Ann Arbor Cable Commission meetings online

"Kill your television."  Quoting Robert Efroymson's long since abandoned home page at U Minnesota:

My favorite reason for not watching TV is that it has a fixed, low bandwidth.  You can't watch tv fast or slow, you have to watch it at the rate the show goes, which could very well be much slower than you can accept the information (or much faster).  A book you can read at your own pace, a tv show sets the pace for you.

The other reason is that I will watch anything.  I seem to have no ability to discriminate between good shows and bad.  I learned this many years ago, when I was an undergraduate.  I was visiting some relatives who had young children.  They put a tape of the "Smurfs" in the VCR for the girls to watch.  I could not help watching it myslf. In fact I can still recall the evil man with his cat who had a plan to destroy the Smurfs.

The Ann Arbor Cable Commission meetings are now online on video on demand; there's a whole raftload of videos available on what they call A2CitiTV.

Be careful for those smurfs.