Was reading reviews of No Impact Man with Colin Beaven and MMM had made some comment about how his family watches very little TV and uses a projector vs eliminating TV entirely. Don't remember the comment exactly but I remember thinking something about it seemed pretentious.
Then I read a few blog posts and was still thinking, "who does this guy think he is?" But I kept reading because the points he was making were things I've always thought about in terms of optimization and particularly the hedonic adaptation post. After I figured out his writing style was all in good humor I went ahead and read every single post, even if I had no intention of installing under floor heating, just because I wanted to read them all in order.
Finally got No Impact Man from the library and was pretty disappointed, didn't finish it.