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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.

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.