Conehead
January 5, 2009 10:18 pm TiVo, chaplin, hilarity, photos, sad things No CommentsChaplin and his hilariously sad cone/satellite dish collar, critiquing my queue of BSG episodes.
Chaplin and his hilariously sad cone/satellite dish collar, critiquing my queue of BSG episodes.
In an update to my earlier post, now that I’ve tried it out….I am DEFINITELY never leaving the house again.
From the department of It’s About Fucking Time: TiVo and Netflix sign a deal to allow Netflix Watch Now streaming to Series 3 TiVos.
If only I had time to watch half the shit I’m TiVoing right now, let alone the Netflix discs rotting by my TV. At least this will be a good way to kill time the next time I’m out of work.
And the winner of this year’s First Show Deleted Off The Season Pass List is…Little Britain USA!
Sorry guys, you’re just not funny enough to overcome that hideous laugh track.
Although I will admit, had I gotten around to watching the two episodes of Fringe sitting on the TiVo, I might have deleted that first.
Sorry to stick y’all with another bullet-pointed post, but these things happen when you’re broke and unemployed and not doing much:
Finally, I have a job interview tomorrow, so hopefully these bullet pointed posts whining about how I’m bored stiff will soon be replaced with ones whining about how exhausted and overworked I am. Fingers crossed!
Despite the arguments in favor of the remote with big orange flames painted on it, I decided to go a different direction in my choice of TiVo reward:
I do like that I can jam one on over my cast to keep my toes warm. Chaplin? Not impressed:
I have a bunch of TiVo rewards points, since I’m such a TiVo-hugger that I’ve influenced several others to purchase TiVos. Crappily, however, these points expire after 24 months, and a bunch of mine are about to expire.
And so we come to my dilemma, what to do with my TiVo rewards points. Here are my options:
1. Drop all my points on an iPod shuffle, which I will then either sell on eBay (currently going for about $50-60) or find some random use for.
2. Use the portion of my points that are expiring on hilariously goofy TiVo branded slippers and save the rest (the rest will not expire for another 18 months, and I can put them towards things like…more TiVos).
3. Use the portion of my points that are expiring on a new remote with orange flames to match one of my guitars and save the rest.
4. Just let the points expire and stop filling my house with useless crap.
Being the horrifically indecisive person that I am, I keep waffling on which option to choose.
To put this to an end, I fling open the comment box and request your input: What useless crap shall enter my house next?
Well, it took four guys from the cable company standing around my apartment for an hour to get the two CableCards properly installed in my HD TiVo, but good lord, SPECTACULAR HD (™ Laz) is pretty fucking cool.
I’m watching the Lakers-Wizards game right now (ironic, since a) I hate basketball and b) I hate DC even more), and the picture is absolutely unreal. You can see the individual beads of sweat on Gilbert Arenas as he comes up to the free throw line.
Nate came over earlier and The Empire Strikes Back was on HBO HD, and…wow. Darth Vader’s helmet was so very, very shiny. You could count the individual hairs on Chewbacca.
I moved the new-old TiVo that had been in the living room to the bedroom and disconnected the old-old TiVo. I’m in the process of trying to find a home in L.A. for the old-old one (since I’d prefer not to ship it), but if I can’t, you kids will get first dibs before I put it on eBay.
I also changed my TiVo naming scheme, since the old one was a bit too practical (”living room” and “bedroom” were the old names). Fixed that problem: The new-old TiVo is now Pinky, and the HD TiVo is The Brain.
Between this and my new Netflix subscription (Snakes on a Motherfuckin’ Plane arrived today) I think there’s a very real danger that I’m never going to leave my apartment again.
The streak lives! My iron stomach continued to hold its own against all comers. About partway through Thursday my appetite came back in full force, and I ended up eating my way through half the food in the kitchen at work.
The foot’s also been behaving better. I was doing something that, to the naked eye, resembled walking yesterday. I’m still having a few incidences of intermittent stabbing pain, but it’s better than constant stabbing pain.
And now, I’m waiting for the cable guy to get my HD TiVo recording in SPECTACULAR HD. All in all, it’ll be a nice improvement over the last week.
Kitty apparently decided to sit on my cable remote just as my TiVo was trying to turn the channel to get Prison Break recording.
Because of this, TiVo recorded an hour of some weird OnDemand program about gardening and building large sculptures out of PVC pipe instead.
I believe I’ll be hiding the cable remote somewhere kitty can’t get to it from now on.