About

I am a TV Junkie.

Every year I eagerly await the new Fall Schedule. I wax nostalgic over ABC’s TGIF and NBC’s Must-See-TV campaigns. I hum TV Themes, I own Box Sets, and I will watch Season 1 of anything.

When I was a child, they called me The Walking TV Guide.

I grew up to marry a TV Junkie. She devours box sets even faster than I can and was the chief manager of the TiVo season pass list.

On July 1, 2008 I started an experiment to see if the internet is ready to replace television as our national pastime. (What? You thought our national pastime was baseball? How 19th century of you!)

We’ve given up cable, satellite, and even over-the-air TV and replaced it all with what I can find online.

For 52 weeks I will not own a television set, or television tuner. I will not go to a friend’s house and watch their TV. Streaming, Downloads, and DVD-by-Mail will all be put to the test.

I have done zero research and zero preparation. This is going to require new hardware and new habits.

I decided to learn by jumping in the deep end. This is where I write about what I’ve learned.

Poke around, leave a comment. E-mail me at neuroticnomad@gmail.com, or give me a tweet on Twitter.

If you really want to be original, I can be reached LivingSocial, Netflix, and the Hulu Social Network. I’m also eyeballing FriendFeed pretty hard.

Oh, and call me Nomad. Only my shrink calls me neurotic.

UPDATE: February 11, 2009: Luckily, I was ready by summer’s end and my wife didn’t kill me. We flew past the six month mark with barely a mention between us.