Weather; Worthless TV; and Writing
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shannon_aAbsolutely beautiful weekend weather. I loved my ride down to Endgame and back on Saturday, then today I went out to lunch and afterward rode down to Cesar Chavez Park. I circled the peninsula and sat for a while out at the land's end, reading and watching the Bay.
Later in the day I talked with my dad and was jealous of him talking of swimming in the ocean. Down in Hawaii, where it's warm enough to do so.
Kimberly and I have continued watching our trashiest TV show, Big Brother, and as a first we're about to give up on the show because of how unlikeable most of the remaining players are. I'd call one of them a sociopath, except she seems to believe herself totally honest through all of her lies and manipulations, so I don't know what that is exactly. (And I love good gameplayers. If she was purposefully manipulating everyone and not sobbing to the audience about how people are calling her on her lying when she's lying, I'd think totally differently.)
In any case, we felt much the same while watching Big Brother 6, half a decade ago, as many of the final people were very unpleasant, but we watched that one through. Kimberly said she didn't enjoy doing so at all and later regretted it. I might well have been similarly disgruntled, but I place more importance on watching something through to the end.
One of the biggest problems that Big Brother faces is that the producers don't know the outcome while they're editing and broadcasting the show. As a result, unlikeable and "undeserving" players seem to win more than half the time. It shows you how much editors can manipulate reality when they do edit other shows like Survivor. And it also shows that most people competing to win a million dollars on TV aren't folks you'd really want anything to do with.
I've been writing history #61 for the RPG history book! Or, rather, for my column for the same. I'd long planned to write a column containing shorter history snippets, but this "mini-history" got out of hand, and is going to be a full history. 1500 words so far, and two other major sections, I think. I'm going to at least break it into two so that I don't drive myself crazy with too much history to write.
(Again.)
Overall, a relatively nice weekend. Besides all the rest, there was Dresden Files RPing, and it was good.
Later in the day I talked with my dad and was jealous of him talking of swimming in the ocean. Down in Hawaii, where it's warm enough to do so.
Kimberly and I have continued watching our trashiest TV show, Big Brother, and as a first we're about to give up on the show because of how unlikeable most of the remaining players are. I'd call one of them a sociopath, except she seems to believe herself totally honest through all of her lies and manipulations, so I don't know what that is exactly. (And I love good gameplayers. If she was purposefully manipulating everyone and not sobbing to the audience about how people are calling her on her lying when she's lying, I'd think totally differently.)
In any case, we felt much the same while watching Big Brother 6, half a decade ago, as many of the final people were very unpleasant, but we watched that one through. Kimberly said she didn't enjoy doing so at all and later regretted it. I might well have been similarly disgruntled, but I place more importance on watching something through to the end.
One of the biggest problems that Big Brother faces is that the producers don't know the outcome while they're editing and broadcasting the show. As a result, unlikeable and "undeserving" players seem to win more than half the time. It shows you how much editors can manipulate reality when they do edit other shows like Survivor. And it also shows that most people competing to win a million dollars on TV aren't folks you'd really want anything to do with.
I've been writing history #61 for the RPG history book! Or, rather, for my column for the same. I'd long planned to write a column containing shorter history snippets, but this "mini-history" got out of hand, and is going to be a full history. 1500 words so far, and two other major sections, I think. I'm going to at least break it into two so that I don't drive myself crazy with too much history to write.
(Again.)
Overall, a relatively nice weekend. Besides all the rest, there was Dresden Files RPing, and it was good.
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