Yes? No? Maybe? Who knows? With no Simpson's, Futurama, or X-Files on tonight, this just seemed like a good time to ponder the question. That, and read up on the current market of processors and motherboards in preparation for the completion of my second New Year's resolution.

I was actually thinking about this last night after reading some more from Terry Goodkind's Wizard's First Rule. An hour of reading that provided a quality of entertainment equal to or greater than most hours spent watching tv. And I mean in comparison to the really good shows; there's no contest when you pit it against the nightly crapfest purveyed most of the time by the major networks.

Now I am by no means saying that I plan to stop watching tv entirely. (Barring something really strange, like the stations all teaming up and trying to sue anybody who tries to use a tv card under Linux. Far fetched? Normally, I would say so, but looking at what's happening with some other media... Anyway, back to our topic.)

No, there is still enough good shows, or shows to which I have become, admittedly, attached to, even if the quality has declined recently. (Not naming any names, except to say it's something that starts with the 24th letter of the alphabet, and doesn't regularly come on on Sunday nights.) So what am I babbling about again?

Oh yes. TV sucks, but I'm hooked anyway, and don't have the drive or a strong enough urge to try to break it? Something like that.

So now that I'm boycotting movies, and the thought of not watching tv enters the crevices my mind. Ya know, if this keeps up, I could start turning into a real ... hippie ... hacker ... unibomber-type ... something. Nah. Not while I'm working at a publicly traded corporation, anyway. Maybe a bean counting Wall Street fiend. I think not. (Trying to imagine the two caricatures simultaniously co-existing in one body just doesn't work somehow.)

Ehh, these days, I'm more shooting for the idea of balance. Not give up tv entirely, but just watch the good stuff that's really worthy of my attention. (Well, there goes Tuesday night, and Sunday was gone a long time ago. :) ) (Yes, when I nest my smilies in parentheses, I do not consider the emoticon as closing the expression. It is its own entity, hence a parethesis after it is required. To do otherwise violates the programmer mindset.)

Alrighty then. This little spat has gone on long enough. (Another general direction I'm looking toward pursuing: Make my ramblings shorter, but more frequent. Make them more to the point, and include less parenthetical statements that go off on strange tangents that have nothing to do with the topic at hand. Doh!)