More often than not, I encounter articles written in various online publications that ignore that the BBC series Doctor Who has had a US-based fandom that predates the 2005 reboot of the series. …

As a Gen-Xer, I’m old enough to remember the last gasps of the full-service gas station in most of the US. When I was in elementary school, just about every gas station offered only full service. I remember when my parents would pull up to the gas station pump, wait…

Last month, I posted about my experiment in social media. As I’ve made my slow, deliberate departure from X, formerly known as Twitter, I’ve been posting to CounterSocial, Threads, and Bluesky. I often make the same posts to each platform at around the same time to see how the response…

I typically do a monthly TikTok video highlighting the recent shows I’ve been watching. I decided to take a shot at writing about what I’ve been watching over the past few months, and I’ll toss in a video when I get around to it. I keep up with my viewing…

From time to time, I like to conduct small experiments. The data collected is usually for personal use and not subject to academic rigor. The other day, I decided to see which social media platform gives me the most interaction when I post. The platforms chosen were X (formerly known…

I guess you can call this a longterm use review. If you’ve read my previous articles (1,2) you know I purchased a TiVo Stream 4K as my streaming dongle solution a couple of years ago. I’ve been a TiVo user for many years, having started with the DirecTiVo unit in…

In light of the recent launch of Threads from Meta via Instagram, one of the videos I caught a couple of times was from someone saying they didn’t want to see what’s trending, they didn’t want to discover new users or follow hot topics, they only wanted to see what…

Back in the 1990s I realized I had a problem. At the time, I was watching an average of 40 hours of television per week. I generally had 1–3 primetime shows to watch each night plus the TV was on for background viewing the rest of the time. Our standard…

As someone who spent his formative years of TV viewing in the 1980s I watched the original Quantum Leap when it aired. While I wasn’t a weekly viewer of the show, I enjoyed the concept and watched most episodes weekly and caught the rest in reruns. When I heard a…