Browsing all posts tagged with Television.
Monday, February 9th, 2009
So, the new procedural ‘Lie to Me‘ has officially had three episodes aired, which I think is long enough to allow me to comment on it. If you haven’t seen it, it’s a show about an agency that specializes in lie detecting. Yeah, I know. I wondered if this was a lucrative business as well. [...]
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
Knowledge is a tricky thing. It’s difficult to decide with any kind of certainty what is known for certain, and what is assumed. Most of our lives revolve around assumptions, no matter how much we try to figure out what the truth is. In fact, living a succesful life is almost dependent on assumptions: that [...]
Monday, June 9th, 2008
Man, I'm turning into a TV blog, slowly but surely. This morning, sick out of my head, I sat and watched "Last Comic Standing" with my wife, which we had PVRed from Thursday, and it got me thinking about celebrity, and how it's not an absolute quality. There's certain tiers of fame that a "celebrity" [...]
Monday, January 21st, 2008
Well, my wife won out on the TV watching last night, since no way was I going to argue with a woman 9 months pregnant. We watched a lovely 2 hour piece of television called "Test the Nation". For those readers of an American ilk, it simply is a trivia test, consisting of 60 questions [...]
Wednesday, January 16th, 2008
It's funny – today, I had so many ideas about what to write about, to try and restart my zest for blogging. I have found that, through my perusal and enjoyment of other blogs, I have a better idea of what I'm trying to do here with my own written thoughts. What is "Jonsian Logic"? [...]
Friday, January 19th, 2007
Recently, I started watching the new show Armed & Dangerous, a program showcasing celebrities (and I use the word in its loosest sense) becoming police officers in a small town in Idaho or Iowa or something. It's very rustic. It's an enjoyable little hour, and I've watched the first two episodes already, with the second [...]