idiot box

[perlmonger]

yonmei mentioned the kind of TV you can watch while doing something else, which is a concept that I find baffling.

So. A quiz.
[Poll #401858]

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[easterbunny.livejournal.com]

I really like watching television. (Shock! Horror!) My mom says that I used to be fascinated by the flashing lights of game shows when I was little. I can't, however, watch television and do nothing else - I grew up sewing, drawing, doing craft projects, jumping on a mini-trampoline, and doing homework with the television on (preferably the weather channel). This transferred to programming and doing certain types of physics / engineering coursework by the gentle lull of TV during uni, although some things I prefer the radio for - housework, DIY, cooking, non-calculus maths, and writing papers. I like to read if I'm in the bathtub, the bed, eating, or on public transport, and I like to paint or draw if I'm sitting outside or at a concert.

It sounds weird, but I'm not too worried about stunted creativity - it helps me a lot to be able to shut my right brain off. I ususally take DVDs to work to listen to during the afternoon when I get into serious programming mode; they helps me concentrate. I realize that I'm a freak.

[easterbunny.livejournal.com]

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[perlmonger.livejournal.com]

preciouss...

But, yes, you are odd :) - or at any rate at the far end of a spectrum from me. I find it virtually impossible to do anything if there's a television on in the same room: it's not the sound (speech radio is generally fine, as is most music from whatever source), it's just something about the Dyson-like power of the moving image. It can be an irritating shortcoming; for example, it means that I can't sit and read in the same room while ramtops watches TV.

People are odd: all of us, I think...