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I’ve signed up at the Goodlife gym nearby work. After over 3 weeks off without any physical activity due to the lack of Ultimate, I figured I should probably get some exercise every now and then to clear up the arteries.

I was at the gym last night for the first time. The gym I goto is pretty good, tons of equipment, and best of all it has TV’s in front of all the cardio machines. This makes me all giddy, as I haven’t had raw unadulterated television in over half a year.

Renata and I don’t have cable TV at home, as we download the shows we watch through the internet. There’s so much crap out on TV these days that having cable simply isn’t worth the time and cost. Why would I want to pay some company to spend 25% of my TV watching time staring at commercials? Despite this, raw cable TV brings back fond childhood memories of sitting in front of the tube and zoning out.

So anyways, I hop on an elliptical machine, plug in my headphones, and start working away like the little hamster-in-a-wheel that I am. There are banks of TV’s on the wall, and each elliptical lets you control which station you want to listen to. My choices tonight? New Hampshire local news, Entertainment Tonight, some TSN show about hockey, and more shitty local news. Now these channels do not represent all that is TV, but it doesn’t remove from the conclusions of my survey: TV is shit.

Entertainment Tonight is just awful. I’ve known it to be awful forever, but I don’t recall it ever being this bad. Who cares about Dancing with the Stars? I don’t know what’s worse, watching commercials or watching the actual show. So I’m left with shitty local news and TSN. I couldn’t really care what some old guy thinks about hockey teams on TSN, so that’s out. I’m just not a hockey fan, it’s never really appealed to me.

So local news here we go. After a somewhat interesting story on “Wet Cleaning” at the Dry Cleaners (using eco-friendly soap to dry clean) I find myself watching a story on how a police cruiser almost hits a deer on the side of the road. Yes… the news broadcast spent 30 seconds describing a downtown homicide, and spent the remaining 5 minutes of the broadcast showing chase cam footage of a deer jumping over the cops hood. Cool footage, but that maybe should be omitted and posted on YouTube instead? Which brings me another pet peeve… why is it that news stations are starting to broadcast YouTube clips?

It’s retarded. It’s completely the opposite of HD… it’s like super LD. If I wanted to watch YouTube, I would’ve just watched YouTube.

So anyways, after surfing through 4 shitty programs on the elliptical I’ve concluded that I need to bring in a magazine to read while I work out, like the Economist, and that TV is absolute crap. The people who watch cable for hours a day, and blow a fair chunk of money paying for it, deserve their existence in the purgatory that is television.

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