I don't have a television, but I can still watch tv. I am current on Battlestar Galactica, Doctor Who, the last season of Dexter, Bleach (with subs), Pushing Daisies (as far as they got before the strike) and I'm hoping someone will post Food Network's "Next Celebrity Chef" (my favorite and only reality show). I watch almost all of these via bittorrent, although I've found a legitimate way to watch some shows: Hulu.com.

Hulu is advertisement-based and has an array of tv shows and movies. You can watch "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" and the first season of "Lou Grant." Or, as I just did over the past few weeks, season one of "Bones." Not sure why I started watching it. I'd known about Hulu, but the ads were irritating (the same 10-second McDonald's ad over and over, or awful Chili's ads. Then an adblocker for Safari came along that skipped past Hulu's ads instantly. I tested it on — Bones. I was going to watch an ep of "Buffy" but I've seen them all so many times; I just wanted something new, and there was "Bones" right near "Buffy." Turns out it's a darn good show.

Not perfect. A bit preachy at times, sometimes predictable. But the relationship between Bones and Booth is one of those perfect tv pairings, and they never get close to romance in season 1. That would have been the cheap and easy (and usual) way to play it, but the creator, Hart Hanson (the only other thing I know of his was "Joan of Arcadia," a wonderful and unjustly cancelled show for which he wrote two eps) was smart enough not to play it easy.

The season-ending cliffhanger was great, too, although predictable. But given the storyline of Bones' parents, it was inevitable at some point.

Season 2 and 3 are not going to be Hulu'd, however. I'm heading back to bittorrent for that. It takes longer than Hulu, but I'm not in any rush (just for te new eps of BSG). And I guess when you are involved in a criminal activity, better to be patient. If Emily Deschanel wants to come and scold me for my wickedness, I could handle that.