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I am really looking forward to this movie!!!

- the FIOS HD DVR has settings for all season passes. The TiVo allows for individual settings per season pass. This is annoying when I want to save 10 Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, but only 1 of the local nightly news.

- the guide seems to be out of date with shows and lengths. Although perhaps that will solve itself.. but I would have expected it to solve itself by now. (6 days of being connected)

- I still don’t have cable cards for my series 3. However.. calling and threatening to cancel my service has caused them to pull some strings and get someone out here tomorrow.

I still haven’t cancelled my Comcast tv.. hopefully tomorrow I’ll get the cable cards, and things will be back to some sense of normalcy.. if normalcy on tv is “Clash Of The Choirs”.

Stupid fraking writers strike.

The upside compared to Comcast:

- A lot more HD channels compared to our local Comcast lineup
- Cheaper per month
- The Verizon DVR is pretty good. The user interface is quick to respond, unlike my older TiVo Series 2 boxes.

The downsides compared to Comcast:

- No cable cards. I found that out the day of the install, but I decided to go ahead anyway to get it installed. I’m going to hopefully reschedule on Monday to get them. For now no TiVo Series 3 in the house.

- In Oregon, Verizon doesn’t allow the first 40 channels to be viewed without a cable card or cable box. This is different that my original understanding of them being broadcast in analog. I have a Sony HD tv that has a digital tuner in it, and it doesn’t get any channels. It means less tv’s in the house that can get any channels, and potentially a higher cable tv bill if I rent more set top boxes.

It’ll be nice to have competition in television services – and nice to not send any more money to Comcast.

Another report over the weekend on what it’s like. Welcome to Oregon Verizon FIOS TV!

(Via The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs.)

Writers, listen to me. I mean this from the depths of my Jobsian heart. Thank you. By clinging to your networks and hampering their efforts, you’re helping the whole ship sink faster. You’re making my job easier.

Funny, I was thinking about this today, how the writers strike will really cripple television and movies, and people will start to look for other places for content.. like the internet..

Fake Steve Job’s insight is pretty damn amazing..

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But it was a damn fine movie. Damn fine. Made me wish the idiot(s) that run/ran Fox would have never cancelled it. Hopefully Sci Fi will somehow pick it up and keep it going, or at least another movie.

Go.. see it.. make it successful. Please.

Wow. This is a very very engaging show – the thing for me that really hit home the beginning of each episode… they interview some of the real solders who were part of Easy Company, the paratrooper jump team. That really hits it home for me personally, these stories aren’t just something some writer has invented, but events people actually went through.

It’s hard for me to fathom what these guys went through. What everyone went through and goes through in all the wars humanity has been through.

This afternoon I realized that I basically stopped drinking water when I got home (probably 64 fluid ounces a day to maybe 12 a day).. and my symptoms felt like dehydration – muscle aches, very tired..

So I pounded back some water from the trusty water bottle, and lo and behold, I’m feeling pretty darn good now. It’s surprising what proper hydration does to a person.

Digeo, a company that makes media center software and services, has announced new entertainment and networking applications that run on the Moxi Media Centers… [MacMinute]

Ok, this looks really, really neat.. Moxi, I remember hearing about them a year or so ago.. the UI shots remind me a lot of the work I saw at Excite@Home, sitting near the guys working on the never shipped @Home setup box.

Looks like lots of Flash, lots of interaction. I love my TiVo, but a stand alone HDTV recorder, plus a way to watch recorded stuff on another tv.. I’d have to seriously, seriously consider it, if it ever shows up in my neck of the woods.

The basic just of it is this: TiVo is good, people love it, but it causes some of them to watch more tv than the used too.

I used to be like this, when I first got my TiVo (in May of 2000), I had suggestions turned on.. and freaked out when I had tons of stuff “I had to watch”. My good friend Paul said turn it off, you don’t have to watch them.

Smart man! I’ve found recently that if you leave stuff in the “Now Playing” list, eventually you care not to watch it. I had 3 West Wings, and I didn’t bother watching it. Basically I didn’t want to take 3 hours of my time to “catch up”.

My favorite new show? Joan of Arcadia. I find it intriguing that she can talk with God. Probably comes from me volunteering so much with the kids at Lake Grove. Anyway, it’s highly recommended, set your season pass up right now.

I need to get a wireless usb adapter, so I can get my schedules down to the TiVO sooner.

It seems a lot faster than my Sony Series 1, in terms of ui responsiveness navigating around. Although I only have like 2 shows on that, vs the 40 or so on my Sony Series I…

More later, that might be useful to others.

I have a feeling Mark Burnett is kinda playing me though. Maybe things are different when you are there, but Rocco DiSpirito is just making all the classic management mistakes. Like one of bartenders quits – she comes back the next day to talk to Rocco. What does he do? Offers her a management job, and gives her the ‘red Vespa’.

Surprise surprise, everybody else gets pissed.. geezz.. I told Jennifer, that’s a bad idea, the other employees are going to get really mad.

But then I think to myself, maybe it’s because I’ve just seen the past few episodes, and I know how mad everybody his, how much they are hating working there. Maybe Rocco doesn’t see it? Maybe he thinks everything is fine? If he does, he’s out of touch with his employees.

It was good to see him get into the kitchen, where he should be. Sure, he could walk around and greet people, but not all the time. You need to make sure your product (aka food) is good, hot, and tasty.

Anyway, that’s just my opinion.