I used to watch A LOT of television (mainly science and nature shows on National Geographic, Animal Planet, The Discovery Channel, The History Channel, and PBS), usually taping them so I could watch them later (which I would then never get around to doing

), but in late spring of last year (2009), I became largely apathetic to most of the shows I used to obsessively record, and virtually ceased watching television altogether. If I remember correctly, this was partly because the VCR was a pain to record things with, partly because I just got tired of taping shows when it seemed like I never had time to watch them, and partly because videotapes were accumulating in mountains around the TV set.

I still try to record programs of interest, but the only series I nowadays make any effort to keep up with are
MythBusters andóto a somewhat lesser extentó
Dirty Jobs (both Discovery Channel programs).