Bahahahaha! Ah, man, I always forget about xkcd. Thanks for reminding me. Oh, and questionablecontent.net is blocked for me. Quelle surprise.

Anyone ever been haunted by an overintense dream? I had this dream about a week ago now, and it was so detailed and clear that I really want to tell someone about it -- unfortunately the details really won't interest anybody else. Like, isn't it odd that my brain thought it necessary to believe Alec Baldwin was in Ghostbusters? Why be so insistent on a detail my conscious mind knows is wrong?

(On the other hand, it apparently got much closer to the year it was made than I would consciously have guessed.)

You can tell us, Emily!

I just saw thins link over at Television without Pity (I was reading older threads) and I think it is the most hysterical thing I have ever seen.

[link]

It involves the oldest son from Mr. Belevedere and a dancing street gang dressed in purple, and perhaps the strangest lyrics to have every been written without tongue in cheek.

bon, my non-HD Series 2 Tivo box has been going strong for 7+ years now. I figure if I buy the HD S3 box and get that much usage again, it works out to $100/year, which is not bad.

Thanks! Now I just wonder why is the reason for the sale-- are they replacing these models?

Also for billytea: Teenage Mutant Ninja....Superheroes!

ION, it took me about 5 minutes to realize that the webcomics switched URLs today.

Now I just wonder why is the reason for the sale-- are they replacing these models?

I think the reason for the sale is that the S3 boxes just haven't been selling very well. They were originally priced WAY too high, and there's a lot of competition these days from cable-company DVRs. (And even though Tivo likes to pretend that the lifetime subscriptions are rare and beautiful snowflakes, the truth is they offer them a couple of times a year when sales are slow. If I skip this offer, another one will come around.)

You can tell us, Emily!

Oh, you might want to reconsider that. But, well...

So I was somehow transported back to 1983 (I knew I was in the past, but there was no particular attention to how I got there), where I ran into the people who were making Ghostbusters, including Alec Baldwin, apparently in Central Square in Cambridge (that is to say, they were actually filming there). Alec Baldwin also, in my dream, was living in the apartment that eventually would be lived in by my Good Ex of the East and after him, by vw and me. We spent a lot of time chatting about how the apartment would change over the next, oh, 20 years, including taking out the dishwasher and kitchen island, knocking out a wall, and several other things. (Actually, the only thing that I know that ever changed in that apartment is that someone's cat used the rock garden as a litter box, so she got rid of all the rocks and never replaced them.) And then there was, well, other stuff, like something scrawled in black marker on the back of a sheet of plywood and why does my brain retain this stuff? What's the point, exactly? I could sort of understand about the vivid dreams I had just after starting my meds -- a) I could assign psychological interpretations to being leaped on by lions and sorting out a magical kitchen and b) I had just started new meds -- but what the heck is this? Alec Baldwin and a dishwasher and plywood? 1983? Why? A week later, it still won't leave my head!

If I skip this offer, another one will come around.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure they said mine was the last one ever. But I'm glad I pulled the trigger then anyway.

I didn't set mine up--the Time Warner guy did. He managed to blow out two of the cable cards doing so, but apparently they're oddly delicate that way

I am very pleased with my decision.

I am very confused by the Kristen/PMM conversation.

I'm up too early. I kept waking up and getting as far as the bedroom door before realising my alarm hasn't gone off yet. I still have another fifteen minutes at least, so I'm going to lie back down again. Why am I so twitchy?

serial:

It's hunger! That's what that is! The juice fast is done, and real food is back!

Was this linked yet? BBC's April Fool thing... [link]

BBC's April Fool thing...

Fun. Although the big bold link to "roundup of April Fool's stories" at the bottom kinda kills the illusion.