Posts tagged “TiVo”
Rescue Me: A Tale of DVR Failure
A post from before everything was on demand
Wireless TiVo, Part 2
After waiting for a week for my male-to-male USB cable to finally arrive from Amazon, I was thoroughly disappointed to find that my old Linksys WUSB11 doesn’t work. Perhaps it’s because the little guy got fried sitting in the garage at some point in the last few years. Perhaps it’s because the antenna was snapped
Wireless TiVo
There is a slim chance that you may not have realized yet that I am a technology geek. In case there’s any doubt, let me explain to you what’s been driving me batty for a few weeks now: My wireless TiVo system. Which one is TiVo-approved? In our two-person, two-dog, two-cat house we have two
NFLN Fumbles
In which he wonders about television commercials
The Top Ten TV Shows of 2006
In which I list my favorite shows of 2006
Television: Getting Better All the Time
Anybody out there notice a trend? It seems like the quality of shows has suddenly gotten much better in the last two or three years. My TiVo runneth over. That’s how I can tell. I can’t remember a time since the early 90s when there were so many really, really good shows on the tube.
Bonnie Brae
Remember sniglets? Rich Hall invented the word to describe words that aren’t in “the dictionary”, but should be. It was one of his sketches on HBO‘s Not Necessarily the News. It’s very hard to believe that was 20 years ago. There should — there must — be a sniglet that describes what happens once you
Democratization of the Moving Image: SXSW 2006
A transcript of a 2006 SXSW panel
Deadliest Catch
This is the sort of thing that makes me glad I have TiVo. The Discovery Channel is starting a new series: Deadliest Catch, about Alaskan deep-sea crab fishing. The tagline is $140,000 for 5 days’ work is a job some men would die for. And some do. (I’ll ignore the dangling preposition.) How can that