Comments on: The allure of distraction… http://cinderwick.ca/notebook/2008/03/16/the-allure-of-distraction/ Burning fragments of life with technology. Fri, 06 Aug 2010 17:33:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: libby http://cinderwick.ca/notebook/2008/03/16/the-allure-of-distraction/comment-page-1/#comment-16 libby Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:40:33 +0000 http://cinderwick.ca/?p=17#comment-16 Thanks for the feedback and sorry for my rather late response. We would love to do the Appalachian Trail, especially after watching the dvd "2000 Miles to Maine". It looks like an incredible journey and a test of endurance. It is rather jarring (and yes noisy) to watch mainstream tv after so long. We found that a lot socializing with friends involved discussion about "did you see that commercial about...?" and realized the numbing impact it has on so many people. Thanks again for your comments. Thanks for the feedback and sorry for my rather late response. We would love to do the Appalachian Trail, especially after watching the dvd “2000 Miles to Maine”. It looks like an incredible journey and a test of endurance.

It is rather jarring (and yes noisy) to watch mainstream tv after so long. We found that a lot socializing with friends involved discussion about “did you see that commercial about…?” and realized the numbing impact it has on so many people.

Thanks again for your comments.

]]> By: nomadic http://cinderwick.ca/notebook/2008/03/16/the-allure-of-distraction/comment-page-1/#comment-7 nomadic Tue, 10 Jun 2008 00:13:37 +0000 http://cinderwick.ca/?p=17#comment-7 Greetings - Enjoyed this post! caught the link to your sight from over at archlinux forums. I personally could not give up my internet/computer for a week while it was still around me - (give up the arch screen shots thread - never!) Television is a different animal - well put about how jarring it is to return to television after a break. About 2 years ago I had the opportunity to spend about 4 months hiking from MD to ME on the Appalachian Trail. After such an extended media break I never went back to television. Some movies, sure, but television programming became completely intolerable. That time without entertainment including a near constant shallow attempt at appealing to one demographic or another just became too noisy and disturbing for me to handle (though I still watch some baseball games!) Good point also about television and conversation. Not knowing whats going on with the latest shows definitely handicaps your smalltalk options...Anyway enough said - Take it easy - Greg Greetings – Enjoyed this post! caught the link to your sight from over at archlinux forums.

I personally could not give up my internet/computer for a week while it was still around me – (give up the arch screen shots thread – never!)

Television is a different animal – well put about how jarring it is to return to television after a break.

About 2 years ago I had the opportunity to spend about 4 months hiking from MD to ME on the Appalachian Trail. After such an extended media break I never went back to television. Some movies, sure, but television programming became completely intolerable. That time without entertainment including a near constant shallow attempt at appealing to one demographic or another just became too noisy and disturbing for me to handle (though I still watch some baseball games!)

Good point also about television and conversation. Not knowing whats going on with the latest shows definitely handicaps your smalltalk options…Anyway enough said – Take it easy – Greg

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