Where do they find all the time?
I ran into this link in one of my coworkers’ GTalk status messages (A surprising amount of communication at Google happens through this channel).
It’s actually something I was muttering to Linda about the other day. I really need to cut back on my television watching — not so much on the first-run stuff (Hey, I gotta watch House, Scrubs, Lost, Battlestar Galactica, Dr. Who, CSI, Good Eats, Dirty Jobs, and The Daily Show just like everyone else) but I find myself occasionally just re-watching stuff that came through on the Tivo. I should use this time to cure cancer or something.
Anyway, the article has some stats on how many hours are typically “used” in watching television — and they’re pretty large. 200 billion hours of television watched per year. That’s 22.8 million years of television watched per year. That’s 341,000 lifetimes spent watching television every year. That’s like killing off a medium-sized city every year in the name of television. And we’ve still not gotten around to curing cancer.