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.

I remember now that Tivo would sometimes warn you that something would get clipped

Yeah--if the show is scheduled honestly, it will handle the clipping of up to five minutes, and you can slide end times that far too without it cancelling the show being trimmed. And it will warn you when you look at what's set to record.

Okay, I know we're supposed to be working*, but Chatty!Co-worker just showed me the Ragu commercial where the kid walks in on his parents having sex, and I will NEVER stop laughing.

*(Right, posting online is also "not working." Semantics, y'all.)

I like this "not working" plan. I was going to take a 30 min break for lunch, but then I kept working (ordering lunches for later this week and putting in a staples order).

Annoying co-worker informed me that my lunch that I ate at my desk was too garlicy. um, sorry, not at all. Her hair is too yellow and her laugh is too cackley. I think she just hates that I eat at my desk almost every day. Why should she care? She also is mad at me for standing up for myself last week. That she just needs to get used to.

She also talks to herself while she works, reads aloud figures as she is doing data entry and reads aloud as she is proof-reading documents. come on. we sit in a hall, not even cubes.