So I got home last night from playing basketball and noticed that my Tivo was recording. Since Girls Gone Wild – Ultimate Spring Break Uncensored doesn’t come on till Friday, I couldn’t imagine what was recording. For a split second, I thought someone had hacked my Tivo and was recording illicit movies without my express, written consent. For the record, I just finished playing two basketball games back to back and probably had little or no oxygen to spare for the brain which is why I thought someone would actually hack my Tivo. Go figure.
Anyway…I fired up the TV, stereo, and satellite using my super-deluxe, one-button macro and noticed that some program on Discovery was being recorded. That’s when I remembered that I’d accidentally chosen this crap to record the night before. I guess I didn’t delete it like I thought. I don’t know why, but seeing that crap recording when I didn’t want it to made me mad.
I started flipping through the Tivo controls, trying to find a simple ‘stop recording this shit’ option, which does exist but couldn’t be found at that moment. The more I tried to find it, the grouchier I became. Yes, I know this is a stupid reason to get mad, but it happens. After going back and forth and up and down through the menus, I finally found something that looked promising. I selected it, hit “Yes”, hit “Yes” again as I thought “Quit asking me stupid freakin’ questions and just stop recording this crap already”. I should have paid a wee bit more attention to that last “Yes”.
You see, folks, Tivo has a cool feature that allows you to delete everything you have recorded. To make sure you don’t screw up and accidentally delete everything, it calmly asks you if you’re sure that you want to do delete everything, including the protected stuff. Notice I keep using the word “everything”. That’s because it deletes “EVERYTHING”. I now have 119 hours and 30 minutes of recording time available. I had 40 hours…before I deleted “EVERYTHING”.
Actually, not everything is gone. The only thing left on the Tivo is the one thing I was trying to delete.
So, I guess you ended up watching the undeleted thing, right? How was it?
And good for you for getting out there and getting all that exercise!
Posted at March 31, 2005 12:27 PMouch.
Posted at March 31, 2005 12:45 PMAww
Posted at March 31, 2005 02:33 PMUm, oops. Well, now you can record everything on high quality for a while. Your Girls Gone Wild can really only benefit from that, right? :-)
Posted at April 1, 2005 02:41 AMWhat was the Discorvery Channel crap being recorded?? I'm a big fan of Discovery Channel, that's why I NEED to know:-D
Posted at April 1, 2005 10:10 AM