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[icepixie]

Using Photobucket for these for lack of anything better. When I started teaching, I tried to to slowly cut any remaining public associations between this account and my real name, because the thought of my students finding my fic or something was faintly horrifying. Though I'm no longer teaching, it still seems like a good idea, so that--and the web editing effort it involves--is why I'm sticking them up on PB rather than my own website, which has my name plastered all over it. (If you're new here and want to see all my Europe pictures and approximately a million of flowers and birds, yes, I might be a little obsessed, comment and I'll happily e-mail you the link.)

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[foursweatervests]

I managed to miss large chunks of pop culture throughout my childhood and adolescence, the prevailing theory for which is that I am not human. (Still haven't seen all the Star Wars movies, for instance--more because I thought the first one was uninteresting than any other reason--and only saw an Indiana Jones flick and a John Hughes movie for the first time this year.) Other evidence pointing to my alien origins is my complete dislike for The Princess Bride and pretty much everything the Beatles ever did. :D

I can't quite decide if that makes you amazeballs or someone who needs to watch more television. Oh, who am I kidding? Television rots your brain; amazeballs it is. You are. Er. Something.

Sidenote: I had some students - a family of them, actually. There were 3 kids in the family - who did not own a television. It was astounding how much more like *people* these kids were when compared to the milquetoasty kids around them. They had, like, thoughts, and shit. It was crazy!

Apparently they have rooms full of this kind of stuff, but only space for bits and pieces of it. They're working on making an entire wing for it, but I don't think it'll be finished for a few more years.

Ohhh, I hope it's sooner than that. That just makes me sad.

[icepixie]

Oh, I watched plenty of television as a child/teenager. Up until I discovered sci-fi around age ten, it was even fairly normal kid fare. I just...didn't watch many movies, I guess? Possibly it was because I didn't really have any friends until I was twelve, and when I got some, they were all nerds who'd basically had the same experiences of lacking friends and thus lacking pop culture connections.

But I will gladly take the description of "amazeballs." :D

It was astounding how much more like *people* these kids were when compared to the milquetoasty kids around them. They had, like, thoughts, and shit. It was crazy!

I had a student like that. It was great. Uh, never mind the fact that at forty, he actually was an adult. *snicker*

I've only had sporadic access to a TV for...eight years now, I guess. We had one TV per dorm in undergrad, and Kenyon's culture was kind of anti-TV anyway--not to mention anti-cellphone, to the point where there was practically public shaming for talking on one in the more public areas of campus; it was awesome--so no one much used them. (Some friends and I watched Atlantis and BSG, but that was it.) My parents have cable, so I could watch whatever when I lived with them, but I rarely did. Now I don't have one at all and just watch Castle on ABC's site, and use Netflix for anything else.

[foursweatervests]

Oh, I watched plenty of television as a child/teenager. Up until I discovered sci-fi around age ten, it was even fairly normal kid fare. I just...didn't watch many movies, I guess?

You know, same thing happened to me. And when I discovered friends, even more free time went out the window. And I got very active in high school, so I watched basically no television as a teenager. It wasn't until I hit college that I hit upon massive amounts of free time, mainly because my first college sucked dirt. I watched more television and movies during the summers after that, because either I'd be home and my high school friends were gone, or vice versus. I still don't really watch television, per se. Instead, I watch tv and movies over the internet. It beats having to pay for cable, or when I'm home, having to fight for television control.

(I gakked "amazeballs" from the trek crowd. ;-))

I had a student like that. It was great.

God, I loved those girls. And that boy. But I had the sisters more often than I had their brother. I actually got a chance to meet their mother, and I had to hug her. Her kids were so much more real. Man, I loved them, even if they were infuriating sometimes. Simply because they had opinions did not mean their opinions were always in line with mine!

Netflix is a solution I have not yet made use of, simply because it's cheaper for me to only pay for internet access and watch everything online. The things I can't find online, I either borrow from the library or do without. Sometimes I buy movies, but I keep that as minimal as possible. Though, I have to say, I've got quite the hankering for some Fred and Ginger movies since I mainlined your vids.

[icepixie]

Yeah, I have no intention of ever paying for cable. I can get whatever I want to see--very little, really--online the next day.

I tend to like a lot of weird stuff, so Netflix has been great for me. (I don't torrent, or really watch anything online except through network/studio websites or Hulu, so Netflix is my only way of getting stuff like BBC dramas, etc.)

Fred and Ginger, at least, do seem to be at libraries--or at least they were at my library last I checked.

[foursweatervests]

Ohhh, BBC dramas. Yeah, Netflix might actually be worthwhile just so I could watch all the Brits I wanted to. Hmmm.

They were in mine, but then they did some sort of remodeling thing, and now half their shit is in storage. They finished the remodeling a year ago, and for some reason, expanding their library involved eliminating, like, a third of their on-the-shelf space. (I know my maths don't quite work out. Just roll with it.) Now I am forced to stalk other libraries. Which, really, isn't too hard. I'm just lazy like that.