Sky
December 17th, 2005 at 19:52
To celebrate the birth of Santa, I’ve had Sky put in to my bedroom, meaning I can now watch The Third Reich in Colour whilst talking to people on MSN, and fall asleep in my own bed whilst watching the Sky News paper review on the Sky News Active loop. Hooray!
Even since my laptop died, I’ve been unable to do this- think of all of the episodes of Extreme Engineering I’ve been missing! Rather than get another laptop, I’ve bought the TV to the computer instead. Today, whilst surfing it up and refreshing my blog hit counter, praying that someone will have visited, I learnt about deflecting an asteroid heading towards the earth, what the Tudors did for us (started the defence industry), and how to colonise space.
I’ve just been flipping through the EPG (electronic programme guide) now, and I nearly decided to watch the Political Memoirs select commitee on BBC Parliament, but I’ve realised that it’s a Saturday night- the most exciting and dynamic night of the week, where normal people watch The X-Factor and go to nightclubs and take LSD. This considered, I’ve opted for Channel 4 News instead. I like the in-depth analysis and slick presentation… and I can whistle the theme tune.
I’m quite worried that Sky might be affecting my mind though- perhaps making me stupider. Late last night I was flicking between Animaniacs on Boomerang (not as good as I remember, disappointingly) and Spiderman on Jetix. It still amuses me how they always say they’re going to “destroy” Spiderman rather than “kill” him, especially in contexts where the only word that works is “kill”. “Your blaster nearly destroyed me!”, “I’ll destroy you Spiderman!”.
Maybe Sky will eventually kill my mind? Maybe it’ll enhance the history part of my brain at the expense of the “using winamp for background noise” part of my brain? Who knows? The real question now is: Megastructures (the Aswan Dam) or Century of Warfare (The airbourne invasion of Norway)?
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