TiVo ← rumblestrip

TiVo Upgrade 3

Jan

2008

A while back I posted a tearful tribute, in song, to my dear departed TiVo. I still don’t know what happened to it, but it was an old Series 2 with the “40 Hour” capacity. She served her owners proud for almost four years, and I decided it would be cheaper and certainly faster to ...

The Night The TiVo Died 8

Dec

2007

I’m so distraught, I put it into song: The Night the TiVo Died (sung to the tune of Paper Lace’s “The Night Chicago Died”) In the chill of a winter’s night In the land of the yoga hippies When Rob & Brenda’s TiVo died And they talk about it still When Rob arrived home from ...

Home Theater Hell 12

Jan

2006

Houston, we no longer have a problem. It was the damned channel button. For the last several months, I have lived in a state of worry and emasculation, unable to get my “home theater system” fully operational. I tried several times, under varying levels of intoxication, to hook up this collection of black boxes and ...