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I have been recovering from yesterday’s accidental gluten ingestion. This brightened my day considerably. (via MetaFilter)

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Posted on 10 Mar 2011 | 1 comment

Limiting my television consumption for HealthMonth.

One of the HealthMonth rules I chose for March is limiting my television consumption to seven hours per week, or roughly one hour per day. I pared down my Hulu subscription list to the following, in order of how much I enjoy them: Fringe (hour) Parks and Recreation (half-hour) Community (half-hour) Modern Family (half-hour) Parenthood (hour) 30 Rock (half-hour) Raising Hope (half-hour) Castle (hour) The Office (half-hour) Honestly, the Hulu list could lose 6-9 without me noticing much. I also left an hour for Restaurant: Impossible, which is a show that FunkyPlaid and I enjoy watching together on live TV. Technically, the hours are 45-ish minutes, and the half-hours are 22-ish minutes, but you get the idea. I am somewhat surprised that I watch this much...

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Posted on 3 Mar 2011 | Comments Off

FOX’s Traffic Light: How to Make Lying Unfunny

I didn’t plan on watching FOX’s new show “Traffic Light” last night on Hulu, but I was trying to switch my brain off after a particularly intense round of homework. Little did I know that those twenty-two minutes would annoy me enough for me to write a review. There are many things I could say about “Traffic Light”, many things that I hope other, better reviewers will say. Right now, my annoyance is focused on how “Traffic Light” sucks all the funniness out of lying. In real life, lying isn’t funny. I’m not talking about hyperbole or sarcasm, because those are plenty funny. I am talking about the lying that “Traffic Light” depicts: misrepresenting oneself intentionally to another person in...

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Posted on 10 Feb 2011 | 8 comments