This will make Omaha unhappy

TiVo, our PVR of choice, and one to which we've made a five-year commitment to keep (the idea being that after five years we'll have amortized the initial purchase cost sufficiently to make it worth buying in the first place) has announced that now, while you fast-forward the TiVo interpreter will put banner ads on the screen.

Combine this with the "new" feature that pay-per-view shows will have hard expiration dates, and the value of a TiVo is plummeting fast. It's almost time to consider building my own Myth and Buffalo system.

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So, Omaha and I were reading this review by bookslut, and we were vaguely amused in that "oh, you're trying to be offensive and amusing at the same time, aren't you?" way by the claim that Cooking Light magazine, our cooking magazine of choice is for "people really into yoga," and that Bon Appetit is for "people frightened by Cooking Light's intended audience."

Hey, I've cooked out of both. I'm tempted to see the mashed potatoes recipe in Gourmet. It's supposed to be fiendishly difficult.

( More News Stuff. No shrillness. )

Because I Feel Like It

When my love swears that she is made of truth,
I do believe her though I know she lies,
That she might think me some untutored youth,
Unlearned in the world's false subtleties.
Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young,
Although she knows my days are past the best,
Simply I credit her false-speaking tongue:
On both sides thus is simple truth suppressed.
But wherefore says she not she is unjust?
And wherefore say not I that I am old?
O love's best habit is in seeming trust,
And age in love loves not to have years told.
    Therefore I lie with her, and she with me,
    And in our faults by lies we flattered be.

        -- William Shakespeare

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