TV Emptiness

TV is boring, sorry but it is. The web, now that's a different story. Watching TV has prepared me for looking at a screen. TV is a primer for the web, but the web is more dynamic and faster.

We had a couple over for dinner one time. Before dinner we sat in our living room to chit chat. They asked us where was our TV. When we said we didn't have one, they actually looked like they just heard that a loved one had suddenly died. We became weird to them.

I used to work in a hospital. This was a long time ago. I would go into people's rooms to do orderly types of things and the damn TV was always on. People would be sleeping, recovering, and in some case dying, but there was always a laugh track and a commercial for some crappy life insurance or cleanser. TVs are always on in hospitals, even in the waiting rooms. Now that's depressing at best its tragic. I think its one of the reasons why I dislike hospitals so much, they are full of TVs everywhere.

Yahoo: Unhappy People Watch Lots More TV

The researchers are not sure, though, whether unhappiness leads to more television-watching or more viewing leads to unhappiness.

In fact, people say they like watching television.

But perhaps the high from watching television doesn't last.

Who gets high watching television? What the hell is this person talking about.