[sdiy] Real cause of DIY death

[Bob Weigel]

Hehe..oh yeah a little MASH now and then can be good.  I love old TV 
shows but I tend to just veg out with it around too much.  I love the 
old late 60's stuff personally above all.  There are good things and 
then there are better things.  I just decided I don't have room for it 
in my personal space many years ago (early 80's!) but I am not 'against' 
it. I'm for good programming.  Just making a general statement about how 
the attitude that says..what I said begins to degenerate the whole 
pioneering spirit.  ANd it's sort of..a natural evolution.  Smart people 
design the technology. Smart people KNOW what utter ruin it will go to 
if they turn it over to stupid people and say 'have fun son!" .  hehe. 
But then as the years go by, the designers are all dead.  And the 
traditions of how they thought things should be done pale in comparison 
to the green that looms on the horizon over there....and next thing you 
know horrible cartoons, MTV, prime time soaps, and on down from there.  
Musical reference to Weird Al's song where he starts out in Eminem form 
saying

"Look...if you had the chance to just sit on your lazy butt and watch 
all the tv you ever wanted until your brain turns to mush..would you go 
for it?  Or just let it slip  YO.  "

Great moments like

"My butt is achin while I watch nascar racin'"  and "That show king of 
queens jumped the shark the first minute.  I can't believe Richard 
Simmon's ain't in it"...hehe.  "Poodle Hat" is one of Al's best Albums 
in some time in my opinion.  Best polka since "In 3D" with "Angry white 
boy polka". 

 Oh well anyway not saying TV is inherently evil.  Given how economics 
work though...I don't see an alternative to an occasional revolution of 
some kind where those in power are at least liquidated of their assets 
and sent off in exile so those with functionally brains/hearts can 
restructure things in a way that serves humanity instead of themselves 
again...otherwise it's a constant downward spiral in overall quality of 
programming it seems to me. -Bob

nN AAt e e wrote:

>    wow, i've been noticing lately how a lot of people i know don't just not
>watch tv, but are strongly against it! i don't watch a ton of tv each day,
>and usually i'll just watch a movie or something like that, but some people
>really underestimate tv. i usually stick between a handfull of channels that
>i prefer, and most of them are science channels!
>    i don't have all the standard cable channels like tnn or tnt or fx or
>mtv or vh1 or nick or disney etc etc, but i get comcast's extended movies
>and music package which doesn't have premium channels, just an extended
>selections of 'cable' type ones, and some are really good.
>    i prefer to stick to stuff like the independant film channel, or the
>national geographic channel or some of the other science and history
>channels... like six or more science channels total! it's not too hard to
>find something good/more intelligent to watch.
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>    the only disadvantage of not having all those standard middle cable
>channels is that i don't have the opportunity to watch M*A*S*H or Law &
>Order for nine hours straight by jumping between A&E and FX.
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>>video's that people occasionally recommend...like Chris Farley's "Almost
>>Heros" that we caught 75% of the other day before we finally figured out
>>"It's...just.......getting worse!!! No...Hope of...redeeming movie....at
>>this...POINT!"
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>75%? Chris Farley died before that much of the movie was even completed!
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>- nathan [who has an alarm clock set to 2am to watch two episodes of M*A*S*H
>on FOX, despite the fact that he owns the first eight seasons on dvd]
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