… the things we learn from them.<\/p>\n
Delta introduced me to the concept that one doesn’t "turn" the next year older until birthday cake is consumed. I haven’t aged in a decade or so, having assiduously avoided birthday cake ever since.<\/p>\n
Alpha, immersed in college culture, has tipped me off to several really good TV series this year. I don’t usually watch much TV, so something good may come on, and I never know. But, she called a few weeks ago to tell me that I ought to watch Fringe<\/a> — sort of an updated version of X-Files, but with better acting.<\/p>\n And, since I’d already missed the pilot and a couple of episodes, she pointed me to Hulu<\/a>, where you can watch missed episodes of almost anything online.<\/p>\n Over Thanksgiving break, she got me hooked on Prison Break<\/a>, which has been on for a few seasons now. Of course, only this season’s episodes are on the show’s website, so Alpha clued me in to another resource: SurfTheChannel<\/a>. There, I can go back to the very first season, and watch them online to my heart’s content.<\/p>\n On SurfTheChannel, the Megavideo<\/a> selections are the highest quality, but they set a time limit per day on how much you can watch without joining (for a fee). The Sina.com clips are the next best in quality, and allow unlimited daily viewing without signing up for anything. The only downside is the Japanese subtitles, but I can live with it.<\/p>\n It’s Tuesday night, 8 p.m., and I’m off to watch House on realtime TV.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" … the things we learn from them. Delta introduced me to the concept that one doesn’t "turn" the next year older until birthday cake is consumed. I haven’t aged in a decade or so, having assiduously avoided birthday cake ever … Continue reading