Whose Faulty Vision

The Mole Theory

(SPOILERS, I suppose, although it’s all just theory)

After the most recent episode of “The Mole”, I’m leaning towards Clay as the Mole. Two very different reasons:

From an in-game point of view, it seems like all of the players trust him. And, of course, it’s in the Mole’s interest to have everyone trust him, whereas it’s in all of the other players’ interests to be distrusted.

From a TV show point of view, I swear I saw the tiny letters “M O L E” in the text box that shows his name when he was doing one of his interviews. I tried to photograph it, but it didn’t really come out. But it sure looked that way on the screen. I tried to look for the same letters in other players’ text boxes, and didn’t see them.

Wilder

Part of the reason things have been complicated for me lately–hell, most of the reason, let’s be honest–is the situation with Wilder. As I posted a few weeks ago, she broke up with me because she decided she didn’t want to be in a relationship that she knew wasn’t going to last. But we stayed in touch, and ended up drifting back into a relationship, including one really awesome weekend recently.

So after that really awesome weekend, her feelings were shifting, and last Wednesday she said that she wanted to get back together. I should want that, right? Based on everything that I’ve said and thought about our relationship. But I thought about it for a couple of days, and decided that I didn’t want to be in a relationship that I knew wasn’t going to last.

I’m one of Nature’s monogamists. I’m wired for long-term, happy relationships. And especially now, between me getting older and seeing friends all around me getting married, I want to try to find someone who I may be able to spend the rest of my life with.

So Wilder and I talked again over the weekend, and I decided to break it off. It was incredibly hard–she’s a great person, and I wish things could be different–but I think it was the right decision.

So it’s over again, and this time I think for good. Sigh. Back on the dating scene.

Lack of Posts

Sorry I haven’t been posting much lately. Busy, and for some reason not all that inspired to write. Hopefully I’ll be doing fun things to write about, or coming up with interesting ideas to write about, again soon.

Flight Pricing

Can anyone explain why a particular Northwest Airlines flight is cheaper on Expedia than it is on Northwest’s own website?

*sigh*

And Mugabe successfully steals another election. The only way this guy’s leaving his office is feet first. I don’t blame Tsvangirai–I’m sure he and many of his supporters would have been killed if the runoff election had taken place–but I’m disappointed that it worked out this way.

Nice Firefox 3 Feature

I just noticed a nice feature that, as far as I know, is new to Firefox 3. If you type a few words into the address bar and hit Enter, it appears to do a Google “I’m feeling lucky” search, automatically sending you to the first search result. So if you type “metro north”, for instance, it sends you to the Metro-North website (commuter trains in the NYC area). Very handy.

Outdated Survey Thinking

I was having trouble sleeping last night, moping about having to start dating again, and feeling grumpy as usual, and thank goodness, I didn’t write another long, whiny blog post about it. So instead, here’s some more musing about DVRs.

I started an online survey today, and one of the first questions was, “on an average day, how many hours do you spend watching primetime TV?” And I couldn’t answer it. I dropped out of the survey because I genuinely didn’t know how to answer it, and I didn’t want to give them a misleading answer.

Here’s the rub: By “primetime TV”, do they mean TV shows that I watch during the primetime hours, or TV shows that are broadcast during the primetime hours, regardless of when I watch them? I never watch anything as it’s being broadcast. And I don’t usually even know what time the shows I watch were originally broadcast. So what am I supposed to answer?

You see, too many media people are still stuck in an outdated mentality when it comes to TV. I would no more watch a TV show as it’s being broadcast than I would read a magazine as it’s being printed. And there are an increasing number of other TV viewers like me, whether they do their viewing via TiVo (like I do), via DVD, or online.

Media and advertising people need to get with the program. And yes, I’m in advertising, so a part of this is my responsibility, but I’m not in the media buying side of things, so I wouldn’t be involved in designing a survey like that one. When I do get to influence media decisions, I make sure that everyone remembers the media age we’re living in.