I think I've said (somewhere) that we gave up cable TV a while back. Well, my daughter gave us a "Roku" box (basically a NetFlix set-top player) for Christmas...and I think it's pretty much negated whatever "extra time" I thought we might get by not having live TV in the house. Hence, at least a portion of, why I've not been on here. We've been watching old movies, TV series, etc.
This, like so many things, is both bad and good. We've wasted lots of irreplaceable time watching old things. Guilty as charged. But not all old things are bad things. Take for instance:
- Cosmos, you remember, the old Carl Sagan 13 part show about the nature of the universe. Pretty good stuff...even for as old as it is. Nothing too far out of wack, with the exception that the major pain point now is the environment and terrorism.
- Connections, the old James Burke show, along with it's follow ons, Connections 2, and The Day the Universe Changed. WONDERFUL stuff here.
- Tapped, a relatively new show that somehow never played here in Oklahoma...at least that I know of. It's all about the evils of bottled water, how stupid it is to pay so much for something so unregulated, in containers that are unsafe, made by polluting the environment and killing people near the plastics plants, all for something that we can get out of our municipal taps for next to nothing. Very reminiscent of The Story of Stuff.
Yes, there were lots of older movies that we watched recently (Red Sonya, Dr. Who, etc.) that simply brought back some warm fuzzies from my youth. But there were a number of good things too. After watching some of this stuff, it encouraged I and one of the boys to go bike riding. Not just to go out and have a good time, but ALSO to save on fuel while doing something good for ourselves.
Maybe the Roku isn't bad after all.
