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The secret ending to “Attack of the Show”
So sometime in 1999 our cable company got ZDTV. I loved that channel, and watched almost every show on it, my favorite being The Screensavers. It was like finding “my people”. It was before blogs, so it was harder to meet people online. I was on dial-up back then, so being online sucked. I was jealous of the people that were able to get broadband.
Shortly after ZDTV switched to TechTV, my cable company dropped the channel. I was pissed. One of the main reason I have DirecTV now is because of my hatred for the cable company for dropping TechTV. I think I went a year or two without The Screensavers before the cable company got TechTV back.
Then TechTV was sold and changed to G4 and sucked. The Screensavers was changed to Attack of the Show, and was removed from my Tivo. By then broadband was more-or-less everywhere and podcasting was just getting started. The good people from TechTV started TWiT and Revision3, and life was good. Well apparently Attack of the Show has ended now too. I think I only watched the first episode, but it was nice that they gave Patrick and Leo the final words. It’s finally an end to an era that was over long ago.
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Watch History Hackers On Friday
A lot of people are excited for the new seasons of their favorite TV shows starting up again, not me. I am bored by most of TV. I like to watch intelligent shows where I can learn something. Jeopardy, Mythbusters, and Smash Labs are about all I am watching on TV these day. I watch way more stuff online.
Bre Pettis is a guy that I have been watching online for years. He makes some pretty cool things. Well, he has a new TV show pilot called “History Hackers” that airs this Friday on the History Channel. I really hope the show gets picked up. These are the kinds of shows that I want to see on the TV.
Here is a little teaser of the show.
If you like the show Bre has a list of things you can do to help make the pilot a TV show. It will be great if it happens.
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Olympics
The other night I actually watched some of the Olympics. I haven’t watched much of the Olympics this year, not because I don’t want to, but mostly because I don’t watch much “live” TV at all. If it’s not recorded on our Tivo or DVR, then I probably won’t watch it. I do like seeing some of the sports that we don’t get to see very often. It’s fun to see different people from around the world competing against each other.
I have tried to watch some of them online, but I find the site to be somewhat confusing, and the live streams have no commentary, so they are hard to watch, especially if it’s a sport that you are unfamiliar with. It would be nice if NBC’s online coverage was better, but I suppose most of their viewers watch them on TV, and that is probably where they make the most advertising money too.