June 2013
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Sedona is gobsmackingly beautiful.
March 2013
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Willa Paskin of Wired dives into the business behind the resurrection of Arrested Development on Netflix:
Whatever our televisual drug of choice—Battlestar Galactica, The Wire, Homeland—we’ve all put off errands and bedtime to watch just one more, a thrilling, draining, dream-influencing immersion experience that has become the standard way to consume certain TV programs. We’ve all had the hit of pleasure after an installment ends on some particularly insane cliff-hanger and we remember that we can watch the next episode right now. It’s a relatively recent addition to the pantheon of slightly illicit yet mostly harmless adult pleasures, residing next to eating ice cream for dinner, drinking a beer with lunch, and having sex with someone you probably shouldn’t.
Yep. Also interesting:
Yet traditional television networks still apportion their series in weekly episodes over four to eight months, allowing binge-watching only in retrospect, even though, for an increasing number of viewers, binge-watching isn’t just a way to catch up on a season that has already wrapped but a better viewing experience altogether. Why let networks and advertisers get in the way of that? Which may explain what Sarandos says, that the audience for Breaking Bad is bigger on Netflix than it is on AMC. (One of the few hard numbers Netflix has shared is that 50,000 of its subscribers watched all 13 episodes of Breaking Bad’s season four the day before the new season premiered on AMC.)
That audience for Breaking Bad is bigger on Netflix than it is on AMC. Think about that for a second.
Full HD, full Playlist, Full on Pink, Full on Awesome
Graham Hill trades in a life of luxury for a 420 square-foot studio apartment with almost nothing in it — and is happier as a result:
Somehow this stuff ended up running my life, or a lot of it; the things I consumed ended up consuming me.
Or, as Tyler Durden once put it:
The things you own, end up owning you.
Living with Less… Something I have been learning. I’ve downsized twice and each downsize makes me take stock of those ” things” that are
Really important to me.
I’ve learned it is a pretty small pile.
10 BILLION rounds manufactured each year.
That’s a weight equal to TWO TITANICS.
That’s enough to pump 32 rounds into EACH and Every man , woman and child in America.
Overkill, indeed.
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