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For those of you at work, it's a very unsuspenseful,"Coming up on Mythbusters, can we fold this piece of paper...more than seven times?"

I had a buddy back in the day who would have to rush home after partying so he could watch Paula Zahn. Not so much watch, but he kept ranting about how her voice was, well, quite pleasing to the ear.

That guy is now an anthropology professor at an esteemed private college.

I have another buddy who estalked "Erica Hill", describing her as "I just saw this redhead I want to bone mercilessly on TV, but I don't know if she's fat or not."

Because, you know, she's right out if she's a chubber, even if all you ever see is her head.

My cable box started acting more and more unstable over the past few weeks -- it would freeze and kick me out of pre-recorded programs with some regularity. Finally, last week, it stopped working entirely as a DVR. I could watch live television, but I could not record or store any other programming.

In a calculated absurdity, Comcast does not do field replacements of faulty units. I had to take my cable box to the local "Payment Center", which is conveniently located at least, for a replacement.

Unfortunately, the Saturday afternoon line was a little over half an hour long, although that's better than waiting around for a cable guy to show up.

It looks as if we've recently crossed the point at which the new technology (DVD) has supplanted the old technology (VCR) such that the focus of manufacturing (and subsequent economies of scale) has finally shifted to the new technology. You'll be familiar with this process if you have shopped for a record player (er, turntable) in the past fifteen years or so, having seen the prices increase as the prices for CD players decreased.