Possible thesis topic?

Two unrelated events:
- A blown light bulb
- an episode of Studio 60 that I didn't really enjoy

These two events have got me thinking about mean time before failure (MTBF) for TV series engagement. How many episodes before somebody loses interest in a series. I don't mean how many episodes are made - that would be easier to determine. It is closer to how many episodes before an episode jumps the shark but it isn't that either really. It is the number of episodes you watch before you say "I'm bored with this". At that point you stop watching or worse, keep watching through habit without any real enjoyment.

( Help - my brain won't stop thinking about this stuff )

As if my last post wasn't geeky enough

Using a Bose-Einstein condensate as a transistor. Doesn't that just make your technology spider sense tingle. The implications are immense in terms of making very small very high density computers. The sort of computer that could ride a nanobot. Of course there are a few physical problems to solve - Bose-Einstein condensates only exist at temperatures described in nano-Kelvin temperature units. All I can say is "cool".