In other news, it's about time I thought about upgrading to a new version of MT (or switch to a different blog engine): this one kept garbling the foreign characters in this post whenever I submitted, and so I ended up just doing a screen capture of those words and posting the images, as if this were 1995 or something. Sheesh.
Not that you asked for advice in the "install linux!" vein, but Wordpress is really excellent. And the Kismet spam plugin that comes with it is pretty good at stopping spam completely -- maybe one or two comes through a month out of the hundreds of spam comments I get.
I really liked the first season, but I have not seen more recent ones. Loren just does not sleep enough hours in a day for me to see the things I don't want her to watch. I am even behind in Robot Chickens.
Tivo is the greatest. I love stopping the show we are watching to talk about what has just happened and speculate about what is happening next. It makes it more book club like rather than just passive consumption. I think the better writers are picking up on this too. I watched Psych, and certainly the writer of that expects that someone is paying attention to the details of the language used.
It's interesting to hear that other people do the stop-the-show-to-discuss thing. We do the same thing.
On a different note, though still concerning TiVo: Having replaced the HD in my Series2 to give us more disk space, I've had to replace it a second time because something (I suspect the heat) caused the initial replacement HD to start failing. And then TiVo comes along with an offer to let you transfer your lifetime service (which is no longer a purchase option for new boxes) from an older TiVo to a Series3, which is not only newer and shinier but also has an external SATA port to use to expand the storage. So it costs $1000 ($799 for the box itself, $199 to transfer the lifetime service and cover a year of service for the older box after the transfer), but wow, it's awesome. And I'm going to hook up the new one today. Yes, yes I am. I'm getting right on that.
DVR was in fact made just for me. It's a pity that the cable DVR box won't do all the nifty treats that TiVo will, but it was cheap and quick. I am loving it.