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Tuesday, December 03, 2002

Oh TV, I hardly knew ye.

Christmas (and my birthday) came early this year. My boy (and some kind familial contributors) pooled their pennies to buy me the ultimate geek toy, a nice spanking new Tivo. And the boy let me open it as soon as it came

I've been pretty much chomping at the bit for one for ages and now it's ALL MINE!

After a few momentary snafus (one of the curiosities of living in Jersey City is that sometimes a call to a different area code is cheaper than one within our area code) it was all up and running. Within 5 minutes, I couldn't imagine using a television without it.

Pause Nigella to make some tea? Skip the commercials upon returning? Rewind to look at how weird her butt looks all squished into that girdle? Word.

It's miraculous. I may never leave the house again.

If only to make sure I can teach it not to record Designing Women: when I sat down this morning, there were FOUR episodes queued up for me to watch. Yech! I'm not that gay.

Posted at 10:03 AM

Comments

001. matthew

actually, sometimes i enjoy an episode of designing women every now and then (before that strange cast change). when can we teach tivo to get anderson cooper on cnn?

Posted at 12:23PM on Tuesday, December 03, 2002

002. michelle

can tivo really pause the show?! Wow, I want one now so I too, can watch Designing Women. Lucky.

Posted at 02:55PM on Tuesday, December 03, 2002

003. Llew

Excuse me while I combust in jealousy.

If you ever catch me sneaking into your window (I know where you live, yo) I'm so sticking with the story that I just came to pet the cats who are named after female children story characters. Everyone thinks I'm that book obsesive that they'll buy that one. Suckahs.

Posted at 10:30PM on Tuesday, December 03, 2002

004. rosemary

Will you adopt me?

Posted at 11:17PM on Tuesday, December 03, 2002

005. Brian

I suppose this means that you've enrolled. Can we see your student ID, please?

Posted at 09:51PM on Wednesday, December 04, 2002

006. Mark

Right now, my Tivo has eight episodes of Designing Women lurking on its hard drives. I am that gay.

Posted at 10:11PM on Thursday, December 05, 2002

007. Laurel

Order some military history documentaries, just to fuck with its head.

Posted at 09:06PM on Friday, December 06, 2002

008. chris

ours recorded designing women right away too. how does it know out of the box that we're gay?

Posted at 10:09PM on Saturday, December 07, 2002

009. Laurel

Yes, those little antennae on the box illustration are actually for the gaydar sensors.