An old friend comes to visit.
 

Well well well....

Guess what. I had a vist from my old friend Neil who is the son of another old friend who gets a very high rateings from me although I can't quite remember the company he works for. He brought lots of cool little boxes that he hooked up to all the cable lines in my house.

Funny thing is all he want's us to do all day is watch TV. More and more TV.

While I like TV, I kinda wonder if it might be better for my friend if we just switched the darn thing off and went outside to play for the next 30-90 days.


What do you think?

Do we get to vote on what you should "watch"?

Neil visited me when I was a kid. I put Quantum Leap on every TV in the house. :D Didn't help though. I enjoyed being a part of it because I didn't watch any of the top rated shows.

Have fun! :)

Which is an excellent example of the heisenberg uncertainty principle. By measuring an event you change that event.

Sigh. I wish people would stop abusing the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle which does NOT say that by measuring an event you change that event.

As long as you love Mythbusters and hate the wiggles, sure!

Sorry, but pop culture will not be denied! Besides that's what Heisenburg himself stated. Sure he was wrong, but there are you are.

Just stay away from Rachel Ray.

Huh? Somehow I doubt the person who first described the ACTUAL Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle ever confused it with the observer effect.

Her 15-Min are sooo up! :)

Is that even possible? She's become the queen of over exposure. I realized this when I was wandering the supermarket aisles, and the moment that I noticed a display of cracker boxes with her face on it, I hear her voice on the sound system telling me to buy some crap. Geez.

CP brought one of her cookbooks home from the library. It sucked. The recipes were so poorly written that half the time we had to have an argument about what she actually meant by each step (are we supposed to cook this down THEN add the bok choy, or do we add the bok choy first?!) before we could actually cook anything.

Heisenberg himself may have initially offered explanations which suggested this view ... Heisenberg's original argument used the 'old' quantum theory (namely, the Einstein-deBroglie relations) and provided a heuristic argument that the position and momentum observables were not simultaneously observable with infinite precision. The more modern uncertainty relations deal with independent measurements being done on an ensemble of systems.

Yes, which is NOT the same as "observing an event changes the event." The "position and momentum are not simultaneously observable" interpretation is far closer to the actual meaning of the uncertainty principle, it just ignores the fact that in reality, knowing one of the two provides a probable range of values for the second, rather than just make it unknowable. But either way, it's not the same as the observer effect.

Not trying to hijack the thread but everyone here does know that Rachel Ray has two cds: a Christmas compilation called How Cool Is This? Christmas and then some cheesy kids' compilation with her face photoshopped on the front? She obviously had nothing to do with either cd except to skim off her percentage.

That takes us to a huge question: would it be worse if these were cover albums with Rachel Ray actually singing her Christmas faves?

End of derail.

Who is Rachel Ray?

Yeah! Who?

She's a Martha Stewart wannabe.

Rachael Ray started out in this area, BTW. Her whole 30-minute meals thing started by her teaching a class at a local store.

Rachel Ray kinda bums me out. I actually liked her when she did her 30-minute meals and that show about traveling on a budget for Food TV. As soon as she got all these promotional deals... ugh. It just got stupid.

Martha Stewart was a guest on the Howard Stern radio show last week. When Howard brought up Rachel Ray as a pretender to the throne, Martha basically said that the only thing Rachel Ray does is cook, and that she'd gladly have a cook-off with her. Eat that, Rachel Ray!

Yeah, I wouldn't watch her, Moonliner. Your friend Neil's son probably has too many people talking about Rachel already.

I'm so LOST! without 24. I really wish my Hero would save that wonderful Studio 60 that is on the Sunset Strip.

I'd love to have a visit - of course, then sponsors would be flee the medium and the cable/boradcast television market would collapse as they would have no viewership.

I'd embarrass all the people on the company end by watching as much PPV porn as possible. :evil:

So what you are saying is that I should stay true and not change my viewing habits at all? :confused:

I like Rachel Ray's 30-minute show. I don't often try to make her exact recipe but I have learned quite a few things for watching since 99% of the time I am looking to make something decent very quickly. Not something wonderful over hours.

I pretty much don't intersect with the rest of her stuff so it doesn't bother me.

I have a special friend, too. We'll call him "Steve-o." When I don't like a show we're watching, I give him a "thumbs down" signal. Sometimes as many as 3 "thumbs down." If I like something, "thumbs up!" Sometimes, to make a point, say, regarding a certain network's airing of a show such as "Path to 9/11," everything on that network gets 3 "thumbs down."

I think Neil and Steve-o are friends.

I like this thread title. I keep thinking that moonliner is going to tell us that his period has returned.

You know, given how prolific a poster you are, I'm sure I can find some show you like.... and kill it. Or better yet (and easier) find a show you hate and watch it every time it's on.

Tee hee hee, I thought the same thing.

You know, I used to like watching the Celtics play ball but now I'm starting to think I might watch reruns of "murder she wrote" instead.

What's the Spanish word for ''straitjacket"?
The power has driven him mad!

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I'll save you the trouble of searching. There are currently only three shows I was regularly. Feel free to kill them off, it'll just free up my time:

Law & Order: SVU
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Heroes

(Law & Order if off the list now that it is on Fridays.)

There are no shows I hate since if I don't like a show I stop watching it and hatred isn't given a chance to grow. Though if you could make the (purported) music video channels go away I'd appreciate it since then maybe better channels would move into the basic cable package.

I would like to take this moment to, randomly and without reason, praise the entertainment value of Veronica Mars. Where else do you get the witty reparte of Buffy-esque teenagers AND detective noir? Nowhere, my friends.

I think Neil should come visit my house. ;)

Lemme guess... Andronico's?

I just have to say that my mind was WAY in the wrong place when I read this... I think because you said he was your "special friend", so I started picturing all sorts of things happening when you gave "thumbs up" and "thumbs down".

I'm still laughing inside...

Weeds weeds weeds weeds :)

Yeah, that's what I was thinking too. Glad to know I'm not the only wacko around here.

By "this area" I mean Upstate NY. We do not have Andronico's.

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