Sci-Fi Hi-Fi

Recently, after months of trying, I finally managed to get the TiVo box I bought during last year’s “Great TiVo Giveaway” set up and working with my home wireless network. It was quite a chore, but the whole time I was trying to work around TiVo’s senseless omission of an ethernet port (Why USB and no ethernet, by the way? It boggles the mind!), I was at least encouraged by visions of all the wonderful television I was going to be enjoying once I got my hands on a landline.

Now that my TiVo is plugging away, though, I’ve been kind of disappointed to find that it hasn’t changed my TV watching habits at all. Sure, I can now see “The Daily Show” or “South Park” or “The Office” pretty much any time I want, but now that I have that ability I never quite seem to be in the mood. In fact, I’ve gotten so blasé toward TiVo that I rarely even check to see what it’s got for me, and it pains me a bit every time I walk past and see it earnestly recording something it thinks I will like but will almost certainly never watch.

Today I realized why I find this scene so oddly poignant: I’ve seen it before, at the end of Ray Bradbury’s Martian Chronicles. I suppose I should be happy, then: in the event that humanity is wiped out, at least something will remember how much I liked “Curb Your Enthusiasm.”

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