{"id":621,"date":"2004-11-04T14:08:03","date_gmt":"2004-11-04T13:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/?p=621"},"modified":"2004-11-04T14:08:03","modified_gmt":"2004-11-04T13:08:03","slug":"addicted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/?p=621","title":{"rendered":"Addicted ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With some 6 new episodes in my download queue for just today, I figured I may benefit from finding out what exactly constitutes as a TV addiction. First, here&#8217;s my current schedule:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sure hits:<\/strong><br \/>\nJack and Bobby<br \/>\nLost<br \/>\nSouth Park<br \/>\nBattlestar Galactica<br \/>\nCSI<br \/>\nSmallville<br \/>\nEverwood<\/p>\n<p><strong>Try-out bench (new series):<\/strong><br \/>\nBoston Legal<br \/>\nVeronica Mars<br \/>\nKevin Hill<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dangerzone (weak writing or due to repetitiveness repetitiveness):<\/strong><br \/>\nCSI:NY<br \/>\nNCIS<br \/>\nStar Trek: Enterprise<br \/>\nJoey<br \/>\nFather of the Pride<\/p>\n<p><strong>Axed (either cancelled by the network or dismissed by me):<\/strong><br \/>\n<s>Medical Investigation<\/s><br \/>\n<s>Last Comic Standing<\/s><br \/>\n<s>Hawaii<\/s><br \/>\n<s>Clubhouse<\/s><br \/>\n<s>Drawn Together<\/s> <\/p>\n<p><strong>Waiting for a 2005 continuation:<\/strong><br \/>\n24<br \/>\nTru Calling<br \/>\nAlias<br \/>\nThe Dead Zone<\/p>\n<p><strong>Try-out bench, Waiting for a 2005 premiere:<\/strong><br \/>\nJohnny Zero<br \/>\nNumbers<br \/>\nBlind Justice<br \/>\nRicochet<br \/>\nThe Office (NBC version)<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, it&#8217;s pretty crowded, and I didn&#8217;t even include the occasional late night show (Jay or Conan or Jon).<\/p>\n<p>So on to the exact definition. Well, I don&#8217;t have one. I stumbled upon this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hinduonnet.com\/folio\/fo0102\/01020440.htm\">article<\/a>, and then I stopped. It&#8217;s a pretty interesting read, and an excerpt goes like this:<br \/>\n<em><strong> those who are committed to their work cannot become addicts to television<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nWell, that satisfied my curiosity. Off to watch some more TV it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With some 6 new episodes in my download queue for just today, I figured I may benefit from finding out what exactly constitutes as a TV addiction. First, here&#8217;s my current schedule: Sure hits: Jack and Bobby Lost South Park Battlestar Galactica CSI Smallville Everwood Try-out bench (new series): Boston Legal Veronica Mars Kevin Hill [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kimputer.is-a-geek.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}