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

[Matt Magee]

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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