In theory, I get the sports thing.(the poetry, the ritual, yada, yada, Olbermann-cakes) But it doesn't turn me on that much. I mean, it used to piss me off, actually, cause I felt estranged from my body and, because in crip sports, nobody's ability class quite matched mine so I played against myself more or less(Which is better than playing *with*, okay, never mind) And then, you know, the high school, Mike Love, pep-rally thing. Yuck. I've mellowed on it since then. Even if I feel like America has a fetish I don't understand...

Something will run til 8:01 and effectively blocks me from having a season pass to something in the 8:PM slot.

Will Tivo not let you set a season pass for a specific timeslot (as opposed to show), or have the recording go over by X number of minutes? Because my DVR does.

Steph, thanks for the update on your brother. I've been thinking about him, but I keep forgetting to ask.

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A good night's sleep plus a big breakfast, for me, equals being alert and not-hungry most of the day. Noted.

At the age of (almost) 36, for the first time in his LIFE, his hair is curly.

Wait. Are you saying that drinking too much made his hair straight? Oh dear. That's wacky.

Don't the networks deliberately schedule shows to run over to foil time-shifting?

Whenever I can, I maually set the DVR to record the program 1 or 2 minutes "extra". Because losing the last minute pisses me off. My DVR sometimes cuts off 30 seconds at the beginning, too, which, again, pisses me off.

Something will run til 8:01 and effectively blocks me from having a season pass to something in the 8:PM slot.

If anything drives me to cancel cable and get my tv fix from the Internet, it will be this. I'm already paying way too much for cable, is it too damn much to ask that I get to see ALL of the motherloving show? Maybe the DVR could record more than 2 shows at once?

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At the age of (almost) 36, for the first time in his LIFE, his hair is curly.

Wait. Are you saying that drinking too much made his hair straight? Oh dear. That's wacky.

NO IDEA. I mean, when he was a wee kid and (I assume) not a boozehound, his hair was also straight. The curly hair is just crazycakes.

Don't the networks deliberately schedule shows to run over to foil time-shifting

It doesn't happen that often--I force The Closer to run long, and I forced Teen Wolf to run long, but clearly not by enough. It's a pretty small percentage of the shows I record.

Someone told me I was wearing patriotic colours today. Since I'm not wearing yellow or green, I took umbrage, and feel self-conscious.

JAMAICA: out of many one people...

Something will run til 8:01 and effectively blocks me from having a season pass to something in the 8:PM slot

TiVo lets you overlap by about 5 minutes. The higher priority program gets recorded in its entirety. You just need to pay attention to order.

Will Tivo not let you set a season pass for a specific timeslot (as opposed to show), or have the recording go over by X number of minutes? Because my DVR does.

Going over is the problem. If a show runs from 7:01 to 8:01, that blocks off two full hour slots, as far as season passes go. You can set it to run over, but what you can't do is program something to start late or end early.

You can do it manually, as you suggest. But then a)I can't see what it is in my list, and b)it won't pick up from season to season or other changes. And also, just effing annoying.

I've got DirectV now, so that could be the issue v. Tivo. I remember now that Tivo would sometimes warn you that something would get clipped. With DirectV, the lower priority one just doesn't record at all.

I have a dual drive DVR (records two shows at the same time / can watch one while recording another), so that may be a difference too.

My hair went from fairly straight to curly in my early thirties. No drinking or abstaining involved. I just got the hair I used to spend money to get.