1. I know someone who knows things. He says bandwidth is more valuable than paper. He criticized the university's new interactive learning website because it is a bandwidth hog. The other night I went to sleep to Hulu.com. I forgot that it was on continuous play. Simpsons clips played all night. I was too lazy to shut it off. Besides the electricity (and my monitor went into sleep mode), I suffered zero marginal costs. I remember Mark Cuban saying that high quality video will never be able to be streamed through computers. These are the questions of our time.
2. I really enjoy Mad Men. I was excited by Jon Hamm hosting SNL. I watched his opening monologue and most of his sketches (on Hulu.com). I was throughly disappointed. I know I am late on this one, but SNL sucks. By its nature, SNL is going to be hit or miss. But I don't see how the show survives if they can't make me laugh when my favorite character is hosting. My wife enjoyed the show live. She is in the Central Time Zone. I think this makes a difference, which brings me to:
3. Humor is very subjective and time dependent. This is what the Leno-Conan debate is really about. I would probably enjoy Conan's humor more than Leno if I could stay up at late. (I would probably watch Letterman.) I do appreciate Leno's work effort even if he is somewhat of a schemer and an opportunist. I don't feel sorry for either guy. But the lesson here is people laugh at what they think is funny. And laughing is really hard to predict.
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