[ale] www.pbs.org/designsquad
Jeff Hubbs
hbbs at comcast.net
Mon Apr 7 23:19:12 EDT 2008
And *I* must add:
/Red Dwarf
The Vicar of Dibley
Two Fat Ladies
Nova
Cosmos/
James Burke's /Connections /and /The Day The Universe Changed/
Jim Kinney wrote:
> And I must add:
>
> Dr. Who
> Mr. Bean
> Rumpole of the Baily
> Mystery
> Chef!
> Amnesty International Charity events with the Monty Python troup
> Fawlty Towers
> Julia Childs
> All of the master tv chefs _started_ on PBS: Wolfgang Puck, Frugal
> Gourmet, The now deceased cajun "How y'all are some more" :) and the
> Urban Peasant and many others
> Plus other great stuff like This Old House (/Mansion)
> Woodwrights Shop
> Victory Garden
>
> I didn't really watch PBS as a kid I do remember the Galloping Gourmet
> in black and white) but both of my kids have grown up watching PBS. My
> daughter and I would spend all Saturday morning watching the cooking
> shows and then race to the Dekalb Farmers Market to get supplies to
> try out new recipes.
>
> And several million people really fell in love with painting happy
> little trees! Bob Ross was an inspiring painting teacher to literally
> millions of people.
>
> 2008/4/7 Jeff Lightner <jlightner at water.com <mailto:jlightner at water.com>>:
>
> I beg to differ.
>
>
>
> PBS introduced me to Monty Python when I was a teenager. The
> first Monty Python I saw was coincidentally the only one that had
> a topless woman in it. Back in those days seeing a topless woman
> on TV was quite shocking (and being a teenage boy) "exciting".
> Having been hooked by that I then saw how funny it was as well as
> the Britcom, No Honestly, which came on after it.
>
>
>
> There has been quite a bit of really good programming on PBS over
> the years often when there is pure schlock on commercial TV.
> Even now with hundreds of channels available via cable I will
> often watch and re-watch some of the PBS fare even with the
> maddening "pledge drives". PBS locally introduced me to the
> Carlos Museum at Emory which as an OTP denizen I hadn't been aware
> of until I saw a special about something being shown there.
>
>
>
> In no particular order a few of the other things I've liked:
>
> I Claudius
>
> Celtic Woman
>
> Ken Burns' Civil War
>
> The Computer Chronicles
>
> Many of the Britcoms.
>
>
>
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> *From:* ale-bounces at ale.org <mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org>
> [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org <mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org>] *On
> Behalf Of *Ned Williams
> *Sent:* Monday, April 07, 2008 2:20 PM
> *To:* Mike Harrison; ale at ale.org <mailto:ale at ale.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [ale] www.pbs.org/designsquad
> <http://www.pbs.org/designsquad>
>
>
>
> hmm exciting and PBS in the same sentence...
>
> the most exciting thing pbs has ever done is once when Bob Ross
> found and extra happy little tree
>
> Ned
>
> On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Mike Harrison <meuon at geeklabs.com
> <mailto:meuon at geeklabs.com>> wrote:
>
>
> Not 'exactly' Linux related, but I'll bet we all know people (18-19)
> who might qualify and be interested, and hopefully some FOSS
> technologies
> will be enabling/useful:
>
> Design Squad is seeking candidates ages 18-19 who are passionate about
> engineering and are excited to spend the months of June-August in
> Boston
> (and traveling as well) tackling design challenges and competing
> for the
> $10,000 prize. Produced by WGBH-Boston for PBS, the program's goal
> is to
> get viewers excited about engineering and the design process.
> Apply by Friday, April 11.
>
>
>
>
>
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