12-15-2006, 01:20 PM
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CP Pontiff
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: A pasture out by Millarville
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Are you a mouse potato?
US Census survey of 2007 trends finds Americans will spend half their waking hours every day plugged into various forms of media, including TV, the internet, etc. . . .
"I know people who use television as wallpaper," said Paul Saffo, a technology forecaster based in Silicon Valley. But, he added, "The news means that America is making a smooth transition from a couch potato to a mouse potato. Put another way, I suspect the only exercise Americans are getting is walking between their TVs and their computers."
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/...ns-media_x.htm
A broader view of the data and trends in the New York Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/15/us...rtner=homepage
More Americans were born in 2004 than in any years except 1960 and 1990.
From 2000 to 2005, the number of manufacturing jobs declined nearly 18 percent. Virtually every job category registered decreases except pharmaceuticals. Employment in textile mills fell by 42 percent. The job projected to grow the fastest by 2014 is home health aide.
In 1970, 79 percent of graduate students said their goal was developing a meaningful philosophy of life. By 2005, 75 percent said their primary objective was to be financially very well off.
Among graduate students, 27 percent had at least one foreign-born parent.
As recently as 1980, only 12 percent of doctors were women; by 2004, 27 percent were.
In 1970, 33,000 men and 2,000 women earned professional degrees; in 2004, the numbers were 42,000 men and 41,000 women.
Cowperson
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12-15-2006, 01:22 PM
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#2
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: Calgary
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Hell yes.
*Click*
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12-15-2006, 01:41 PM
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#3
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Franchise Player
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I'd say I'm definitely a mouse potato. The amount of time I spend on messageboards is scary. At least I do get my weekly load of exercise as well.
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12-15-2006, 02:44 PM
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#4
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In the Sin Bin
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Definitely a mouse potato, but at least I am not nearly as bad as a couple friends of mine who basically live on thier computers morning to night.
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12-15-2006, 03:13 PM
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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Does 23,000 posts make one a mouse potato?
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12-15-2006, 04:32 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: 30 minutes from the Red Mile
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I've one up'd the mouse potato, I'm a wireless mouse potato 
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12-15-2006, 05:16 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Vancouver
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yeah the amount of time I spend online has steadily increased over the years..im an internet junkie now. This site is a huge part of that. You guys need to just stop posting so much useless yet interesting stuff to read and respond to.
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"I was like Christ, lying on my back, with my arms outstretched, crucified"
-- Frank Musil - Early January 1994
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12-15-2006, 05:20 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: 30 minutes from the Red Mile
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I get all my news here even though my homepage is Google News Canada haha
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12-15-2006, 08:51 PM
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The new goggles also do nothing.
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Calgary
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Mouse potato?? Pfft, potatos GROW, you know how much effort that takes??
Mouse rock.
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But certainty is an absurd one.
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