which carried anything that particularly interested 
> him, nor that he could control directly.  He lost interest after a few 
> minutes and went back to his internet enabled computer.
>

I heard a cute apocryphal story of a 3 year old messing around behind 
the TV.  When his parents asked him what he was doing he said "I'm 
looking for the mouse."  :)

- samantha

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