Politics.

Bush gives inaugural address, vows to 'Set the world on fire', declares war on majority of foreign nations.

No, really.

But it was a good speech, and it's hard to disagree with the sentiment.

EDIT: He also called for the workers of the world to rise up against their oppressors, and promised America's support. I forgot that part.

Xa Xa Xa, I win

Thank you for taking the IQ Test at www.IQTest.com.

We are confirming that your IQ Test score was: 164

Intelligence Interval Cognitive Designation
40 - 55 Mentally disabled (Less than 1% of test takers)
55 - 70 Learning difficulty (2.3% of test takers)
70 - 85 Below average
85 - 115 Average (68% of test takers)
115 - 130 Gifted
130 - 145 Genius (2.3% of test takers)
145 - 160 Extraordinary genius (Less than 1% of test takers)
160+ "Unmeasurable" genius

All true/false questions, though, so it was less 'What's your IQ?' and more 'How fast can you proofread?'. So many of the questions were easy that it had to be based mostly on time.

Of course, the last real IQ test (as opposed to 'internet IQ test') I took said I was 160ish... but it was when I was like 4, trying to decide if I should go into Kindergarten a year early (I did).

Tick Tock Tick Tock...

Well, the new DVR is freezing up just as often as the old one was. Fortunately, the things I really wanted recorded I either watched live, or watched TV close enough in time before they were on that it didn't freeze before recording them, so I haven't missed anything else so far...

But... what the hell? The old machine was good for two weeks, and this is an entirely different box. I *know* it is, I saw them pu the old box on stack A and give me this one from cabinet B. Normally, I'd conclude that the problem is elsewhere in the system, but... er... how?

So, one more test to see if I really do have to take it back, cancel Comcast DVR, and go back to digital cable, with a VCR to record the stuff I really want to see. I navigated the menus (the menus still work, even though the signal is frozen -- I can unfreeze the signal just by changing the channel, too, so it's not completely frozen anyway) to set it to record starting at 10:30, which is [check clock] 8 minutes from now. If it can record even while the display is frozen, then this is not a real problem.

I realized that, given what happened Sunday, I have no evidence that the missed recordings and the signal freezing are related, since it was *only* ever skipping Battlestar Galactica, that I can prove (everything else was episode 5 of 'save the last 4', so I wouldn't be able to tell the difference). And it might have been skipping Battlestar Galactica every time but the first because I didn't have it set to record duplicates... and the screwed up first recording (where it only got the first 30 minutes of a two-hour show) might have been because Galactica was (wrongly) set as the lowest priority.

So, there's a faint hope. For another six minutes, at least.

Tick tock, tick tock...

EDIT: Yay! It started recording! Now I get to wonder if I can really trust it for at least another few days. };)