Do you use applications like Painter, PMM? I wonder if it might be a place to start with a tablet, especially for someone who doesn't have all our reflexes...

Yep. I'm exceedingly fond of Painter, and prefer it if I'm doing something on the tablet alone (which I occasionally do as a result of being stubborn). Well, or did before my USB hub broke. Occurs to me I should replace that.

Oh, you so need to buy that. I bought a non-tivo hard drive recorder / dvd recorder, and it's fucking great. It would be so much better if it were my tivo instead. As it is, I spend a good bit of time dumping data at achingly slow real-time speeds from one hard drive to the other. Even so? Fan-freaking-tastic.

You should buy it.

(the non-tivo hdr/dvdr turned out to be only region-free hackable, and not currently macrovision hackable. Which bites.)

What sort of drawing tools does he have?

Pencils? Charcoal? Pastels?

He may find a different medium more satisfying.

And really lovely drawing paper. . . good erasers. . . perhaps some nice aquarelles. . .

Daniel, are you lurking around here tonight? If you have IM pop on, my contacts are in my profile.

That TiVo is SOOOOOO tempting.

Sadly, any friends that I might be able to sell my current TiVo to, I've already converted to the wisdom of TiVolove, and they already HAVE them.

ebay once was a good place to sell Tivo.

ebay once was a good place to sell Tivo.

It isn't anymore?

it sure could be. I just wanted it known that sellers were pleased with ebay a year ago when I last followed tivo on ebay.

Anybody else having problems with this site and Firefox? Every time I follow a link today, I keep getting those errors where all the browsers close and it asks if you want them to forward your vitals to HQ central for debriefing.