Netflix or how not to be productive

I'm realizing I've got a vicious Netflix habit. I'm watching my new favorite TV show (right now it's White Collar from USA) on it and I'm getting nothing done and messing with my sleep schedule. I'm always saying one more episode. I think I need a break from Netflix or atleast get a little more discipline. 

My everyday watch

This is my everyday watch. It is a Lucien Piccard stainless steel chronograph - 28165bu

My new addiction

Battlefield 3 for pc

my return to gaming

I'm getting back into gaming....the last video game I played on my own was Day of Defeat while I was in high school.

I just got a new video card that blows the pants off the onboard one.
So my rig specs are:
Intel i7-2600k
8 gigs Kingston X ram
1.5 SATAIII Seagate Barracuda drive
GeForce GTX 560 Ti.

So with my video card, I got Dungeon Siege III, Assassin's Creed:Brotherhood, and Batman Arkham City. With one of the other components, I got Total War Shogun II. I also pre-ordered Battlefield III. Say goodbye to the rest of my social life.


Dungeon Siege III is a decent game but the camera angles and key bindings suck. I remember playing Diablo II and not having this many keybindings. But the graphics are pretty cool.

Arkham City doesn't come out for another month despite the console versions are already out in the US. I watched all the teasers and trailers and I'm really excited about it. Too bad it comes out while I'm out of town.

Haven't even touched Assassin's Creed.

Battlefield III comes out next week and I'm going to be playing that for a while.

Update: Information diet

I'm now down to 95 RSS feeds from 133 feeds from about a month ago. The fact of the matter is that I probably can drop  that even further. Because it's pretty hard to keep up with blogs like Techcrunch or PSFK which have more than 20 posts per day. 

a week with Spotify

After bunch of comparisons I decided to get a Spotify Premium membership about a week ago. So far I like it. I guess this means I can finally delete all the questionable music I've acquired. The library is pretty good though they don't have a lot of Red Hot Chili Peppers or other major bands but I like how it integrates with Facebook and my Android phone for offline listening of playlists. Also the music has a 320 kbps so it's really high quality.

There are a lot of tiny things that I've noticed. In Win7, you can see how far into a track you are by looking at the icon in the taskbar.
I also have it scrobbling to Last.fm. No sense getting rid of 5 years of listening data. 

Quote On social Media

Found this apropos quote

Today, however, thanks to the social networks' digital exploitation of loneliness, horniness, and ambition, it is now widely believed that it is possible for one's résumé or curriculum vitae to become friends with other person's résumé or curriculum vitae. A friend is a person, not a set of data.

Glenn O'Brien in GQ April 2011.  "The Style Guy's Guide"