Ah, Wednesday. Half awake and I feel like a truck ran over me. We did roughly 850 miles in 2 days over parts of PA that were so remote, well I did that story already. 🙂 What was really weird was that we were on top of some mountain on our way home last night and we were picking up Chicago AM stations. You know you’re far out when you’re starting to get Chicago stations while still in PA. LOL.
I’m tired. I really am. We didn’t get home until late last night and I’m sitting here dreading even moving right now. Thankfully my mom did most of the driving on the way home, so I had time to stare at the full moon and wonder “Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?” on the way home.
Right now TechLive is on. Erica’s talking about the IBM change of leadership. What’s sad is that I’d LOVE to watch the nightly TechLive but if I do I can’t watch the morning or afternoon TechLives because they’re recycling things so much. I hear Michaela’s having a lot of fun on that show, but I can’t do it. It’s not compelling enough to change from Prime Time Network programming and I really don’t want to sit through these canned segments over and over. I know I used to do it with the old TechLive but my god, they were just that day — they didn’t carry over to two days! Or Three!
Weekends are the absolute worst with TechLive. If you catch the Friday night show and tune into the Monday morning show you come in expecting new news. I mean, they’ve had the entire weekend to get tech news after all. SORRY! Ya get the same recycled news from Friday night. Maybe an update or two, but nothing to really tune into.
I’ve seen this pattern on other sites, it seems like we’re all watching less since the November bloodbath. I mean more than just all of use geeks who were turned off by the loss of our friends in the blood letting. Viewers should be coming back by now but it doesn’t look like it’s happening. Personally, I have the morning TechLive on and that’s it. 10:30 AM hits and I flip to CNN or something else. I have problems remembering the afternoon show or call for help, there’s nothing compelling enough to watch the reruns of the other shows (I mean Screen Saver reruns are OVERKILL), and I usually am so turned off by reruns that I forget to tune into the Screen Savers every night. I’ll catch it halfway through or catch the end. But then I won’t watch the reruns because what I’ve seen is in no way compelling enough to tune in again.
I’m glad they seem to be working on tuning the show. For quite a bit it was turning into the dumb segment show. I mean from the lite windows tip to the lite site of the nite to the lite (and innane) IM thought of the moment, they were shoving stupid segments down our throats. I love Megan, Megan’s great, but you know what? She’s supposed to be the BRAINS and not the BIMBO. If I have to sit through one more extended Megan segment where all she does is bash Windows while saying nothing of substance (my god, for a while I should have been doing the wuzzi fuzza bapa moopies for Megan instead of Jessica). I swear, I’m flipping and I’m skipping her segments and not coming back. Don’t get me started on Cat. “Yah, like the world like is so much like huh, cooler, because I’m like showing you this like site of the night eyah!” I’m also skipping Leo’s constant inappropriate sexual comments (I thought *I* was a dirty old man, but Leo’s far far older than I could ever be j/k) and the total MAC Bias by some folks on the set (perpetuating the myth that the MAC is useful), and I’ll just wrap it up by saying that I’m glad it looks like they’re starting to focus more on actual relevant tech issues and less on the Wal-Mart shopping format that they’ve gone to (Buy Leo’s book! Buy the videotapes! Blue light special! Blue light special! Rollback!). That’s good. For as long as it lasts.
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