Rupert Murdock, you magnificent Bastard!

I taught my first "post curricular" class last night. It went reasonable well. We reviewed a few pages, listened to a tape or two, and played a game...etc. The hardest part was catching the taxi during rush hour. After class I came home and played Advanced Wars all night since Marc changed his mind and decided to sleep in. Not that I am complaining, I was enjoying my new addiction. That's what you have to do isn't it? Face your addiction? (wait, it's that face your fears, seek help for addiction.) >=0)

Today I don't plan on doing anything much. Their might be a rendezvous with Kurt later, I'm not really sure what is going on with that. I'm doing laundry, snagging the latest episode of Buffy and the new live action Tick episode. Geek "chores" if you will.

I wish I didn't have to download American television like I do. Since television is paid for by advertising revenue, in essence, if you download a show and don't see ads, you aren't "paying" for the show by the network programmers logic because the advertisers give them money based on ratings for which internet downloads aren't figured into. My counter viewpoint?

I rarely purchase things based off the advertising in any show. It doesn't matter how many times you advertise Widget A, because no ad will go out and buy it if I don't need it. Sure, I might be subliminally biased in some way I don't know, but why do I think most advertisements so ineffective for me? One, because I don't want much, and reason two is because they don't advertise what I want on the shows I watch. I watched the WB, who's advertising focus consists of preteens with disposable income. If I had a Neilsen box and could actually influence ratings directly, I would be a more responsible viewer because I could show networks what I want to see.

I think, if you did want to see revenue off the internet, and traditional networks made their shows available to people that don't have access to them (Like me, hello!) then you could insert ads that I would gladly watch because it is the best alternative to not watching them at all. Of course, Network executives are neo-Luddites when it comes to putting actual interesting and unique content on the internet. They tend to run away and sharpen pointy sticks when forced to think of new ideas in general.