8:41 PM >> Netflix Guilt

From a great article about the problems created by entertainment in the digital age:

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Episodes of “The Daily Show” and “Letterman” pile onto our DVR television recorders like copies of The New Yorker, begging to either be consumed or wastefully discarded. Netflix movies line up on our shelves like airplanes on a runway waiting to take off. And all of those blog postings relentlessly flood into our Web browsers every hour, every day. There’s certainly not time for all of it. Is this entertainment? It feels more like homework.
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No S, man. I knew that feeling. As soon as I got TiVo, shows I never cared about missing before suddenly took on the weight of the world. Once recorded, if I did not watch Wondershowzen, I was wasting. And I was a waste. I was too lazy to even watch TV.

Until I realized that I did not need to watch these shows I tape oops I mean record, I want to watch oops I mean replay them. And so if I want to view TV, the shows are there waiting for me like cupcakes in the summer. But if I don't get to them, I certainly never would have seen them before TiVo anyway.

SO RELAX PEOPLE IT IS OK TO IGNORE THINGS